AI Startup Intelligence

AI Cybersecurity Startups

Track AI cybersecurity startups working on threat detection, SOC automation, identity risk, vulnerability management, and secure AI adoption.

Companies tracked: 245Key segments: SOC automation, threat detection, identity riskUpdated: June 26, 2026

AI Cybersecurity Market Snapshot

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tracked companies

visible location clusters

funding signals surfaced

AI cybersecurity demand is being pulled by two forces at once: AI-native attacks and enterprises needing controls for internal AI adoption.

Representative Companies

A crawler-visible sample of companies from the AI Market Watch database.

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Company	Location	Funding	Focus
IDfy Founded 2011	Mumbai, India	$75.5M	An AI-driven identity verification and fraud detection platform that provides 'Trust-as-a-Service' by verifying individuals and entities in real-time for secure digital onboarding.
Vanta Founded 2018	San Francisco, United States	$504M	Vanta is a trust management platform that automates compliance and simplifies security reviews, helping organizations obtain certifications like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA.
Seemplicity Founded 2020	Tel Aviv, Israel	$82M	An agentic Exposure Action Platform that closes the gap between security findings and fixes, using AI agents to automate aggregation, prioritization, and remediation of exposures.
Virtru Founded 2012	Washington, D.C., USA	$185.5M	Virtru provides end-to-end data encryption and privacy solutions that enable organizations to securely share sensitive information while maintaining control over their data.
Protectt.ai Founded 2020	Mumbai, India	$8.7 million	An AI-driven mobile app security platform that proactively monitors, identifies, and remotely patches vulnerabilities to prevent cyber threats.
SOC Prime Founded 2015	Boston, MA, United States	$11M+ (Series A in 2021) + undisclosed strategic investment in 2025	SOC Prime provides an AI-Native Detection Intelligence platform for cybersecurity, enabling organizations to source, compile, and optimize Sigma detection rules with automated threat detection, triage, and response
FaceOff Technologies Founded 2022	Delhi, India	Undisclosed	A multimodal AI trust infrastructure provider specializing in real-time deepfake detection and contactless digital identity verification.
Doppel Founded 2022	San Francisco, California, United States	$124M	Doppel is an AI-native social engineering defense platform that protects brands from phishing, impersonation, and AI-powered attacks using advanced machine learning and behavioral analysis.
Descope Founded 2022	Los Altos, California, USA	$88M	Descope is a customer and agentic identity and access management (IAM) platform that enables developers to add authentication, user management, and authorization to applications with a few lines of code.
Bsure Founded 2022	Asker, Norway	€1.8 million	Bsure is an Azure-based platform that provides real-time visibility into Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365 environments, helping organizations identify inactive user accounts, optimize licensing costs, and enhance security through automated identity lifecycle management.
SEAL SQ Corp Founded 2022	Geneva, Switzerland	$85 million	SEALSQ is a cybersecurity company that provides vertically integrated digital security solutions, combining FIPS-certified semiconductors, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and post-quantum cryptographic services.
JumpCloud Founded 2012	Louisville, USA	~$408M total across 12 rounds	A cloud-native 'Open Directory Platform' that unifies identity, access, and device management (IAM and MDM) into a single, vendor-neutral interface for modern IT environments.
Observo AI Founded 2022	Fremont, California, USA	15 million	Observo AI provides AI-powered data pipelines for security and observability, helping enterprises manage complex data efficiently.
Mindgard Founded 2022	Boston, Massachusetts, United States	$11.9 million	Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprises test, detect, and respond to adversarial threats against their AI models.
Vouched Founded 2018	Seattle, Washington, USA	$38.4M	Vouched is an AI-powered identity verification platform that helps businesses securely and seamlessly verify customer identities.
1Kosmos Founded 2018	Iselin, New Jersey, USA	$72M	1Kosmos provides a unified identity proofing and passwordless authentication platform that helps organizations prevent identity impersonation and fraud.
Huskeys Founded 2025	Tel Aviv, Israel	$8.0M	An AI-powered Edge Security Management (ESM) platform that uses agentic AI to automate, unify, and optimize the configuration of CDNs and Web Application Firewalls (WAFs).
Reality Defender Inc. Founded 2021	New York, NY, USA	$33 Million	AI-driven platform providing enterprise-grade detection for deepfakes, AI-generated media (audio, video, image, text) and fraud, with real-time and multi-modal analysis capabilities.
Vega Security Founded 2024	Tel Aviv, Israel	$185.0M	AI-native Security Analytics Mesh (SAM) platform that enables threat detection, investigation, and response across all enterprise data sources without requiring data centralization, migration, or costly ingestion fees.
PeakMetrics Founded 2017	Los Angeles, USA	$16.3M	An AI-driven narrative intelligence platform that identifies, tracks, and counters emerging online threats and disinformation campaigns in real-time.