Cybersecurity Startups

Certifaction provides a privacy-first electronic signing platform that processes and encrypts documents locally ("Zero Document Knowledge"), offered as a modular white-label solution through enterprise partners. It serves enterprises in regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, and the public sector, offering qualified electronic signatures compliant with eIDAS and ZertES frameworks.

3 investors

Chain Reaction designs processors, including its 3PU FHE processor, that make fully homomorphic encryption practical for large-scale computation on encrypted data. Its hardware targets privacy-preserving AI and cloud workloads.

3 investors

Checkboard provides a verified digital identity platform that enables users to authenticate across multiple services without repeatedly submitting identity documents.

3 investors

Checkmarx provides an application security (AppSec) platform that integrates into the software development lifecycle via developer-friendly APIs to embed security from development through deployment. The page describes its partner program for resellers, technology vendors, systems integrators, and managed service providers.

3 investors

cheqd Studio provides APIs and tools to build trusted digital credential ecosystems with decentralized identifiers, trust registries, and payment infrastructure. It serves credential issuers, consortia, schemes, and enterprises implementing eIDAS 2.0-compliant digital identity solutions.

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 operates a web-based fixed-income trading platform offering two protocols, a central limit orderbook and a request-for-quote system, aimed at institutional investors and dealers. It provides access to cross-border liquidity, anonymous trading, and market analytics tools.

3 investors

Circadence develops gamified, cloud-based cybersecurity training and awareness platforms for individuals, teams, and government agencies. The company creates high-fidelity virtual simulations and cyber ranges aligned with NIST/NICE frameworks for hands-on learning.

3 investors

Circadian Risk offers a physical security risk and compliance assessment platform that lets organizations monitor risk across multiple locations, run assessments against any compliance standard, and manage remediation from a single dashboard. It serves security teams and consultants across industries such as grocery distribution and financial institutions, providing vulnerability, threat, and impact analysis plus reporting and corrective action tools.

3 investors

Cisco Systems designs and sells networking hardware, software, and services—including routers, switches, and cloud-based applications—to enterprise, service provider, and consumer markets globally.

3 investors

Clairvoyant Intelligence helps CISOs and CIOs manage software supply chain trust and integrate AI into secure development practices, serving enterprise security leaders.

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

Closinglock provides a platform for title and settlement companies to prevent real estate wire fraud, handle secure digital payments (earnest money deposits and cash to close), verify identities, and manage closing communications. It serves title companies, agents, and their clients throughout the home closing process.

3 investors

Cloudhouse helps enterprises safely execute infrastructure changes—patches, migrations, and modernizations—on legacy platforms without breaking mission-critical applications. The company makes such changes visible, evidenced, and recoverable for organizations running older operating systems and applications that cannot be easily rewritten.

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

CloudQuery provides cloud governance teams with unified visibility and management across multiple cloud providers and accounts. The platform enables teams to track cloud assets, query infrastructure via SQL or natural language, enforce compliance policies, and automate remediation workflows.

3 investors

A security platform (Imperva) providing web application firewall (WAF), API security, and cloud WAAP capabilities, consolidating detection, investigation, and management for enterprises. It also supports continuous PCI DSS 4.0 compliance to simplify audits.

3 investors

Clover Security provides context-aware AI agents for product security that detect risks, run automated security reviews, generate threat models from codebases, and enforce security policies within engineering workflows. It targets product security (ProdSec) and security engineering teams, and includes controls for AI-generated code and AI-driven development.

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

CodeZero is building Cordon for Teams, a product in development with design partners. Limited information is available on this page.

3 investors

Common Sense Privacy offers a compliance platform powered by privacy and legal experts to help businesses navigate evolving privacy regulations and implement privacy best practices. The company serves privacy-conscious organizations seeking to maintain regulatory compliance and build customer trust.

3 investors

ComplyDo provides an AI-powered platform that automates enterprise compliance by analyzing regulations and contracts, mapping requirements to internal controls, and identifying compliance gaps for regulated organizations. The platform helps compliance teams reduce manual work and prepare audit-ready documentation.

3 investors

Concord provides a consent management platform that helps companies comply with global privacy regulations through customizable cookie banners, real-time website scanning, and automatic tracker detection and blocking. It offers advanced privacy controls, multi-language support, geo-targeting, and auditable consent logs to meet requirements such as GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and LGPD.

3 investors

Confide is a messaging application that enables users to send encrypted messages that self-destruct after being read once, with screenshot prevention technology. The service is designed for private communication of sensitive topics without permanent digital records.

3 investors