Cybersecurity Startups

Vijil develops trust infrastructure for AI agents in enterprise environments, enabling developers to build reliable agents with hardened components and helping risk officers enforce governance policies. The platform reduces time-to-trust by 4x and is used in production by companies including SmartRecruiters and DigitalOcean.

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VOLT AI is a video security platform that uses AI to analyze feeds from an organization's existing cameras to detect weapons such as guns and knives and identify other threats, alerting security teams and first responders within seconds. It serves organizations of all sizes, from K-12 schools to Fortune 500 companies, with a focus on physical safety.

3 investors

VU offers modular identity verification, authentication, and fraud prevention software using biometric verification, certified liveness detection, and behavioral analysis. It serves banks, gaming companies, enterprises, and government agencies with digital onboarding, KYC, and identity consolidation (CIAM) via APIs and SDKs.

3 investors

VulnCheck operates a cyber threat intelligence platform that provides exploit and vulnerability intelligence, helping security teams prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities based on the threat landscape. It includes vulnerability prioritization and a real-time early warning system for changes in the vulnerability landscape.

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WatchGuard offers a unified cybersecurity platform combining network security, endpoint protection, identity security, secure Wi-Fi, and AI-driven threat detection and response. It serves businesses and managed service providers (MSPs), providing centralized cloud-based management and managed detection and response services.

3 investors

watchTowr offers an AI-powered preemptive exposure management platform that continuously discovers an organization's external attack surface, validates exploitability against real attacker tactics, and pushes autonomous mitigation to the edge. It serves enterprises in highly targeted industries such as banking, government, telecoms, healthcare, and fintech.

3 investors

Webroot provides consumer cybersecurity software including antivirus, privacy protection, identity monitoring, and cloud backup for individuals and families across PCs, Macs, smartphones, Chromebooks, and tablets. Its plans cover protection against viruses, phishing, ransomware, dark web exposure, and identity theft.

3 investors

HUMAN (formerly White Ops) operates a platform that detects and prevents bot attacks and cyberfraud across advertising, applications, accounts, and transactions for enterprises. It analyzes trillions of digital interactions using signal analysis and machine-learning models to verify traffic and stop fraudulent activity.

3 investors

Wire provides secure, end-to-end encrypted communication and collaboration tools for organizations, positioned as a business alternative to consumer messaging apps like WhatsApp. It focuses on enterprise messaging with governance and compliance controls.

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Wivity is a consulting firm that helps organizations design and run decentralized governance for Web3 projects, including forming blockchain consortia and infrastructure DAOs. It offers a governance framework called Wivity Governance and applies experience from technical standards bodies to guide decision-making for Web3 collaborations.

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Wraithwatch provides a unified data fabric and control plane for cyber defense teams, letting human and AI defenders query source data directly, profile identities and their blast radius, deploy security controls as code, and auto-correlate threat reports with their environment. It targets large critical institutions such as Fortune 500 companies, federal government, nuclear, aerospace and defense, maritime, and advanced manufacturing organizations.

3 investors

Xona provides a secure access platform designed to strengthen and simplify operations technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) across critical infrastructure sectors. The platform serves enterprises in industries including automotive, manufacturing, aviation, energy, utilities, healthcare, and government.

3 investors

xtype provides an automated governance and control layer for ServiceNow, tracking and proving every change, access decision, and configuration across all instances, including actions made by people, pipelines, or AI agents. It targets enterprises in regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, and manufacturing that need continuous, provable compliance.

3 investors

Zaraz built a third-party tool manager that loaded analytics, marketing, and other scripts server-side or in the cloud to improve website speed, privacy, and security. Acquired by Cloudflare in 2021.

3 investors

Zendata generates AI risk signals by observing applications, data flows, and model validation to reveal how data is collected, shared, and exposed in AI-enabled applications. It surfaces pre-production data exposure and third-party integration risks and supplies this intelligence to existing data, security, and AI platforms without replacing enforcement systems.

3 investors

ZeroRISC provides end-to-end security for open-source silicon, covering chip design-time IP, factory provisioning, and lifecycle/fleet management built on an open-source silicon root of trust. It offers post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA) and certification-aligned hardware (FIPS 140-3, EU CRA, Common Criteria) for markets such as mobile, automotive, industrial controllers, and data center chiplets.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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ZeroDrift provides a compliance firewall that validates AI-generated messages, agent outputs, and communications against regulations, firm policies, and security controls, rewriting or blocking non-compliant content before delivery. It targets regulated enterprises in financial services, insurance, and healthcare, enforcing regimes such as SEC, FINRA, HIPAA, and NAIC across AI agents, copilots, and workflows.

3 investors

ZeroPath provides an application security platform that consolidates findings from multiple security scanning tools (SAST, SCA, IaC, secrets detection) into a unified dashboard with AI-driven risk scoring and prioritization for enterprise security teams.

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Zeroport develops hardware-based secure connectivity solutions that provide real-time network access without relying on vulnerable IP pathways, designed for organizations seeking isolation and protection at the physical layer. The company serves enterprises, defense contractors, and government agencies requiring cybersecurity in mission-critical environments.

3 investors

Zip provides managed security and compliance services for small companies without dedicated IT teams, handling device management, identity protection, endpoint security, and compliance audits end-to-end. The company deploys and operates security controls across devices and accounts, monitors threats 24/7, and helps customers pass security audits and vendor questionnaires.

3 investors

zkMe provides privacy-preserving, reusable KYC/AML credentials using zero-knowledge proofs, letting stablecoin issuers and platforms meet FATF, MiCA, and GDPR compliance requirements without storing or transmitting users' personal data. It targets stablecoin issuers, VASPs, and crypto payment platforms needing regulatory compliance while minimizing data liability.

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Zodl is a privacy-focused mobile wallet built for shielded Zcash (ZEC), offering self-custody, private swaps, private payments, and encrypted messaging. It targets crypto users who want to keep transaction details hidden, with features for paying merchants and funding wallets without exposing financial data.

3 investors

Zuplo builds an API management and gateway platform designed to fit into developers' existing tools and workflows. It targets software developers as its primary users.

3 investors