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Flare wants to close the door before a stolen login opens it
The Montreal company watches the places where stolen identities are traded. Its wager: threat intelligence earns its keep when it helps defenders take away the keys.
Bfore wants to catch the crime before the click
Cybercriminals need somewhere to set up shop. Bfore’s PreCrime platform watches that preparation, then helps security teams shut the shop before customers arrive.
Red Points and the cost of being copied
FILA ran out of patience with fighting fakes by hand. Red Points built a business around the awkward truth that a counterfeit listing can multiply faster than a lawyer can remove it.
ReliaQuest Threat Research and the $160 Million Blind Spot
A stolen password can appear for sale long before it appears in a security alert. ReliaQuest bought Digital Shadows to connect those two moments - and put the intelligence to work.
Bolster AI and the 32-day head start
A fake website can be spotted in seconds and survive for weeks. Bolster AI built a business around the awkward interval between knowing a scam exists and making it disappear.
Norman Menz and the Art of Seeing Trouble Early
For two decades, the cybersecurity executive has followed risk beyond the company wall. At Flare, that long pursuit has become a global business built around a simple advantage: seeing what an attacker can see, soon enough to act.
John Hernandez Has Spent 30 Years Teaching Big Software to Change Its Mind
From call centers to identity systems to the security operations center, Hernandez keeps arriving when a sprawling enterprise platform needs a new shape. At BlueVoyant, the assignment is to make cyber defense faster, more unified, and useful with or without a managed service wrapped around it.
Recorded Future Spent Three Years Lost - Then Turned Internet Noise Into a $2.65 Billion Signal
The founders tried to organize the future, wandered for years, then found a sharper business: tell defenders which threats matter before the damage begins. The result is a useful lesson in focus, patient category-building and making expensive software earn its keep.
Cyble
Cyble is an AI-native threat intelligence company that continuously monitors the surface, deep, and dark web to help enterprises and governments detect, predict, and disrupt cyber threats before they cause damage. Founded in 2019 by Beenu Arora and Manish Chachada, the company packages dark web monitoring, digital risk protection, attack surface management, and agentic AI analysis into a unified platform used by organizations ranging from agile startups to Fortune 50 companies and national agencies.
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.
BlueVoyant
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.