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Innovation Tier

Incremental Innovator

Improves on existing approaches (50-69).

53 /100

Artemis

Exceptionally well-capitalized and operator-endorsed SecOps platform for an early-stage company; the claimed 94% response-time reduction is a notable…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
53 /100

VeriDas

An established (2017-founded) Spanish digital-identity specialist backed by BBVA, merging with Fourthline in July 2026 (expected to close…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
53 /100

Scrut Automation

Compliance automation platform that maps shared controls across 60+ frameworks to cut duplicate audit and evidence work.

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Kasada

Kasada is a Sydney-founded bot-mitigation company that combats automated fraud and credential-stuffing attacks by targeting attacker economics rather…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
53 /100

Binalyze

Binalyze AIR is an automated digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) platform that collects forensically sound evidence at…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
53 /100

Ergon Informatik (Airlock)

Swiss software house behind Airlock, a secure access hub combining WAF, customer identity and access management, and API…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
53 /100

PowerDMARC

A DMARC-as-a-service platform that manages email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI, MTA-STS) to stop domain spoofing and phishing…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
53 /100

Entrust

A Thoma Bravo-backed identity, PKI, and secure-issuance giant formed from the 2019 merger of Datacard Group and Entrust,…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
53 /100

Escape

A Paris-based API and application security testing platform, founded by Tristan Kalos and Antoine Carossio, using AI agents…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
53 /100

Hillstone Networks

Hillstone Networks, founded by former NetScreen engineers, builds next-generation firewalls and cloud workload protection under what it calls…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
53 /100

Zendata

An AI risk intelligence and data privacy platform tracing how sensitive data flows into and through AI applications,…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
53 /100

Onit Security

Israeli exposure management startup founded in 2025 whose AI agents investigate, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities based on business…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
53 /100

Deepfence

Cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) built around the open-source ThreatMapper scanner and its commercial ThreatStryker runtime protection layer.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
53 /100

Opal Security

Opal Security is an AI-native access management platform that automates least-privilege enforcement across cloud infrastructure, SaaS apps, and…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
53 /100

Nirmata

Nirmata builds an AI-assisted Kubernetes governance and security platform on top of Kyverno, the Kubernetes-native policy engine its…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
53 /100

CYBERDISE

A fast-growing, award-winning European awareness-training startup with credible early traction, though still small-scale and early in its funding…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
53 /100

Armadin

One of the most heavily capitalized and operator-credible AI red-teaming launches to date; scale of funding and leadership…

Incremental Innovator Attack Surface Management
52 /100

TCPWave

DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) platform with security-hardened DNS built in to defend against DDoS, tunneling, and data exfiltration…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
52 /100

Preamble

Preamble is a veteran-led AI security firm best known for discovering and responsibly disclosing the original GPT-3 prompt-injection…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
52 /100

Quod Orbis

A focused CCM specialist with a credible UK customer base, now backed by a larger parent group, though…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Gurucul

Security analytics veteran combining SIEM, UEBA, and identity analytics to detect insider threats and anomalous behavior across the…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
52 /100

Fastly

Public edge cloud platform whose Next-Gen WAF, born from the 2020 Signal Sciences acquisition, provides web application, API,…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
52 /100

indevis

Munich-based managed security service provider running firewall, SD-WAN, and incident response operations for mid-market and regulated German enterprises.

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
52 /100

Qi An Xin

Qi An Xin (QAX) is one of China's largest cybersecurity companies, publicly traded on Shanghai's STAR Market, with…

Incremental Innovator Network Security