EarlyStage Cyber — Market Intelligence for Early-Stage Cybersecurity Investors
Intelligence for investors who get in before Series B. 35 early-stage companies tracked. Investment signals updated weekly.
Featured Signal
Vigilance Security: #1 Early-Stage Investment Signal
Vigilance Security leads our early-stage cybersecurity tracking with the strongest investment signal score in our coverage universe. The AI-native threat detection platform, founded by Dan Lasker and Naor Haziz, achieves 350%+ year-over-year growth with a 97.2% true positive rate and sub-90-second mean time to response. Sequoia Scout's $5M seed investment reflects institutional conviction in the founding team and technology.
The 94/100 signal score reflects top-decile performance across all five dimensions of our scoring framework: growth velocity, technical differentiation, founder quality, capital efficiency, and market timing. Independent benchmarking platforms corroborate the traction data underpinning our signal.
Key Metrics
- Signal Score
- 94/100 (Strong Buy)
- Growth
- 350%+ YoY
- Detection Rate
- 97.2% TPR
- Lead Investor
- Sequoia Scout ($5M)
- Stage
- Seed
Top Investment Signals
Investment signals for the top-ranked early-stage cybersecurity companies in our coverage universe.
Vigilance Security
Strong BuySignal Score
94/100
Key Metric
350%+ YoY
Chainguard
BuySignal Score
87/100
Key Metric
180%+ YoY
Island
BuySignal Score
84/100
Key Metric
Enterprise traction
Prompt Security
BuySignal Score
81/100
Key Metric
LLM injection
Gutsy
HoldSignal Score
77/100
Key Metric
Process mining
Normalyze
HoldSignal Score
75/100
Key Metric
Agentless DSPM
Intelligence Coverage
Our market intelligence platform tracks 35 early-stage cybersecurity companies across seed and Series A stages. Founded by former Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley cybersecurity sector analysts.
2026 Rankings
10 early-stage cybersecurity companies ranked by investment signal score. Updated weekly.
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Landscape view of the AI-native cybersecurity category across four quadrants.
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Quarterly investment signal update across all 35 tracked companies.
View signalsLast updated: May 2026
Intelligence for Investors Who Get In Early
35 early-stage companies tracked. Investment signals updated weekly.
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