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The Company That Put a Price on a Phish
Area 1 sold a provocative promise: catch a malicious email, earn $10. Cloudflare used the service, bought the company, and made the inbox part of its Zero Trust pitch.
qikfox Cybersecurity Systems
qikfox Cybersecurity Systems is a San Mateo, California startup building what it calls the 'tool shed for a trustworthy Internet.' Founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneur Tarun Gaur after his mother lost money to an online scam, the company makes a privacy-first Smart Browser and Safe Search engine that deliver real-time scam and phishing protection, ad and tracker blocking, and biometric/PIN locks - without collecting browsing history or product analytics. qikfox claims to be the world's first browser to bake in both decentralized identity and quantum-resistant cryptography, and has since layered in an AI Copilot, 3D web, and knowledge-management features aimed at the emerging agentic web.
Doppel
Doppel is an AI-native security platform for social engineering defense. It protects brands, executives, and employees from AI-powered impersonation, phishing, and fraud by detecting threats across social media, domains, marketplaces, and the dark web, correlating attack signals into a unified Threat Graph, and automating takedowns of attacker infrastructure. Founded in 2022 by Kevin Tian and Rahul Madduluri, the company analyzes over a billion indicators daily and protects dozens of Fortune 500 brands.