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Tailscale | 2019 | 🇨🇦 CA | Active | Leadership Compass +1 Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
Tailscale is a Canadian networking vendor offering a secure, mesh-based, software-defined networking solution using the WireGuard protocol. Its platform supports decentralized, hybrid, and stepwise… |
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Twingate | 2019 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +1 Zero Trust Platforms July 13, 2026 · Alexei Balaganski |
Twingate is an American software company, founded to make Zero Trust networking simple and performant. It provides a fully distributed, decentralized secure mesh access solution, designed for… |
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Akto | 2021 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
Akto is an emerging vendor in the API security market, offering a unified, lifecycle-spanning API security platform. Akto's focus is on comprehensive API discovery, vulnerability assessment, posture… |
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Elastic | 2012 | 🇳🇱 NL | Active | Leadership Compass +8 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Elastic (formerly Elasticsearch) is a US-based company known for its search and log analytics platform, Elastic Stack, which powers a range of solutions including Elastic Security, enabling threat… |
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Trend Micro | 1988 | 🇯🇵 JP | Active | Leadership Compass +12 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Trend Micro, founded in 1988 in Tokyo, is a major global player in endpoint, email, web, and IoT security, as well as cloud protection, supporting both traditional and next-gen workloads. Regular… |
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AccuKnox | 2020 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
AccuKnox is a cloud-native security vendor maintaining KubeArmor (an open-source Kubernetes security system), and offering a comprehensive Zero Trust CNAPP solution. Their solution offers agentless… |
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Cav | 2017 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +5 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Cav (formerly Caveonix) delivers unified cloud security posture management and workload protection for hybrid multi-cloud environments. Its AI-powered platform provides risk analytics, proactive… |
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Cyscale | 2021 | 🇬🇧 GB | Active | Leadership Compass +4 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Cyscale Ltd. specializes in cloud security automation, providing agentless contextual analysis of cloud misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, access issues, and data risks. Its Security Knowledge Graph… |
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Datadog | 2010 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +1 Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) August 3, 2026 · Mike Small |
Datadog is a public company offering a comprehensive analytics and observability platform for infrastructure, applications, logs, and security. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York City,… |
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HUMAN Security | 2012 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +5 Web Application and API Protection August 25, 2025 · Osman Celik |
HUMAN Security is a US-based cybersecurity vendor specializing in advanced bot and fraud detection. Formed through mergers with PerimeterX and Clean.io, HUMAN offers products such as Bot Defender,… |
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Nevis Security | 2020 | 🇨🇭 CH | Active | Leadership Compass +14 Web Application Firewalls April 8, 2024 · Osman Celik |
Nevis, headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, is a private company focused on delivering CIAM solutions for the DACH region and beyond. With containerized and SaaS offerings, Nevis Identity Suite and… |
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Sift | 2011 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms - eCommerce August 14, 2025 · John Tolbert |
Sift is a San Francisco-based AI-powered fraud protection specialist servicing fintech, ecommerce, travel, dating, and other sectors. Its SaaS platform offers device intelligence, UBA, behavioral… |
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Microblink | 2014 | 🇬🇧 GB | Active | Leadership Compass +2 Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms - eCommerce August 14, 2025 · John Tolbert |
Microblink is a UK-headquartered vendor with offices in Croatia and US, offering IDV with liveness and deepfake detection, KYC/AML, sanctions/PEP/adverse media screening, and card fraud prevention.… |
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TransUnion | 1968 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +4 Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms - eCommerce August 14, 2025 · John Tolbert |
TransUnion is one of the 'Big Three' US credit agencies and a provider of identity proofing, device intelligence, and bot detection through its IDVision and iovation subsidiaries. TransUnion's… |
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Bureau | 2020 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +1 Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms - eCommerce August 14, 2025 · John Tolbert |
Bureau is a mid-stage fraud prevention startup focused on identity verification (IDV), device intelligence, user behavioral analytics (UBA), and bot detection for fraud risk reduction. The company… |
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Mayhem Security | 2012 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +2 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 · Alexei Balaganski |
ForAllSecure is a Pittsburgh-based private company founded in 2012, specializing in automated vulnerability detection through advanced fuzz testing. Its Mayhem platform uses symbolic execution and… |
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Cerbos | 2021 | 🇬🇧 GB | Active | Leadership Compass +3 Generative AI Defense December 2, 2025 · Jonathan Care |
Cerbos is a dynamic authorization management platform with an open-source core. It applies fine-grained, contextual and continuous authorization across applications, APIs, gateways, workloads, and AI… |
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Concentric AI | 2018 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass Generative AI Defense December 2, 2025 · Jonathan Care |
Concentric AI provides autonomous data security posture management using semantic analysis to continuously discover, classify, and govern data. Its approach allows enterprises to ensure sensitive… |
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HiddenLayer | 2022 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass Generative AI Defense December 2, 2025 · Jonathan Care |
HiddenLayer is a venture-backed AI security company offering lifecycle GenAI protection for supply chain, runtime, posture management, and red teaming. Its patents and customer wins in the Fortune… |
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Sentra | 2021 | 🇺🇸 US | Active | Leadership Compass +1 Generative AI Defense December 2, 2025 · Jonathan Care |
Sentra, founded in 2021 and co-headquartered in Tel Aviv and New York, is a cloud-native data security company focusing on automatic discovery, classification, monitoring, and protection of sensitive… |
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