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SolarWinds
The unglamorous software that keeps 300,000 networks from falling over - and the Austin company that learned to rebuild trust after the most talked-about hack of the decade.
Corridor
Corridor is a San Francisco security company building an AI-native platform that embeds protection directly into AI coding workflows. Its Agentic Coding Security Management (ACSM) platform reviews every file edit and pull request in real time, catching vulnerabilities as code is generated by tools like Cursor and Claude Code rather than after it ships. Founded in 2025 by former CISA staffers Jack Cable and Ashwin Ramaswami with security veteran Alex Stamos, Corridor has raised $30.4M, including a $25M Series A at a $200M valuation in March 2026.
Gwenyth Castro
Gwenyth Castro is the Chief Executive Officer of Binarly, the firmware and software supply-chain security company behind the Binarly Transparency Platform. Appointed in March 2026, she stepped into the CEO seat after founder Alex Matrosov moved to the board. Before Binarly she spent roughly 15 years helping build and scale the offensive security firm Bishop Fox, rising to Chief of Staff to the CEO, where she ran cross-functional strategy and global expansion. A Stanford Certified Project Manager, Castro is an operator's operator - the person who turns deep research and patented technology into enterprise revenue, partnerships, and trust with customers like Meta and Dell.
Jack Cable
Jack Cable is the CEO and co-founder of Corridor, a San Francisco-based AI security startup that raised a $25M Series A at a $200M valuation in March 2026. Before founding Corridor, Cable spent years at CISA architecting the Secure by Design initiative, helped run the Pentagon's bug bounty programs at Defense Digital Service, and ranked in HackerOne's all-time top 100 hackers. Named to TIME's 25 Most Influential Teens in 2018 at age 17, he started identifying software vulnerabilities at 15 and hasn't stopped since.