Security Startups

Late-stage security startups

Companies whose latest known round is a Series D or later, or a growth round.

26 of 205 listed companies · ordered by name · no paid placement

By category

Where they are based

  • United States24
  • Israel2

A

Abnormal AI

San Francisco, United States

  • Series D
  • $546M raised
  • Founded 2018

API-native email and SaaS defense that baselines human behavior to catch BEC and account takeover.

Raised $250M Series D at a $5.1B valuation, August 2024

Aqua Security

Burlington, United States

  • Series E
  • $325M raised
  • Founded 2015

Code-to-runtime CNAPP that ranks CVEs by live workload behavior and can stop an exploit without waiting for a patch.

Raised $60M at a $1B-plus valuation, January 2024

Arctic Wolf

Eden Prairie, USA

  • Series F
  • $900M raised
  • Founded 2012

Concierge MDR on the Aurora platform, now with its own endpoint prevention.

Launched Aurora Endpoint Security and acquired Cylance from BlackBerry in 2025

B

BigID

New York, United States

  • Series D
  • $308M raised
  • Founded 2016

Hybrid DSPM and data intelligence platform for discovery, privacy, and AI risk across cloud and on-prem.

First DSPM vendor to cross $100M in annual revenue, 2024

C

Censys

Ann Arbor, USA

  • Series D
  • $198M raised
  • Founded 2017

Internet-wide map of exposed infrastructure used for ASM, threat hunting, and exposure management.

Raised $40M Series D plus $30M debt led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, March 2026

Chainguard

Kirkland, USA

  • Series D
  • $892M raised
  • Founded 2021

Zero-to-low CVE container images and language libraries rebuilt from verified source.

Closed $280M growth round from General Catalyst at a $3.5B valuation, October 2025

Contrast Security

Los Altos, United States

  • Series E
  • $269M raised
  • Founded 2014

IAST, RASP, and ADR that instrument the running app so exploits are seen in the code path, not the packet.

Published the Software Under Siege 2025 report on application-layer attacks, August 2025

Cyberhaven

Palo Alto, United States

  • Series D
  • $250M raised
  • Founded 2016

Data detection and response that traces lineage as files move, transform, and hit AI tools.

Raised $100M Series D at a $1B valuation, April 2025

Cyera

New York, United States

  • Series G
  • $2.3B raised
  • Founded 2021

AI-native DSPM that classifies sensitive data, then governs what people and agents can do with it.

Raised $600M Series G at a $12B valuation, June 2026

Cymulate

Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Series D
  • $141M raised
  • Founded 2016

BAS-born exposure validation that now pushes findings into automated control updates.

Shipped Vero AI for agentic cyber defense engineering on the live platform, 2026

E

Expel

Herndon, USA

  • Series E
  • $289M raised
  • Founded 2016

Vendor-agnostic MDR that works on the SIEM and EDR you already bought.

Launched MDR coverage for the full AI attack surface, August 2026

H

Horizon3.ai

San Francisco, USA

  • Series E
  • $429M raised
  • Founded 2019

NodeZero autonomous pentest that exploits live networks the way an attacker would, continuously.

Raised $250M Series E at a $2B-plus valuation, August 2026

Huntress

Columbia, USA

  • Series D
  • $300M raised
  • Founded 2015

Managed EDR, identity, and SIEM for businesses that do not run a 24/7 SOC.

Surpassed $250M ARR and 270,000 businesses protected, July 2026

I

Island

Dallas, United States

  • Series E
  • $730M raised
  • Founded 2020

Enterprise browser that embeds DLP, ZTNA, and last-mile control into Chromium instead of another VDI farm.

Raised $250M Series E at a $4.8B valuation, March 2025

J

JumpCloud

Louisville, United States

  • Series F
  • $400M+ raised
  • Founded 2012

Cloud directory that binds workforce identity, devices, and access without living on Active Directory.

Acquired Breez to add identity threat detection, October 2025

O

Obsidian Security

Palo Alto, United States

  • Series D
  • $204M raised
  • Founded 2017

SaaS identity and agent governance inside the third-party apps where work actually happens.

Raised $85M Series D at $1.1B valuation, August 2026

P

Pentera

Burlington, USA

  • Series D
  • $250M raised
  • Founded 2015

Automated security validation that actually exploits attack paths inside the customer's network.

Raised $60M Series D led by Evolution Equity Partners, March 2025

S

Salt Security

Palo Alto, United States

  • Series D
  • $281M raised
  • Founded 2016

Runtime API security that discovers shadow and zombie APIs, then spots business-logic abuse in live traffic.

Published a year of monthly API and AI security releases, December 2025

Semgrep

San Francisco, USA

  • Series D
  • $204M raised
  • Founded 2017

Rules-plus-AI SAST, SCA, and secrets that developers run in seconds and AppSec can actually tune.

Raised $100M Series D led by Menlo Ventures, February 2025

Semperis

Hoboken, United States

  • Growth
  • $325M raised
  • Founded 2013

Identity threat detection and forest recovery for Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta.

Secured $125M growth financing at a $1B+ valuation, June 2024

Silverfort

Plano, United States

  • Series D
  • $222M raised
  • Founded 2016

Runtime identity protection that puts MFA and least privilege on systems IAM vendors leave naked.

Acquired Fabrix Security for autonomous runtime identity security, April 2026

Snyk

Boston, USA

  • Series G
  • Founded 2015

Developer-first SAST, SCA, container, and IaC platform now wrapping AI agents and models too.

Launched Evo Agentic Development Security to govern coding agents, June 2026

Sysdig

San Francisco, United States

  • Series G
  • $744M raised
  • Founded 2013

Runtime CNAPP built on kernel-level system calls, Falco detections, and AI agents that act inside the tools you already run.

Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Cloud Native Application Protection Solutions, Q1 2026

T

ThreatLocker

Orlando, USA

  • Series F
  • $480M raised
  • Founded 2017

Default-deny allowlisting that stops unapproved software and AI agents from running at all.

Raised $190M Series F led by Elephant, July 2026

Torq

Tel Aviv, Israel

  • Series D
  • $332M raised
  • Founded 2020

Hyperautomation platform turning SOAR playbooks into an agentic SOC.

Raised $140M Series D at a $1.2B valuation, January 2026

V

Veza

Los Gatos, United States

  • Series D
  • $235M raised
  • Founded 2020

Access graph that shows what every identity can actually do, not just which group it sits in.

Raised $108M Series D at $808M valuation, April 2025

26 companies. Catalog last reviewed 2026-08-23. Counts come from the live catalog. Ordered by name. No paid placement.