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Bolster Inc. specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions, protecting brands from online scams, account takeovers, and counterfeit activities across various channels like the open web, social media, app stores, and dark web. Its platform offers real-time detection, automated takedowns, continuous monitoring, and rich threat intelligence, serving clients across finance, technology, and retail sectors.

HiddenLayer provides security solutions for machine learning systems and the data that power them. The company offers threat modeling, ML risk assessment training, and red team assessment services, as well as model scanning and detection and response implementation for ML pipelines. Its platform analyzes model interactions to identify malicious activity without requiring prior knowledge of a user's AI model or sensitive training data, helping organizations detect and protect against threats to algorithms, models, and data throughout AI deployments.

NsKnox is a fintech security company specializing in cooperative cyber security that protects corporate payment systems from insider threats, external fraud, and data manipulation. It develops real-time fraud prevention technology that detects fraud, inside attacks, external scams, social engineering, and data manipulation, helping corporations and banks prevent fraud, ensure regulatory compliance in B2B payments, and strengthen protection across systems to ensure every payment reaches the intended beneficiary. The company was founded in 2016 by Alon Cohen and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Theom is an IT company that provides cloud and data security services to discover, track, and protect enterprise data in cloud environments. Its cloud-native security platform deploys quickly to uncover risks of data loss, prioritize corrective actions, and enable enterprises to securely use data in the cloud while focusing on growth. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco.

Founded in 2016, SpyCloud specializes in transforming recaptured darknet data into actionable insights for businesses to proactively prevent ransomware and account takeovers. Its solutions include early-warning breach detection, active directory protection, fraud investigation, corporate exposure alerts, password enforcement, and API integration. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company employs over 200 cybersecurity experts dedicated to making the internet safer.

Synack offers a crowdsourced security platform that combines global ethical hacker talent with proprietary scanning technology. It provides continuous penetration testing, vulnerability management, and application security solutions to protect organizations' digital assets.

Founded in 2016, SpyCloud specializes in transforming recaptured darknet data into actionable insights for businesses to proactively prevent ransomware and account takeovers. Its solutions include early-warning breach detection, active directory protection, fraud investigation, corporate exposure alerts, password enforcement, and API integration. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company employs over 200 cybersecurity experts dedicated to making the internet safer.

NsKnox is a fintech security company specializing in cooperative cyber security that protects corporate payment systems from insider threats, external fraud, and data manipulation. It develops real-time fraud prevention technology that detects fraud, inside attacks, external scams, social engineering, and data manipulation, helping corporations and banks prevent fraud, ensure regulatory compliance in B2B payments, and strengthen protection across systems to ensure every payment reaches the intended beneficiary. The company was founded in 2016 by Alon Cohen and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Synack offers a crowdsourced security platform that combines global ethical hacker talent with proprietary scanning technology. It provides continuous penetration testing, vulnerability management, and application security solutions to protect organizations' digital assets.