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Innovation Tier

Incremental Innovator

Improves on existing approaches (50-69).

62 /100

Liferaft

Liferaft (operated by Social Navigator Inc.) is a Halifax, Canada-based provider of SaaS open-source intelligence (OSINT) threat solutions,…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
62 /100

Silent Push

Threat intelligence platform using its Indicators of Future Attack (IOFA) technology to spot malicious infrastructure before it is…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
62 /100

DeNexus

A Sausalito-based cyber risk quantification vendor specializing in operational technology and industrial environments, backed by insurer AXA XL…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Barracuda

KKR-owned, Campbell, California-based security vendor covering email security, CloudGen/SecureEdge network security and SASE, application firewalling and data protection…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
62 /100

Vendict

Israeli GRC startup using generative AI to automate security questionnaire responses and third-party vendor risk assessments for enterprise…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Ping Identity

Enterprise identity platform for large-scale SSO, MFA, and orchestration, merged with ForgeRock to cover both workforce and customer…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
62 /100

Kiteworks

FedRAMP-authorized private content network unifying secure file sharing, managed file transfer, and email data communications for compliance-heavy industries.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
62 /100

Aeris (IoT Watchtower)

Cellular IoT connectivity provider whose IoT Watchtower product embeds Secure Service Edge-style threat detection and zero-trust policy controls…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
62 /100

Accertify

Fraud and account-protection platform, spun out of American Express in 2024, processing billions of transaction events annually for…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
62 /100

Andesite AI

AI-native security operations startup building a "bionic SOC" that pairs AI copilots with human analysts to speed up…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
62 /100

Assured Information Security

A Rome, New York-based cyber R&D firm doing vulnerability research, hypervisor/cross-domain security, and applied cyber capability development under…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
62 /100

Impart Security

San Francisco API and application security vendor built by former CDN and WAF engineers, offering runtime enforcement across…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
62 /100

Stytch

Passwordless and passkey-first authentication API platform for developers, now part of Twilio, offering fraud- and bot-detection signals alongside…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
62 /100

Vicarius

A vulnerability remediation platform whose flagship product vRx combines vulnerability assessment with automated patching capabilities (including patches for…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
62 /100

Endace

New Zealand-founded pioneer of full packet capture technology, providing scalable network recording for security investigation and forensics.

Incremental Innovator Network Security
62 /100

FusionAuth

FusionAuth is a developer-first customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform, offering full OAuth2/OIDC/SAML support and flexible self-hosted…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
62 /100

TestifySec

Open-source-rooted software supply chain security platform providing cryptographic build attestation, SBOM generation, and CI/CD policy enforcement.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
62 /100

CyberVadis

CyberVadis provides standardized, evidence-based third-party cybersecurity and data-privacy risk ratings, letting enterprises assess suppliers once and share the…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
62 /100

Infodas

German cross-domain security vendor, now an Airbus subsidiary, providing NATO- and EU SECRET-accredited hardware gateways for moving data…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
62 /100

FireMon

Lenexa, Kansas-based creator of the network security policy management category, unifying firewall and cloud policy across 120+ platforms.

Incremental Innovator Network Security
62 /100

TypingDNA

Romania-founded, Brooklyn-headquartered vendor of keystroke-dynamics behavioral biometrics used for passive account-takeover and exam-fraud detection layered on existing authentication.

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
62 /100

YesWeHack

Paris-based crowdsourced security platform coordinating bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, and pentest management programs for enterprises and public-sector agencies,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
62 /100

Autonomous Plane

Autonomous Plane was a cloud-native application security startup founded by Kyle Quest, creator of the widely used open-source…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
62 /100

StrongDM

StrongDM, based in Burlingame, California, provides a cloud-native privileged access management (PAM) platform that gives organizations centralized, auditable…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management