Cybersecurity Startups

Conifers builds CognitiveSOC, a platform of coordinated AI agents that automate security operations tasks including threat investigation, detection engineering, and incident response for enterprise security teams and managed security service providers, without requiring replacement of existing security tools.

3 investors

ContraForce is an AI-powered security delivery platform for MSSPs, MSPs, and security operations teams that automates incident investigation, triage, and response within Microsoft Sentinel and Defender environments. It uses AI agents and "Gamebook" SOP enforcement to enable multi-tenant security operations at scale without proportional headcount growth.

3 investors

ControlMonkey provides a backup and recovery platform that protects cloud infrastructure and configuration for security and cloud teams. The platform covers infrastructure, identity, networking, security, DevOps, and SaaS platforms.

3 investors

Copla offers managed vulnerability scanning for cloud environments, delivering audit-mapped reports aligned with compliance frameworks including ISO 27001, DORA, NIS2, and SOC 2. The service provides complete coverage from scoping to result delivery with expert management of the scanning process.

3 investors

Corma provides IT teams with a platform to automate software license management, identity lifecycle, and SaaS access governance. The solution centralizes app management, detects unused licenses, and automates onboarding and offboarding processes while enforcing security compliance.

3 investors

Coverbase offers a platform for third-party risk management (TPRM), procurement, and security, using AI-guided automation for supplier intake, due diligence, and continuous monitoring. It targets risk-aware industries such as finance, insurance, fintech, and healthcare, serving procurement leaders, risk officers, and CISOs.

3 investors

Cranium provides AI security and governance software that discovers, monitors, and defends AI models, agents, and copilots across enterprise infrastructure. The platform helps security teams defend production AI systems against emerging threats like prompt injection, model drift, and jailbreaks through continuous assessment and automated remediation.

3 investors

Critical Start provides 24x7x365 managed detection and response (MDR) services combining AI-driven monitoring with human security analysts to detect and respond to threats for enterprises across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and utilities.

3 investors

Crosslake is a technology advisory firm that helps private equity investors and management teams assess and manage technology value creation across the investment lifecycle, combining hands-on technologist expertise with data-driven scoring. Its services span AI and data, product strategy, engineering, carve-out and integration, cybersecurity, enterprise systems, and software development.

3 investors

Averro is a third-party risk intelligence platform that discovers the vendors and external parties connected to an organization, layers on cyber breach, dark-web, ransomware, sanctions, and geospatial signals to prioritize risk, and routes intelligence into existing security tools. It serves enterprise security and risk teams managing supply-chain and third-party exposure.

3 investors

Cybellum provides automated red team and vulnerability detection software that identifies and validates coding weaknesses in proprietary and third-party code to reduce security risks across product lines. The platform helps manufacturers and enterprises scale security testing, reduce false positives through dynamic validation, and ensure products meet regulatory compliance before market release.

3 investors

Cybersixgill (Bitsight) provides cyber threat intelligence that captures and processes emerging threats, TTPs, IOCs, and risk exposures, alerting security teams to risks such as compromised credentials, vulnerabilities, ransomware, and adversaries. Its offering supports third-party risk management for security teams.

3 investors

Idira is a platform for managing privileged access across human, machine, and AI agent identities in enterprises. The solution provides modern privilege access management (PAM), identity governance, and secrets management for organizations adopting AI and multi-identity environments.

3 investors

CyberCube provides cyber risk quantification through data, analytics, and modeling that translate cyber threats into financial impact for insurers, reinsurers, and brokers. It serves the insurance industry, offering AI-powered tools for underwriting, portfolio management, and risk transfer decisions.

3 investors

CyberNut provides a gamified security awareness and phishing training platform for K-12 schools, serving students, teachers, and administrators. It includes an analytics dashboard for tracking threat response and awareness across school districts.

3 investors

Cyberwrite provides an AI-based analytics platform that converts raw data into cyber insurance intelligence, with a solution aimed at ILS (insurance-linked securities) investors. It serves the cyber insurance and reinsurance market.

3 investors

Cybord builds Visual AI technology that authenticates and inspects electronic components before, during, and after PCB assembly, matching visual fingerprints against a database of verified components to detect counterfeits, tampering, and sourcing errors. It serves electronics manufacturers and OEMs, enforcing BOM and AVL policies and reducing quality failures, recalls, and warranty claims.

3 investors

Cybret builds a security engine that detects complex business logic vulnerabilities in software, focusing on unintended interactions across API endpoints, permissions, states, and data paths that conventional tools and LLM-based scanners miss. It combines a custom engine for breadth with frontier AI models for depth to find and label vulnerabilities that arise from how components interact across a wider system.

3 investors

CybSafe hosts IMPACT, an annual research-focused event examining human factors in cybersecurity. The company publishes reports on human cyber risk trends and findings.

3 investors

Cydarm provides case management software for security operations centers with built-in security and privacy controls. The platform serves security teams managing incidents and threats with features like single sign-on, encryption, and role-based access control.

3 investors

CyLock is an Italian cybersecurity company specializing in vulnerability assessment, with a patented software called EVA that uses in-house AI to detect vulnerabilities in corporate systems while reducing assessment time. It serves organizations seeking to protect sensitive data, offering penetration testing, application security, and data protection.

3 investors

Cymulate provides a cybersecurity platform for security validation and exposure management, helping companies assess and strengthen their security posture. Founded in 2016, it serves over 1,000 customers across 50 countries.

3 investors

CYREBRO provides digital forensic investigation and security operations center (SOC) services for enterprises, including threat detection, incident response, and threat hunting to minimize the impact of cyberattacks.

3 investors

Cyscale develops a cloud security platform (CSPM/CNAPP) built around a Security Knowledge Graph that helps security teams identify and prioritize risks across cloud infrastructure, identities, and workloads in multi-cloud environments. It serves organizations of all sizes seeking to manage their cloud security posture and reduce breach risk.

3 investors