Cybersecurity Startups

StackHawk provides an API security tool designed for software development teams to identify and fix security vulnerabilities in real-time as part of their development workflow. The platform targets developers and modern software teams seeking to integrate security checks into continuous integration and deployment practices.

8 investors

Strata provides identity orchestration software that secures human and agent identities across multiple cloud environments and identity providers without vendor lock-in or application refactoring. The platform enables enterprises to modernize applications, implement passwordless authentication, and achieve operational resilience across distributed computing environments.

8 investors

Thoropass provides compliance automation software paired with in-house auditors and experts to help companies achieve and maintain security and compliance certifications across one or multiple frameworks. It combines readiness, audit, and risk management in a single platform for businesses managing their compliance programs.

8 investors

ThreatQ is a threat intelligence platform that aggregates, analyzes, and acts on threat data across security infrastructure for organizations. It supports over 450 integrations to streamline threat detection, investigation, and response operations.

8 investors

Trustwave (operating as LevelBlue) is a managed security services provider offering 24/7 threat detection, investigation, response, and cloud security services for enterprises. The company combines managed security operations, incident response, cyber advisory, and threat intelligence to protect organizations' hybrid environments.

8 investors

Unbound builds security infrastructure to govern AI coding agents in enterprise environments. The company provides an Agent Access Security Broker that sits between AI agents and systems they interact with, enabling security teams to discover, audit, and control agent actions without disrupting developer workflows.

8 investors

UrbanFox is an AI-powered fraud detection platform that uses generative AI and behavioral intelligence to detect online payment fraud, bot traffic, and account takeover attempts without relying on static rules. The platform serves payment processors, financial institutions, and e-commerce businesses seeking automated fraud prevention with minimal false positives.

8 investors

Venice AI provides a privacy-focused platform for generating text, images, video, audio, and code using open-source and third-party AI models, with uncensored and anonymized processing. It also offers an OpenAI-compatible developer API with function calling, web search, and multimodal generation for building agents and integrating AI into applications.

8 investors

Verisign operates critical internet infrastructure, serving as the registry for the .com and .net top-level domains and as the Root Zone Maintainer for the global Domain Name System. Founded in 1995 as a spin-out of RSA Data Security, it provides domain name registry services and DNS security technologies such as DNSSEC.

8 investors

Vicarius vRx is a vulnerability remediation platform for enterprise IT and security teams that prioritizes CVE findings based on exploit probability, active exploitation status, and environmental reachability rather than CVSS scores alone. The platform integrates with existing vulnerability scanners and provides patching, patchless runtime protection, and automated remediation with full audit trails for compliance reporting.

8 investors

VisoTrust offers an AI-powered third-party risk management (TPRM) platform that automates vendor evidence collection, risk assessments, continuous monitoring, and reporting. It serves enterprise security and compliance teams managing vendor and supply-chain risk.

8 investors

Xapo provides banking and wealth management services for Bitcoin holders, offering savings accounts with interest returns, lending against Bitcoin collateral, and custody solutions.

8 investors

Zafran provides threat exposure management and security orchestration for enterprises, helping security teams coordinate existing tools and identify real-world security gaps across complex hybrid environments. The platform serves large, highly regulated organizations in critical infrastructure such as financial services and healthcare.

8 investors

ZeroTier is a networking platform that provides secure, endpoint-enforced connectivity without appliances or traditional VPN configurations, serving organizations of all sizes across sectors such as robotics, space, and retail. Its ZeroTier Quantum offering adds post-quantum cryptographic protections, is CNSA 2.0 compliant, and can be deployed in air-gapped environments.

8 investors

1touch.io offers Kontxtual, a data security platform that continuously discovers sensitive data at rest and in motion, builds a contextual record per data element to track access, behavior, and exposure risk, and automates protection, compliance, and governance workflows. It uses AI-driven contextual intelligence and data mapping to serve global enterprises across their data environments.

7 investors

AccuKnox provides automated adversarial testing for large language models, machine learning models, and cloud AI infrastructure to detect security vulnerabilities including prompt injection, jailbreaks, hallucinations, and misconfigurations. The platform serves enterprises needing continuous red teaming and compliance documentation across AWS, Azure, and GCP AI deployments.

7 investors

Alcatraz develops facial recognition technology for access control systems. The company uses AI to enable face-based authentication and building access.

7 investors

Alice provides trust and safety services for communicative technologies, protecting users across social platforms and AI models from abuse and threats. The company specializes in content moderation and security for messaging, social, and generative AI products.

7 investors

AT&T provides cybersecurity services and network security solutions for businesses, including threat detection and protection against AI and quantum computing-related threats. The company offers Dynamic Defense, a carrier-scale secure connectivity infrastructure to protect enterprises.

7 investors

AppOmni provides SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) software that secures enterprise SaaS and AI-driven applications to prevent data breaches, using threat research and continuous monitoring. It serves global enterprises across financial services, healthcare, technology, legal, and the public sector.

7 investors

Area 1 Security, now part of Cloudflare as Cloudflare Email Security, provides AI-powered email and collaboration security that detects and blocks phishing, business email compromise, malware, and multi-channel link-based attacks. It serves organizations seeking to protect their workforces, offering inline, API, and hybrid deployment options.

7 investors

Arkose Labs provides fraud and bot protection for enterprises including banks, gaming platforms, fintechs, and marketplaces. The company uses dynamic puzzles and risk-based profiling combined with AI agent classification to stop automated abuse while enabling legitimate automation.

7 investors

Aslan builds technology to detect and disrupt online-organized harm such as mass violence, trafficking, and transnational crime by operating within the digital environments where these activities are coordinated. It positions itself as an intervention platform for public safety threats rather than passive external monitoring.

7 investors

Bugcrowd runs a crowdsourced security platform that connects organizations with a community of ethical hackers to find and disclose vulnerabilities across their attack surface. It offers services such as bug bounty programs, penetration testing, vulnerability disclosure, red teaming, and AI safety testing for security buyers.

7 investors