CyDeploy

CyDeploy is a cybersecurity and IT operations technology company that provides a SaaS platform for automated environment verification. The platform builds digital twins — high-fidelity virtual replicas of a customer's workloads — so that patches, system upgrades and broader digital transformation changes can be rehearsed in an isolated sandbox before they are applied to live production systems. CyDeploy extracts crash-consistent disk images (VHDX) without disrupting live foreground processes, and the resulting sandbox can be hosted in the cloud, on Hyper-V, or entirely on-premises. The same replica environment is also positioned as a training environment for apprentices and new hires.

The product combines several components: a continuous, endpoint-native discovery engine that inventories connected devices, installed applications and dependencies, and in CyDeploy 2.0 also maps Non-Human Identities such as service accounts, scheduled tasks and API keys; an AI "Learn" engine that observes real end-user behavior using computer vision and natural language processing and converts it into functional test scripts, replacing manual test writing; and impact analysis reporting that combines asset inventories, dependency maps, vulnerability assessments and compliance status into a "blast radius" readout predicting which applications will fail or conflict before a change is deployed. Generative AI supports "what-if" scenarios, and the reporting layer is framed as executive risk quantification that translates technical change into quantifiable business risk for IT operations, security and finance stakeholders.

Human review remains part of the workflow: a customer system administrator validates the machine-learning labeling of recorded user activity to guard against model errors. Customers can run CyDeploy's large language model inside their own environment so proprietary data does not leave their servers, or alternatively use OpenAI's model, in which case data travels outside the customer's systems.

Founding story

CyDeploy was founded by Tina Williams-Koroma, a technologist and cybersecurity professional with more than 21 years of experience and a serial entrepreneur, and is joined by technical co-founder and President of Engineering David Steadman. The two first worked together more than a decade earlier at Unisys Federal, where Williams-Koroma focused on cybersecurity and risk management and Steadman on infrastructure and engineering.

Business model

B2B software sold as a subscription SaaS platform, with a "Talk to Sales" direct sales motion on the company website and demo/free technical consultation sign-ups. Market-data classification lists the business model as B2B with a subscription SaaS customer profile.

Subscription-based SaaS.

Traction

Reported total funding of $1.56 million across grants, accelerator and pre-seed rounds, with investors including Preface Ventures, Techstars, TEDCO, T. Rowe Price Foundation, BIP Ventures, Google for Startups and Maryland Industrial Partnerships. Headcount is reported at roughly 1-10 employees. Website traffic was reported to grow from 182 to approximately 1,300 monthly visitors month over month as of May 2026.

Latest developments

In October 2025 CyDeploy appeared as a Top 20 Startup Battlefield finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco, presenting its digital twin approach to pre-deployment update testing. The CyDeploy 2.0 feature set adds Non-Human Identity discovery, a continuously updating AI "Learn" engine for test-script generation, on-demand digital twin sandboxes, and executive risk quantification reporting with blast-radius impact analysis.