Cybersecurity Startups

Ligero provides payments infrastructure that uses zero-knowledge cryptography to enable private, compliant on-chain transactions for enterprises. It supports use cases such as private payroll in digital assets, international transfers, corporate treasury management, and micropayments for AI agents.

4 investors

Loti provides likeness protection that detects and removes unauthorized online content, serving actors, musicians, athletes, executives, and creators. It offers a free "Everyone" plan and an Artist plan built around its content-detection and takedown tooling.

4 investors

Luminos.ai provides continuous risk surveillance for generative AI and autonomous agents in production, automatically re-running legal, policy, and compliance evaluations against live AI systems and producing a regulator-ready audit trail. Its API-native monitoring embeds into existing deployment pipelines to test AI against custom legal rulesets mapped to regulations like the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF, serving legal and compliance teams governing AI portfolios.

4 investors

Lumos builds autonomous security systems that protect companies' access and identity infrastructure in an AI-first world. The platform helps security and IT teams govern access permissions for organizations ranging from fast-scaling brands to enterprises with over 100,000 employees.

4 investors

Mandiant provides cybersecurity consulting and services, including incident response, compromise assessments, red team and offensive security testing, threat intelligence, and AI security consulting. It serves enterprises and executive leadership through frontline expertise and is now part of Google Cloud.

4 investors

Mattermost offers a self-hosted and cloud open-source collaboration platform with messaging, file sharing, integrations, audio and screen sharing, workflow automation, and project management. It serves technical and operational teams with high security requirements in the technology, public sector, national defense, and financial services industries, including governments and large banks.

4 investors

Mesh Security offers a Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA) platform that connects an enterprise's existing security tools, data lakes, and infrastructure into a unified context graph to reveal attack paths, posture gaps, and exposures. It targets enterprise security teams and CISOs, providing agentless assessment across identity, cloud, SaaS, and endpoints, including Zero Trust posture evaluation.

4 investors

Metalware provides autonomous binary security testing for firmware without requiring source code, hardware, or test harnesses. The platform finds vulnerabilities and crashes in embedded systems for automotive, aerospace, medical, and critical infrastructure sectors.

4 investors

Miggo provides a runtime application security platform that maps how first- and third-party applications connect, validates which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable at runtime, and deploys vulnerability-specific WAF rules to mitigate exploitable risk without patching. It targets security and development teams defending applications against AI-driven attackers.

4 investors

Mimecast provides email security, data loss prevention, cloud archiving, and human risk management products used by organizations to protect communications and data. Its cybersecurity portfolio serves enterprise and channel-partner customers across regions including EMEA and APAC.

4 investors

Mindgard provides AI security solutions that help enterprises identify, assess, and mitigate threats across AI models, agents, and applications throughout the AI lifecycle. The platform uses offensive security techniques to help organizations understand exposure and reduce risk from AI-driven threats.

4 investors

Mine offers a data privacy and governance suite serving both organizations and individuals, aimed at managing data privacy needs on both sides of the market.

4 investors

Minimus develops security solutions for cloud-native applications, founded by the team behind Twistlock. The company focuses on delivering next-generation security for cloud environments.

4 investors

MirrorTab provides bot and fraud prevention for web applications and APIs by blocking automated attacks at the edge without requiring code changes or customer installs. The platform protects against account takeovers, transaction fraud, content scraping, and AI-powered bot attacks across web apps and APIs.

4 investors

Mogenius offers a tunneling solution that provides secure access to databases, internal tools, and APIs running in Kubernetes clusters without exposing them publicly or requiring VPN management. The product enforces role-based access control, maintains audit logging, and automatically manages session lifecycle.

4 investors

MokN provides a cybersecurity detection solution designed to identify external threats more effectively for organizations. The tool is built by security operations experts to offer simpler, smarter threat detection that reduces false positives and operational noise.

4 investors

M-SAFE is a user-friendly security or safety product built by engineers from major tech companies. The company focuses on providing accessible solutions with dedicated customer support.

4 investors

Monarx offers an AI-based security platform that detects, removes, and blocks malware and other threats on servers, including obfuscated, cloaking, and in-memory attacks. It provides real-time in-application protection, a crowd-sourced honeynet, and a command center with APIs, offered as a white-labelable product for resale.

4 investors

Munily is an AI-powered platform that centralizes security, accounting, and communication management for buildings and condominiums. The software automates access control with facial recognition, billing processes, and resident communication through a unified interface.

4 investors

Nebula Security uses AI-driven security pipelines to accelerate vulnerability research in widely used software such as operating systems, browsers, and applications. The company identifies security bugs and vulnerabilities significantly faster than traditional manual research methods.

4 investors

Nect provides AI-based identity verification and fraud prevention technology, including video-based remote identification, liveness detection, and age verification. It serves insurers, banks, government agencies, telecom providers, and healthcare/gambling sectors, primarily in Germany, offering eIDAS-certified and gematik-certified identification methods.

4 investors

Netki provides automated KYC/AML compliance and identity verification solutions for cryptocurrency exchanges and financial institutions. The company offers OnboardID for biometric-based user verification and TransactID for travel rule compliance on digital asset transactions.

4 investors

Next Caller provides real-time phone call verification technology that authenticates legitimate callers and detects spoofed or high-risk calls within milliseconds. It serves businesses handling phone-based customer interactions, helping them prevent phone fraud during call authentication.

4 investors

NGRAVE builds self-custody security products for cryptocurrency holders to protect and control their digital assets. The company focuses on hardware and design that reduces the risk of loss and hacking of crypto wealth.

4 investors