Tomer Saban is the co-founder and CEO of WireX Systems, a network detection and response (NDR) and forensics company he started in 2010. With around 15 years in telecommunications and network security, he came out of Nice Systems' intelligence division and the Israeli 8200 Entrepreneurship Program to build a platform that turns raw network packets into readable, context-rich stories so security teams can investigate incidents in minutes rather than days. WireX's signature Contextual Capture technology aims to make advanced investigation accessible to every analyst in a security operations center, not just senior forensics experts.
SolCyber is a Dallas-based managed security services provider that packages the tools, threat detection, and human-led response mid-market and enterprise companies need into a single subscription program. Founded in 2021 and incubated by ForgePoint Capital, it positions itself as a "modern MSSP" - consolidating endpoint, email, identity, SOC/SIEM, security awareness training, mobile protection, and even cyber insurance under one vendor and one contract, so customers don't have to assemble and manage a stack of point products themselves.
Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity company that helps organizations prevent, detect and respond to cyber threats across networks, clouds, endpoints and identities. Founded in 2005 by Nir Zuk, it pioneered the next-generation firewall and has since expanded into an integrated security platform spanning network security (Strata), cloud security (Prisma), and AI-driven security operations (Cortex). Serving roughly 70,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including most of the Fortune 100, it is one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity vendors in the world.
Hitachi Cyber is the global cybersecurity and performance analytics arm of the Hitachi Group, operating under Hitachi Systems Trusted Cyber Management Inc. With roots going back to 1999, it delivers 24/7 managed security services, threat intelligence, governance-risk-compliance advisory, and performance analytics to more than 350 private and government organizations across 50-plus countries. A network of Security Operations Centers spanning Canada, Switzerland, Japan, India and Poland - integrated with Google Security Operations, Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk - anchors its detection and response work across IT, OT and AI environments.
ESWIN Computing is a Beijing-based chip company building system-on-chip products around the open RISC-V architecture. It designs edge-computing and AI SoCs - most notably the EIC77 series - pairs them with its own NPU and software stack, and sells them as chips and developer boards for smart home, automotive, industrial, and PC-class computing. It is the IC-and-solutions arm of the larger Beijing ESWIN Technology Group founded by former BOE chairman Wang Dongsheng.
Mauna Kea Semiconductors (MKSemi) is a Silicon Valley fabless chip company building what it calls the world's lowest-power ultra-wideband (UWB) technology - the short-range radio that lets phones, wearables, cars and IoT devices know precisely where they are and which direction they're pointing, down to a few centimeters. Founded in 2019 by semiconductor veterans and headquartered in Cupertino/San Jose with engineering hubs across China, MKSemi sells UWB chips, modules and SDKs, headlined by its highly integrated MK8000 SoC, to device OEMs and ODMs chasing precise location, secure ranging and radar-style sensing on coin-cell batteries.
Point2 Technology is a San Jose-based fabless semiconductor company building ultra-low-power, low-latency interconnect chips and cables for AI/ML data centers. Its e-Tube platform sends data as radio-frequency signals through plastic waveguides - a third path between copper and optics - and its smart-retimer SoCs power 800G and 1.6T active electrical cables. Founded in 2016 by a KAIST professor and veterans of Marvell, Finisar and Samsung, the company has drawn investment from NVIDIA's NVentures, Bosch Ventures, Molex and UMC.
Quadric is a semiconductor IP company that licenses the Chimera family of general-purpose neural processing units (GPNPUs) - a single, fully C++ programmable processor core that runs machine learning inference alongside classic DSP and control code in one unified architecture. Founded in 2016 by three engineers who previously built bitcoin computing hardware, Quadric aims to fix the fragmentation of on-device AI silicon: instead of a fixed-function neural accelerator that breaks whenever a new model appears, its cores scale from 1 to 864 TOPS and can adopt new networks - including large language models up to 30 billion parameters - through a software port rather than a chip respin.
WireX Systems is a cybersecurity company building network detection and response (NDR) and forensics technology under its EvidenceOps platform, powered by Ne2ition. Its patented Contextual Capture engine translates raw network packets into human-readable intelligence, retaining months of full payload data so security teams can investigate, prove, and respond to threats in minutes instead of days. Founded in 2010 by veterans of Israel's intelligence community, the company serves SOC teams across finance, healthcare, manufacturing and retail.
Netenrich is a San Jose-based security and digital operations company that helps enterprises run modern security operations on Google SecOps. Its Resolution Intelligence Cloud platform combines agentic AI, big-data analytics, and human expertise to power Adaptive MDR, Cyber Risk Operations, and threat detection - shifting security teams from chasing alerts toward what the company calls autonomic security operations.
DSP Concepts is the Silicon Valley audio software company behind Audio Weaver, the embedded audio development platform that powers more than 50 million devices, from Tesla cabins and GoPro cameras to Amazon Alexa-built-in microphones and the first single-SoC Dolby Atmos soundbar.
Farhat Jahangir is the Founder, President & CEO of GS Microelectronics (GSME), a San Jose-based semiconductor solutions company he founded around 2021-2022. With 25+ years in semiconductor manufacturing, operations, and chip design, he previously served as VP & General Manager at ON Semiconductor and SVP of Manufacturing at Quantenna Communications, where he helped steer the company through its 2016 IPO and a $1.1B acquisition. GSME raised a $35M Series B in January 2026, backed by Maverick Silicon, and has since made two strategic acquisitions - Sinble Technology Vietnam and Muse Semiconductor - to build a vertically integrated semiconductor services platform spanning chip design, MPW services, and advanced process node capabilities.
Blackpoint Cyber is a Denver-based managed detection and response (MDR) company built by former NSA cyber operations experts who decided the best way to defend businesses was to think like the attackers they used to be. Founded in 2014, the company serves managed service providers (MSPs) with a 24/7 security operations center, proprietary threat detection technology, and its unified CompassOne platform - combining endpoint, identity, cloud, and compliance tools into a single dashboard. With $210M in total funding and 23 G2 badges in Spring 2025, Blackpoint has become one of the most recognized MDR providers in the MSP channel, locking compromised Microsoft 365 accounts roughly every 30 minutes.
Corelight is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company that pioneered the commercial Open NDR (Network Detection and Response) platform, built on Zeek - the gold-standard open-source network security monitor created by co-founder Dr. Vern Paxson at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. By transforming raw network traffic into high-fidelity, structured logs and pairing them with AI-powered analytics, Corelight gives enterprise security teams and government agencies the evidence they need to detect, investigate, and respond to threats faster. With $309M in total funding, 40%+ ARR growth, and recognition as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for NDR, Corelight is widely regarded as the most trusted platform for network-based threat detection.
Joe Morin is the Founder and CEO of CyFlare, a top-ranked managed security operations company he built from the ground up in 2017. With over 20 years in cybersecurity, Morin spent years in sales engineering and alliance roles at companies like Zscaler, Forcepoint, and Barracuda Networks before channeling that cross-vendor perspective into CyFlare's signature philosophy: don't pick one platform, wire them all together. Under his leadership, CyFlare achieved 854% growth over three years, landed on the Inc. 5000 list twice, ranked #5 on CRN's 2025 Fast Growth 150, and is consistently recognized as a Top 20 Global MSSP. His LinkedIn handle - cyberbatman - says a lot about the man.
Sailesh Kumar is the founder and CEO of Baya Systems, a Santa Clara startup building unified fabric and chiplet interconnect software for AI silicon. A former Intel Fellow and the co-founder of NetSpeed Systems (acquired by Intel in 2018), he holds more than 150 patents and is among the most-cited engineers in network-on-chip design.
Gagan Singh is the Chief Executive Officer of Blackpoint Cyber, a Denver-based managed detection and response (MDR) company protecting small and mid-sized businesses through a channel-first MSP model. With 20+ years leading product and operations at McAfee, NortonLifeLock, and Avast, Singh joined Blackpoint in June 2025 with a clear thesis: small businesses are the most underserved, most targeted segment in cybersecurity, and the MSPs serving them are the true front line. Under his leadership, Blackpoint has launched CompassOne, a unified security posture platform, and continues expanding internationally while building on a claim that no partner or their customers has suffered a ransomware incident under Blackpoint's watch.
Stan Richter is co-founder and CEO of signageOS, the company that built a unification layer between digital signage hardware and the CMS platforms that run on top of it. Founded in Prague in 2016, signageOS solves the fragmentation problem that has plagued digital signage for decades - dozens of SoC operating systems, dozens of manufacturers, no common API. Richter turned that chaos into a business, bootstrapped growth to global scale, raised $4.2M from Reflex Capital, relocated to San Francisco, won the 2025 Outstanding Individual award at the Global Digital Signage Awards, and in January 2026 unveiled Supra - an encrypted edge-streaming platform that extends the usable life of existing hardware by two to five years.

Jack Naglieri is the founder and CEO of Panther, a cloud-native SIEM platform that achieved unicorn status in 2021 with a $1.4B valuation. A former security engineer at Yahoo and Airbnb, he open-sourced StreamAlert in 2017 and parlayed that practitioner frustration into a $140M-funded company serving enterprises like Coinbase and Docker. He also writes Detection at Scale, a widely read Substack newsletter covering AI's transformation of security operations.