Cybersecurity Startups

ORNA is a Toronto-based cybersecurity company that provides AI-driven cloud security products and advisory services focused on incident response automation, security controls orchestration, and compliance in zero-trust environments. It serves over 450 organizations across 11 countries.

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Oryo is a security platform that discovers and secures AI agents across an organization's SaaS, cloud AI platforms, identity systems, and security tools, scanning configurations, permissions, and activity to detect agent-specific risks. It flags issues such as shadow agents, data exfiltration paths, tool misuse, and policy violations for security teams, integrating with SIEM, ticketing, and SOAR tools for remediation and compliance.

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OryxAlign is an IT services and managed service provider (MSP) operating across the UK and Europe that designs, secures, and manages critical infrastructure for data centres, constructions projects, and commercial workplaces. The company serves mid-market and SMB clients with co-managed IT services and technology implementation.

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Osavul develops Janus, a threat intelligence platform that identifies hostile actors and analyzes vulnerabilities and supply chain risks to predict threat exploitation.

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Oso provides visibility and controls for AI agent adoption within enterprises, enabling discovery, monitoring, and enforcement of agent access and behavior. The platform detects policy violations and generates audit logs for agent actions across engineering, product, finance, and sales teams.

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Ostendio provides a compliance and security platform that helps SMBs, mid-market organizations, and the MSPs and IT service providers serving them manage cybersecurity programs and demonstrate risk. The platform centralizes security accountability and simplifies the delivery of complex cybersecurity and compliance processes.

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Ostra Security provides managed cybersecurity services combining advanced tools, proprietary technology, and security talent to deliver enterprise-level threat hunting, remediation, and monitoring for businesses of all sizes. The company makes security accessible to growing organizations that cannot afford large dedicated security teams.

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OTOPIQ provides a unified platform that secures operational technology (OT) environments by offering discovery, protection, detection, and management across legacy and modern industrial control systems. The platform serves security and operations teams managing complex multi-vendor OT networks, using AI-driven automation to ensure continuous visibility, zero-trust access control, and compliance.

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OTPless provides an OTP-free identity and authentication platform delivered as a single integration with nine products, including silent network (SIM-carrier) auth, WhatsApp/SMS auth, passkeys, and device intelligence for fraud and risk scoring. It serves consumer apps and businesses (with customers among India's category leaders such as Meesho and Astrotalk) handling user login and verification.

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Outkept runs automated phishing simulation campaigns using a community-sourced email library, where ethical phishers submit new simulations that are vetted by an AI reviewer and human moderator before use. The platform targets security teams looking to train their workforce against current, realistic phishing threats.

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OUTSCALE, a brand of Dassault Systèmes, provides sovereign cloud infrastructure, a low-code business process platform, and AI-powered virtual twin services for companies, healthcare institutions, and public organizations. It emphasizes data sovereignty, cyber governance, and security certifications such as SecNumCloud and HDS, with a focus on the French and European market.

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Steward is an AI-first platform that automates compliance onboarding and anti-money laundering processes for financial services firms, particularly in investment management, private wealth, and private banking. It uses AI agents to replace manual KYC analyst workflows, reducing onboarding timelines from days or weeks to minutes across complex jurisdictions.

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Overwatch Data provides an AI-based threat intelligence platform that monitors open, social, and dark web sources to generate real-time insights for security, fraud, and risk teams. It targets businesses seeking to detect and respond to digital threats and fraud.

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Identity and access management platform that protects privileged user accounts and secures access to cloud services and critical systems through PAM, IAM, CASB, and MFA capabilities.

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OWLR is a remote monitoring app that connects to home IP cameras, offering auto-discovery setup, remote viewing, and motion alerts without storing camera passwords or footage on its own servers. It is aimed at consumers who want to monitor their homes, pets, or babies using cameras they already own.

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Oxford provides AI advisory and consulting services, helping organizations with AI strategy, governance, readiness assessment, pilot execution, and adoption planning to move from experimentation to measurable business value. It supports enterprise clients across the full AI lifecycle through staffing, co-managed, or full delivery engagement models.

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OxidOS builds a Rust-based secure operating system and web-based development tools for safety-critical automotive ECUs running on medium-size microcontrollers. Built on the open-source Tock OS, it runs memory-sandboxed, digitally signed applications on arm and RISC-V chips to improve security and cut software development and certification time.

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Oz Forensics develops liveness detection and facial biometrics (face-matching) software for identity verification and biometric fraud prevention, sold to organizations across industries. Founded in 2017, the company offers mobile and web SDKs and on-device technology, with ISO 30107 and NIST FRVT certifications and offices in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

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PAAY provides EMV 3D Secure (3DS) authentication for online merchants and payment service providers, sitting between checkout and card networks to collect 150+ data points and shift fraud liability to issuing banks. It works across payment processors and targets merchants processing roughly $50K-$5M per month who need fraud protection and higher authorization rates.

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Packwise provides IoT sensors and supply chain management software for tracking containers and materials in real-time. The Smart Cap device attaches to containers to monitor fill level, temperature, location, and movement, while the Flow platform integrates this data with ERP systems for supply chain visibility and automation.

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Pact is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs founders building generational companies. The firm focuses on three thesis areas: access (expanding financial and healthcare services), future of work and digital security, and climate transition solutions with commercial viability.

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Paladin Cloud offers an open source, Security-as-Code platform that helps developers and security teams identify and remediate risks across cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. The product is aimed at securing cloud-native applications and data for engineering and security teams.

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Palisade develops AI-first DMARC and email authentication software for managed service providers (MSPs), helping fix DNS and email authentication issues to improve deliverability and keep outbound email out of spam. It operates in the email security and deliverability category.

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Palisade provides AI agents for online marketplaces, giving each buyer a personal agent that knows the catalog and pricing, giving sellers/owners an agent that explains their performance data, and routing high-intent leads to the operator's team. It installs via a single script tag and integrates with a company's booking engine, PMS, CRM, and catalog.

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