Startups worth knowing, with sources

Apate

Sydney, AU

Apate uses AI-powered bots to intercept and disrupt scam calls and messages, while gathering intelligence on fraud tactics.

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Cybersecurity and compliance platform providing digital infrastructure protection for high-trust organizations.

Caller-identification and spam-detection service

A developer platform for storing and running databases.

Voice intelligence platform offering transcription, emotional analysis, and deepfake detection for enterprises.

Software and hardware platform designed to monitor and secure AI agents within isolated runtime environments.

Software mapping and securing SaaS and AI platforms for enterprises.

Agentic platform for security and compliance.

Venture division of private equity firm Bain Capital.

Always-on agentic swarms for enterprise security defense testing.

Early-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise AI startups.

Startup focused on interpretability that monitors internal AI model signals to detect rogue agents.

Identity and fraud verification platform for financial institutions and AI agents.

Startup focused on understanding and securing internet traffic, including traffic generated by autonomous systems.

Developer of tools for secure enterprise digital operations

AI-powered Vulnerability Operations Center (VOC) platform.

Security platform for monitoring and controlling how employees use AI tools, agents, and extensions in enterprise environments.

Cybersecurity platform monitoring data movement across cloud infrastructure to detect and prevent unauthorized activity.

Surveillance technology company offering gunshot and ambient audio detection and license plate reading systems.

A venture capital fund that invests in B2B pre-Seed and Seed technology companies.

Identity platform for people and AI agents

Data security platform governing data access for humans, machines, and AI agents across the enterprise.