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Innovation Tier

Incremental Innovator

Improves on existing approaches (50-69).

55 /100

Fig Security

Detects silent breaks in security data pipelines -- from log sources through SIEM and SOAR -- so teams…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
55 /100

Frontegg

Developer-first customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform that lets SaaS companies embed login, multi-tenant user management, and…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
55 /100

Sepio Systems

A Maryland-based asset risk management vendor that detects rogue and manipulated hardware at the physical/electrical layer, filling a…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
55 /100

Fiddler AI

Fiddler AI provides a control plane for monitoring, governing, and securing both predictive and agentic AI systems in…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
55 /100

Mitigata

India's fastest-growing cyber resilience platform by its own account, with strong reported growth and now Bessemer-backed Series B…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Findings (CloudVRM)

CloudVRM automates real-time third-party cloud risk auditing, connecting directly to vendor AWS/Azure/GCP environments for continuous compliance data.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
55 /100

Valimail

San Francisco-founded DMARC/email-authentication automation pioneer, acquired by DigiCert in September 2025 to enter the paid DMARC market.

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
55 /100

GreyScout

A Dublin-based digital risk protection platform that automates detection, verification, and takedown of counterfeit listings and brand impersonation…

Incremental Innovator Attack Surface Management
55 /100

ClearDATA

ClearDATA provides cloud security posture management and managed compliance services purpose-built for healthcare organizations running on AWS, Azure,…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
55 /100

Nord Security

Nord Security, best known for the consumer product NordVPN, also runs a business security division built around NordLayer…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
55 /100

Portkey

A high-throughput AI Gateway startup acquired by Palo Alto Networks for $140M to serve as the mission-critical control…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
55 /100

RiskAnalytics

Operates the SecureDNS managed DNS-security service and ShadowNet threat-intelligence feed, distributed widely through ISAC/ISAO partnerships into critical-infrastructure and…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
55 /100

Nightfall AI

Nightfall AI is a data loss prevention platform rebuilt for cloud SaaS, generative AI tools, and endpoints, using…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
55 /100

Spur Intelligence

A mature, growth-stage IP-intelligence vendor with strong retention metrics and a large new funding round validating continued demand…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
55 /100

Simbian

AI security operations platform pairing a 'TrustedLLM' reasoning engine with agents for SOC investigation, threat hunting, penetration testing,…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
55 /100

Monad

Kubernetes-native security data pipeline that ingests, normalizes, and routes data from security tools into SIEMs, data lakes, and…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
55 /100

ThreatBook

A Beijing-based threat intelligence and detection vendor, and the only Chinese company recognized in Gartner's threat intelligence market…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
55 /100

Veridify Security

Connecticut-based device-identity vendor (formerly SecureRF) providing quantum-resistant, low-resource authentication and zero-touch onboarding for IoT and OT devices via…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
55 /100

Galvanick

Passively deployed XDR platform purpose-built for operational technology and industrial control systems.

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
55 /100

Credal AI

Credal (Y Combinator W23) is a governance and security layer for enterprise AI agents — scoped tool access,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
55 /100

Strike

A Uruguay-based continuous penetration testing platform, founded by Santiago Rosenblatt, combining AI-driven execution with expert human validation to…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
55 /100

Token (MFA)

A well-funded, hardware-differentiated passwordless authentication vendor addressing real MFA weaknesses, though wearable hardware authenticators remain a smaller niche…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
55 /100

ThreatSpike Labs

A London-based managed detection and response provider bundling unlimited fixed-cost penetration testing with continuous MDR, self-funded for over…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
55 /100

Egnyte

Cloud content platform that unifies secure file storage/sharing with data classification, governance, and ransomware detection at the storage…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection