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Innovation Tier

Incremental Innovator

Improves on existing approaches (50-69).

50 /100

Privacy Analytics

An IQVIA-owned, Ottawa-based platform that automates de-identification and anonymization of structured and unstructured patient-level healthcare data for research…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

SafeGuard Privacy

Privacy compliance management platform combining assessment workflows, vendor risk tracking, and an AI assistant, used as the backbone…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Ayesa

Cybersecurity and SOC services unit of Ayesa, a major Spanish engineering group, combining IT and OT security delivery…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
50 /100

Simplesense

Simplesense's Installation Resilience Platform combines emergency situational awareness, breach and attack simulation, and MSSP services for defense and…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
50 /100

WaveStrong

Vendor-agnostic information security consulting and managed security services firm operating since 2001, offering risk assessment, MDR, and incident…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
50 /100

ElastiFlow

An Oakland-based network observability company offering unsampled flow data collection, marketed for both network performance monitoring and security…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
50 /100

Riskonnect

A Thoma Bravo-owned integrated risk management (IRM) suite spanning enterprise risk, third-party risk, business continuity, ESG, and claims/insurance…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Syhunt

A veteran Brazilian application security vendor offering hybrid DAST, SAST, API, and mobile security scanning under the Syhunt…

Incremental Innovator Application Security
50 /100

OpenText NetIQ

OpenText NetIQ is a legacy identity governance and administration (IGA) suite, now part of OpenText following its 2023…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
50 /100

Surf AI

Well-funded Series A launch from a highly experienced founding team already selling to Fortune 500 customers globally; still…

Incremental Innovator Cloud Security
50 /100

Tenable Attack Surface Management

Tenable's EASM capability, built from its 2022 acquisition of Bit Discovery, now integrated into the broader Tenable One…

Incremental Innovator Attack Surface Management
50 /100

Meter

Meter designs, builds, and operates full-stack enterprise networks — internet, wired, Wi-Fi, and cellular — as a managed…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
50 /100

McAfee

McAfee is the consumer-focused security brand left after the 2022 Trellix split, selling antivirus, VPN, and identity-protection subscriptions…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
50 /100

Perimeter

Minnetonka, Minnesota-based vendor and third-party risk management platform (rebranded from ProcessBolt in 2025) automating security questionnaires, evidence review,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

GBG (GB Group)

Publicly traded identity verification, location intelligence, and fraud-prevention company serving banks, government, and e-commerce customers globally, built substantially…

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management
50 /100

Exabeam

SIEM and UEBA vendor formed by the 2024 merger of Exabeam and LogRhythm, combining behavioral-analytics-driven detection with a…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
50 /100

TRIOVEGA (edge.SHIELDOR)

An industrial OT security product from a German Industry 4.0 engineering firm that hardens shop-floor connectivity against cyber…

Incremental Innovator Network Security
50 /100

DarkOwl

Darknet intelligence provider that indexes dark web, deep web, and high-risk surface web content into a searchable database…

Incremental Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
50 /100

Somansa

Somansa is a Korean data loss prevention (DLP) vendor providing endpoint, network, and database-focused solutions to detect and…

Incremental Innovator Data Protection
50 /100

Compyl

AI-guided governance, risk, and compliance platform automating control testing and evidence collection across 70+ frameworks including SOC 2,…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Centraleyes

An AI-powered cyber GRC platform, formerly known as CyGov, that automates risk and compliance data collection to help…

Incremental Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
50 /100

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management (EASM)

Qualys's EASM capability, integrated into its CyberSecurity Asset Management product, that unifies internal and external asset visibility on…

Incremental Innovator Attack Surface Management
50 /100

Swimlane

SOAR platform (Turbine) that routes security alerts across deterministic automation, AI-assisted investigation, or fully agentic investigation paths depending…

Incremental Innovator Security Operations
50 /100

IDEE GmbH

Munich-based passwordless authentication vendor whose AuthN platform uses phone-based biometrics and asymmetric cryptography to deliver phishing-resistant MFA.

Incremental Innovator Identity & Access Management