Cybersecurity Startups

Kinnami develops resilient, zero-trust data infrastructure purpose-built for distributed and disconnected environments including space, battlefield, and IoT systems. The platform enables secure, real-time access to mission-critical data across satellites, drones, edge devices, and cloud platforms, even under contested or disconnected conditions.

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Kinsta is a web hosting platform founded in 2013 that serves agencies, businesses, and e-commerce brands globally, emphasizing performance optimization and developer-friendly infrastructure across 128 countries. The company operates a fully distributed remote team providing native-language support in eight languages.

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Kinzen provides a content moderation platform that combines a global network of language and cultural experts with machine learning to detect dangerous misinformation, hateful content, and violent extremism across 28 languages and markets. It supports trust and safety teams in identifying harmful content at scale.

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KIProtect GmbH operates the website at kiprotect.com; the page shown is a legal imprint and does not describe the company's products or services.

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Kiteworks provides a single-tenant virtual appliance that governs how employees and AI agents access, use, and share sensitive data under unified identity, policy, encryption, and audit controls across channels like email, file sharing, managed file transfer, SFTP, and AI agent access. It targets enterprises with regulatory compliance needs (HIPAA, CMMC, GDPR, PCI-DSS, IRAP, FedRAMP) in the data security and governance category.

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Klaay builds AI-powered compliance software that helps startups and smaller companies without in-house compliance teams get audit-ready for certifications like SOC 2. The platform automates compliance workflows so companies can achieve certification without prior expertise or outside consultants.

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Klira provides measurement and risk assessment tools for AI agents, including SDKs for monitoring agent behavior, incident registries, and testing suites. The company serves enterprises deploying AI agents, insurance companies, and regulators seeking independent verification of AI agent safety and failure rates.

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KLON worked on identity verification and AI, building a tamper-resistant layer to verify identity and content and help users navigate deepfakes and misinformation, along with an Avatar Generator and a personal AI agent. The company is shutting down after failing to reach sufficient adoption and an unsuccessful financing round.

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Knocknoc provides network allowlisting software that ties network-level access controls to an organization's identity platform, keeping ports closed and services invisible until users authenticate via SSO/MFA. Aimed at organizations with internet-facing or high-security internal networks, it offers just-in-time access orchestration deployable on-premise, in the cloud, or air-gapped as an alternative or complement to VPNs.

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Kognitive Networks provides cloud-managed SD-WAN, connectivity management, and cybersecurity for enterprises, using multi-WAN bonding, SASE, and hardware-agnostic soft router technology across LEO satellite and 5G networks. It serves industries including manufacturing, construction, mining, agriculture, retail, energy, education, healthcare, and finance, and offers subscription management tools for resellers managing Starlink pooled data and billing.

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Koi provides an endpoint security platform that governs and secures all software before it reaches endpoints, including packages, browser extensions, MCPs, AI models, AI agents, and containers across macOS, Windows, and Linux. It targets enterprise IT and security teams, using an agentic AI risk engine to detect malware, impersonation, and policy drift from software marketplaces and registries.

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Koi offers an endpoint security platform that governs and secures software installs — including packages, browser extensions, MCPs, AI models, AI agents, and containers — across MacOS, Windows, and Linux. It targets enterprise IT and security teams, using an agentic AI risk engine to detect malware, impersonation, and policy drift from software marketplaces and registries.

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The page is a biography of Bhaskar Ghosh, a partner and CTO at venture capital firm 8VC, describing his investing focus and prior engineering career. It does not describe a distinct portfolio company or its product.

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Konvu builds AI agents for autonomous vulnerability management, covering the full lifecycle from prevention and detection through triage, remediation, and verification, initially for code and expanding to cloud and infrastructure. It is aimed at security and engineering teams, with configurable autonomy levels ranging from recommendations to fully automated fixes.

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Kopjra is a cyber intelligence company providing anti-piracy and anti-counterfeiting services, with technology solutions for web intelligence and web forensics that address online IP infringement, cybersquatting, copyright violations, spear phishing, and deepfakes. It serves Italian and international clients in the media and Made in Italy sectors, protecting intellectual and industrial property online.

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Kovr is Fortreum's AI-native compliance automation platform for regulated environments, centralizing documentation, evidence, and remediation across frameworks including FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-171/800-53, DoD SRG, GovRAMP, and PCI DSS. It offers patented AI-driven control mapping across standards and an agentic AI assistant (Agent Artemis) to help organizations, including those in DoD environments, manage audits, assessments, authorizations, and certifications.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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KushoAI is an AI-powered software testing platform that automatically generates and maintains test suites from API definitions, runs continuous security scanning, and validates workflows across APIs, databases, and UI layers. It targets enterprise engineering and QA teams, integrating into CI/CD pipelines to catch failures and security gaps before production.

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KYCAID provides identity verification and company verification (KYC/KYB) services along with legal tools to help businesses meet AML compliance requirements and combat fraud during customer onboarding. It serves companies of all sizes across industries worldwide, covering more than 200 countries and territories.

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Laelaps AI develops autonomous security systems built on quadrupedal robots, combining robotics, machine learning, and visual intelligence into a real-time security platform. The company draws on research in legged robotics, autonomy, SLAM, and multi-agent orchestration to enable robots to operate in complex real-world environments.

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Lancs Networks is a Vietnamese technology company that develops and manufactures networking equipment and information-security products, including secure WiFi, smart routers with next-generation firewalls, and related ICT and AI solutions. It serves enterprise and organizational customers, with a stated focus on domestic (Vietnam) technology development.

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LangWatch's Scenario is an open-source tool that runs multi-turn adversarial "red-team" tests against AI agents, simulating jailbreaks, prompt extraction, data exfiltration, and other attacks to find vulnerabilities before deployment. It targets teams shipping AI agents to production, integrating with any agent via a thin adapter and adding adversarial coverage to CI pipelines.

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LastPass is a password management platform that enables teams to securely share credentials and manage user access with configurable security policies.

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LatticeWork develops privacy-focused cloud infrastructure and consumer products that enable people to protect their digital data without relying on centralized cloud services. The company builds personal hybrid cloud solutions for individuals concerned about data privacy.

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Lavabit provides email/mail services. The site currently states it is not accepting new users while it works on updating its website code.

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