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: 236Key segments: SOC automation, threat detection, identity riskUpdated: May 30, 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Drata Founded 2020	San Diego, United States	$328M	AI-powered trust management platform that automates security compliance and continuous monitoring for enterprises
Certora Founded 2018	Tel Aviv, Israel	$43.2 million ($7.2M Series A + $36M Series B)	Certora provides formal verification tools and smart contract audits to ensure security in blockchain systems, with a recent focus on AI-driven coding platforms for safe smart contract development.
Clearly AI Founded 2024	Seattle, USA	$8.9M	An AI-native platform that automates security, privacy, and compliance reviews to replace manual assessments and accelerate the deployment of AI-driven features.
Axonius Founded 2017	New York, USA	$595M	A cybersecurity asset management and SaaS management platform that provides organizations with a comprehensive, always-up-to-date inventory of all assets to identify and remediate security gaps.
AI Spera Founded 2017	Seoul, South Korea	$17.5M	An AI-powered Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and Attack Surface Management (ASM) platform that tracks and analyzes global IP addresses and domains to identify cyber threats from an attacker's perspective.
Aikido Security Founded 2022	Ghent, Belgium	$84.5M	A developer-first application security platform that consolidates vulnerability scanning for code and cloud into one central system.
Palo Alto Networks Founded 2005	Santa Clara, California, United States	$260.0M	Global AI-powered cybersecurity leader providing network, cloud, and security operations platforms to enterprises and governments worldwide.
Socket Founded 2021	San Francisco, USA	$64.6M	A developer-first security platform that protects the software supply chain by proactively detecting and blocking malicious code in open-source dependencies.
Koi Founded 2024	Tel Aviv, Israel	$48.0M	Koi is an endpoint security platform that secures all software with an install button - governing browser extensions, packages, MCPs, AI models, AI agents, and containers across enterprise endpoints.
IDfy Founded 2011	Mumbai, India	$42.9M	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.
ContraForce Founded 2021	McKinney, USA	$5.38M	An AI-powered security operations platform that automates threat detection, response, and management for MSPs and mid-market enterprises using Microsoft-native security tools.