| 01 | Palantir Technologies | Data analytics and software company building platforms for government intelligence, defense, and commercial enterprises, enabling organizations to integrate, manage, and analyze large datasets for operational decision-making. | Denver, US | Public | $2.9B |
| 02 | Helsing | Munich-based European defense AI company building software for military hardware (drones, jets, submarines) and a sovereign-AI alternative to US-built defense tech. ~80% European-owned with an active €1.46B German military drone contract. Daniel Ek-backed through Prima Materia, now Germany's most valuable startup at $18B. | Munich, Germany | Private | $2.7B |
| 03 | Cyera | AI-native data security platform that helps enterprises discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, founded by veterans of Israel's IDF Unit 8200 and Talpiot leadership academy | New York, United States | Private | $2.3B |
| 04 | Wiz | Cloud security company that provides a unified platform for cloud-native application protection, enabling organizations to rapidly identify and remediate critical risks across their cloud environments. | New York, US | Acquired | $1.9B |
| 05 | Lacework | Lacework was a cloud security company that provided a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) using machine learning and behavioral analytics to detect threats, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities across cloud environments. The platform offered automated security monitoring for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes workloads. | Mountain View, United States | Acquired | $1.9B |
| 06 | Snyk | Developer security platform that helps software teams find, prioritize, and fix vulnerabilities in open source dependencies, container images, infrastructure as code, and proprietary code | Boston, United States | Private | $1.7B |
| 07 | Armis | Cyber exposure management and security platform that provides agentless visibility and protection for managed, unmanaged, and IoT devices across enterprise environments, covering IT, OT, IoMT, and cloud assets | San Francisco, United States | Acquired | $1.2B |
| 08 | Tanium | Tanium is a cybersecurity and endpoint management platform that uses a patented peer-to-peer architecture to give organizations real-time visibility, control, and remediation across all endpoints at enterprise scale. | Kirkland, United States | Private | $1.0B |
| 09 | Island | Pioneer of the enterprise browser category, building a Chromium-based browser designed for enterprise environments with built-in security, governance, and productivity features that replaces consumer browsers with a purpose-built workspace | Dallas, United States | Private | $1.0B |
| 10 | 1Password | Password management platform that helps individuals, families, and businesses securely store, manage, and share passwords, credentials, and sensitive information across devices and teams. Bootstrapped profitably for 14 years before taking venture capital. | Toronto, Canada | Private | $920M |
| 11 | Chainguard | Software supply chain security company that provides hardened container images with zero known vulnerabilities, offering a catalog of over 1,300 continuously updated, fully signed images with software bills of materials (SBOMs) for enterprises | Kirkland, United States | Private | $892M |
| 12 | Claroty | Claroty provides industrial cybersecurity and operational technology (OT) security solutions, protecting critical infrastructure across manufacturing, healthcare, and energy sectors. | New York, US | Private | $882M |
| 13 | Cohesity | Enterprise data security and management platform that provides backup, recovery, and data protection across hybrid cloud environments. Merged with Veritas' data protection business in 2024 to become the world's largest data protection software provider. | San Jose, United States | Private | $810M |
| 14 | Verkada | Cloud-based physical security platform providing enterprise-grade video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, and alarms managed through a single software platform | San Mateo, United States | Private | $744M |
| 15 | Cribl | Data engine for IT and security teams that provides an observability pipeline platform, enabling enterprises to route, reduce, enrich, and transform streaming data from any source to any destination in real time | San Francisco, United States | Private | $715M |
| 16 | SentinelOne | Autonomous cybersecurity platform powered by artificial intelligence that provides endpoint protection, detection, and response across the enterprise, replacing legacy antivirus solutions. | Mountain View, United States | Public | $692M |
| 17 | Arctic Wolf | Arctic Wolf is a cybersecurity company that provides security operations as a concierge service, offering managed detection and response (MDR), managed risk, managed security awareness, and incident response solutions to organizations of all sizes. | Eden Prairie, United States | Private | $687M |
| 18 | Anchorage Digital | Anchorage Digital is America's first federally chartered cryptocurrency bank, providing institutional-grade custody, trading, staking, governance, and settlement services for digital assets. Founded by former Square and Docker security engineers, the company received its national trust bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in January 2021. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $587M |
| 19 | Illumio | Illumio is a cybersecurity company that provides zero trust segmentation solutions to prevent breaches from spreading across data centers, cloud environments, and endpoints. The platform uses real-time visibility and automated policy enforcement to contain attacks, serving more than 20% of the Fortune 100. | Sunnyvale, United States | Private | $558M |
| 20 | Rubrik | Rubrik is a cybersecurity company that provides cloud data management and data security solutions, helping enterprises protect, monitor, and recover their data across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments from cyberattacks including ransomware. | Palo Alto, United States | Public | $553M |
| 21 | Vanta | Trust management platform that automates security compliance, helping over 12,000 companies across 58 countries achieve and maintain compliance with standards like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR through continuous monitoring and automation | San Francisco, United States | Private | $503M |
| 22 | CrowdStrike | Cloud-native cybersecurity company providing endpoint protection, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response services through its Falcon platform, protecting enterprises and governments from advanced cyber threats. | Austin, US | Public | $480M |
| 23 | GitLab | Open-core DevSecOps platform delivered as a single application for the entire software development lifecycle, from planning and source code management to CI/CD, security, and monitoring. | San Francisco, US | Public | $434M |
| 24 | Signifyd | Signifyd provides a Commerce Protection Platform that uses machine learning and large-scale data network effects to provide guaranteed fraud protection for e-commerce merchants. The platform automates order decisions with a financial guarantee against chargebacks, enabling merchants to maximize revenue while minimizing fraud losses. Signifyd's network processes billions of transactions from thousands of merchants worldwide. | San Jose, United States | Private | $409M |
| 25 | Cloaked | Consumer privacy platform offering disposable identities, VPN, data removal, and AI-powered spam screening. Protects over 10 million identities for 350,000 paying users, now expanding into enterprise privacy solutions. | New York, United States | Private | $404M |
| 26 | Persona Identity | San Francisco-based identity verification platform. Government ID, biometric, and knowledge-based verification for KYC and fraud prevention. Customers include Rippling, Deel, Coinbase, and BlockFi. Founded 2018. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $373M |
| 27 | Kong | Kong is the company behind the most widely adopted open-source API gateway and service connectivity platform. Originally founded as Mashape (an API marketplace), the company pivoted to focus on its open-source Kong Gateway and rebranded in 2017. Kong Konnect enables enterprises to manage, secure, and observe APIs across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $344M |
| 28 | Drata | Drata is a compliance automation platform that continuously monitors and collects evidence of a company's security controls, streamlining SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and other compliance frameworks. | San Diego, United States | Private | $328M |
| 29 | Pindrop | Voice security and authentication company that uses AI and machine learning to detect phone fraud, verify caller identity, and protect against voice deepfakes. Its patented Phoneprinting technology analyzes audio signals to determine call provenance, device type, and caller location. | Atlanta, Georgia, United States | Private | $312M |
| 30 | Aleo | Layer 1 blockchain platform that uses zero-knowledge cryptography to enable developers to build privacy-preserving, scalable decentralized applications. Offers a hybrid approach where developers choose what data is public and what remains private. Provides Leo, a programming language for writing zero-knowledge smart contracts. Mainnet launched September 2024. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $298M |
| 31 | Vale Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native cloud detection response for enterprise SOC teams. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $290M |
| 32 | Versa Networks | Leader in single-vendor Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), delivering integrated networking, security, and cloud services through a unified software platform. Products include SD-WAN, SSE, zero-trust network access, and secure branch networking for enterprises and service providers. | Santa Clara, United States | Private | $283M |
| 33 | Fern Cyber AI | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native EDR for enterprise endpoint detection and response. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $279M |
| 34 | Tailscale | Software-defined mesh VPN based on WireGuard that enables teams to securely connect devices and services with zero-configuration networking and zero-trust access controls. Developer-focused networking tool that replaces traditional corporate VPNs. | Toronto, Canada | Private | $275M |
| 35 | Sunrise Cyber AI | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native SIEM for enterprise security teams. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $272M |
| 36 | Descope | Los Altos, California-based drag-and-drop authentication and identity platform. Provides passwordless, SSO, MFA, and B2B tenant management via visual flows. Customers include Guesty, Sonar, and Klaviyo. Founded 2022 by ex-Imperva CEO. | Los Altos, United States | Private | $253M |
| 37 | Grove Fintech AI | NYC-based fintech building AI-native fraud analytics for card issuers. | New York, United States | Private | $253M |
| 38 | Kela | Tel Aviv defense-tech company building an open-architecture operating system for modern militaries. Connects sensors, drones, and UAVs into a unified real-time battlefield picture for command and control. Generated ~$20M in 2025 revenue and crossed the unicorn line on its May 2026 Series C. | Tel Aviv, Israel | Private | $239M |
| 39 | Okta | Okta is an identity and access management platform that provides cloud-based solutions for securely connecting people to technology. The company offers single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management for enterprises and developers. | San Francisco, United States | Public | $229M |
| 40 | JFrog | JFrog is a DevOps platform company that provides universal software supply chain solutions, including its flagship product Artifactory, a universal artifact repository manager for managing and distributing software packages. | Sunnyvale, United States | Public | $226M |
| 41 | Elliptic | London-based blockchain analytics and crypto compliance platform. Processes over 1 billion transactions weekly across 65+ blockchains, serving 700+ clients (banks, exchanges, governments) across 30 countries. CEO Simone Maini leads operationally; Tom Robinson remains Chief Scientist and co-founder. | London, United Kingdom | Private | $210M |
| 42 | Exaforce | San Francisco Bay Area AI-native security operations platform combining a real-time security knowledge graph with autonomous Exabot AI agents that triage, investigate, and respond to threats in real time. Supplements with an MDR managed service. Founded 2023 by three-time founder Ankur Singla. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $200M |
| 43 | WorkOS | Developer platform providing APIs for enterprise-ready features including single sign-on (SSO), directory sync (SCIM), audit logging, and user management, enabling any SaaS application to quickly support enterprise authentication and identity requirements. Customers include OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Cursor, Perplexity, and Vercel. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $199M |
| 44 | XBOW | Autonomous offensive security company redefining cyber defense for the AI era. Combines AI reasoning with offensive security workflows to deliver expert-level security testing at machine speed, acting as an autonomous hacker that finds vulnerabilities before real attackers do. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $195M |
| 45 | Cape | Privacy-first mobile carrier that built its own mobile core and SIMs from scratch. Offers features like daily identifier rotation and secondary numbers to prevent tracking, serving government agencies, enterprises, journalists, and privacy-conscious consumers. | Arlington, United States | Private | $191M |
| 46 | Armadin | AI-native cybersecurity platform deploying autonomous AI agents that continuously scan for, detect, and respond to threats without human intervention, founded by Mandiant creator Kevin Mandia with backing from the CIA's In-Q-Tel. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $190M |
| 47 | Vega Security | AI-native cybersecurity platform replacing traditional SIEM with Security Analytics Management (SAM). Runs security analytics where data already lives, in cloud services, data lakes, and existing storage. Uses AI to enable SOC teams to create detections and automatically fix coverage gaps. | Tel Aviv, IL | Private | $185M |
| 48 | Cloudflare | Web infrastructure and security company providing content delivery network, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed DNS services, helping to build a faster, more secure internet for millions of websites and applications. | San Francisco, US | Public | $182M |
| 49 | Zenity | Tel Aviv-based agentic AI security governance platform. Monitors and secures enterprise deployments of Copilot Studio, Salesforce Einstein, ServiceNow Now Assist, and custom agents. Customers include Fortune 100 and government agencies. Founded 2021. | Tel Aviv, Israel | Private | $180M |
| 50 | Code Metal | AI-powered platform for verifiable code translation and optimization across programming languages and hardware systems. Uses neuro-symbolic AI combining large language models with formal verification methods to ensure provably correct translations for mission-critical industries including defense, aerospace, semiconductors, and automotive. | - | Private | $178M |
| 51 | Teleport | Teleport is the infrastructure identity company, providing on-demand, least-privileged access to infrastructure on a foundation of cryptographic identity and zero trust. The platform integrates access management, zero trust networking, and identity security into a single solution, replacing passwords and secrets with true identity for engineers and services. Previously known as Gravitational, the company was founded by the Mailgun team (YC W11, acquired by Rackspace). | Oakland, United States | Private | $169M |
| 52 | Oasis Security | Cybersecurity platform providing visibility and governance for non-human identities including AI agents, service accounts, and machine credentials across cloud environments. Secures NHIs across IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, and on-prem infrastructure. | New York, United States | Private | $165M |
| 53 | Material Security | Material Security provides cloud workspace security for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, protecting organizations from email attacks, account takeovers, and data breaches. Founded by former Dropbox engineers, the company applies a zero-trust approach that assumes breach and protects sensitive content even after an attacker gains access to an inbox. | Redwood City, California, United States | Private | $162M |
| 54 | Skyflow | Palo Alto-based data privacy vault company that lets enterprises store, tokenize, and govern PII, PHI, and PCI data in a polymorphic encrypted vault. Customers include Nubank, IBM, Apple Card, and Lendmark Financial. Founded 2019. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $153M |
| 55 | Zscaler | Zscaler is a cloud security company that provides a zero-trust platform for securing internet and SaaS access for enterprises. The company's cloud-native architecture replaces traditional network security appliances, serving thousands of global organizations. | San Jose, United States | Public | $150M |
| 56 | Adaptive Security | AI-native cybersecurity platform that protects organizations from AI-powered social engineering attacks. Simulates deepfake voice calls, AI-generated phishing emails, and SMS-based attacks to train employees and assess vulnerability. Serves 500+ enterprise customers including PayPal, Xerox, and Bose. Founded by serial entrepreneurs behind TapCommerce (acquired by Twitter) and Attentive ($7B valuation). | New York, United States | Private | $147M |
| 57 | Ambient.ai | Ambient.ai is an AI-powered computer vision intelligence platform that transforms enterprise physical security operations by applying near-human perception to existing camera infrastructure. The platform detects real-time threats and reduces false alarms by 99% without using facial recognition. Founded by Stanford graduates Shikhar Shrestha and Vikesh Khanna, the company emerged from Y Combinator W17. | San Jose, United States | Private | $146M |
| 58 | Stytch | Developer-first identity and access management platform providing authentication, authorization, and fraud prevention APIs. Enables companies to build secure passwordless login experiences and enterprise-ready identity infrastructure. Acquired by Twilio in November 2025. | San Francisco, United States | Acquired | $126M |
| 59 | Socket | San Francisco automated security platform that detects malicious behavior in software dependencies via behavioral code analysis. Protects the software supply chain from attacks on open-source packages in the era of AI-accelerated development. Customers include Anthropic, xAI, Replit, Cursor, Figma, Vercel, and Gusto. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $125M |
| 60 | Doppel | Doppel is an AI-powered social engineering defense platform that protects enterprises from phishing, brand impersonation, fraud, and deepfake attacks across digital channels. The company uses agentic AI combined with human analysis to detect and take down threats across domains, social media, ads, dark web, and crypto. Doppel protects over 200 customers including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $124M |
| 61 | UpGuard | AI-powered Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) platform unifying vendor risk, breach risk, user risk, trust exchange, and risk automations. Processes 100+ billion risk signals daily. Trusted by 50,000 organizations in 90+ countries. Category leader on G2 for Third-Party Risk Management for 15 consecutive quarters. | Hobart, AU | Private | $120M |
| 62 | depthfirst | Applied AI lab developing AI-native cybersecurity solutions. Trains domain-specific security models and builds tools for threat detection and response. Less than 90 days from stealth to $120M in total funding. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $120M |
| 63 | Bromium | Bromium was a cybersecurity company that pioneered micro-virtualization technology to protect endpoints from malware, phishing, and zero-day attacks. Instead of detecting threats, its platform isolated each risky task inside a disposable hardware-enforced micro-virtual machine, preventing malware from reaching the host system. Founded by the creators of the Xen hypervisor, the company was acquired by HP Inc. in 2019. | Cupertino, United States | Acquired | $116M |
| 64 | Eclypsium | Cybersecurity firm scanning firmware of servers, laptops, network devices, and AI infrastructure for vulnerabilities below the operating system. Maintains a database of over 12 million known-good firmware hashes for continuous monitoring. | Portland, United States | Private | $111M |
| 65 | Draco Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native ransomware detection for enterprise endpoints. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $109M |
| 66 | Ranger Robotics | Boston-based robotics startup building AI-native autonomous perimeter security drones for enterprise campuses. | Boston, United States | Private | $107M |
| 67 | Delphi Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native SaaS security posture for enterprise identity teams. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $107M |
| 68 | Canyon Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native cloud native security for enterprise Kubernetes clusters. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $107M |
| 69 | Nova Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native cloud security posture management for enterprise multi-cloud deployments. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $106M |
| 70 | Harbor Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native network detection response for enterprise SOC teams. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $106M |
| 71 | Almond Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native cloud detection and response for AWS and GCP workloads. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $101M |
| 72 | Sunday Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native cloud infrastructure security posture management. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $101M |
| 73 | Ember Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native supply chain security for enterprise software. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $98M |
| 74 | Onset Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native email security for enterprise Microsoft 365 tenants. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $98M |
| 75 | Coast Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native SaaS security posture for enterprise IT admins. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $98M |
| 76 | Chalk Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native attack path analysis for enterprise SOC teams. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $98M |
| 77 | Boulevard Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native identity threat detection for enterprise. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $96M |
| 78 | Rhythm Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native data security posture management for enterprise cloud data lakes. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $96M |
| 79 | Grove Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native container runtime security for Kubernetes deployments. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $93M |
| 80 | Yubico | Developer of the YubiKey hardware security key for strong two-factor and passwordless authentication, protecting access to computers, networks, and online services | Stockholm, Sweden | Public | $92M |
| 81 | Linx Security | AI-native identity security platform that continuously maps, monitors, and governs all identities (human and machine) across the enterprise. Replaces manual processes and periodic reviews with real-time detection and automated remediation. Multimillion-dollar contracts with banks, healthcare companies, and Fortune 500 firms. | New York, United States | Private | $83M |
| 82 | ArmorCode | Unified exposure management platform for AI and software security that consolidates application security posture management, DevSecOps orchestration, and continuous compliance into a single platform. Redefining security governance in the AI era. | Palo Alto, California, United States | Private | $81M |
| 83 | Alcatraz AI | AI-powered physical access control company that replaces badge-based and legacy biometric security with fully anonymized facial authentication via its Rock product. Serves the world's largest AI data centers, major U.S. airports, energy companies, NFL teams, and Fortune 100 companies. 300%+ YoY data center adoption growth. | Cupertino, United States | Private | $80M |
| 84 | Artemis | Artemis is an AI-native protection platform that delivers real-time detection and automated response for a threat landscape where AI-powered attacks move at machine speed. Builds AI agents for security operations (detection and response). Early customers include Mercury, Wix, Lemonade, and Abnormal AI. | New York, United States | Private | $70M |
| 85 | Palo Alto Networks | Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity leader that provides next-generation firewalls, cloud security, and AI-powered threat detection to enterprises and governments worldwide. The company pioneered application-aware firewall technology that transformed network security. | Santa Clara, United States | Public | $65M |
| 86 | Sycamore | Trusted agent operating system for the enterprise that enables organizations to build, deploy, and orchestrate AI agents with security, governance, and human oversight. Founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath after two decades of building enterprise platforms at Sun Microsystems, VMware, Groupon, and Atlassian. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $65M |
| 87 | Gambit Security | AI-native enterprise resilience platform that delivers verifiable, continuous data protection. Connects to all environments, security solutions, and backup tools to autonomously map infrastructure and backup data, uncovering gaps that break recovery plans. Turns data resilience from manual backup processes into automated, AI-powered capability for CISOs and IT leaders. | Tel Aviv, IL | Private | $61M |
| 88 | Proxy | Privacy-first digital identity platform that used Bluetooth Low Energy to replace physical keys, cards, and badges. A smartphone emitted an identity signal picked up by sensors on doors, elevators, and turnstiles, functioning as a universal single sign-on for the physical world. | San Francisco, United States | Acquired | $57M |
| 89 | Surf AI | Israeli-founded cybersecurity startup building an agentic AI platform that helps enterprises operationalize security by connecting business context across identity, cloud, data, and IT systems. | New York, United States | Private | $57M |
| 90 | Cinder | New York AI-powered trust and safety operations platform that detects and responds to digital abuse, fraud, and AI-driven manipulation. Customers include OpenAI, Spotify, ElevenLabs, and Midjourney. Founded 2022 by ex-Meta integrity team alumni. | New York, United States | Private | $55M |
| 91 | Cogent Security | AI-native vulnerability management platform that deploys autonomous AI agents to investigate, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities across the full lifecycle. Founded by ex-Abnormal Security and Coinbase engineers, Cogent works with dozens of Fortune 1000 companies and reports a 97% reduction in exposure windows for critical issues. | San Francisco, US | Private | $53M |
| 92 | Oasis Labs | Oasis Labs is a privacy-first blockchain platform founded by UC Berkeley researchers, building the Oasis Network for confidential smart contracts and decentralized computing. The company combines secure hardware (TEEs) with blockchain to enable privacy-preserving applications including AI, DeFi, and data tokenization at scale. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $48M |
| 93 | Evervault | Secure data infrastructure company providing encryption-as-a-service and payment security solutions. Offers tools for encrypting, processing, and sharing sensitive data without exposing it, with a focus on PCI compliance and payment card data protection. | Dublin, Ireland | Private | $46M |
| 94 | Cylake | AI-native cybersecurity platform built on a unified data foundation for complete infrastructure visibility and control. Designed for large, regulated organizations requiring total data sovereignty. Operates entirely on-premises or within private clouds. Founded by Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk. | Sunnyvale, United States | Private | $45M |
| 95 | Bold | AI-powered cybersecurity platform that runs models directly on endpoints to stop user-based threats at the source, giving enterprises real-time visibility over how users and AI copilots interact with data and services | Tel Aviv, Israel | Private | $40M |
| 96 | Onyx Security | Secure AI control plane for enterprises that discovers, monitors, and governs AI agents across cloud, endpoints, code, and SaaS deployments using proprietary supervisory agents | Tel Aviv, Israel | Private | $40M |
| 97 | RunSybil | AI cybersecurity startup that uses autonomous AI agents to conduct continuous penetration testing against live applications, finding and exploiting real security vulnerabilities without humans in the loop. Founded by OpenAI's first security hire. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $40M |
| 98 | A Security | New York-based autonomous offensive security platform. Uses AI agents to continuously map attack surface, chain vulnerabilities, validate exploitability, then remediate before 'weaponized AI' attackers can. Emerged from stealth June 2026. | New York, USA | Private | $37M |
| 99 | Marsh Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native supply chain security for open-source dependencies. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $36M |
| 100 | Willow Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native email security for enterprise customers. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $35M |
| 101 | Meridian Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native SaaS security posture management. Live with 200 mid-market SaaS customers. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $34M |
| 102 | Aster Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native code security for enterprise developer teams. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $34M |
| 103 | Larkspur Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native vulnerability management for cloud workloads. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $33M |
| 104 | Elk Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native data classification for enterprise data lake security. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $33M |
| 105 | Hemlock Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native attack surface management for enterprise external exposure. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $33M |
| 106 | Duke Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native code signing for enterprise devops teams. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $33M |
| 107 | Smack Technologies | Smack Technologies is a frontier AI lab for national security, co-founded by MARSOC veterans. The company builds domain-specific AI models powered by deep reinforcement learning to deliver 'Decision Dominance' to the U.S. Department of Defense, allies, and partners. Its Omega and Alpha product suites enable campaign-informed planning in seconds across all time horizons. | El Segundo, California, United States | Private | $32M |
| 108 | Vex Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native SBOM analysis for enterprise software supply chains. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $32M |
| 109 | 1touch.io | 1touch.io provides a sensitive data intelligence and orchestration platform that discovers, classifies, contextualizes, and enriches data across all datasets and environments. The platform gives enterprises a comprehensive, unified view of their information landscape for data privacy and security. Originally incubated in JVP's Cyber Labs in Israel. | New York, US | Acquired | $32M |
| 110 | Knox Systems | FedRAMP-as-a-service platform that gives SaaS vendors the fastest path to government security authorization, reducing first-year costs by 90% with an AI-managed pre-authorized cloud environment. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $32M |
| 111 | Petal Cyber | SF-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native browser security for enterprise remote work. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $32M |
| 112 | Oak Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native data loss prevention for enterprise cloud storage. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $32M |
| 113 | Sage Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native GRC automation for enterprise compliance teams. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $32M |
| 114 | Jade Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native SaaS security posture management for GRC teams. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $32M |
| 115 | Arctic Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native code security for enterprise DevOps teams. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $31M |
| 116 | Meadow Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native SIEM alerting for MSSPs. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $31M |
| 117 | Basil Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native application security for AppSec teams. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $31M |
| 118 | Wren Cyber | Palo Alto-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native identity governance for enterprise IAM teams. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $31M |
| 119 | Sunrise Fintech AI | NYC-based fintech building AI-native fraud detection for e-commerce marketplaces. | New York, United States | Private | $30M |
| 120 | D-Fend Solutions | Israel-based counter-drone company. Flagship EnforceAir uses radio-frequency takeover to seize control of rogue drones mid-flight and land them safely, rather than jamming or kinetic interdiction. Deployed in 30+ countries; 50%+ annual growth; 2026E revenue $185M. Acquired by Motorola Solutions for $1.5B on June 1, 2026. | Ra'anana, Israel | Acquired | $28M |
| 121 | Roost Cybersecurity | SF-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native SaaS third-party risk management. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $28M |
| 122 | Corridor | Security platform embedding real-time vulnerability checks into AI code-generation workflows. Its Agentic Coding Security Management platform helps prevent vulnerabilities as code is generated by AI coding tools. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $25M |
| 123 | Berlin Cyber | Berlin-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native identity threat detection for European enterprise customers. | Berlin, Germany | Private | $25M |
| 124 | Arpio | Durham, North Carolina-based AI-native automated cloud disaster recovery for AWS and Azure (expanding to GCP). Maps application dependencies and replicates infrastructure for ransomware and outage recovery. Y Combinator alum, founded 2018. | Durham, USA | Private | $23M |
| 125 | Aliro Quantum | Develops physics-based cybersecurity technology that shifts digital trust from computational assumptions to physical law. Spun out of NarangLab at Harvard, Aliro's vendor-agnostic software stack operates over existing optical fiber networks and supports 50+ entanglement and classical network devices. | Boston, US | Private | $23M |
| 126 | RAVEN.IO | Cybersecurity company that protects applications at runtime, preventing attacks in real time even without signatures or CVEs. Uses AI-driven behavioral analysis to stop AI-generated exploits that bypass traditional vulnerability-based security approaches. | Tel Aviv, Israel | Private | $20M |
| 127 | BlueFlag Security | Developer-centric cybersecurity platform providing just-in-time permissions and identity security for software development teams. Secures developer identities and access across CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure. | Tel Aviv, Israel | Private | $17M |
| 128 | Sqreen | Application Security Management platform providing real-time protection for web applications. Sqreen embedded lightweight agents inside applications to detect and block attacks without traffic redirection, offering Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP), in-app WAF, and account takeover protection. Founded by two former Apple Red Team members who spent a decade hacking Apple's own products to find vulnerabilities. | - | Acquired | $16M |
| 129 | Gorilla Technology | Global provider of AI-powered edge computing, video intelligence, IoT security, and cybersecurity solutions. Specializes in edge AI for real-time data processing, serving government institutions, telecom companies, and enterprises across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and globally. | London, UK | Public | $15M |
| 130 | RevEng.AI | London-based binary-native software supply-chain verification platform powered by the BinNet AI model. Finds vulnerabilities and backdoors in compiled software. Founded 2022. | London, United Kingdom | Private | $15M |
| 131 | Foundation | Boston-based maker of Human Authority Hardware: dedicated security devices (Passport Bitcoin wallet, Passport Prime, KeyOS Rust microkernel OS) that require explicit human approval for high-stakes digital actions including Bitcoin custody, identity, 2FA, and authorization of AI agents. | Boston, United States | Private | $13M |
| 132 | Northwind Cyber | Boston-based enterprise security startup building agentic incident response and SOC copilots for mid-market MSSP customers. | Boston, United States | Private | $13M |
| 133 | Onit Security | Agentic exposure management platform that automates vulnerability prioritization and remediation. AI agents gather threat intelligence, understand business context, and propose fixes. Working with approximately 15 Fortune 1000 customers. | Tel Aviv, Israel | Private | $11M |
| 134 | Sable Cyber | Boston-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native identity threat detection for enterprise identity providers. | Boston, United States | Private | $11M |
| 135 | Kibu | Washington DC-based human-network platform that cryptographically binds real human identity to verified interactions, building a trust fabric for sensitive workflows across financial institutions, defense contractors, and security consultants in the age of AI deepfakes. | Washington, United States | Private | $11M |
| 136 | Beacon Compliance | New York-based regtech startup building automated evidence collection and continuous compliance monitoring for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA audits. | New York, United States | Private | $9M |
| 137 | Coral Reef Networks | Miami-based network security startup building zero-trust segmentation for hospital and clinic IoT devices. Live with three regional health systems. | Miami, United States | Private | $9M |
| 138 | Manifold | AI Detection and Response platform securing autonomous AI agents on endpoints. Monitors AI agent behavior in real time to detect anomalies, prevent unauthorized actions, and ensure AI systems operate within intended boundaries. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $8M |
| 139 | Alien | Trust infrastructure for the agentic economy. Verifies users without permanently storing biometric data or requiring government ID, using continuous human verification via social graph activity and probabilistic scoring. AI agents receive Agent ID credentials tied back to human owners. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $7M |
| 140 | Didit | Spain-based programmable identity verification and fraud prevention API serving 1,500+ customers. Profitable with 30%+ monthly growth. Founded 2023 by twin AI engineers Alberto and Alejandro Rosas. | Barcelona, Spain | Private | $6M |
| 141 | Fjord Cyber | Oslo-based cybersecurity startup building AI-native threat detection for Nordic critical infrastructure. | Oslo, Norway | Private | $6M |
| 142 | Certiv | Provides the first runtime assurance layer for AI agents, enabling enterprises to discover, understand, control, and protect agentic AI work across employee endpoints before actions reach production systems. | Seattle, United States | Private | $4M |
| 143 | Cybervergent | AI-native governance, risk, compliance, and cybersecurity platform for organizations across Africa. Automates compliance monitoring and maps 4,500+ regulatory controls across 100+ frameworks. Serves 150+ organizations across West, East, and Southern Africa. Named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2025. | Lagos, Nigeria | Private | $3M |
| 144 | Cognito | Identity verification and compliance platform (formerly BlockScore). Used phone numbers to verify real-world identity including name, DOB, address, and SSN. Originally built for crypto compliance, later pivoted to a phone-first verification approach that achieved 2,000% more traction. Acquired by Plaid in January 2022 for a reported $250M. | Palo Alto, United States | Acquired | $2M |
| 145 | Mandiant | Cybersecurity firm specializing in threat intelligence, incident response, and security consulting. Now part of Google Cloud's security operations. | Reston, US | Acquired | - |
| 146 | IT Solutions | Market-leading managed IT service provider serving law firms, healthcare, financial services, and commercial businesses across North America. Originally founded as Small Office Solutions in a spare bedroom, now a PE-backed acquisition platform with operations spanning cybersecurity, cloud, and strategic technology consulting. | Fort Washington, US | Private | - |
| 147 | Tech Superpowers | Boston-based managed IT and cybersecurity services provider founded in an MIT dorm room. Specialized in supporting startups, mission-driven organizations, and industry leaders with over 30 years of IT services, cybersecurity, compliance, and AV integration. Clients included the Boston Celtics and Novartis. | Boston, US | Acquired | - |