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Innovation Tier

Incremental Innovator

Improves on existing approaches (50-69).

68 /100

RADICL

A Boulder, Colorado-based cybersecurity-as-a-service provider built specifically for small and mid-sized Defense Industrial Base contractors, combining managed detection…

Incremental Innovator Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
68 /100

Absolute Security

Firmware-embedded endpoint resilience platform that detects and automatically restores security agents and device configurations across a device fleet,…

Incremental Innovator Attack Surface Management
68 /100

Upwind Security

A cloud-native application protection platform that layers runtime context onto traditional CNAPP capabilities to prioritize and stop real…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
68 /100

Sentra

Cloud-native DSPM vendor evolving into a broader data security platform, focused on data hygiene and identity/access controls at…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
68 /100

Bastille

Bastille builds an enterprise wireless airspace security platform that uses software-defined radio to detect, locate, and classify unauthorized…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
68 /100

BioCatch

Behavioral biometrics platform that reads how a person moves and types to catch account takeover and social-engineering scams…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
68 /100

Shift5

A Rosslyn, VA-based OT cybersecurity company founded by Army Cyber Command veterans that monitors and defends onboard data…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
68 /100

Cape

Cape is a privacy-first U.S. mobile carrier that runs its own network core to block SIM-swap, SS7 interception,…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
68 /100

Lakera

LLM security platform providing prompt-injection detection and real-time guardrails for generative AI applications, acquired by Check Point.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
68 /100

Ontinue

Ontinue delivers 24/7 Managed Extended Detection and Response built specifically to maximize the value of an organization's existing…

Incremental Innovator Managed Security Services (MSSP/MDR)
68 /100

Xiid

Outbound-only, quantum-resistant secure communications with no inbound ports or public IPs, validated by the DoD and the U.S.…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
68 /100

TuxCare

Extended lifecycle Linux and open source patching, including live kernel patching without reboots, keeping unsupported systems covered against…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
68 /100

Eon

A Tel Aviv startup reframing cloud backup as a queryable, auditable data layer rather than passive insurance, raising…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
68 /100

Protect AI (now part of Palo Alto Networks)

AI/ML security company (model scanning, MLSecOps, AI-SPM) acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $634.5M and folded into Prisma…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
68 /100

Coro

All-in-one, modular cybersecurity platform purpose-built to make enterprise-grade protection affordable and simple for SMBs.

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
68 /100

Honeycake

CISO Reviewed

A Philadelphia-based seed-stage startup building client-side-encrypted "self-protecting files" that carry their own permissions, redaction, and revocation, founded by…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
68 /100

Contrast Security

Instruments applications from within using IAST and RASP to find and block vulnerabilities as code actually executes, rather…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
68 /100

360 Privacy

Digital executive protection platform that scans the surface, deep, and dark web to find and remove leaked personal…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
68 /100

Cydome Security

Maritime-specific cybersecurity platform providing real-time IT/OT/IoT asset visibility and regulatory compliance for vessels and fleets.

Incremental Innovator Network Security
68 /100

Bluefin Payment Systems

PCI-validated point-to-point encryption and tokenization provider that shrinks PCI DSS scope by encrypting card data at the point…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
68 /100

TigerConnect

A Santa Monica secure clinical-messaging pioneer (launched as TigerText in 2010) serving 4,000+ healthcare organizations with over 10M…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
67 /100

Bitdefender

Bootstrapped, Romania-founded endpoint protection and XDR vendor whose GravityZone platform has repeatedly posted top-tier results in independent MITRE…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
67 /100

Tracebit

London-based cloud-native deception technology startup that deploys tailored canaries across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and identity providers…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
67 /100

Feedzai

A San Mateo RiskOps platform unifying fraud, identity and AML decisioning for banks around RiskFM, a tabular foundation…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management