imper.ai is a New York-based cybersecurity company that builds an identity verification platform purpose-built for the workforce. It prevents impersonation and account takeover across the employee lifecycle - from hiring to help desk account recovery - by pairing an Impersonation Detection Engine that reads hundreds of network, device, and behavioral signals with an AI-driven contextual verification layer that confirms the real person behind a session using role-specific questions that cannot be sourced from breached data. Founded in 2024 by veterans of Israel's Unit 8200, the company launched publicly in December 2025 with $28M in total funding backed by Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures.
Valence Security is a SaaS and AI security company that helps enterprises find and fix risks created by SaaS and AI sprawl. Its platform unifies SaaS discovery, SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM), AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), and Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), then pairs that visibility with one-click and collaborative remediation workflows that engage business users to actually close gaps. Founded in 2021 and backed by Microsoft's M12, YL Ventures, and Porsche Ventures, Valence positions itself as a leader in securing the modern, agentic SaaS estate.
Delinea is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company that builds identity and privileged access management (PAM) software. Formed in 2021 from the merger of PAM veterans Thycotic and Centrify and rebranded as Delinea in 2022, the company secures the credentials, secrets, and privileged accounts that human users, machines, applications, and - increasingly - AI agents use to reach an organization's most sensitive systems. Its flagship Secret Server vault, Privilege Manager, DevOps Secrets Vault, and the cloud-native Delinea Platform are used by thousands of enterprises worldwide to enforce least privilege, rotate passwords, record sessions, and detect identity-based threats across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Permiso Security is a Palo Alto-based cybersecurity company that discovers, protects, and defends identities across cloud and on-prem environments. Founded by former FireEye/Mandiant executives, its identity security platform stitches human, non-human, and AI-agent identities into a single Universal Identity Graph, using 1,400+ detection rules and behavioral analytics to catch account takeovers, credential compromise, and insider threats. Permiso also runs the P0 Labs threat-research team, which has released ten open-source tools including CloudGrappler and YetiHunter.
RAD Security is a San Francisco cloud-native security company that pairs runtime telemetry with agentic AI to help teams detect, investigate, and respond to threats across Kubernetes and cloud environments. Founded in 2021 as KSOC and rebranded RAD Security in 2024, it builds behavioral, eBPF-driven detection and a roster of AI 'RADBots' that triage alerts, generate compliance evidence, and automate security workflows. The company raised a $14M Series A in February 2025, bringing total funding to about $20M.
Huntress is a Maryland-based managed cybersecurity company that brings enterprise-grade protection to small and mid-sized businesses and the IT providers who serve them. Founded in 2015 by three former NSA cyber operators, it pairs lightweight software agents with a 24/7 human-led, AI-assisted Security Operations Center to detect, investigate, and remediate threats across endpoints, identities, Microsoft 365, and logs. What began with $100,000 in DEF CON Capture the Flag winnings has grown into a cybersecurity unicorn protecting roughly 150,000 businesses and surpassing $100M in annual recurring revenue.
Obsidian Security is a Fortune 1000-focused cybersecurity company that secures business-critical SaaS applications, identities, and AI agents. Founded in 2017 by former Cylance and Carbon Black leaders, its platform unifies SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), and emerging AI agent and SaaS supply chain protection - giving enterprises visibility and control over the sprawling, interconnected SaaS ecosystems where modern breaches now begin.