Top 29 Startups developing AI for Cyber Security

Updated: Jan 17, 2026
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These startups develop AI solutions that can automatically detect, analyze and defend against advanced cyberattacks by proactively detecting and tricking attackers.
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depthfirst
Country: USA | Funding: $40
Depthfirst develops AI-native security platform General Security Intelligence, which analyzes the code, business logic and infrastructure of enterprise applications, identifies vulnerabilities, eliminates false positives and provides developers with recommendations for optimizing workflows. The platform also enables companies to protect against credential leaks and monitor threats to their open-source components and third-party developers. Depthfirst claims to be able to help protect companies from many "AI-driven vulnerabilities" and has already established partnerships with a number of well-known companies, including AngelList, Lovable and Moveworks.
2
Palantir Technologies
Country: USA | Funding: $3B
Palantir offers software applications designed for integrating, visualizing, analyzing data, and fighting fraud. Palantir revolutionizes how organizations build and deploy AI/ML by combining the enterprise data foundation with end-to-end AI/ML deployment infrastructure.
3
CrowdStrike
Country: USA | Funding: $1.2B
CrowdStrike is the leader in next-generation endpoint protection, threat intelligence and incident response through cloud-based endpoint protection.
4
Cybereason
Country: USA | Funding: $970.6M
Complete next-generation endpoint security: EDR, NGAV, anti-ransomware, fileless malware protection, and managed services powered by a proprietary AI hunting engine. Cybereason uses machine learning to increase the number of endpoints a single analyst can manage across a network of distributed resources
5
SentinelOne
Country: USA | Funding: $696.5M
SentinelOne delivers autonomous AI-based endpoint protection that successfully prevents, detects and responds to attacks across all major vectors.
6
Vectra AI
Country: USA | Funding: $352.5M
Vectra enables enterprises to immediately detect and stop cyberattacks across cloud, data center, enterprise and IoT networks.
7
Deep Instinct
Country: Israel | Funding: $321.6M
Deep Instinct applies deep learning to cybersecurity, offering unmatched zero-day attack protection.
8
SparkCognition
Country: USA | Funding: $286.6M
SparkCognition engages in developing AI-Powered cyber-physical software for the safety, security, and reliability of IT, OT, and the IoT. SparkCognition builds artificial intelligence solutions for applications in energy, oil and gas, manufacturing, finance, aerospace, defense, and security.
9
Darktrace
Country: UK | Funding: $230.5M
Darktrace is the world’s leading machine learning company for cyber security.
10
Cheq
Country: Israel | Funding: $182M
CHEQ is an AI-driven cybersecurity company disrupting the ad-verification space.
11
Horizon3.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $151.5M
Horizon3.ai offers an autonomous penetration testing platform that helps organizations proactively find and fix security vulnerabilities.
12
Dtex Systems
Country: USA | Funding: $122.5M
Dtex Systems utilizes user behavior intelligence to help enterprises detect cybersecurity threats without compromising privacy.
13
Obsidian Security
Country: USA | Funding: $119.5M
Obsidian Security revolutionizes how organizations use data science and security technology to combat cyber threats across hybrid-cloud environments.
14
Hunters.AI
Country: Israel | Funding: $118.4M
Hunters.AI is a provider of SaaS-based autonomous threat hunting solution.
15
Traceable AI
Country: USA | Funding: $110M
Traceable AI is offering services designed to protect APIs from cyberattacks using machine learning
16
HiddenLayer
Country: USA | Funding: $107.5M
HiddenLayer provides a software-based platform that helps enterprises monitor the inputs and outputs of their machine-learning algorithms.
17
Vannevar Labs
Country: USA | Funding: $87M
Developer of products for the security industry. It develops AI-based solutions for counter-terrorism missions tackling national security problems. It also uses natural language processing and caters mainly to the defense and intelligence industries.
18
Guardz
Country: Israel | Funding: $84M
Guardz is the developer of a cybersecurity technology aimed to give real-time protection.
19
Elisity
Country: USA | Funding: $78.5M
Elisity Cognitive Trust is a new security paradigm that combines Zero Trust Network Access and an AI-enabled Software Defined Perimeter.
20
MIND
Country: USA | Funding: $41M
MIND is a cybersecurity company that offers a data security platform to automate data loss prevention and insider risk management programs.
21
SHIELD
Country: Singapore | Funding: $25.5M
SHIELD is a mobile-first risk intelligence company. We help world-leading enterprises build trust and safety by stopping fraud and abuse.
22
Spin Technology
Country: USA | Funding: $18M
AI Powered SaaS Data Protection - Ransomware Protection and Data Management Made Simple
23
Jericho Security
Country: USA | Funding: $18.1M
Jericho Security is protect the world from the emerging dangers of generative AI cyberattacks.
24
Prophet Security
Country: USA | Funding: $11M
Prophet Security provides a AI SOC platform featuring an AI SOC Analyst that autonomously triages, investigates, and responds to alerts. Prophet AI connects to SIEMs, EDRs, cloud platforms, email security tools, identity providers, data lakes and data storage services, threat feeds, collaboration tools, case management tools, and more to conduct full context investigations.
25
Protexxa
Country: Canada | Funding: CA$14M
Protexxa is a B2B SaaS cybersecurity platform that leverages Artificial Intelligence to rapidly identify, evaluate, predict, and resolve cyber issues for employees.
26
BalkanID
Country: USA | Funding: $8.1M
BalkanID has developed the industry’s first AI-Powered Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platform.
27
Abstract
Country: Serbia
Abstract develops Seif.ai - B2B cybersecurity assessment platform that provides unprecedented insight and continuous monitoring into your company’s entire sets of assets, whether its personnel, hardware/software infrastructure, or third-party platforms.
28
N5S
Country: Luxembourg
N5S is a suite of AI-powered cybersecurity tools - it is a self-targeting attack surface discovery, penetration testing, attack mitigation and reporting system. N5S was built to replace cybersecurity analysts in wide-spectrum penetration testing scenarios.
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Delphos Labs
Country: USA
Delphos Labs delivers AI-automated binary analysis and reverse engineering — no source code, symbols, or SBOMs required. Our platform accelerates advanced malware analysis, third-party software validation, and vulnerability research, reducing weeks of manual reverse engineering to minutes of explainable AI analysis.
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Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)pro