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Every year, TechCrunch\u2019s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders<\/a>, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups all blew us away as well in their respective categories and compete in their own pitch competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here is the full list of the cybersecurity Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition.<\/p>\n What it does: <\/strong>AIM offers enterprise cybersecurity products that both protect against new AI-enabled attacks and use AI in that protection.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy<\/strong>: AIM uses AI to conduct penetration tests of AI-optimized attacks and to protect corporate AI systems with customized guardrails, and it offers an AI safety planning tool.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Corgea is an AI-driven enterprise security product that can scan code for flaws as well as find broken code intended to implement security measures such as user authentication.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> The product allows the creation of AI agents that can secure code and works with, it says, any popular language and their libraries.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> CyDeploy offers a security product that automates asset discovery and mapping of all the apps and devices on a network.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<\/span> Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> Once the assets are mapped, the product creates digital twins to sandbox testing and allows security orgs to use AI to automate other security processes as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does: <\/strong>Cyntegra offers a hardware-plus-software solution that prevents ransomware attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> By locking away a secure backup of the system, ransomware doesn\u2019t win. It can restore the operating system, apps, data, and credentials in the minutes after an attack.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> HACKERverse\u2019s product deploys autonomous AI agents to implement known hacker attacks against a company\u2019s defenses in \u201cisolated battlefield.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> The tool tests and verifies that vendor security tools actually work as advertised.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> Mill Pond detects and secures unmanaged AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> As employees adopt AI to assist them in their jobs, this tool can detect AI tools that are accessing sensitive data or otherwise creating potential security issues in the organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does<\/strong>: Polygraf AI offers small language models tuned for cybersecurity purposes.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> Enterprises use the Polygraf models to enforce compliance, protect data, detect unauthorized AI usage, and spot deepfakes, among other examples.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does:<\/strong> TruSources can detect AI deepfakes, be they audio, video, images.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why it\u2019s noteworthy:<\/strong> This tech can work in real time for areas like identity authentication, age verification, and\u00a0identity fraud prevention.\u00a0<\/p>\n What it does: <\/strong>AI-powered enterprise security platform that helps infosec teams detect and solve cloud security issues.\u00a0<\/p>\nAIM Intelligence<\/a>\u00a0<\/h5>\n
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