Cybersecurity Startups

Facephi Identity Platform is a digital identity verification and authentication system that orchestrates KYC, onboarding, and continuous user authentication processes for financial institutions and other regulated sectors. It provides biometric verification, fraud detection, compliance monitoring, and real-time analytics with modular capabilities for design, behavioral analysis, and artificial intelligence-powered identity verification.

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FaceTec develops 3D face liveness detection and face matching software that verifies a user is physically present and matches them to their ID photo or stored 3D FaceMap, for identity verification, KYC onboarding, and ongoing re-verification. It serves businesses, enterprises, government agencies, and not-for-profits through SDKs that run on the customer's own servers across smart devices and webcams.

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Fairgate is a Bitcoin infrastructure company that builds technologies for scalable computation and verifiable off-chain execution on Bitcoin, including BitVMX and Bit2, a clearing and coordination layer for autonomous systems. It focuses on cryptography, cybersecurity, and blockchain to improve Bitcoin's interoperability and scalability for trustless applications and the agentic economy.

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FalconStor provides data protection and archive software that integrates with existing backup infrastructure to improve performance, reduce storage requirements, and lower operational costs. The company serves organizations seeking to modernize their data management and protection operations globally.

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Falkin provides scam and fraud protection tools that embed into digital platforms to detect, intercept, and respond to scams before money is transferred. It serves banks, fintechs, and platforms with real-time scam detection, passive monitoring of mobile channels, and early detection of scam infrastructure and impersonation.

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Qustodio (which merged with Family Zone) provides parental control and digital wellbeing apps that let parents filter content, set screen-time limits, monitor activity, track location, and view calls and messages across their children's devices. The service is aimed at families seeking to keep children safe online and build healthy technology habits.

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FatPipe provides SD-WAN, SASE, and full-stack cybersecurity delivered as a managed service, unifying multi-path routing, Zero Trust network access, next-gen firewall, IDS/IPS, and SIEM into one platform. It serves enterprises across industries such as healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, media, financial services, and legal institutions.

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Faze builds an agentic red teaming platform that automatically discovers, chains, prioritizes, and validates security vulnerabilities across assets and environments, then helps remediate them. It is aimed at offensive security and continuous validation in the cybersecurity market.

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FDTS (Fed Data) provides IT technical services for U.S. government clients, including the Department of Defense and intelligence community, helping them optimize infrastructure, reduce costs, develop new capabilities, and improve security. The company focuses on IT support for defense and intelligence missions.

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Federacy offers a penetration testing and bug bounty platform for identifying and managing security vulnerabilities. It operates in the cybersecurity industry.

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Felk offers an AI-native web application firewall (WAF) that uses machine learning and threat intelligence to detect and block attacks—including zero-day exploits, DDoS, and malicious bots—against websites, applications, and APIs in real time. It integrates in front of existing stacks via DNS changes with no code changes and adapts continuously to new threats.

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Fianu provides an automated governance platform that collects evidence and enforces policies throughout a software delivery pipeline to accelerate regulatory compliance without slowing release cycles. The platform integrates with existing development toolchains to generate attestations for compliance audits in regulated software environments.

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Fibraweb builds and operates its own proprietary FTTH fiber-optic network to provide dedicated connectivity, voice, IT services, cloud, and network security to businesses and public administrations. It focuses on covering industrial areas in the Italian regions of Umbria, Marche, Tuscany, and Lazio, and connects clients elsewhere in Italy through partner operators.

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South African open-access wholesale carrier that built a long-haul terrestrial fibre optic backbone network across the country.

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FideProtect provides hardware-bound software security that prevents unauthorized execution on non-approved devices through in-memory decryption and runtime protection. The solution targets software vendors and enterprises seeking to protect intellectual property and prevent disk cloning attacks.

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FileOrbis develops software for corporate file management and sharing, focused on security, integrations, and centralized administration. It targets institutions and enterprises across various industries seeking to manage the relationship between users and files.

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Fime provides testing and consulting services for the payments and banking industry, serving central banks, card schemes, payment networks, banks, merchants, and telecom operators across multiple regions.

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Finalease Group Security is a French security solutions provider offering video surveillance, access control, anti-theft systems, and dynamic displays. The company serves small businesses, artisans, retailers, large enterprises, and municipalities with loss prevention and security optimization services.

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FinGo provides identity verification infrastructure that binds identity attributes to an individual and confirms the correct person is present while disclosing only the data an interaction requires. It offers a platform for organisations across sectors—including financial services, government, mobile devices, commerce, and identity and access—to build applications around verified human identity.

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Finosec provides governance and cybersecurity management software for financial institutions, automating tasks such as systems access rights management, user access reviews, IT audits, and FFIEC IT exam preparation. It targets banks and other financial institutions navigating regulatory compliance requirements.

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Finreg Partners is a Czech law firm specializing in legal services for the financial, innovation, and technology sectors, with focus areas in fintech, crypto, and cybersecurity. It advises clients on financial market regulation such as PSD2, ECSPR, MiCA, DORA, and NIS2, and offers a cybersecurity compliance software called cybreg.

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FIOR is an AI agent enforcement gateway that assigns cryptographic identities to internal and external AI agents and enforces permitted scope on every action before execution, revoking policy breaches in under a millisecond. It provides identity, policy-based control, governance, and tamper-evident audit logs for organizations deploying AI agents, targeting security and compliance needs in regulated sectors.

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FireMon provides network security policy management solutions designed to help organizations simplify firewall and security compliance during mergers, acquisitions, and divestments. The company serves enterprises managing complex security integrations across multiple systems and networks.

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Fireraven provides a guardrail layer for AI agents that enforces policies in real time, blocks prompt injections, and generates auditor-ready compliance reports mapped to standards like ISO 42001, SOC 2, HIPAA, and the EU AI Act. It targets regulated organizations deploying commercial assistants, coding agents, and custom AI builds, with products including FireGuard for enforcement and RedRaven for automated security testing.

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