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: 297Key segments: SOC automation, threat detection, identity riskUpdated: November 8, 2026
AI Cybersecurity Market Snapshot
297
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sublime Security Founded 2019 | Washington, D.C., USA | $243.8M | An AI-powered, open platform for email security that allows security teams to write, share, and deploy custom threat detections as code. |
| TestMachine Founded 2021 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States | $6.5M | AI-powered blockchain security platform that uses deep reinforcement learning to autonomously discover and exploit smart contract vulnerabilities |
| Zast Founded 2024 | Bellevue, USA | $10.0M | An AI-powered code security platform that utilizes autonomous agents to identify, verify, and prove software vulnerabilities with a 'zero false positive' guarantee. |
| Zania Founded 2023 | Palo Alto, USA | $18 million | Zania is an agentic AI company that automates security governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) tasks for enterprises. |
| Safe Security Founded 2012 | Palo Alto, California, United States | Over $170 million | Safe Security provides an AI-driven platform for real-time cyber risk quantification and management, enabling organizations to understand and mitigate their financial exposure to cyber threats. |
| YAL.ai Founded 2024 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates & Bengaluru, India | $12M | An AI-powered service designed for the real-time detection and prevention of telecom and SMS scams. |
| Confident Security Founded 2024 | San Francisco, USA | $5 million | An end-to-end encryption layer named CONFSEC that wraps around AI models to guarantee that user prompts and metadata cannot be stored, seen, or used for training by any third party, including the AI model provider. |
| Cyber A.I. Group Founded 2023 | Miami, Florida, United States | Not publicly available | An AI-driven cybersecurity and IT services company developing next-generation solutions for autonomous threat detection and intelligent system resilience. |
| AIM Intelligence Founded 2024 | Seoul, South Korea; Austin, USA | $8.3M | AIM Intelligence is a generative AI security solution provider that specializes in AI risk detection, mitigation, and elimination through advanced red teaming and defensive systems. |
| Corridor Founded 2025 | San Francisco, USA | $30.4M | An AI-powered platform that helps developers and security teams automate security and mitigate risks from third-party APIs and open-source software. |
| 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. |
| Tines Founded 2018 | Dublin, Ireland | $272M | Tines provides workflow automation through Tines Stories and Tines 3B, an AI-native environment where teams build agents, apps, and automations with IT and security governance. |
| 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. |
| Malanta Founded 2024 | Modi'in, Israel | $10M | Pre-attack cybersecurity prevention platform that identifies and dismantles adversary infrastructure before attacks materialize |
| Adaptive Security Founded 2024 | New York, NY (120 Broadway 12FL, New York, NY 10271) | $146.5M | Next-generation AI-powered cybersecurity training and simulation platform designed to defend against deepfakes and social engineering attacks. |
| Dropzone AI Founded 2023 | Seattle, Washington, USA | $57.35M | Dropzone AI provides an autonomous AI SOC analyst that automates the entire alert investigation and triage process for security operations teams. |
| Reco Founded 2020 | Altamonte Springs, FL, USA; Tel Aviv, Israel; Chișinău, Moldova | $140 million | Reco offers an AI-driven, identity-centric SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) platform that dynamically discovers, monitors, and protects enterprise SaaS applications, identities, and data. |
| Apate.AI Founded 2024 | Sydney, Australia | $2.5 million | AI-powered cyber-intelligence startup developing an anti-scam bot army to disrupt and dismantle the business models of scammers. |
| RAD Security Founded 2021 | San Francisco, CA, USA | $20 million | RAD Security offers cloud-native detection and response solutions, focusing on identifying security threats early in the development pipeline. |
| Trusta Labs Founded 2022 | Singapore, Singapore | $3M Seed (2023) + Strategic Round (2025, amount undisclosed) at $80M valuation | An AI-powered protocol building a trust infrastructure and identity network for the Web3 and AI ecosystems. |
Funding Signals
Sublime Security
Series C
Investors: ["Georgian","IVP","Citi Ventures","Index Ventures","Decibel Partners","Slow Ventures","Avenir","01A"]
TestMachine
Seed Round (December 2025)
Investors: ["Michigan Founders Fund","Decasonic","Blockchange Ventures","Delphi Ventures","New Form Capital","Baboon","UDHC","Auros Global","Generative Ventures","Contango Digital","Santiago Santos"]
Zast
Pre-Series A
Investors: ["Hillhouse Capital","Zoo Capital"]
Zania
Series A
Investors: ["NEA (New Enterprise Associates)","Anthropic","Menlo Ventures (Anthology Fund)","Palm Drive Capital"]
Safe Security
Series C
Investors: ["Avataar Ventures","Sorenson Capital","Fidelity Investments (F-Prime Capital)","Telstra Ventures","WTI"]
YAL.ai
Series A
Investors: ["Undisclosed investors"]
Confident Security
Seed
Investors: ["Decibel","South Park Commons","Ex Ante","Swyx","Halcyon","SAIF"]
AIM Intelligence
Series A
Investors: ["Samsung Venture Investment","Mirae Asset Capital","Bluepoint Partners (via LG U+ Strategic Fund)","Z Venture Capital (ZVC)","Mashup Ventures","LG Electronics","Hyundai Motor Group (ZER01NE Ventures)","NAVER D2SF","Forest Ventures","Smilegate Investment"]