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Innovation Tier

Incremental Innovator

Improves on existing approaches (50-69).

52 /100

Phoenix Security

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform that aggregates SAST, SCA and cloud vulnerability findings and prioritizes them by…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
52 /100

Balance Theory

An early-stage but well-capitalized platform addressing a real, underserved gap -- disciplined cybersecurity investment decision-making -- backed by…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Providence Consulting Group

Australian protective-security and risk advisory firm serving Defence and government clients, now part of Tetra Tech's global advisory…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Onlayer

Onlayer (formerly PCI Checklist) is a London-based merchant risk platform combining PCI DSS compliance automation with fraud, AML,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Neo

A well-capitalized, credibly-led agentic-software governance vendor launched by proven security operators, addressing a fast-growing enterprise AI risk category.

Incremental Innovator AI Security
52 /100

PureCyber

UK-based managed security services provider offering 24/7 SOC-as-a-service, MXDR, penetration testing, and incident response, with NCSC-recognized advisory and…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
52 /100

SealPath

Bilbao, Spain-based, bootstrapped EDRM/IRM vendor offering persistent, file-following encryption and access control across on-prem, SaaS and MSP deployments.

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
52 /100

Anaconda

A widely used Python/data-science platform making a technically substantive, well-timed acquisition of an AI red-teaming and governance specialist…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
52 /100

StrongestLayer

Early-stage email security startup using LLM-based reasoning to assess the intent behind a message, aimed at catching AI-generated…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
52 /100

Red Trident Inc

A Houston-based, veteran-owned OT/ICS cybersecurity firm delivering continuous monitoring, threat hunting, and assessment services for energy, water, and…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
52 /100

SURF Security

SURF Security builds a zero-trust enterprise browser and extension that discovers shadow AI usage, enforces data-loss prevention directly…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
52 /100

Ocean

Well-funded, credibly backed launch (Wiz, Armis, Axis Security alumni as angels) addressing a real and growing AI-phishing problem;…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
52 /100

Phosphorus

An xOT device security and remediation vendor acquired by ICS/OT leader Dragos to extend the Dragos Platform to…

Incremental Innovator Attack Surface Management
52 /100

Forescout

A device-visibility and network access control platform that discovers and classifies every connected device, including unmanaged IT, IoT,…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
52 /100

Zast AI

An AI agent platform that validates application vulnerabilities through active exploit generation rather than pattern matching, aiming to…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
52 /100

BetterCloud

SaaS management and security posture platform automating access lifecycle and policy enforcement across an organization's cloud application portfolio,…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
52 /100

Netacea

Server-side bot management platform that detects and blocks credential stuffing, scraping, and account-takeover automation across websites, apps, and…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
52 /100

General Analysis

Early-stage but with a striking, independently observable proof point (its adversarial agent extracted $10M+ in fabricated perks from…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
52 /100

StandardFusion

StandardFusion, based in Vancouver, Canada, provides governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software that helps organizations manage risk assessments,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Trustlook

AI-driven mobile security SDK vendor providing malware detection, junk cleaning, and WiFi threat scanning embedded into OEM devices…

Incremental Innovator AI Security
52 /100

Smart Protection

Smart Protection is a Madrid-based, Series B-funded brand protection platform that uses AI to detect and take down…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
52 /100

iDNA

iDNA (Groupe IDNA, encompassing IDNA and AURA iT) is a Paris-based cybersecurity consulting and engineering specialist with roughly…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Milou

Milou is an AI-first platform that orchestrates penetration-testing workflows end to end — centralizing raw scanner and tester…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
52 /100

Qualys TotalCloud

Public vulnerability-management incumbent's CNAPP, unifying agentless cloud scanning with its long-standing Cloud Agent and TruRisk platform.

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security