Top Security Startups in 2027

Riskified is the AI platform powering the eCommerce revolution. We use cutting-edge technology, machine-learning algorithms, and behavioral analytics to identify legitimate customers and keep them moving toward checkout. Merchants use Riskified to increase revenue, prevent fraud, and eliminate customer friction. Riskified has reviewed hundreds of millions of transactions and approved billions of dollars of revenue for merchants across virtually all industries, including a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley VC funds, Shield AI established itself as the leader in AI for aviation. Shield AI has been named to Forbes’ AI 50 and Best Startups lists, CB Insights Top 100 AI Companies, and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. Our mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. We're hiring! Visit shield.ai/careers to learn more.

Sardine helps fintech, crypto, and web3 companies "move money confidently" by developing fraud, compliance, and payment infrastructure. With Sardine, builders can focus on growing their business instead of spending time, fighting against fraudsters. We're growing incredibly fast and powering over 100 customers around the world like Brex, MoonPay, Bakkt, Luno, Transak, Chippercash, Candy Digital, Metamask, Brave, and RelayFi.

For many organizations, the most valuable asset is their data. Whether source code, product designs, customer records, financial results, or pricing models, every organization has information they don’t want to get in the hands of competitors, sold on darknet marketplaces, or exposed publicly. Keeping that data safe has been a challenge, until now. Cyberhaven gives organizations the tools to safeguard their data from theft or misuse. In the process, we’ve become the standard for Data Detection and Response (DDR), the category we helped create.

We're developing the privacy platform modern brands rely on to build customer trust and transparency. We untangle the complexity of data privacy and help brands build privacy programs that work, giving them an easy-to-use platform to automate and scale privacy, and stay compliant with regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA. With 900+ pre-built connections with popular apps and infrastructure, the DataGrail Integrations Network is the first of its kind to detect shadow IT that may contain personal data, ensuring the most accurate data discovery. DataGrail services millions of consumers, through companies like Overstock, Restoration Hardware, NETGEAR, and Outreach, and has 4.8/5 stars on G2. DataGrail is backed by leading VCs and strategic investors, including Felicis Ventures, Operator Collective, Okta Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, and DocuSign Ventures. Visit datagrail.io to learn more.

The Onapsis Security Platform is the first SAP cyber-security solution that combines vulnerability, compliance, detection and response capabilities that traditional security solutions do not provide. The larger companies worldwide rely on Onapsis solutions because over 75% of all their transactions occur on business-critical applications, thus making data from these systems endlessly valuable to attackers. Through continuous monitoring, the Onapsis Security Platform delivers a real-time preventative, detective and corrective approach for securing SAP systems and applications.

At Verkada, we’re on a mission to modernize the world of physical security. Today, we build enterprise security cameras that combine cutting-edge camera technology with intelligent, web-based software—all in a secure, user-friendly solution. In the future, we’ll deepen our use of machine learning to enable entirely new ways of enhancing physical security — many of which have yet to be imagined. Unlike existing video security systems, Verkada’s technology eliminates outdated equipment such as network video recorders (NVRs) and offers the protection of full encryption with no special configuration required. Our systems are easy to install, update and expand. Verkada was founded in 2016 by computer scientists and information security experts from Stanford University and MIT. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

We're empowering the world to build a safer internet. All technology contains bugs, but they can be eliminated safely if we all work together. Our platform makes world-class security accessible to everyone by connecting security conscious teams directly with thousands of friendly hackers who are eager to help. We work with some of the biggest organizations in the world, who use the HackerOne platform for their vulnerability coordination and bug bounty programs, and the list keeps growing (hackerone.com/directory?query=type:hackerone). Do you share our passion for an open and safe internet? Read about our values (hackerone.com/blog/Together-We-Hit-Harder-HackerOne-Company-Values) and see if you might be a good fit to join the team: hackerone.com/careers.

Very Good Security offers a modern approach to data security and compliance. With VGS, companies can quickly and easily achieve compliances including PCI, SOC2, HIPAA and GDPR. VGS acts as a data custodian for sensitive and regulated data like payments, health info, personally identifiable information (PII), etc. Companies are able to securely collect and exchange data, without any of the liability or breach risk associated with holding the data themselves. With VGS "Zero Data" platform, you get all the utility of using sensitive data with none of the liability of needing to secure it yourself.

Our integrated open source governance platform (nexus) helps more than 1,000 organizations and 10 million software developers simultaneously accelerate innovation and improve application security. our machine learning engine (nexus intelligence) has analyzed more than 65 million open source components. devops teams eliminate friction associated with manual governance and ship secure software faster than ever.