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AI Security Startups 2026 (25 companies)
This page lists all 25 ai security startups in the AIToolGuide 2026 startups database, taken from the 2026 cohort: Y Combinator's four 2026 batches and the TrustMRR and Indie Hackers listings. The biggest intake here is YC Fall 2026 with 9 companies, and 21 of the 25 list a headquarters in USA. Every listing is free and ranked by the data, not by payment. Click any company for its story, founders and facts.
| Company | What it does | Batch | HQ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armorer Labs | Continuous security verification for AI agents in regulated industries | YC Fall 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Aucert | A team of expert AI agents that test mobile apps on their own. | YC Fall 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Hesper AI | AI Claims Investigator for Insurance | YC Fall 2026 | New York City, NY, USA |
| Latent | Catch wrong LLM answers before your customers do | YC Fall 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Lyon | Foundation models on enterprise transaction data. | YC Fall 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| OpenHack | Always-on AI security engineer | YC Fall 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Routant | Last mile deployment and connectivity for Agents as a Service | YC Fall 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Stacktrace | See and control what your agents actually do | YC Fall 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Synara | Building the next generation of AI enabled monitoring | YC Fall 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Conifer | Least cost routing system to reduce 70%+ token spend | YC Summer 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Decawork | Training company-specific models that approve AI actions. | YC Summer 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Fabraix | The world's frontier hacker of AI agents. | YC Summer 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| NebuSec | Autonomous AI defense system for cyber attack | YC Summer 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote |
| Palisade | AI that finds and fixes OS-level vulnerabilities across device fleets | YC Summer 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Rapidfolio | AI-native back-office for banks and fintechs | YC Summer 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Traceforce | CrowdStrike for AI Agents | YC Summer 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Trident | Autonomous offensive security agents. The best defense is offense | YC Summer 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Verdict Machine | AI cybersecurity for financial institutions' digital assets | YC Summer 2026 | Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel |
| Clawvisor | The Authorization Layer for AI Agents | YC Spring 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Inth | Privacy and consent infrastructure that ships with your code | YC Spring 2026 | London, England, United Kingdom |
| RASPIRE | Autonomous Runtime Security | YC Spring 2026 | Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt |
| Tolmo | Tolmo is the AI security platform that secures every layer of cloud… | YC Spring 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Agentic Fabriq | The control plane for AI agents. | YC Winter 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| MouseCat | AI to fight financial crime | YC Winter 2026 | New York City, NY, USA |
| Parameter | AI pentesting, that works! | YC Winter 2026 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Source: AIToolGuide 2026 startups database (513 AI companies), compiled from Y Combinator 2026 batch listings and the TrustMRR and Indie Hackers marketplaces, November 2026.