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: 289Key segments: SOC automation, threat detection, identity riskUpdated: October 10, 2026
AI Cybersecurity Market Snapshot
289
tracked companies
8
visible location clusters
8
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.
| Company | Location | Funding | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwall Founded 2019 | Tallinn, Estonia | $58.8M | An AI-enabled security and web infrastructure platform that safeguards websites and applications from malicious automated threats. |
| Tonic Security Founded 2024 | Tel Aviv, Israel | $7 million | Tonic Security provides an AI-powered platform for continuous exposure management that helps security teams prioritize and manage security alerts based on business impact. |
| Akto Founded 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area, USA | $4.5M total (all rounds) | Akto is an open-source, proactive API security platform that also offers an agentic security platform to protect enterprises from AI agent risks. |
| Noma Security Founded 2023 | New York, New York / Tel Aviv, Israel | $132 million | A unified platform built to govern and secure the entire enterprise AI lifecycle, from development to deployment. |
| Astra Security Founded 2018 | U.S. & India | 2820000 | Astra Security offers AI-driven penetration testing and vulnerability scanning solutions to simplify cybersecurity. |
| Manifold Founded 2025 | New York, USA | $8.0M | An AI Detection and Response (AIDR) platform that provides runtime visibility and security for autonomous AI agents operating on enterprise endpoints. |
| Block Security Arena (BSA) Founded 2025 | New York, USA | Undisclosed | An AI-native Web3 security infrastructure platform that integrates automated threat detection with a gamified educational ecosystem to secure smart contracts and train security talent. |
| Searchlight Cyber Founded 2017 | Portsmouth, United Kingdom | Private Equity | Searchlight Cyber provides a dark web intelligence platform to help organizations proactively identify and prevent cyberattacks before they happen. |
| Resistant AI Founded 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic | ~$53-55M total | Resistant AI offers a suite of AI-powered security solutions to protect financial services from fraud, money laundering, and financial crime by analyzing documents, transactions, and user behavior. |
| Legion Founded 2024 | Tel Aviv, Israel | $38M (Seed + Series A, July 2025) | Legion is the first browser-native AI SOC (Security Operations Center) platform that learns from and mimics in-house analyst workflows to automate security operations. |
| Onyx Security Founded 2024 | New York, United States | $153.0M | A cybersecurity platform that provides a secure control plane for AI agents and models, enabling enterprises to discover, manage, and secure autonomous AI assets. |
| Sovera Security Founded 2024 | Copenhagen, Denmark | $0.6M | Copenhagen-based AI-native, sovereign Managed Detection and Response (MDR) company that keeps security data, AI models and critical response decisions under European and customer control. |
| RunSybil Founded 2023 | San Francisco, USA | $40.0M | An AI-native offensive security platform that utilizes autonomous agents to automate 'hacker intuition' for continuous penetration testing and vulnerability discovery. |
| ThreatMate Founded 2021 | Tampa, Florida | $3.2 million | ThreatMate offers a cybersecurity platform focused on preventing attacks by identifying and mitigating network exposures before adversaries can exploit them. |
| Raven Founded 2023 | Palo Alto, USA | $20.0M | A runtime application security platform designed to stop AI-generated exploits and zero-day attacks in real-time by protecting applications from within the execution layer. |
| Armadin Founded 2025 | Palo Alto, United States | $189.9M | An AI-native cybersecurity platform that deploys autonomous AI agents for red teaming and defense to find, exploit, and mitigate vulnerabilities at compute speed. |
| Tenex AI Founded 2024 | Sarasota, United States | $277M | Tenex AI is a cybersecurity company that leverages artificial intelligence and human expertise to transform enterprise security. |
| Mindgard Founded 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | $41.9 million | Mindgard is an AI security company that helps enterprises test, detect, and respond to adversarial threats against their AI models. |
| 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. |
| Qevlar AI Founded 2023 | Paris, France | $44.0M | An autonomous agentic AI platform designed to automate the end-to-end investigation, triage, and reporting of security alerts for modern Security Operations Centers (SOC). |
Funding Signals
Blackwall
Series B
Investors: ["Dawn Capital","MMC Ventures","Expeditions Fund","Red Dawn Ventures","Tera Ventures","Further Than Capital"]
Tonic Security
Seed
Investors: ["Hetz Ventures","Vesey Ventures","Bullet Ventures","Repsol Venturing"]
Akto
Seed
Investors: ["Accel","Alumni Ventures","Akshay Kothari","Renaud Deraison","Milin Desai"]
Noma Security
Series B
Investors: ["Evolution Equity Partners","Ballistic Ventures","Glilot Capital Partners","Cyber Club London","Databricks Ventures","SVCI (Silicon Valley CISOs Investments)"]
Astra Security
Venture Round
Investors: ["Emergent Ventures","Neon Fund","Better Capital","Blume Ventures","PointOne Capital"]
Manifold
Seed
Investors: ["Costanoa Ventures","Cherry Ventures","Rain Capital","Modern Technical Fund"]
Block Security Arena (BSA)
Seed
Investors: ["Hotcoin Labs","Starbase","Onebit Ventures","Apus Capital"]
Searchlight Cyber
Private Equity
Investors: ["Charlesbank Capital Partners"]