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: 267Key segments: SOC automation, threat detection, identity riskUpdated: August 11, 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
Dam Secure Founded 2025	Sydney, Australia / San Francisco, United States	$4M	AI-native application security platform that catches logic-level security flaws in AI-generated code before it ships.
Pynt Founded 2022	Tel Aviv, Israel	$6M	AI-driven API security testing platform that discovers, tests, and fixes API vulnerabilities via context-aware simulated attacks.
Seal Security Founded 2022	Tel Aviv, Israel	$20.0M	An AI-powered application security remediation platform that delivers automated, production-ready patches for open-source vulnerabilities across application dependencies, Linux operating systems, and container base images without requiring version upgrades or breaking changes.
AiStrike Founded 2023	Pleasanton, USA	$7.0M	An AI-native, preemptive cyber defense platform that utilizes autonomous 'Agentic AI' to transform security operations from reactive triage to proactive exposure reduction.
Akamai Technologies Founded 1998	Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA	IPO	Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a global cloud, security and content delivery network provider that launched Workforce Protector (formerly LayerX), an interaction security layer delivering real-time AI governance, secure enterprise browser capabilities and DLP at the point of interaction.
DCUBE Ai Founded 2019	Thiruvananthapuram, India	Undisclosed	AI/software solutions firm (AI, ML, IoT, digital twin, cloud) that also productizes DMON — a patented hardware-enabled infrastructure monitoring and business-continuity platform with edge, cloud, and anomaly detection.
Memcyco Founded 2021	Bnei Brak, Israel	$47M	Real-time, agentless digital risk protection platform defending enterprises and their customers against digital impersonation, phishing, and account takeover (ATO) fraud.
63SATS Cybertech Founded 2024	Mumbai, India	$26.7M	Indian cybersecurity startup (subsidiary of 63 Moons Technologies) focused on "Cybersecurity for AI" — protecting AI systems, data pipelines, models, and decision layers from emerging threats.
Oligo Security Founded 2022	Tel Aviv, Israel	$140M	Israeli runtime security platform that protects applications, cloud workloads, and AI systems by detecting and blocking exploits in real time.
Aires Founded 2021	Singapore, Singapore	Over US$2 million	A deep-tech cybersecurity firm developing post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum-safe security solutions to protect digital assets against future quantum computing threats.
Zenity Founded 2021	Tel Aviv, Israel (HQ); New York, USA (Sales/Marketing/Operations)	$185M	AI agent security and governance platform that secures autonomous AI agents across SaaS, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Refute Founded 2024	London, United Kingdom	£7.3M	A quantitative threat intelligence platform that uses AI to detect, analyze, and neutralize automated disinformation campaigns and hybrid warfare tactics in real-time.
Acuvity Founded 2023	Sunnyvale, California, USA	$9M	AI security and governance platform providing visibility, access control, and real-time enforcement across enterprise GenAI usage, LLMs, and AI agents. Acquired by Proofpoint in February 2026.
Twenty Technologies Founded 2024	Arlington, Virginia, United States	$168 million	Intelligent, autonomous systems that accelerate the full lifecycle of offensive cyber operations for U.S. military and Intelligence Community
DSShield Founded 2020	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	$54.0M	A Saudi-based cybersecurity firm providing an AI-powered national security platform and managed services designed to protect critical infrastructure and enterprise digital assets.
Unbound Founded 2023	San Francisco, CA, USA	$4 million	An AI Coding Agent Security Broker (AASB) that lets enterprises discover, assess risk, and enforce policy over AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Cline) and MCP server connections.
Torq Founded 2020	New York, USA	~$332M total (all rounds, incl. Jan 2026 Series D)	An AI-first security hyperautomation platform that unifies and automates the entire security infrastructure to deliver autonomous threat detection, investigation, and remediation.
CurlSek Founded 2025	Sheridan, Wyoming, United States (HQ); Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India (India office)	Undisclosed	CurlSek is an AI-first cybersecurity company offering an autonomous, AI-powered continuous penetration testing platform that delivers Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) using a modular, agentic architecture of specialized AI agents.
Cydelphi Founded 2024	Dallas, USA	$3.0M	An AI-native Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) platform designed to automate the investigation and recovery process for catastrophic cyber breaches.
depthfirst Founded 2024	San Francisco, USA	$120M	An applied AI lab building 'General Security Intelligence' through autonomous agents designed to identify, analyze, and remediate software vulnerabilities at scale.