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Bugcrowd Built a Switchboard for Hackers - Now It Wants to Put AI on the Line
Bugcrowd turned an awkward corporate question - how do you invite strangers to attack your software safely? - into a managed marketplace. Its next wager is that machines should cover the map while human hackers chase the strange paths through it.
Salt Security Bet the Next Big Breach Would Walk Through an API. Now AI Agents Have the Keys.
Salt built a unicorn by watching the doors modern software forgot it had. Its next act is policing the AI agents now opening those doors at machine speed - and turning eight years of API behavior into a map security teams can use.
7AI
7AI is a Boston-based cybersecurity company building an agentic security platform that deploys autonomous, reasoning-based AI agents to take over the repetitive investigation work that overwhelms security operations centers. Founded in 2024 by Cybereason co-founders Lior Div and Yonatan Striem-Amit, the company ingests alerts from a customer's existing security tools, triages and investigates them at machine speed, and surfaces only real threats with full context and recommended actions - cutting mean time to respond from hours to minutes and eliminating the bulk of false positives. In December 2025 it raised a $130M Series A, described as the largest cybersecurity Series A on record.
Impart Security
Impart Security is a San Francisco cybersecurity company building a unified runtime protection platform for AI, APIs, and web applications. Founded in 2020 by Signal Sciences veterans Jonathan DiVincenzo, Marc Harrison, and Brian Joe, the company merges WAF, API security, Cloud Application Detection & Response, and AI Runtime Protection into one engine that runs autonomous defense agents inside production traffic.
WitnessAI
WitnessAI is an enterprise AI security and governance platform that helps organizations safely deploy AI at scale. Built on three pillars - Observe, Protect, and Control - its platform provides real-time visibility into all AI interactions (employee tools, internal models, AI agents, MCP servers), detects and blocks prompt injections and jailbreaks with over 99% accuracy using intent-based ML models, and enforces behavioral policies without code changes. With $85.5M in total funding, 500% ARR growth in 2025, and customers across financial services, telecom, airlines, and automotive, WitnessAI is positioning itself as the confidence layer enterprises need to move from AI experimentation to production deployment.