
After years turning security research into products, Brandon Veiseh is betting that the next useful security teammate will be an agent that tests continuously, proves what it finds, and hands engineers a fix.
ammune.ai (formerly L7 Defense) is a cybersecurity company that builds ammune™, a fully autonomous, AI-based platform for protecting APIs - and, increasingly, AI systems and data centers - from cyberattacks. Using unsupervised machine learning, ammune auto-discovers APIs and builds a tailored protection layer for each one inline from the first request, blocking dozens of attack types (bots, DDoS, business-logic abuse, injection) in real time without pre-training or rule-writing. The platform is platform-agnostic, running on-premises, in the cloud, in Kubernetes clusters, and offloaded onto DPUs such as NVIDIA BlueField-2, and it recently expanded toward offline, air-gapped protection for AI workloads.
SentinelOne is an American cybersecurity company that builds the AI-powered Singularity Platform, autonomous software that detects, hunts, and responds to attacks across endpoints, cloud, identity, and data in real time. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, it pioneered machine-learning-driven endpoint protection that works without human intervention and now competes head-to-head with CrowdStrike and Microsoft in the enterprise security market. After the largest cybersecurity IPO in history in 2021, the company crossed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in 2025.
Hakimo is a San Francisco-based AI security company founded by Stanford researchers Sam Joseph and Sagar Honnungar. The company builds autonomous AI agents that monitor physical security infrastructure - cameras, badge readers, access control systems - in real time, detecting threats and responding with automated talk-downs before incidents escalate. Serving over 400 properties across construction, automotive, self-storage, corporate offices, and higher education, Hakimo has raised $20.5 million in total funding and delivers a 60% reduction in security incidents for its customers.
Raju Chekuri is the Chairman, President & CEO of Netenrich, a San Jose-based cybersecurity and digital operations company he co-founded. A serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur who previously founded Velio Communications (acquired by LSI Logic/Rambus) and chaired OpsRamp (acquired by HPE), Chekuri now leads Netenrich's Resolution Intelligence Cloud - an AI-powered platform transforming how enterprises manage security operations. An alumnus of Kakatiya University and St. Mary's College of California, he splits his passion between cybersecurity innovation and Indian sports, having invested in Goa Guardians, the 10th franchise of India's Prime Volleyball League.
Ambuj Kumar is the co-founder and CEO of Simbian, an AI-native security company building autonomous AI agents that run security operations 10x faster than human teams. A Gold Medalist from IIT Kanpur and Stanford EE graduate, he spent eight years designing NVIDIA's early GPUs before pivoting to security - where he invented Confidential Computing, raised $135M for Fortanix, and is now betting that AI agents can solve the industry's 3.5-million-person talent gap. With 100+ patents and recognition from IIT Kanpur's Distinguished Alumni Award 2025, Kumar stands at the intersection of the GPU revolution he helped build and the AI security era he is now shaping.