69 Best Security Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Security Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 752 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $24.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $348.6m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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9

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

Charles River Analytics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based R&D solutions provider in 1983.

5

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$37.0m

Money raised

Gemalto is an Amsterdam-based electronics company that has been acquired by Thales.

7

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$267.5m

Money raised

Immuta is a Boston-based provider of a cloud-native data governance platform for organizations to automate data access control, security, and privacy compliance.

4

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$49.0m

Money raised

Siklu is a San Jose, California and Petah Tikva-based telecommunications company developing multi-gigabit wireless fiber connectivity systems for urban, suburban, and rural areas.

3

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$8.0m

Money raised

Visionary.ai is an Israeli artificial intelligence start-up developing computer vision solutions, including night vision, removing blur and noise, and improving HDR performance and recognition.

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3

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$47.0m

Money raised

Paravision is a San Francisco-based provider of facial recognition and activity monitoring software. Paravision was previously known as Ever AI.

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9

Funding Rounds

$217.2m

Money raised

Density is a San Francisco-based company building a people-counting system to measure the number of people in or passing through a physical space such as a hallway, lobby, or conference hall.

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1

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$13.5m

Money raised

MetaMap aims to digitize trust

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4

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$38.6m

Money raised

Clearview AI is a software company offering a computer vision system using artificial intelligence for serving the law enforcement industry.

8

Funding Rounds

$390.0m

Money raised

Exabeam is a San Mateo, California-based data security analytics company offering cybersecurity and early cyber attack detection software.

5

Funding Rounds

$37.7m

Money raised

42Crunch is an enterprise API security platform with integrated services, including an API firewall, to discover and remediate API security vulnerabilities.

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153

Funding Rounds

$59.5m

Money raised

ISC provides cybersecurity solutions as well as hardware and software products for enterprise threat management.

1

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$84.0m

Money raised

Checkmarx is a company that makes static code analysis software.

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2

Funding Rounds

$123.5m

Money raised

1X Technologies is a Norwegian engineering and robotics company developing androids capable of human-like movements and behaviors to meet labor demands.

3

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$105.0m

Money raised

DJI is a Shenzen, China-based company developing and manufacturing drone and camera technology.

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8

Funding Rounds

$180.7m

Money raised

Bugcrowd is an enterprise cloud computing and computer security crowdsourcing company that offers a platform for security testing, web, mobile, source code, and client-side applications.

2

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$37.0m

Money raised

Blue Hexagon is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company offering an on-device machine learning based malware detection product.

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5

Funding Rounds

$40.0m

Money raised

Enveil is a Fulton, Maryland-based data security and privacy security technology company.

3

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$35.5m

Money raised

SAM Seamless Network is a cybersecurity technology platform that protects the connected home by tackling cyber security threats at the source.

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9

Funding Rounds

$899.3m

Money raised

Arctic Wolf Networks provides a cybersecurity platform that executes risk management and task analysis using machine learning.

7

Funding Rounds

$281.0m

Money raised

Salt Security is a Palo Alto, California-based protection platform for APIs and associated API integrations.

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4

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$6.6m

Money raised

L7 Defense is a Be'er Sheva, Israel-based cybersecurity and network security company working to develop systems to protect APIs and API-based applications.

1

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$2.5m

Money raised

Minim is a Manchester, New Hampshire-based communications company developing software-based communications products including WiFi products.

5

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$33.8m

Money raised

Armored Things is a Boston-based company founded in 2017 by Julie Johnson, Chris Lord and Charles Curran.

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112

Funding Rounds

$55.5m

Money raised

Numerica is a Fort Collins, Colorado-based space, air, and missile defense company

1

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$1.0m

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Cypherock is building a hardware wallet that does not require a seed phrase.

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4

Funding Rounds

$138.9m

Money raised

Verkada is a software company offering a cloud-based internet of things (IoT) platform for security camera systems.

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5

Funding Rounds

$212.8m

Money raised

Pindrop is a cybersecurity company developing voice security and authentication solutions.

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5

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$76.0m

Money raised

Simplilearn is an educational technology company with a focus on courses for digital skills.

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1

Funding Rounds

$125.0m

Money raised

OPSWAT is a cybersecurity company founded in 2002. Based in San Francisco, CA, they focus on cyberthreat prevention including a focus on malware, sensitive information, and application vulnerabilities.

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7

Funding Rounds

$321.1m

Money raised

Deep Instinct is a Tel Aviv- and New York City-based cybersecurity company that applies deep learning to cybersecurity.

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3

Funding Rounds

$53.1m

Money raised

Censys is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based computer and network security company.

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8

Funding Rounds

$474.5m

Money raised

Trulioo is a Vancouver-based company offering an electronic identity verification platform.

1

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$100.0m

Money raised

Voyager Labs is an artificial intelligence-based analytics and investigation solution provider, offering insights about individuals, groups, and topics.

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7

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$184.7m

Money raised

Tessian (formerly Checkrecipient) is an artificial intelligence email security platform.

6

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$9.8m

Money raised

Facial recognition company Kairos today announced the alpha release of the Kairos Protocol, a biometric verification system for cryptocurrency transactions.

3

Funding Rounds

$220.0m

Money raised

Noname Security is a Palo Alto, California-based cybersecurity and network security company developing products to protect APIs.

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8

Funding Rounds

$286.6m

Money raised

SparkCognition is an artificial intelligence and cybersecurity company offering cognitive computing analytics for the information technology, operational technology, and the internet of things (IoT) industries.

5

Funding Rounds

$228.0m

Money raised

Echodyne is a company developing compact, solid-state, high-performance radar system founded in 2014 by Eben Frankenberg and Tom Driscoll.

8

Funding Rounds

$7.9b

Money raised

We are the first public safety operating system empowering thousands of cities to eliminate crime.Our cameras and devices detect objective evidence, decode it with machine learning, and deliver it into the hands that stop crime.

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5

Funding Rounds

$162.5m

Money raised

A company offering a communications platform allows developers to quickly build features that connect to every email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world.

2

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$161.3m

Money raised

Rebellion Defense provides artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for the United States and United Kingdom military and civil service.

5

Funding Rounds

$51.8m

Money raised

Idwall is a Brazilian artificial intelligence company offering customer credentialing technology.

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10

Funding Rounds

$588.1m

Money raised

Shield AI is a company building artificially intelligent systems like drones for use by military service members and first responders.

7

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$260.5m

Money raised

Menlo Security is a cloud-based internet isolation to prevent cyber attacks founded in 2013 by Amir Ben-Efraim, Gautam Altekar and Poornima DeBolle.

1

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$750.0k

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Network Optix is a Burbank, California-based software development company focused on video management solutions.

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6

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$557.5m

Money raised

Illumio is a cloud security company utilizing adaptive segmentation to prevent cyber threats of unauthorized communications.

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2

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$31.5m

Money raised

Opaque is a company developing a cloud-based service for secure analytics and machine learning on encrypted data.

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8

Funding Rounds

$3.5b

Money raised

SentinelOne is a U.S-based company providing endpoint security software globally founded in 2013 by Tomer Weingarten, Ehud Shamir and Almog Cohen.

11

Funding Rounds

$21.9m

Money raised

Signaturit specializes in digital transaction management and trust services.

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Funding Rounds

$44.6m

Money raised

Securboration is a Melbourne, Florida-based security, collaboration, and intelligence solutions company founded in 2001.

3

Funding Rounds

$55.0m

Money raised

Yubico is a Palo Alto, California-based secure authentication and enterprise security company founded in 2007 by Stina Ehrensvärd and Jakob Ehrensvärd.

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8

Funding Rounds

$278.0m

Money raised

RapidSOS is a technology company that has created a platform which connects emergency responders with essential data. It was founded in 2012 and is located in New York City.

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4

Funding Rounds

$23.8m

Money raised

Wintermute is a global algorithmic market maker in digital assets.

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5

Funding Rounds

$1.0b

Money raised

Fireblocks is a New York-based enterprise and computer software company.

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18

Funding Rounds

$1.5b

Money raised

Tanium is a company providing security and systems management solution for businesses.

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6

Funding Rounds

$149.0m

Money raised

Shape Security is a Mountain View, California-based company. It was acquired by F5 Networks in 2019.

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3

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OpenZeppelin provides security products to build, automate, and operate decentralized applications.

4

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$100.0m

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A technology company utilizing artificial intelligence for image searches that can in turn be used in mobile applications. It is located in New York City, New York and was founded in 2013.

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12

Funding Rounds

$296.1m

Money raised

BigID is a cybersecurity company developing a platform for data protection and privacy compliance.

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4

Funding Rounds

$320.5m

Money raised

Jumio is a company offering a platform for identity verification founded in 2010.

7

Funding Rounds

$247.0m

Money raised

Swimlane is the developer of a security organization and response platform that allows businesses to automate their security.

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5

Funding Rounds

$232.0m

Money raised

An electronic manufacturing company with a focus on high-resolution LIDAR sensors. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Francisco, California.

7

Funding Rounds

$668.2m

Money raised

Cybereason is a Boston-based cybersecurity company.

4

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$60.2m

Money raised

Rapid7 is a Boston-based cybersecurity company providing security data and analytics solutions.

1

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$6.8m

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BBT.live develops software products and provides services based on SD-WAN technology with the purpose of establishing secure communication networks.

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3

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$169.0m

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A company offering an enterprise workplace visitor management software platform.

7

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$128.9m

Money raised

Dredrone is an airspace security platform that detects, classifies, and mitigates drone threats.

3

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$26.8m

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ISARA is a company developing quantum computer resistant software products founded in 2015 by Scott Totzke.

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