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B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Humanrail

A licensed personhood and KYC API any small merchant can turn on in an afternoon.

Humanrail is an API that answers two questions for small online businesses: is this a real, unique human, and does this customer clear the anti-money-laundering checks the merchant is legally on the hook for.

Score 99Warm competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business83% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Claimyard

Marketplace turning scam, fraud and privacy losses into funded, aggregated consumer claims.

A consumer uploads what happened, screenshots of a romance scam, an unauthorized P2P transfer, a data misuse notice, and a no-code intake agent classifies the claim, pulls the paper trail from the bank or platform, and posts it to a marketplace of licensed attorneys, arbitration filers and litigation funders who bid to take it on contingency.

Score 93Open competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceConsumer83% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Ironhull

Compliant-by-construction cloud: inherit certification instead of earning it.

Ironhull runs its own hardened infrastructure - dedicated enclaves, HSMs, locked-down images, continuous monitoring - certified once against FedRAMP, SOC 2, and PCI, and sells it as a subscription on which enterprise software vendors deploy and inherit the compliance posture.

Score 91Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% of 1 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Vendorproof

An exchange where small vendors sell machine-verifiable proof that their security controls held.

Small software and services vendors connect their cloud, identity and endpoint tools once; Vendorproof produces cryptographic proofs that a named control held over a named time window, without exposing raw logs.

Score 90Open competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business98% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Sentinet

Shared-defense agent for small firms: one member's confirmed fraud warns the whole network.

Sentinet connects in an afternoon to an SMB's mailbox, accounting system and bank feed, and runs an agent that screens invoices, vendor bank-detail changes and unusual logins.

Score 89Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business97% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Patchbay

The marketplace where small businesses buy security work as fixed-price jobs.

Patchbay is a self-serve marketplace where SMBs buy scoped, fixed-price security jobs - a pentest, a compliance gap assessment, an incident cleanup, a firewall hardening - from vetted independent practitioners and boutique firms worldwide.

Score 88Open competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business97% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Personaproof

A licensed proof-of-human agent that vouches for you online without exposing your identity.

Consumers enroll once through a partner bank branch, carrier store or notary, where a hardware-attested biometric capture binds them to a single personhood credential held in Personaproof's own HSM estate.

Score 85Open competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer69% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Accredix

An accredited AI assessor and enclave that makes federal-grade compliance 10x cheaper.

Accredix is an AI agent service that takes an enterprise through FedRAMP, CMMC, and StateRAMP authorization and then keeps it continuously compliant, running on Accredix's own authorized hosting enclaves.

Score 83Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Baseplate

The record network linking contractors, engineers, and state DOTs on federal-aid projects.

A network of record for federal-aid construction: contractors submit materials certifications, test results, submittals and inspection records once, and Baseplate routes them in each agency's required format to state DOTs and engineers of record, with AI pre-review trained on previously approved submittals.

Score 83Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Advoq

An AI legal agent that runs consumer disputes end to end at one tenth the cost.

Advoq is a self-serve AI agent that handles the legal matters ordinary people currently abandon or overpay for: landlord disputes, insurance claim denials, debt collection defense, small-claims filings.

Score 81Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer56% of 2 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Kinshield

A personal AI agent that screens every call and message for deepfakes and scams.

Kinshield is an AI agent that sits in front of a consumer's phone line and inbox, answering unknown calls, detecting cloned voices and scam scripts in real time, and briefing the user before they ever pick up.

Score 81Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer98% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Carepuck

A $99 puck that watches a parent's home, with an app store for care.

Carepuck is a plug-in device with millimeter-wave motion sensing and on-device audio that adult children buy online and mail to a parent living alone; it learns the household routine and texts the family when something breaks the pattern, with no cameras and no medical claims.

Score 80Warm competitionVC 4/5HardwareConsumer95% of 2 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Vouchline

One AI agent answers your security questionnaires and reviews the ones you send.

Vouchline is an agent that sits on both sides of the vendor security review: for a small supplier it reads the buyer's questionnaire, pulls evidence from Drive, ticketing and cloud consoles, and returns a completed response in a day; for the buyer it reads incoming responses and flags the answers that contradict prior filings.

Score 80Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business98% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Recoursely

An agent that fights your fraud disputes, distributed through credit unions and employers.

Recoursely is a consumer subscription where an AI agent files and pursues the regulated paperwork after a scam or identity theft: Regulation E disputes with the bank, FCRA disputes with the bureaus, police reports, creditor freezes and follow-up until the money comes back or the case closes.

Score 77Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer98% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Bayline

A drive-through scan arch that gives independent repair shops a shared vehicle history.

Bayline sells independent auto and truck shops a camera and sensor arch mounted at the bay entrance, paired with an OBD reader, that records tyre, glass, body, brake and fault-code condition in the twelve seconds a vehicle takes to roll in.

Score 77Warm competitionVC 4/5HardwareSmall business82% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Flagline

Shared fraud and AML signal network for community banks and credit unions.

Flagline is a subscription screening layer that plugs into a community financial institution's core-system exports through no-code connectors, checks every new account and transaction against a live watchlist pooled from all member institutions, and produces SAR-ready case files.

Score 76Active competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionSmall business98% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Attestral

Agents that prove and verify vendor security continuously, replacing the questionnaire.

Attestral deploys agents inside an enterprise's stack that collect live control evidence and answer any customer's security review automatically; on the buying side, its agents interrogate a vendor's agents and check every claim against machine-readable evidence rather than prose.

Score 75Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Auditbay

The marketplace where small businesses buy audits and pentests at known prices.

Auditbay is a two-sided marketplace matching small businesses that need SOC 2 audits, pentests and compliance assessments with accredited providers, at fixed prices generated by no-code integrations that read the customer's actual stack and auto-scope the engagement.

Score 75Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business97% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Recourse

An AI agent that claws back your money and identity after fraud.

Consumers hit by scams, identity theft, or bad data pay a subscription for an agent that acts as their authorized representative: it files chargebacks, FCRA credit disputes, identity theft affidavits, data-broker deletions, and GDPR erasure requests across jurisdictions, then tracks each case to resolution.

Score 74Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer97% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Codewarden

Continuous security for the AI-written software small businesses now run on.

Codewarden is a self-serve subscription platform that continuously scans, exploits and patches the AI-generated applications small businesses now build and deploy without security staff.

Score 70Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionSmall business96% of 2 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Bordera

AI clearance agents that file, bond, and finance customs entries across every major trade lane.

Bordera runs AI agents that classify goods, file customs entries, and advance duties for enterprise importers, executing through Bordera's own licensed brokerage subsidiaries and bonded entities in each jurisdiction.

Score 70Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise95% of 2 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Passline

AI front desk for local trades that passes overflow jobs to nearby shops.

Passline answers calls, texts and web chats for small service businesses (auto shops, installers, salons, plumbers), books jobs into their existing calendar, and takes deposits.

Score 69Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business82% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Stakeline

Sensor rigs on highway job sites that turn as-built reality into automated pay applications.

Stakeline mounts its own lidar and camera masts plus a mobile capture unit on active heavy-civil job sites, reconstructs daily as-built geometry, and matches it to the contract bid items so quantities, progress and rework are computed instead of surveyed and argued.

Score 65Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprise97% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Cohorta

The exchange where enterprises buy synthetic audiences graded against real outcomes.

A marketplace where enterprise insight and marketing teams buy access to synthetic audiences - digital-twin panels built by third-party vendors - with every listing graded against held-out real-world outcomes contributed by panel companies and data owners.

Score 63Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise79% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Complio

An accredited AI compliance officer for small regulated firms, on in-country confidential compute.

Complio runs an AI agent that does the recurring compliance work of small regulated businesses (introducing brokers, clinics, insurance agents, local payment firms): monitoring transactions and records, drafting filings, assembling evidence packs and answering examiner requests.

Score 63Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business98% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Certiva

Accredited AI conformity assessment sold as a continuous enterprise subscription.

Certiva builds a certification scheme for enterprise AI systems and gets itself accredited as the assessment body that issues the certificate, then sells enterprises a subscription that keeps the certificate live.

Score 62Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprise98% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Partspec

Marketplace for industrial parts sold with measured, machine-readable qualification data.

Partspec runs its own metrology and test labs that tear down, scan and stress components (fasteners, castings, power electronics, sensors) and publishes the results as a structured qualification record attached to every listing.

Score 61Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise82% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Syndic

Machine-readable catalog, pricing, and entitlement endpoints for enterprises, hosted as an API.

Syndic is product data syndication infrastructure: it takes an enterprise's existing catalog, price books, availability, and policy documents out of its ERP and PIM and serves them as versioned, authenticated endpoints that any external system can query and transact against.

Score 61Warm competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise97% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Ironvane

Autonomous security operations agents that managed service providers resell and extend.

Ironvane gives managed service providers a runtime where security agents triage alerts, patch endpoints, revoke credentials and close tickets across their whole book of small business clients, with the provider approving actions rather than performing them.

Score 59Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business97% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Ordermesh

The shared order network for wholesale suppliers and their retail buyers.

Ordermesh is a subscription network where physical-goods SMBs exchange purchase orders, confirmations, and invoices on one shared record instead of email and PDF.

Score 59Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business79% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Skirmish

The exchange where autonomous hacking agents compete to break enterprise systems.

Enterprises post scoped targets and bounties; independent builders of offensive AI agents connect their agents to compete on them inside Skirmish's isolated ranges.

Score 58Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise98% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Stocklight

A demand forecasting model any small merchant can self-serve, any app can embed.

Stocklight is a subscription forecasting layer for small merchants who make, move or sell physical goods: connect a store, a POS or a wholesale ledger and get SKU-level demand, reorder points and stockout risk that account for promotions, seasonality and local events.

Score 58Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business82% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Tradewire

The ordering and payment network connecting independent distributors with the retailers they supply.

Tradewire is an API network that lets small US wholesale distributors and their retail customers exchange orders, invoices, and payment terms in one standard format, replacing faxed POs and legacy EDI.

Score 58Active competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business79% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Wayline

Registry and API that make enterprise catalogs, prices and policies readable by AI agents.

Wayline is an infrastructure layer where large brands, retailers and travel operators publish machine-readable manifests of their inventory, prices, eligibility rules and fulfillment terms, and AI agents query one API instead of scraping websites.

Score 57Active competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise97% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Revisia

Agents that keep regulated enterprise documents permanently up to date.

Revisia runs AI agents that watch an enterprise's systems of record - ERP changes, engineering releases, policy updates - and continuously rewrite the controlled documents that depend on them: SOPs, quality manuals, training material, audit collateral.

Score 56Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise79% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Trueline

Model-graded inspection marketplace that cuts highway and infrastructure verification cost 10x.

Trueline builds a machine vision and geometry model that verifies as-built infrastructure work (pavement layers, joints, rebar placement, drainage) from field capture, then runs a marketplace where credentialed inspectors review only what the model flags and sign the record that the owner and the funding agency accept.

Score 55Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise96% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Ruleplane

Regulated-data infrastructure as an API: storage, retention and audit that pass inspection by default.

Ruleplane builds compliance-certified infrastructure primitives - storage, messaging, retention, deletion and audit-log APIs that come pre-audited for HIPAA, GDPR and financial record-keeping rules.

Score 53Active competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise96% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Tallyport

A $250 ceiling gateway that counts every item in a small warehouse continuously.

Tallyport sells a plug-in RFID and vision gateway to small distributors, auto shops, and independent retailers, plus tag rolls and a per-site monthly plan.

Score 51Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareSmall business79% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Shelfgrid

RFID shelf kits that link independent retailers and small brands into one live inventory network.

Shelfgrid sells a sub-$500 RFID reader kit plus cheap tags to independent retailers and the small consumer brands that stock them.

Score 51Active competitionVC 3/5HardwareSmall business96% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Halostrip

Passive sensor tags that survive salt, steel and concrete, with an open reader API.

Halostrip makes a printed passive tag and reader pair that keeps working where RFID normally fails: submerged in brine, bonded to metal, and cast into concrete.

Score 50Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprise96% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Skillfair

The marketplace where integrators sell working enterprise AI agents.

Skillfair is a global marketplace where systems integrators and boutique AI shops package the agents they have already built for one client - claims triage, contract review, invoice matching - into installable, no-code-configurable listings other enterprises can buy.

Score 42Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise95% of 2 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Tagfabric

One-cent batteryless tags and cheap readers that make every object countable.

Custom backscatter silicon and a $200 reader that bring item-level tracking to businesses that could never justify RFID: a hardware store, a hatchery, a small distributor.

Score 31Open competitionVC 4/5HardwareSmall business82% of 4 neighbours alive

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