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Innovation Tier

Incremental Innovator

Improves on existing approaches (50-69).

55 /100

CYSEC

CYSEC builds ARCA Trusted OS, a confidential-computing platform that protects containerized workloads and data-in-use for critical infrastructure, defense,…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
55 /100

Diligent

The largest GRC SaaS platform for boards, audit and risk teams, which acquired AI-native third-party risk startup 3rdRisk…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

SecPod

Bootstrapped vendor behind the Saner Platform, unifying vulnerability, exposure, and compliance management with automated remediation across endpoints and…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
55 /100

Huntsman Security

An Australian defence-grade SIEM and security analytics platform serving government and enterprise customers since 1999.

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
55 /100

Auguria

Auguria builds a Security Knowledge Layer that automatically filters security data to the small fraction relevant for SOC…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
55 /100

Pynt

API security testing platform that discovers documented and shadow APIs from live traffic and runs context-aware, business-logic-focused security…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
55 /100

MagicCube

A decade-old, founder-led payment/device security vendor (best known for turning phones into tap-to-pay terminals) that closed a $10M…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
55 /100

Copla

Copla (formerly CyberUpgrade) is a Lithuanian GRC and compliance automation platform that combines AI-driven evidence collection with CISO-as-a-service…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Arcjet

Developer-first application security library that embeds bot detection, rate limiting, and AI/prompt-injection defenses directly into JavaScript and TypeScript…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
55 /100

CultureAI

UK human risk management platform that uses behavioral telemetry to surface employee security risk and trigger real-time coaching,…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
55 /100

QuSecure

QuSecure builds a software-only platform, QuProtect, that discovers where classical cryptography is used on an organization's network and…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
55 /100

MDSec

An established, roughly 65-person UK offensive-security consultancy being acquired by Bank of America in 2026 to bring deeply…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
55 /100

Cognyte (Threat Intelligence Analytics)

Publicly traded security analytics provider whose Threat Intelligence Analytics platform helps SOC and investigation teams find and connect…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
55 /100

Secret Double Octopus

Passwordless, phishing-resistant workforce authentication vendor differentiated by support for legacy enterprise systems like VPN, VDI, and mainframe alongside…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
55 /100

Cossack Labs

UK-headquartered data security firm building open-source and commercial cryptographic tools, including the Acra database encryption proxy and the…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
55 /100

Ekinops

A public French networking equipment vendor executing a coherent, multi-deal strategy (its 'Bridge' plan) to become a real…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
55 /100

Ray Security

Ray Security discovers shadow AI tools and monitors real-time data interactions between enterprise data and LLMs, copilots, and…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
55 /100

Arnica

Behavior-based application security platform that validates developer identity and activity to catch supply-chain compromises that code and dependency…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
55 /100

ITrust

A Toulouse-based, Iliad Group-backed vendor combining vulnerability management (IKare) and AI-driven SIEM/XDR (Reveelium) into a fully French-hosted, data-sovereign…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
55 /100

Cotool

Cotool is a Y Combinator-backed AI co-pilot for security operations teams that automatically assembles investigation context across a…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
55 /100

Tempered

Zero trust network micro-segmentation platform (Airwall) built on Host Identity Protocol, acquired by Johnson Controls in 2022 to…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
55 /100

Arcserve

Arcserve provides backup, disaster recovery, and ransomware-resilient immutable storage (OneXafe) across on-premises, appliance, and SaaS form factors, under…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
55 /100

3rdRisk

3rdRisk is an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based third-party risk management platform that helps organizations assess, monitor, and manage risk across…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Darktrace

Self-learning AI security platform that builds an unsupervised behavioral baseline of each customer's network and autonomously contains anomalous…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations