A teenage publicist learned that every glowing headline leaves a trail. Leyes now sells the unusual sequel: visibility when it helps, invisibility when it matters.
A former Secret Service agent built Talon around a practical idea: protection starts before anyone needs a bodyguard. Its business now spans corporate investigations, cyber defense, and rehearsals for the day nobody wants.
A Copenhagen audio startup bet that cops and bodyguards deserved better than the earpiece that came in the box. Seven years and five patents later, its 360 sits in the ears of security details who can't afford to miss a word.
Corporate security teams drown in tabs, feeds and spreadsheets. Ontic bet that connecting all of it in one place - now with AI - is worth $287 million to investors and the attention of the Fortune 50.
Outtake is an AI cybersecurity company that deploys autonomous agents to detect, investigate, and dismantle digital threats - impersonation, phishing, fake domains, cloned apps, malicious ads, and deepfakes - across the open web, social platforms, app stores, and the dark web. Founded in 2023 by ex-Palantir engineer Alex Dhillon, the New York company turns threat detection-to-takedown into a single automated workflow, averaging takedowns in about 14 hours, and protects brands including OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Anthropic.
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.
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.