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Innovation Tier

Incremental Innovator

Improves on existing approaches (50-69).

60 /100

Zynap

A Barcelona-based, well-funded early-stage vendor combining stolen-credential monitoring, attack surface visibility, and AI-driven automated response into a single…

Incremental Innovator Attack Surface Management
60 /100

Root

A Boston AI vulnerability-patching startup (originally Slim.AI) acquired by Aikido Security for an estimated $70M-$100M.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
60 /100

TigerByte Cyber

TigerByte Cyber hardens legacy aircraft, satellites, and drones against cyberattacks with plug-and-play, hardware-enforced edge security.

Incremental Innovator Network Security
60 /100

BigPanda

A Mountain View AIOps leader correlating and automating IT/security event triage to cut incident response time, now a…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
60 /100

Fortaegis Technologies

An Amsterdam startup building hardware-rooted, quantum-resistant security keys derived from physical silicon variation rather than stored secrets.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
60 /100

Omada

Omada is an established identity governance and administration (IGA) vendor offering rapid, SaaS-deployable access governance and compliance automation…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
60 /100

OneLayer

Tel Aviv-based network security startup securing private LTE/5G cellular networks and connected IoT/OT devices with visibility and zero-trust…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
60 /100

Ground Labs

Ground Labs is a Singapore-based data discovery and classification vendor whose Enterprise Recon and Card Recon products locate…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
60 /100

Edgeless Systems

A German confidential-computing company whose open-source Constellation platform runtime-encrypts entire Kubernetes clusters using hardware trusted execution environments.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
60 /100

Enquantum

Enquantum is a quantum-security company based in Holon, Israel, founded in 2020 and backed in part by the…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
60 /100

Hoxhunt

Hoxhunt is a gamified human risk management platform that runs adaptive phishing simulations and security training, used by…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

Veracode

SaaS-delivered application security platform offering static, dynamic, and software composition analysis with an annual industry benchmark report.

Incremental Innovator Application Security
60 /100

LMNTRIX

Bootstrapped MDR/XDR provider whose Active Defense platform natively integrates deception technology and dark-web intelligence, recognized as an IDC…

Incremental Innovator Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
60 /100

EfficientIP

Paris-based DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) vendor whose SOLIDserver platform secures DNS infrastructure against exfiltration and DDoS, recently acquired by private…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
60 /100

Opaque Systems

Opaque Systems builds confidential AI infrastructure that lets enterprises run AI models on sensitive data using hardware-enforced privacy…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
60 /100

AIM Intelligence

Seoul-based AI security platform combining automated red-teaming and real-time guardrails, used by major Korean banks and telecoms.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
60 /100

Sprinto

Compliance automation platform for cloud and tech companies, automating framework monitoring and audit readiness with a growing India-US…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
60 /100

Nisos

Nisos is a managed intelligence firm that investigates platform abuse, supply-chain integrity issues, and nation-state-level threats using human…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
60 /100

WorkOS

API platform that gives B2B SaaS applications enterprise-readiness features — SSO, SCIM directory sync, audit logs, and admin…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
60 /100

Secturion Systems

An NSA-certified hardware encryption vendor for defense platforms, acquired by Carlyle in July 2026.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
60 /100

Wultra

A Prague-based fintech security company providing post-quantum, mobile-first authentication and FIDO2 hardware tokens for banks.

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
60 /100

Certiv

A Seattle startup that installs a runtime assurance layer on endpoints to discover and police what AI coding…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
60 /100

Group-IB

Threat intelligence and cybercrime investigation firm originally founded in Moscow, now headquartered in Singapore following its 2019 relocation.

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
60 /100

NeuShield

NeuShield takes a data-protection-first approach to ransomware defense, using "Mirror Shielding" to preserve access to original files even…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection