Vectra AI is a San Jose-based cybersecurity company that uses artificial intelligence to detect, investigate, and stop active cyberattacks across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Its platform - built around what the company calls Attack Signal Intelligence - watches network, identity, public cloud, and SaaS behavior to surface real attacks in progress while filtering out the noise that overwhelms security teams. Founded in 2011 and led by CEO Hitesh Sheth, Vectra has raised roughly $425M, reached a $1.2B valuation, and was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response.
BlueVoyant is a New York-based cyber defense company that combines a cloud-native technology platform with a 24x7 global security operations team to protect organizations from threats inside and outside their network. Its full-spectrum platform spans managed detection and response (MDR/MXDR), digital risk protection, and supply chain (third-party) cyber risk defense, drawing on global telemetry, dark web intelligence, and a deep partnership with Microsoft and Splunk. Founded in 2017 by James Rosenthal and Thomas Glocer, the company serves enterprises and governments worldwide and has raised roughly $695M to date.
SentinelOne is an American cybersecurity company that builds the AI-powered Singularity Platform, autonomous software that detects, hunts, and responds to attacks across endpoints, cloud, identity, and data in real time. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, it pioneered machine-learning-driven endpoint protection that works without human intervention and now competes head-to-head with CrowdStrike and Microsoft in the enterprise security market. After the largest cybersecurity IPO in history in 2021, the company crossed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in 2025.
Hatem Naguib is a cybersecurity operator who spent a decade at Barracuda Networks, the last four years as CEO, steering its shift into a platform-based, recurring-revenue security company. Before Barracuda he helped scale VMware's NSX networking and security business past $600M. He stepped down from Barracuda in September 2025 and joined Corelight's board of directors in May 2026.
Tomer Weingarten is the co-founder, chairman, president, and CEO of SentinelOne, the publicly traded cybersecurity company he started in 2013 to replace signature-based antivirus with autonomous, AI-driven endpoint protection. An engineer by trade, Israeli outsider by background, he scaled the company from a Tel Aviv kitchen-table idea to a NYSE-listed business crossing $1B in ARR, betting the platform on agentic AI through Purple AI and Wayfinder.
Simbian is a Mountain View startup building autonomous, self-improving AI agents for security operations. Its platform pairs a Context Lake of institutional knowledge with TrustedLLM-powered agents that triage alerts, hunt threats, run pentests, and manage firewalls 24/7 — built to counter AI-powered attacks that move faster than humans can react.
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.