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BigchainDB
BigchainDB is a blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets.
Portnox
Portnox is a cloud-native access control company that unifies Network Access Control (NAC), RADIUS, TACACS+, and passwordless conditional access for applications into a single zero-trust platform. Founded in 2007 by a team from the Israeli Air Force and now headquartered in Austin, Texas, Portnox removes the appliances, VMs, and specialized staff that traditional NAC requires, letting organizations authenticate users and devices, assess endpoint risk, and enforce compliance across wired, wireless, and remote networks from the cloud. It serves more than 1,000 organizations across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and technology.
Arcade.dev
Arcade.dev builds the secure action layer for production AI agents. Its platform gives agents delegated, per-user authorization to act inside real business systems - Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Salesforce and thousands more - by handling OAuth, token management, policy enforcement, tool execution and audit logging. Founded in 2024 by former Okta VP Alex Salazar and ex-Redis engineer Sam Partee, Arcade offers 8,000+ agent-optimized tools and authored the MCP authorization specification adopted by Anthropic. The company has raised $72M total, including a $60M Series A in June 2026.
Smallstep
Smallstep is a San Francisco cybersecurity company building the first hardware-backed device identity platform. Founded in 2016 by Mike Malone, it grew out of the widely used open-source step-ca project - a private certificate authority and ACME server - and now sells enterprises a way to bind access to Wi-Fi, VPNs, SaaS apps and SSH to verified hardware. Its co-developed ACME Device Attestation standard, built with Google at the IETF, uses hardware co-processors to stop credential theft, phishing and impersonation. Smallstep has raised $26M and was a 2025 RSAC Innovation Sandbox top-10 finalist.
AppOmni
AppOmni is a SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) platform that gives enterprise security teams continuous visibility, threat detection, and policy enforcement across business-critical SaaS apps like Salesforce, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Google Workspace, and Workday - plus the AI agents now plugged into them.
Teleport
Teleport is the infrastructure identity company. Its open-source Access Platform replaces shared secrets, VPNs, and long-lived credentials with short-lived cryptographic identities for humans, machines, and AI agents accessing servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, applications, and Windows desktops.
Sift
Sift is the AI-powered digital trust and safety platform that helps businesses stop fraud without blocking good customers. Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, it analyzes more than a trillion events per year across a global data network covering 34,000+ sites and apps, scoring transactions, logins, and content in real time so companies like DoorDash, Twitter and Yelp can grow revenue while keeping bad actors out.