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Innovation Tier

Incremental Innovator

Improves on existing approaches (50-69).

55 /100

SafeGuard Cyber

Digital risk protection and compliance archiving platform securing collaboration and social channels (Teams, Slack, Zoom, WhatsApp) against phishing,…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
55 /100

Uniqkey

Uniqkey is a Copenhagen-based password and access management platform that combines an encrypted credential vault with device-bound mobile…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
55 /100

Strivacity

Herndon, Virginia-based no-code customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform backed by cybersecurity-focused investors, positioned as a lower-effort…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
55 /100

Veeam

Privately held backup and ransomware-recovery software vendor whose Data Platform protects VMware, cloud, SaaS, and Kubernetes workloads at…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
55 /100

Trellix

Extended detection and response (XDR) platform formed from the merger of McAfee Enterprise and FireEye, serving over 40,000…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
55 /100

CYGNVS

CYGNVS is an out-of-band cyber crisis command center platform that coordinates incident response, legal, executive, and regulatory stakeholders…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
55 /100

NetBird

A young, community-driven open-source Zero Trust networking company that closed a $10M Series A in January 2026 to…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
55 /100

Palqee Technologies

London-based compliance and AI governance platform, originally built for GDPR privacy management and now offering continuous runtime monitoring…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

AI EdgeLabs

AI-native runtime security platform for edge, IoT, and OT infrastructure, selected by industrial IoT hardware vendor Advantech as…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
55 /100

Canary Trap Inc.

Boutique Canadian offensive-security firm delivering penetration testing and cybersecurity advisory services.

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
55 /100

CounterCraft

Cyber deception platform building automated, scalable decoy environments to detect and study attackers, backed in part by In-Q-Tel…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
55 /100

Very Good Security (VGS)

Payment and sensitive-data tokenization platform that lets businesses handle, store, and route payment card and other regulated data…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
55 /100

Cranium AI

AI security and governance platform, incubated inside KPMG, that maps and monitors enterprise AI/ML environments against adversarial and…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
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

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

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

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