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CYRISMA
CYRISMA is a Rochester, New York-based cybersecurity company that builds a unified, cloud-hosted cyber risk management platform for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), MSSPs, and internal IT teams. It consolidates vulnerability and patch management, sensitive data discovery, secure configuration scanning, attack surface visibility, dark web monitoring, compliance tracking, and risk monetization into a single multi-tenant dashboard - replacing a stack of point tools with one affordable, per-endpoint-priced product. Founded in 2018, the company raised a $7M Series A in 2024 and serves thousands of organizations through partners.
Lightbeam
Lightbeam is a San Jose-based data security and privacy company that converges DSPM, privacy operations, and AI governance into one identity-centric platform. Founded in 2020 by ex-Nutanix engineers, it uses AI to discover, classify, and map sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem environments, tying each data fragment back to the human it belongs to. Customers in banking, healthcare, insurance, and tech use Lightbeam to automate compliance with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and PCI while cutting data risk and controlling AI exposure through tools like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Google Gemini.
Teleskope
Teleskope is a New York-based data security company that builds what it calls the industry's first agentic data protection platform. Founded in 2022 by former Airbnb security engineers Elizabeth Nammour and Julie Trias, it autonomously discovers, classifies, and protects sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments, then automatically remediates risk through redaction, masking, encryption, and access fixes. The platform uses smaller, fine-tuned models to read business context, aiming to move teams beyond alert fatigue toward real action.
Privacera
Privacera (now operating as Trust3 AI by Privacera) is a Newark, California-based enterprise software company that runs a unified data and AI access governance platform. Built by the co-creators of Apache Ranger, it gives Fortune 500 teams a single place to discover sensitive data, set policies, and enforce access across Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, GCP, and the new generation of LLM-powered apps.