Ironhack is a global tech school offering intensive bootcamps in web development, data analytics, UX/UI design, cybersecurity, AI engineering and more. Founded in 2013, it runs on-campus programs across cities in Europe, Latin America and the US plus a remote track, pairing immersive project-based training with embedded career services and a network of hiring partners to move career-changers into tech jobs quickly.
iVerify is a New York-based mobile security company that brings endpoint detection and response (EDR) and threat hunting to smartphones. Spun out of security firm Trail of Bits in 2023, its privacy-respecting platform detects spyware like Pegasus and Predator, OS vulnerabilities, and zero-click exploits on iOS and Android. iVerify pairs malware signatures, behavioral heuristics, and machine learning with a five-minute on-device threat scan, serving consumers, security teams, and high-risk individuals such as executives, journalists, and government targets.
Living Security is an Austin-based cybersecurity company that pioneered Human Risk Management (HRM), moving organizations beyond check-the-box compliance training toward measurable behavior change. Its AI-native Unify platform correlates behavioral, identity, and threat signals to find the small share of employees who drive most of an organization's risk, then guides targeted interventions. Founded in 2017 by Ashley and Drew Rose, the company serves more than 100 enterprises including Fortune 500 names, and was named a Leader in the 2024 Forrester Wave for Human Risk Management Solutions.
Opal Security is an AI-native identity and access governance platform that gives enterprises real-time visibility and direct control over every identity - employees, service accounts, and AI agents alike. Founded in 2020 in San Francisco, Opal replaces stale, checkbox-style access reviews with policy-as-code and just-in-time access so organizations can enforce least privilege at scale instead of merely auditing it after the fact.
Quantum Corridor is a Midwest network-infrastructure company building North America's first inter-state, quantum-safe commercial fiber backbone. Its live coherent optical network links Chicago to Northwest Indiana with 40 Tbps capacity and 0.274 ms round-trip latency, connecting quantum research labs, hyperscalers, data centers and defense partners. Formed in 2021 as a public-private partnership, it is extending the route toward Purdue, Indianapolis and the Crane naval research base.
Vega is an AI-native cybersecurity company building a federated Security Analytics Mesh that lets security teams detect, search, and investigate threats directly where their data already lives - cloud platforms, data lakes, SIEMs, and cold storage - without forcing expensive centralized ingestion. Founded in 2024 by Unit 8200 and Intel Granulate veterans Shay Sandler and Eli Rozen, Vega raised $185M across three rounds in under two years and reached an ~$800M valuation, while signing multimillion-dollar contracts with global banks, healthcare giants, and Fortune 200 firms.
Rebecca Krauthamer is the co-founder and CEO of QuSecure, a San Mateo company building software that lets governments and banks swap out their encryption before quantum computers learn to break it. A Stanford Symbolic Systems graduate who jumped from AI to quantum in 2017, she turned a U.S. Air Force grant into a Series A-funded leader in post-quantum cryptography, counting the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Banco Sabadell among its users. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and World Economic Forum council member, she argues cybersecurity is a mission for humanity, not just a product category.
Ritesh Agrawal is a network-security engineer turned founder who co-founded Airgap Networks in 2019 to attack the problem most enterprises ignore: lateral movement once an attacker is already inside the building. His bet was that you do not trust any device, period. Zscaler acquired Airgap in April 2024, and its agentless, identity-based microsegmentation became the foundation of Zscaler's Zero Trust Branch, which Ritesh now leads as VP of Product Management. Before founding the company he spent nearly 18 years at Juniper Networks across engineering, product, and sales.
Anagram Security (legal name Enigma Analytics, Inc.) is a New York-based cybersecurity startup building a human-driven security platform that replaces the dreaded once-a-year compliance video with bite-sized, gamified microlearning and adaptive phishing simulations. Founded by Harley Sugarman and formerly known as Cipher, the company takes design cues from TikTok, Duolingo, and Khan Academy to make employees the strongest link in security rather than the weakest. It raised a $10M Series A led by Madrona in February 2025, serves Fortune 500 customers including Disney, Pfizer, Thomson Reuters, and MassMutual, and supports over 500,000 users worldwide.
BlueVoyant is a New York-based cyber defense company that combines a cloud-native technology platform with a 24x7 global security operations team to protect organizations from threats inside and outside their network. Its full-spectrum platform spans managed detection and response (MDR/MXDR), digital risk protection, and supply chain (third-party) cyber risk defense, drawing on global telemetry, dark web intelligence, and a deep partnership with Microsoft and Splunk. Founded in 2017 by James Rosenthal and Thomas Glocer, the company serves enterprises and governments worldwide and has raised roughly $695M to date.
PreVeil is a Boston-based cybersecurity company, born out of research at MIT, that delivers end-to-end encrypted email and file sharing built on zero trust principles. Its data is never decrypted on any server, so it stays protected even if passwords are stolen, admin accounts are hijacked, or servers are breached. PreVeil has become the go-to compliance platform for defense contractors and other regulated industries needing to meet CMMC, NIST 800-171, ITAR, and DFARS requirements at a fraction of the cost of legacy alternatives.
TypingDNA is a behavioral biometrics company that verifies people by the unique way they type. Its AI analyzes keystroke dynamics - the rhythm, timing, and pressure of how someone hits a keyboard - to authenticate users passively, on any device, with no extra hardware. Founded in Romania in 2016 and now headquartered in New York, the company turns an everyday habit into a security layer used for two-factor authentication, continuous endpoint protection, and fraud prevention across banking, education, healthcare, and enterprise.
Rom Hendler is the CEO and co-founder of Trustifi, an AI-driven email security platform that wraps encryption, data loss prevention, and security awareness training into one product built for managed service providers and mid-sized businesses. He took an unlikely path to cybersecurity, spending more than a decade as a marketing and operations executive in the casino and hospitality world (CMO at Las Vegas Sands, leadership roles at The Venetian and The Palazzo) before building a travel-tech startup and then turning his attention to the most-attacked surface in the enterprise: the inbox. Under his leadership Trustifi raised a $25M Series A in June 2025 led by Camber Partners and Hendler has been named a CRN Channel Chief four years running.
Venn is a New York cybersecurity company that secures remote and hybrid work on personal, unmanaged, or contractor-owned computers. Its patented Blue Border technology installs a lightweight agent that creates a company-controlled Secure Enclave on any Windows or Mac machine - work apps run locally inside a literal blue border where data is encrypted and isolated from personal use, with no virtual desktop, no remote session, and no shipped laptop required.
Sage Wohns is the CEO and Co-Founder of Jericho Security, a New York-based AI cybersecurity company that trains humans and AI systems to defend against AI-powered attacks including hyper-realistic phishing, deepfakes, and voice cloning. A Seattle native and 10-year AI industry veteran, Wohns previously built and led Agolo, a Google- and Microsoft-backed NLP summarization company, before co-founding Jericho Security in 2023. The company made history by winning the Pentagon's first-ever generative AI defense contract through AFWERX in December 2023, and has since raised $18M in total funding, including a $15M Series A in April 2025. With 39 employees and 30+ enterprise clients, Jericho Security is at the frontier of AI-versus-AI cyber defense.
Santiago Rosenblatt broke into PayPal and NBA League Pass at age six, found a marketplace glitch at fourteen that let him buy electronics for the price of shipping, then turned that curiosity into a career defending banks and fintechs. Today he is Founder and CEO of Strike, an AI-led continuous pentesting platform that compresses vulnerability detection from months to hours, protects 120+ companies across 20+ countries, and raised a $13.5M Series A to expand across the U.S. and Brazil.
Steve Hoover is the CEO of Impossible Objects, the Northbrook, Illinois company commercializing CBAM (composite-based additive manufacturing), a from-the-ground-up 3D printing process that bonds carbon fiber and other composites into parts that are stronger, lighter and more heat-tolerant than conventional prints. A mechanical engineer with a Carnegie Mellon doctorate, he spent roughly two decades at Xerox, rising to corporate CTO and running PARC as CEO, before a stint leading RIT's Global Cybersecurity Institute and co-founding the art-recognition startup Artify.ai. He took the Impossible Objects helm in March 2023 to push composite 3D printing from prototypes into high-volume manufacturing.
Tom Molden is CIO of Global Executive Engagement at NinjaOne, a role that puts a 30-year IT practitioner in the room with the buyers he used to be. He learned automation in the car rental business, spent 14 years moving through the semiconductor industry across the US and Europe, then ran planning for a multi-billion-dollar IT transformation at General Motors before becoming Chief of Staff to GM's global CISO. Fluent in English and German, he trades in the language of boards: revenue, margin, and risk.
Vlad Matsiiako is the Ukrainian-born co-founder and CEO of Infisical, the open-source secrets, certificate, and access management platform that processes well over 100 million secrets a day. After studying in the Netherlands, working as one of the first data scientists at bunq, picking up a master's at Cornell, and a stint at Figma, he teamed up with two Cornell friends, cycled through ideas like a VR marketplace, and finally bet on the unglamorous problem that bites every engineer: leaked API keys and sprawling .env files. Infisical went through Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch, open-sourced its code to earn developer trust, and raised a $16M Series A led by Elad Gil in 2025.
Yeongseon Park is the founder and CEO of ATAD Corp., a Seoul-based company building an AI-powered multi-cloud operating platform called ODiiN and a multi-LLM security gateway called Heiimdahl. ATAD's pitch is blunt: most teams run too many clouds and understand none of them. Park's products promise to operate AWS, Azure, and GCP from a single panel, claim up to 80% cost savings, and wrap it all in decentralized, zero-trust security. The company has raised about $3.36M, closed a Series A, and openly targets a Nasdaq listing by 2027.
David Matalon is the founder and CEO of Venn, a New York cybersecurity company that secures remote work on personal, unmanaged laptops without virtual desktops. His Blue Border technology builds an encrypted, isolated workspace on a worker's own computer, an approach now trusted by 700-plus organizations, many of them FINRA- and SEC-regulated financial firms. A native New Yorker who started teaching neighbors how to use computers at 13, Matalon has spent more than two decades building secure-workspace companies, from Offyx to OS33 to Venn.
Deven Hurt is the co-founder and CEO of PredictionStrike, a New York based platform he calls a stock market for sports fans, where users buy and sell virtual shares of NBA and NFL players whose prices move on real on-field performance. A Harvard College bioengineer turned Harvard Law graduate, he ran cybersecurity work touching Nike and the NBA before building the company with best friend Brad Chabra in 2018. He raised a $10M Series A led by Bullpen Capital, grew the platform past 200,000 users and $100M in transactions, and reached per-user profitability in late 2024.
Harley Sugarman is the founder and CEO of Anagram, a New York security company rebuilding employee security training around behavior instead of boredom. A Stanford computer scientist and former Bloomberg Beta investor, he scrapped his original product and rebuilt it into a TikTok- and Duolingo-inspired microlearning platform that cut client phishing failure rates from 20% to 6% and won over Disney, Thomson Reuters, and MassMutual. Anagram raised a $10M Series A in 2025 led by Madrona.
James (Jim) Rosenthal co-founded BlueVoyant in 2017 and built it from a startup into a global cybersecurity company with more than 650 employees across five continents. A former Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley, where he answered to the CEO and board for cybersecurity, he turned a Wall Street obsession with protecting the financial system into a company that defends businesses and governments against internal and supply-chain threats. In May 2026 he handed the CEO role to John Hernandez and became Chairman of the Board.
Randy Battat is the co-founder and CEO of PreVeil, a Boston-based company building end-to-end encrypted email, file sharing and storage for organizations that handle data too sensitive to leave on a server in plaintext. Before betting on cryptography, he ran Airvana through the mobile-broadband boom, spent thirteen years at Apple shipping the PowerBook, and led networking at Motorola. His pitch is deceptively simple: you cannot steal what you cannot see.
Raul Popa is the co-founder and CEO of TypingDNA, a behavioral biometrics company that recognizes people by the rhythm of how they type. A self-taught coder turned sociology-and-statistics graduate, he turned keystroke dynamics into a commercial authentication API used in banking, finance, and online education. He started the company alone in 2016 in Romania, brought it through Techstars and a Google-AI-backed Series A, and relocated it to New York just before the pandemic. Beyond enterprise security, he shipped TypingDNA Focus, a free app that predicts your mood from your typing.
Allied Telesis is a global networking infrastructure company that designs, manufactures, and supports wired and wireless products - switches, routers, firewalls, wireless access points, transceivers, and the software that manages them. Founded in Japan in 1987, it builds resilient, standards-based networks for governments, schools, hospitals, transportation systems, and smart cities, with a focus on automation (its Autonomous Management Framework), reliability, and supply-chain security.
Barracuda Networks is a cybersecurity company based in Campbell, California that protects more than 200,000 organizations worldwide. It packages email protection, application and network security, data protection and managed detection and response into the AI-powered BarracudaONE platform, sold largely through a global network of managed service providers and channel partners.
Eximietas Design is a San Jose-headquartered engineering services firm that takes products from idea to silicon to intelligent ecosystem. Founded in 2023 by serial entrepreneur Jay Avula, its team covers the full stack of modern hardware and software - SoC and RTL-to-GDSII chip design, embedded firmware and board bring-up, and cloud, cybersecurity and AI/ML solutions. With roughly 600 engineers across the US and India and a leadership team that has collectively taped out more than 100 chips for the likes of Google, Cisco, Broadcom, Microsoft and Oracle, the company positions itself as a one-stop, full-cycle product development partner.
Illumio is a Sunnyvale-based cybersecurity company that pioneered Zero Trust Segmentation. Its Breach Containment Platform - Illumio Segmentation plus the AI-powered Illumio Insights - assumes attackers will get in and focuses on stopping them from spreading. By mapping how applications talk to each other across data centers, public clouds, and endpoints, Illumio lets organizations isolate workloads and contain ransomware and breaches before they become disasters.