Vanta
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Vanta—the proven leader in automated compliance helping startups…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Cybersecurity Startups
This list has 228 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 57 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (125), New York (24), and Tel Aviv (6). Largest teams: Vanta, Veriff, and TRM Labs. Latest round: Harmonic Security raised $50M (Oct 14, 2026).
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Veriff is a global AI-native identity platform building trust online
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HQ: Tallinn, Estonia
TRM Labs
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TRM is building a safer world for billions of people.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The Infrastructure Identity Company
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Rebuilding data in advertising to protect privacy
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
Cyble
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Cyble - World’s First Intelligence-Driven, AI-Native Security…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Protects organizations from getting breached through their APIs.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Riot
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Cybersecurity awareness for fast growing companies
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Ambient.ai
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AI company transforming enterprise physical security to prevent…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Secure Collaboration for Technical Teams
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Identity Verification API for Emerging Markets
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Cybersecurity startup Armadin Inc. today announced that it has raised $255.5 million in funding at a valuation exceeding $2.5 billion. Andreessen Horowitz and Accel co-led the Series B round. They were joined by…
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$256M · Series B · Oct 2026
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Security auditing for Web3
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Reliable background checks & fraud prevention tools for Latin America.
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HQ: Cali, Colombia
Rootly
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AI-native on-call and incident response carefully crafted to help…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Oneleet
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YC's most popular security compliance platform (SOC 2, ISO 27001,…
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HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Automatically find and fix your software vulnerabilities
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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$7.03M · SAFE · Mar 2026
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Workplace artificial intelligence security startup Harmonic Security Inc. today announced it has raised $50 million in new funding to grow its platform for governing how employees use AI tools. The company’s platform…
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$50M · Oct 2026
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Pluto Security Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence security software, today announced that it has raised $42 million in funding. The company raised about a fifth of the sum through a seed round led by TLV…
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$42M · Series A · Oct 2026
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Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive securityplatform, has raised $40 million in a funding round co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and Smart Fin. Existing investors HV Capital, Motive Partners, P...
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$40M · Oct 2026
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Baselayer, an AI-powered startup that helps financial institutions verify businesses and assess fraud risk, has raised a $35 million M13-led Series A to expand its identity technology to AI agents.
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$35M · Series A · Sep 2026
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Rein Security Inc. said today it’s trying to help enterprises protect themselves against two distinct security threats relating to agentic artificial intelligence after raising $25 million in early-stage funding from…
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$25M · Series A · Oct 2026
AiPrise
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AI-powered Global Compliance Platform
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Netsec, the European provider of cybersecurity and managed IT services, has raised more than €8.93 million ($10 million) in equity funding. The round was led by Paris-based venture capital firm Partech, with…
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HQ: Italy
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€8.93M · Oct 2026
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A startup launched in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukrainewhose tech helps NATO and governments detect hostile threats before theyescalate has raised €8.5m in a Series A funding round, it said today....
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€8.5M · Series A · Oct 2026
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Fleuret AI, a Paris-based cybersecurity startup automating penetration testing with agentic AI, has closed a €4 million pre-Seed round to hire AI, software engineering, and offensive security talent and accelerate…
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HQ: France
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€4M · Pre-seed · Oct 2026
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The latest in our series of articles on venture funding to non-tech founders features a former magician's assistant and ballet dancer who's building cybersecurity software with $4.2 million in seed funding.
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$4.2M · Seed · Oct 2026
Reality Defender
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Enterprise Deepfake Detection
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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Danish cybersecurity company Sovera Security has secured €535,000 (4 million DKK) from the Danish Export and Investment Fund (EIFO). As geopolitical tensions rise, new regulation and the rapid adoptio...
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€535K · Sep 2026
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Anjuna enabled organizations to trust any infrastructure
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Agency
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Agency replaces traditional security and compliance headcount with AI.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Infisical
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Unified platform for secrets, certs, and privileged access management
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Notabene
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The Notabene platform is the trust layer for global money movement.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Authologic
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Stripe for online identity verification
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Dynamo AI
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Compliant-Ready AI for the Enterprise
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI Document Fraud Detection for Banks, Credit Unions & Lenders
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Questions and answers
How many startups are on this list?
There are 228 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 15, 2026.
Which of them are hiring?
57 of them are hiring right now, including Vanta, TRM Labs, and Cyble.
Which of them have the largest teams?
By team size: Vanta (700 employees), Veriff (600 employees), and TRM Labs (400 employees).
Which of them raised money recently?
Latest rounds: Harmonic Security — $50M (Oct 2026), Pluto Security — $42M Series A (Oct 2026), and Fraud Protection Network — $1M Debt (Oct 2026).
Where are they based?
The biggest hubs are San Francisco (125), New York (24), and Tel Aviv (6).