Top 42 Startups developing AI for Security

Updated: Nov 25, 2025
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These startup use machine learning and computer vision to automate video surveillance systems, monitor dangerous equipment, check person background, protect IT networks against cyber attacks.
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Shield AI
Country: USA | Funding: $1.3B
Shield AI works with the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and other federal, state, and local departments and agencies to deliver next generation intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance systems. Shield AI’s first product, Nova, is a Hivemind-powered drone that searches buildings while simultaneously streaming video and generating maps.
2
Dataminr
Country: USA | Funding: $1.2B
Dataminr is an artificial intelligence platform for real-time event and risk detection.
3
Skydio
Country: USA | Funding: $740M
Skydio produces smart drones for security, facility maintenance and defense. Skydio drones help complete even the most dangerous jobs safer, more efficiently and faster thanks to remote half-autonomous control. The Skydio Autonomy operating system sees and solves complex navigation problems in real time. It controls the drone in the most challenging conditions, automatically avoiding obstacles as small as a 1.2-centimeter wire, autonomously plans and executes optimal flight route, taking into account terrain, buildings, geofences, flight rules and airspace regulations. The operator can simply specify the destination. Skydio's main project is "Drone as a Rapid Response" (DFR) for police. When emergency call is received, Skydio X10 drones launch from their docking stations in seconds to respond, track objects, broadcast live streams and provide real-time situational awareness both indoors and outdoors, ensuring the safety of police officers and people nearby.
4
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.
5
Verkada
Country: USA | Funding: $644.3M
Verkada is an IoT platform that combines plug-and-play security cameras with intelligent, cloud-based software.
6
Abnormal Security
Country: USA | Funding: $534M
Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
7
Securiti.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $156M
SECURITI.ai is the leader in AI-Powered PrivacyOps, that helps automate all major functions needed for privacy compliance in one place.
8
Airobotics
Country: Israel | Funding: $124.7M
Airobotics provides an end-to-end, fully automatic solution for collecting aerial data and gaining invaluable insights. The industrial grade platform is available on-site and on-demand, enabling industrial facilities to access premium aerial data in a faster, safer, more efficient way.
9
Dtex Systems
Country: USA | Funding: $122.5M
Dtex Systems utilizes user behavior intelligence to help enterprises detect cybersecurity threats without compromising privacy.
10
Hunters.AI
Country: Israel | Funding: $118.4M
Hunters.AI is a provider of SaaS-based autonomous threat hunting solution.
11
Protect AI
Country: USA | Funding: $108.5M
Protect AI is building a safer AI Powered World by empowering a community of ML security researchers, finding unique exploits, and providing tools that to reduce risk inherent in MLOps pipelines.
12
Cortica
Country: Israel | Funding: $109.4M
Cortica has developed autonomous AI that simulates the natural processes of the mammal cortex. Its is used for autonomous vehicles, smart city applications, security cameras, drones, media, robotics, and medical image analysis.
13
ComplyAdvantage
Country: USA | Funding: $108.2M
ComplyAdvantage is the financial industry’s leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology.
14
Axiado
Country: USA | Funding: $105M
Axiado Corporation is a security processor company redefining hardware root of trust with hardware-based security technologies, including per-system AI.
15
Aurora Labs
Country: Israel | Funding: $97.1M
Aurora Labs is focused on detecting and fixing SW bugs using proprietary machine learning, root cause analysis, and remote inspection tools, and closing the loop with OTA delta compression installer for 8-64 bit architecture, Linux, and AutoSar OS.
16
Solink
Country: Canada | Funding: $94.1M
Solink is a provider of video security and business analytics solutions for companies. It includes AI-powered threat identification system, enabling it to recognize potential risks like unauthorized access attempts and break-ins.
17
Everseen
Country: Ireland | Funding: $88.6M
Everseen uses computer vision to prevent theft at self-checkout counters.
18
Voxel
Country: USA | Funding: $77M
Voxel uses computer vision and AI to enable security cameras to automatically identify hazards and high-risk activities in real-time
19
iProov
Country: UK | Funding: $70M
iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
20
Relyance AI
Country: USA | Funding: $62M
Relyance AI platform enables entire organization to manage privacy and data protection with a one-stop solution. Mapping to legal and technical sources of truth, Relyance AI embeds within existing business processes so engineers can speak contract and lawyers can speak code.
Siddhant Patel
Editor: Siddhant Patel
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