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Innovation Tier

Meaningful Innovator

A materially better way to solve the problem (70-84).

70 /100

Tanium

A converged endpoint management (XEM) platform delivering real-time visibility, patching, vulnerability management, and digital experience monitoring at scale.

Meaningful Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
70 /100

ColorTokens Inc.

Agentless microsegmentation platform for enforcing Zero Trust breach containment across data centers, OT, and cloud.

Meaningful Innovator Network Security
70 /100

Recorded Future

Threat intelligence platform aggregating open, dark web, and technical sources into real-time risk scoring; acquired by Mastercard in…

Meaningful Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
70 /100

Elisity

San Jose-based identity-based microsegmentation platform stopping lateral movement across IT, OT, and IoT without agents or new hardware.

Meaningful Innovator Network Security
70 /100

Fravity

Fravity is an Austin-based agentic AI startup that automates fraud, risk, and anti-money-laundering compliance investigations, offering more than…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
70 /100

Smallstep

Hardware-backed device identity and automated certificate lifecycle management, using the ACME Device Attestation standard, for Zero Trust access.

Meaningful Innovator Identity & Access Management
70 /100

Theori

Theori is an offensive security research firm, founded by former CTF champions, that productizes its vulnerability-hunting expertise into…

Meaningful Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
70 /100

Frenos

Autonomous OT and ICS security assessment platform that runs digital-twin-based simulated penetration tests to continuously validate attack paths…

Meaningful Innovator Attack Surface Management
70 /100

Mandiant (Google Cloud)

Incident-response and threat-intelligence firm founded by Kevin Mandia, acquired by Google Cloud in 2022 for $5.4 billion.

Meaningful Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
70 /100

Utimaco

Utimaco builds FIPS-certified hardware security modules and post-quantum key-management technology that serve as the cryptographic root of trust…

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
70 /100

At-Bay

At-Bay is a San Francisco-based cyber InsurTech that has grown into a top-10 U.S. cyber insurer, combining cyber…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
70 /100

Vega Security

A New York/Tel Aviv company building an AI-native security operations platform with its own purpose-built model, positioned as…

Meaningful Innovator AI Security
70 /100

cside

Client-side web security platform that watches scripts, users, and AI agents live in the browser session to stop…

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
70 /100

ThetaRay

An Israeli AI-driven AML platform (SONAR) using unsupervised anomaly detection, built on applied mathematics, to catch money-laundering patterns…

Meaningful Innovator Governance, Risk & Compliance
70 /100

Assetnote (Searchlight Cyber)

Offensive-security-researcher-built EASM platform from Brisbane, profitable and self-funded until its 2025 acquisition by dark-web intelligence firm Searchlight Cyber.

Meaningful Innovator Attack Surface Management
70 /100

Upwind

Runtime-powered CNAPP that prioritizes cloud risk using live workload behavior instead of static configuration scans.

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
70 /100

BlinkOps

Agentic security automation platform combining a deterministic workflow engine with AI-driven "micro-agents" to automate SOC tasks and reduce…

Meaningful Innovator Security Operations
70 /100

Tigera

Creator and commercial steward of Project Calico, the most widely adopted Kubernetes networking and network-policy engine, extended into…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security
70 /100

Bolster AI

CISO Reviewed

AI-powered digital risk protection platform (including CheckPhish) that detects and takes down phishing sites, fake mobile apps, and…

Meaningful Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
70 /100

Checkmarx

Unified 'Checkmarx One' application security platform spanning code, software supply chain, and cloud infrastructure scanning with SecOps integrations.

Meaningful Innovator Application Security
70 /100

Keepit

Danish independent SaaS backup vendor protecting Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and other cloud data outside the source…

Meaningful Innovator Data Protection
70 /100

Cyble

AI-powered threat intelligence platform providing dark web monitoring and digital risk footprint mapping for enterprises.

Meaningful Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
70 /100

GreyNoise

'Anti-threat-intelligence' vendor that fingerprints internet-wide scanning traffic to help analysts filter out background internet noise from genuinely targeted…

Meaningful Innovator Threat & Vulnerability Management
70 /100

Act Security

Action-centric cloud security platform that eliminates excessive access paths at the infrastructure layer instead of just flagging vulnerabilities…

Meaningful Innovator Cloud Security