1) Lacework
Lacework is an automated compliance checking plug-in for cloud builders that protects your infrastructure from vulnerabilities and security threats.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $8.30B (January 2021)
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: San Jose
- Started in: 2015
- Founders: Mike Speiser, Sanjay Kalra, Vikram Kapoor
- Number of employees: 500-1,000
- Funding: $1,906.70M
- Funding rounds: 7
- Number of investors: 19
You can find their website here.
2) Netskope
Netskope cloud security software delivers visibility into data usage and helps organizations stop threats and avoid data leakage.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $7.50B (November 2018)
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: Santa Clara
- Started in: 2012
- Founders: Krishna Narayanaswamy, Lebin Cheng, Ravi Ithal, Sanjay Beri
- Number of employees: 1,000-5,000
- Funding: $1,040.10M
- Funding rounds: 12
- Number of investors: 17
You can find their website here.
3) Wiz
Wiz provides security intelligence for cloud infrastructure services like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $6.00B (March 2021)
- Country: Israel
- City: Tel Aviv
- Started in: 2020
- Founders: Ami Luttwak, Assaf Rappaport, Roy Reznik, Yinon Costica
- Number of employees: 100-250
- Funding: $600.00M
- Funding rounds: 4
- Number of investors: 8
You can find their website here.
4) Acronis
Acronis endpoint solutions offer all-inclusive security and are designed for companies to build a secure digital environment.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $3.50B (September 2019)
- Country: Switzerland
- City: Schaffhausen
- Started in: 2003
- Founders: Serguei Beloussov, Stanislav Protassov, Yakov Zubarev
- Number of employees: 1,000-5,000
- Funding: $427.51M
- Funding rounds: 4
- Number of investors: 6
You can find their website here.
5) OwnBackup
OwnBackup is a cloud data protection and backup system for companies using Salesforce. It offers you secure data storage, data recovery services, and security breach prevention tools.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $3.35B (January 2021)
- Country: United States
- State: New Jersey
- City: Englewood Cliffs
- Started in: 2015
- Founders: Ariel Berkman, Daniel Gershuni, Eran Cohen, Ori Yankelev, Sam Gutmann
- Number of employees: 250-500
- Funding: $507.25M
- Funding rounds: 8
- Number of investors: 14
You can find their website here.
6) Verkada
Verkada is the next generation security platform that integrates with your company’s existing technology to deliver real-time threat prevention and unified, cloud-based visibility into activity across all networks.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $3.20B (January 2020)
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: San Mateo
- Started in: 2016
- Founders: Benjamin Bercovitz, Filip Kaliszan, Hans Robertson, James Ren
- Number of employees: 500-1,000
- Funding: $139.64M
- Funding rounds: 5
- Number of investors: 11
You can find their website here.
7) Illumio
Adaptive segmentation combines multiple signature-based and behavioral analysis to detect, prevent, and automatically respond to cyber attacks.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $2.75B (April 2015)
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: Sunnyvale
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Andrew Rubin, PJ Kirner
- Number of employees: 250-500
- Funding: $525.00M
- Funding rounds: 6
- Number of investors: 24
You can find their website here.
8) Sysdig
Sysdig is a cloud-native visibility and security company that provides cloud and container security for enterprises and their DevOps teams.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $2.50B (April 2021)
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Loris Degioanni
- Number of employees: 250-500
- Funding: $728.20M
- Funding rounds: 8
- Number of investors: 11
You can find their website here.
9) Exabeam
Exabeam helps security teams outsmart the odds by adding intelligence to their existing security tools.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $2.40B (June 2021)
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: Foster City
- Started in: 2013
- Founders: Domingo Mihovilovic, Nir Polak, Sylvain Gil
- Number of employees: 500-1,000
- Funding: $390.00M
- Funding rounds: 7
- Number of investors: 11
You can find their website here.
10) Druva
Druva’s data management solution delivers flexible, scalable and affordable enterprise data protection. It provides an intelligent layer that resides between user devices and a company's IT estate, safeguarding it against threats.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $2.00B (June 2019)
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: Sunnyvale
- Started in: 2007
- Founders: Jaspreet Singh, Milind Borate, Ramani Kothandaraman
- Number of employees: 500-1,000
- Funding: $475.00M
- Funding rounds: 12
- Number of investors: 17
You can find their website here.
11) Orca Security
Orca Security provides workload-level security for the cloud. Instant on and ready to go.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $1.80B (March 2021)
- Country: United States
- State: Oregon
- City: Portland
- Started in: 2019
- Founders: Avi Shua, Ety Spiegel Hubara, Gil Geron, Hadas Amitay, Liran Antebi, Matan Ben-Gur, Shay Filosof, Wagde Zabit
- Number of employees: 250-500
- Funding: $632.00M
- Funding rounds: 5
- Number of investors: 17
You can find their website here.
12) Panther Labs
Panther Labs is a cloud-scale security analytics company that develops infrastructure security and compliance platform.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $1.40B (December 2021)
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2018
- Founders: Jack Naglieri
- Number of employees: 50-100
- Funding: $140.38M
- Funding rounds: 4
- Number of investors: 11
You can find their website here.
13) Axonius
Axonius is a cybersecurity asset inventory management platform designed to help you enforce data security across your organization.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $1.20B (March 2021)
- Country: United States
- State: New York
- City: New York
- Started in: 2017
- Founders: Avidor Bartov, Dean Sysman, Ofri Shur
- Number of employees: 100-250
- Funding: $195.00M
- Funding rounds: 6
- Number of investors: 14
You can find their website here.
14) Vectra Networks
Vectra is a cybersecurity platform that uses AI to detect attackers in real time and perform conclusive incident investigations.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $1.20B (April 2021)
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: San Jose
- Started in: 2011
- Founders: Hitesh Sheth, James Harlacher, Marc Rogers, Mark Abene
- Number of employees: 250-500
- Funding: $352.48M
- Funding rounds: 9
- Number of investors: 14
You can find their website here.
15) JupiterOne
JupiterOne is a cybersecurity asset management solution provider.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $1.00B (June 2022)
- Country: United States
- State: North Carolina
- City: Morrisville
- Started in: 2018
- Founders: Erkang Zheng
- Number of employees: 101-250
- Funding: $119.00M
- Funding rounds: 3
- Number of investors: 12
You can find their website here.
16) Perimeter 81
Perimeter 81 is a Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform designed to secure networks for today's mobile and distributed workforce.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $1.00B (June 2022)
- Country: Israel
- State: Tel Aviv
- City: Tel Aviv
- Started in: 2018
- Founders: Amit Bareket, Sagi Gidali
- Number of employees: 101-250
- Funding: $165.00M
- Funding rounds: 6
- Number of investors: 9
You can find their website here.
17) Noname Security
Noname Security is a security platform that allows enterprises to see and secure managed and unmanaged APIs.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $1.00B (December 2021)
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: Palo Alto
- Started in: 2020
- Founders: Oz Golan, Shay Levi
- Number of employees: 100-250
- Funding: $141.00M
- Funding rounds: 3
- Number of investors: 7
You can find their website here.
18) Expel
Expel is a SOC-as-a-service platform that provides security monitoring and response for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $1.00B (November 2021)
- Country: United States
- State: Virginia
- City: Herndon
- Started in: 2016
- Founders: Dave Merkel, Justin Bajko, Yanek Korff
- Number of employees: 250-500
- Funding: $257.80M
- Funding rounds: 5
- Number of investors: 12
You can find their website here.
19) Aqua Security
Aqua Security's cloud native platform offers patent-pending next generation security capabilities built for containers. The platform allows enterprises and developers to use, deploy, and manage security functions at the speed of the Cloud.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $1.00B (March 2021)
- Country: Israel
- City: Ramat Gan
- Started in: 2015
- Founders: Amir Jerbi, Dror Davidoff
- Number of employees: 250-500
- Funding: $265.00M
- Funding rounds: 7
- Number of investors: 9
You can find their website here.
20) Contrast Security
Contrast Security is a modernized application security, embedding code analysis, and attack prevention directly into the software.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $1.00B (November 2021)
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: Los Altos
- Started in: 2014
- Founders: Arshan Dabirsiaghi, Jeff Williams
- Number of employees: 250-500
- Funding: $269.00M
- Funding rounds: 5
- Number of investors: 10
You can find their website here.
21) Lookout
Lookout is the only complete mobile security platform that leverages machine learning to predict and avert attacks while offering the industry's most comprehensive data protection.
Details of the startup:
- Valuation: $1.00B (October 2013)
- Country: United States
- State: California
- City: San Francisco
- Started in: 2007
- Founders: James Burgess, John Hering, Kevin Mahaffey
- Number of employees: 250-500
- Funding: $572.01M
- Funding rounds: 9
- Number of investors: 21
You can find their website here.