Cybersecurity Startups

BoostSecurity offers an Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform that consolidates SAST, SCA, secrets, and IaC scanning into one engine, connecting at the source-code-management level (GitHub/GitLab) rather than the CI/CD pipeline. It uses AI-driven reachability analysis to prioritize vulnerabilities and automatically generates fixes pushed to pull requests, targeting enterprise security teams governing AI-assisted software development.

3 investors

Blackwall provides GateKeeper, a high-availability web security and traffic-filtering solution for web hosting and service providers, operating as a reverse proxy with a web application firewall to block L7 DDoS attacks, bots, brute-force attempts, and scraping. It protects cloud assets, data centers, and web clusters, and lets hosting providers resell security services to their SMB clients.

3 investors

BrightHire offers deep integrations with applicant tracking systems that add hiring-focused features such as one-click scorecard completion, playable interview highlights, and click-to-call directly within the ATS. It serves recruiting and hiring teams as part of an interview intelligence platform.

3 investors

CAT Labs builds digital asset recovery and security tools, including Recovery CAT for finding, identifying, and seizing cryptocurrency from devices, cloud accounts, and documents. Its products serve government agencies, asset recovery professionals such as law firms and investigators, and crypto businesses seeking to protect against digital asset theft.

3 investors

ChainPort is a cross-chain bridge protocol that lets Web3 projects and token holders move tokens across 22+ blockchains without reverting to the original chain. It emphasizes security through fund segregation, multi-sig cold storage, MPC encryption, and smart contract audits.

3 investors

Checkboard offers a mobile app for identity verification, letting users verify their ID or complete payments and obtain a single reusable digital identity for use across multiple services. It operates in the identity verification and digital identity category.

3 investors

CHEQ provides a Traffic, Trust, and Identity Intelligence Engine that distinguishes legitimate users from malicious actors—human or bot—to detect fraud, bot activity, and synthetic or AI-generated identities. It focuses on go-to-market security for organizations, offering bot detection, account takeover risk detection, and real-time identity risk scoring.

3 investors

cheqd provides decentralised infrastructure for digital identity, verifiable credentials, and AI agents, including tools for decentralised identifiers, trust registries, and privacy-preserving payments for data. It serves SSI vendors, enterprises, government agencies, and Web3 companies building identity solutions and trust ecosystems, and supports frameworks such as eIDAS 2.0 in Europe.

3 investors

Trueface, part of BigBear.ai, offers computer vision SDKs and a dockerized container that apply machine learning to camera feeds for facial recognition, object detection, and spoof mitigation. Its technology is deployed on customers' own infrastructure to support security and identity validation across physical environments.

3 investors

Cicada builds financial infrastructure for fixed-income markets, including an electronic trading platform and exchange. Its systems are used by institutional participants trading local-market debt instruments.

3 investors

Cinder provides trust and safety infrastructure that uses AI agents to detect and act on abuse, fraud, and policy-violating content such as CSAM, extremism, and adult material across online platforms. It offers a configurable moderation platform with policy-aligned agents, human-in-the-loop review, audit trails, and services like AI red teaming, data labeling, and managed operations for enterprise product and safety teams.

3 investors

Circuit is a security response platform for digital assets that automatically moves or sweeps crypto assets to pre-approved vaults when wallets are compromised, keys are lost, or infrastructure fails. Its Automatic Asset Extraction engine connects to wallet setups such as MPC, Multisig, and HSM without holding private keys, serving institutions that manage digital assets.

3 investors

Clear Skye provides identity and access governance software built natively on the ServiceNow platform. The product integrates identity management with business processes to reduce friction and eliminate data redundancy for enterprises.

3 investors

Clearly AI automates compliance documentation and reporting for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) teams managing multiple regulatory frameworks. The platform centralizes evidence collection, audit preparation, and vendor risk management to reduce compliance burden across enterprises.

3 investors

Cloaked provides identity protection tools that guard against data leaks, AI voice scams, deepfakes, and data brokers who harvest and sell personal information. It targets individual consumers seeking to protect their personal data, credit, and privacy.

3 investors

CloudEagle.ai is a SaaS management platform that gives enterprises a single command center to discover, secure, govern, and optimize their SaaS and AI applications, identities, access, licenses, and renewals. It serves IT, security, and procurement teams with tools for spend optimization, procurement workflows, access governance, and identity lifecycle management.

3 investors

Cloudian provides S3-native object storage and data management software for AI, analytics, and backup workloads, with immutable storage for ransomware protection and high-throughput storage for GPU cloud providers. It serves neocloud and GPU cloud providers, enterprises, and organizations building private clouds for compliance, performance, and data locality.

3 investors

Cisco Cloudlock is a cloud access security broker (CASB) that protects cloud users and data by enforcing security policies, preventing malware spread, and limiting data exfiltration in cloud applications. It is part of Cisco's broader Security Service Edge (SSE) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architectures for enterprise security.

3 investors

Cloudmark offers messaging security and compliance solutions that protect against spam, phishing, SMiShing, viruses, and malware across mobile messaging, email, rich communications, and social media. It serves mobile network operators, internet service providers, and hosting providers, providing threat protection, revenue assurance, and compliance visibility.

3 investors

Clumio provides cloud-native backup and recovery for AWS and Google Cloud, offering air-gapped, immutable backups with point-in-time recovery through a serverless, API-first platform. It targets engineering and operations teams that need managed cloud data protection without maintaining backup infrastructure.

3 investors

CodeLock provides software supply chain security solutions. The company builds cybersecurity products aimed at addressing risks in software supply chains for its clients.

3 investors

Codiga is a platform that helps developers and managers detect code defects and technical debt early in their development process. The company serves software development teams and engineering organizations seeking to improve code quality.

3 investors

Cognito provides identity verification and anti-fraud solutions for consumer and business onboarding at scale. The platform uses developer-centric infrastructure and gradual verification approaches to optimize customer onboarding experiences.

3 investors

Compyl provides an integrated governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform designed to replace fragmented point solutions for managing security and compliance. The platform serves organizations seeking to automate and streamline their GRC processes.

3 investors