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: 283Key segments: SOC automation, threat detection, identity riskUpdated: September 27, 2026

AI Cybersecurity Market Snapshot

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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
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.
StrongestLayer Founded 2024	San Francisco, CA, USA	$9.3 million	An AI-native email security platform that proactively detects and blocks advanced phishing, social engineering, and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks that are designed to bypass traditional security solutions.
Upwind Founded 2022	San Francisco, USA	$730.0M ($30M Seed + $50M Series A + $100M Series A + $250M Series B + $300M Series C)	A runtime-powered Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that leverages eBPF technology to provide real-time visibility, threat detection, and risk prioritization for cloud-native environments.
Andesite AI Founded 2023	McLean, Virginia, USA	$38.25 million	Andesite AI offers an advanced AI security analytics platform to enhance cybersecurity for both private and public sectors.
Huskeys Founded 2025	Tel Aviv, Israel	$35.0M	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).
Remedio Founded 2019	Israel & United States	65000000	Cybersecurity company Remedio (formerly GYTPOL) has developed a platform that gives enterprises complete visibility into configuration risks and autonomously fixes them.
Mokn Founded 2023	Paris, France	€15.5 million	MokN offers a deception-based cybersecurity platform designed to proactively combat credential theft by tricking attackers into revealing stolen information.
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.
Exein Founded 2018	Rome, Italy	$495.7M	Exein builds runtime cybersecurity for Physical AI — protecting robots, drones, vehicles and connected machines from kernel level up.
Cymphony Founded 2024	New York, USA & Tel Aviv, Israel	$30M	AI-native workforce security platform that maps human and AI-agent identity, access, data, and activity into a single "Workforce Graph" to secure enterprise AI adoption.
Cylake Founded 2026	Sunnyvale, California, United States	$290.0M	A complete, AI-native, data-driven cybersecurity platform that operates without reliance on public cloud infrastructure, designed for organizations requiring total data sovereignty.
Vega Security Founded 2024	Tel Aviv, Israel	$185.0M	Agentic Cyber Defense platform built on a Security Analytics Mesh (SAM) that runs hunting, detection, triage, and investigation as one agentic loop on enterprise data in place—without centralization, migration, or ingestion fees.
Dreadnode Founded 2023	Bozeman, MT, USA	$14 million	Dreadnode provides the infrastructure platform for building, evaluating, and deploying security agents with confidence.
Gambit Security Founded 2024	Tel Aviv, Israel	$61.0M	AI-native Cyber Resilience Posture Management (CRPM) platform that autonomously maps infrastructure, security tools, and backup systems to ensure business continuity.
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.
Cybervergent Founded 2012	Lagos, Nigeria	$3.0M	AI-native cybersecurity platform that automates compliance, risk management, governance, and data security posture management across cloud and on-premise environments, enabling continuous monitoring and real-time threat detection.
ThreatGEN Founded 2017	Houston, TX	N/A	ThreatGEN provides AI-driven cybersecurity simulation and gamification-based training solutions.