Seed Cybersecurity companies in San Francisco
Companies defending or attacking software, networks, and cloud infrastructure. Filtered to Seed-stage companies headquartered in San Francisco.
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- 1Formal· San Francisco, California, United States
Formal is a data privilege access management platform designed to automate privilege access at the packet level. Trusted by the fastest growing companies like Cursor, Notion, Ramp.Supported by world class investors from Thrive Capital and Y Combinator.Formal is on a mission to bring access management to a new age for engineering focused security teams.
- Seed
- 91 employees
- Founded 2022
- 2Uno (acquired by Okta)· San Francisco, California, United States
The internet can be hard to use. Good online security is cumbersome and technical. Uno is making it easy, starting with security. We're building a next generation, consumer password manager.If this sounds exciting, don't hesitate to reach out! We're always looking to add folks who are excited by the mission.hello@uno.app
- Seed
- 88 employees
- Founded 2020
- 3APIsec University· San Francisco, California, United States
Become an API Security Expert.APIs power virtually every mobile and web application, enable integrations across organizations, and drive more rapid innovation and development.APIs have also become the primary target for attackers, resulting in thousands of breaches and billions of records stolen.APIsec University exists to help develop the next generation of API Defenders. Get started today.
- Seed
- 48 employees
- Founded 2022
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- 4APIsec· San Francisco, California, United States
The APIsec security testing platform discovers business logic exploits. APIsec discover application api, build applications models to ensure accurate deep testing, then builds and executes deep testing. In an ai world apisec is the predictable and deep validation for application exploits.
- Seed
- 41 employees
- Founded 2018
- 5IndyKite· San Francisco, California, United States
IndyKite is the first System of Intelligence built on a live context graph. As AI agents and users execute work, IndyKite continuously captures context, relationships, trust signals, and actions. This becomes the point of decision, pulling signals from multiple systems and applying them at runtime, with full traceability.The result is agentic AI that can operate across platforms with precision and deliver an entirely new class of intelligent services.
- Seed
- 37 employees
- Founded 2021
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