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HAProxy Technologies | 2013 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
HAProxy Technologies is a provider of open-source and commercial proxy/load balancing solutions. HAProxy Enterprise extends the open-source project with modular API gateway, deep inspection, and… |
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SmartBear Software | 2009 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
SmartBear is a software company specializing in quality assurance and development tools for APIs, including Swagger, SoapUI, and TestComplete. The platform provides full lifecycle design, testing,… |
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StackHawk | 2019 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
StackHawk is a cybersecurity company focused on developer-centric API security testing, integrating dynamic application and API scanning into DevOps pipelines with actionable feedback for secure code… |
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ThreatX | 2014 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Web Application Firewalls April 8, 2024 · Osman Celik |
ThreatX, founded in 2014 and based in Louisville, Colorado, is focused on WAAP for cloud and on-premises deployments. The platform uses behavioral analytics, risk-based policies, and multiple threat… |
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Entersekt | 2008 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms - Finance June 23, 2025 · John Tolbert |
Entersekt provides transaction authentication and fraud-resistant customer authentication for financial institutions, focusing on cross-channel, context-aware authentication and the ability to… |
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Deduce | 2019 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +4 Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms - Finance June 23, 2025 · John Tolbert |
Deduce is a fraud and identity intelligence company building an API-driven platform that analyzes large-scale behavioral and contextual signals across a broad network to detect account takeover,… |
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Equifax | 1899 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms - Finance June 23, 2025 · John Tolbert |
Equifax, based in Atlanta, is one of the 'Big Three' credit reporting agencies and a major provider of authoritative identity proofing, AML, KYC, and compliance services for financial sector… |
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FICO | 1956 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms - Finance June 23, 2025 · John Tolbert |
FICO, established in California and a global analytics leader, is known for credit scoring and its Falcon Global Intelligence Network for payment fraud analysis. Its Falcon Fraud Manager suite spans… |
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Reality Defender | 2021 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms - Finance June 23, 2025 · John Tolbert |
Reality Defender is a US-based startup focused on deepfake detection for call centers, chat, and video. The solution includes audio, image, and real-time video deepfake analysis for integration into… |
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TeleSign | 2005 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms - Finance June 23, 2025 · John Tolbert |
Telesign is a Los Angeles-based provider of phone intelligence, IDV, MFA, and bot detection services for finance, rideshare, gaming, and other verticals, supplying foundational fraud reduction APIs,… |
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Splunk | 2003 | 🇺🇸 US | Acquired 2024 | Leadership Compass +6 The Emerging AI Security Operations Center (SOC) April 20, 2026 · Matthew Gardiner |
Splunk is a leading global software company that specializes in data platform solutions, focusing on collecting, indexing, and analyzing machine-generated big data for security, IT operations, and… |
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Auth0 | 2013 | 🇺🇸 US | Acquired 2021 | Video +20 Securing Your Organization Against AI-Driven Identity Threats December 17, 2025 · Matthew Gardiner |
Auth0 is an identity and access management (IAM) platform that emerged as a pioneer of developer-centric, API-first, and flexible authentication and authorization solutions. Known for its focus on… |
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Imperva | 2002 | 🇺🇸 US | Acquired 2023 | Leadership Compass +18 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Imperva is a leading cybersecurity company specializing in application and data security. Its API security capabilities are part of its unified Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) platform,… |
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Citrix Systems | 1989 | 🇺🇸 US | Acquired 2022 | Leadership Compass +12 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Citrix Systems is a global software company providing digital workspace and application security solutions. Its application and API security product combines WAF, bot management, API gateway, and SSL… |
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1touch.io | 2017 | 🇺🇸 US | Acquired 2026 | Leadership Compass +2 Generative AI Defense December 2, 2025 · Jonathan Care |
1touch.io is a US-headquartered, Israeli-based company specializing in automated, real-time discovery and tracking of sensitive data across structured and unstructured sources. Its Inventa platform… |
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Traceable | 2024 | 🇺🇸 US | Merged | Leadership Compass +2 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Traceable is an application security company focused on distributed tracing and AI analytics for cloud-native applications and APIs. Its platform unifies security context across code, data, and user… |
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Informatica | 1993 | 🇺🇸 US | Acquired 2025 | Blog +19 AI in Cybersecurity December 7, 2021 · Warwick Ashford |
Informatica is a leading enterprise software company that specializes in data integration, cloud data management, metadata management, and data cataloging. The company offers a broad portfolio of… |
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Moesif | 2017 | 🇺🇸 US | Acquired 2025 | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Moesif is a software company specializing in API analytics, observability, governance, and monetization. Its cloud-based platform focuses on API productization, providing rich analytics, usage… |
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Akana | 2001 | 🇺🇸 US | Acquired 2016 | Leadership Compass +2 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Akana, originally SOA Software (founded 2001, Los Angeles, CA), provides Akana Enterprise API Platform for full API lifecycle management and security. After a series of acquisitions, it's now part of… |
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MuleSoft | 2006 | 🇺🇸 US | Acquired 2018 | Leadership Compass +3 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
MuleSoft is a long-standing API management vendor, now part of Salesforce, focusing on unified application integration, lifecycle management, and data protection. MuleSoft offers low-code API… |
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