Companies by category, of listed companies
n = 173173 of 173 have a categoryAs of 2026-10-26
Of listed companies. Curated, alive-only, not exhaustive.
Method: Each company counts once, in the one primary category we assign by what it builds.
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Numbers as a table
| Category | Companies |
|---|---|
| AI security | 21 |
| Detection and response | 18 |
| Cloud security | 17 |
| Identity and access | 17 |
| Application security | 16 |
| Offensive and exposure | 14 |
| Data security | 12 |
| Secrets and non-human identity | 12 |
| Software supply chain | 12 |
| Email and collaboration | 11 |
| Endpoint and browser | 11 |
| API and runtime | 8 |
| Third-party risk | 4 |