cluster
Security and compliance startup ideas and companies
Cybersecurity, fraud, identity verification, regulatory compliance, legal tech.
643
companies tracked
124
from the last 2 years
88
startup-relevant federal grants ($41M)
Share of accelerator intake by year
Newest in the cluster
- Tire SwingY Combinator F26readiness
AI Compliance for Affordable Housing
- DeepMarkY Combinator F26readiness
A live watermark inside AI voice that survives phone calls
- GrayPassY Combinator F26readiness
Verify that the expected person is in control before key actions.
- OpenHackY Combinator F26readiness
Always-on AI security engineer
- Thalus.aiPlug and Play PnP 2026readiness
Make AI risk reviews faster and smarter with automated risk tiering, risk detection, and risk control recommendations — delivered through an API that plugs into your existing SDLC tools.
- SecuraAIPlug and Play PnP 2026readiness
A Princeton-based startup helping highly regulated industries, such as healthcare, safely deploy AI by automating AI security and governance.
- TextminePlug and Play PnP 2026readiness
Document compliance for regulated industries.
- CentraleyesPlug and Play PnP 2026readiness
AI-powered GRC platform with 100+ pre-built frameworks for internal and third-party cyber risk, plus risk quantification.
- NebuSecY Combinator S26readiness
Autonomous AI defense system for cyber attack
- CautionY Combinator S26readiness
Hosting platform for software you can't afford to have hacked
- TridentY Combinator S26readiness
Autonomous offensive security agents. The best defense is offense
- PalisadeY Combinator S26readiness
AI that finds and fixes OS-level vulnerabilities across device fleets
Most AI-visible
Highest AEO scores - how well AI assistants can read and cite them.
- Unbound70
- Luthor67
- Brightflag67
- SaltyCloud67
- Accountable67
- Trust & Will66
- Didit66
- Cloudanix65
Recent rounds
- Osavulunknown$9M
- Sovera Securityseed$589K
- Complaionunknown$0K
- Baselayerseries-b$0K
- Arcosunknown$6M
By program
- Y Combinator192
- Plug and Play141
- Techstars106
- 500 Global50
- Antler39
- Alchemist Accelerator30
- Seedcamp24
- Entrepreneur First19
- Pear VC9
- South Park Commons9
- Berkeley SkyDeck8
- a16z speedrun7
- SOSV6
- AI Grant2
- Sequoia Arc1
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Updated hourly from accelerator directories, funding news and federal grant data.