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SmartBear Software | 2009 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 ยท Alexei Balaganski |
SmartBear is a software company specializing in quality assurance and development tools for APIs, including Swagger, SoapUI, and TestComplete. The platform provides full lifecycle design, testing,… |
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StackHawk | 2019 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 ยท Alexei Balaganski |
StackHawk is a cybersecurity company focused on developer-centric API security testing, integrating dynamic application and API scanning into DevOps pipelines with actionable feedback for secure code… |
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Cloud Software Group | 2022 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Active | Leadership Compass +5 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 ยท Alexei Balaganski |
Citrix is a software company known for digital workspace and application delivery technologies, with an application security business that includes layered Application and API security. Its portfolio… |
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Harness | 2017 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Active | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 ยท Alexei Balaganski |
Harness is a software delivery platform provider that acquired Traceable, an API security vendor focused on deep observability and ML-driven runtime threat detection. The combined organization is… |
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CloudDefense.AI | 2020 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Active | Video +3 Cloud Security in the Age of Generative AI August 21, 2025 ยท Mike Small |
CloudDefense.AI is a cybersecurity startup specializing in cloud application and infrastructure security. The company provides agentless SaaS products for cloud security posture management (CSPM),… |
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Splunk | 2003 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Acquired 2024 | Leadership Compass +6 The Emerging AI Security Operations Center (SOC) April 20, 2026 ยท Matthew Gardiner |
Splunk is a leading global software company that specializes in data platform solutions, focusing on collecting, indexing, and analyzing machine-generated big data for security, IT operations, and… |
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Ping Identity | 2002 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Acquired 2022 | Whitepaper +94 From AI Agents to Trusted Digital Workers April 20, 2026 ยท Martin Kuppinger |
Ping Identity is an enterprise IAM solutions provider delivering authentication, access management, and API security analytics. Its Ping API Intelligence offers automated, AI-driven API discovery,… |
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Tesla | 2003 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Active | Blog Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity: Are We There Yet? April 12, 2019 ยท Alexei Balaganski |
Tesla, Inc. is a multinational automotive and clean energy company recognized for its development of electric vehicles, battery energy storage, and artificial intelligence systems, particularly in… |
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Auth0 | 2013 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Acquired 2021 | Video +21 Securing Your Organization Against AI-Driven Identity Threats December 17, 2025 ยท Matthew Gardiner |
Auth0 is an identity and access management (IAM) platform that emerged as a pioneer of developer-centric, API-first, and flexible authentication and authorization solutions. Known for its focus on… |
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Imperva | 2002 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Acquired 2023 | Leadership Compass +19 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 ยท Alexei Balaganski |
Imperva is a leading cybersecurity company specializing in application and data security. Its API security capabilities are part of its unified Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) platform,… |
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Citrix Systems | 1989 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Acquired 2022 | Leadership Compass +12 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 ยท Alexei Balaganski |
Citrix Systems is a global software company providing digital workspace and application security solutions. Its application and API security product combines WAF, bot management, API gateway, and SSL… |
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Wiz | 2020 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Acquired 2026 | Video +8 Cloud Security in the Age of Generative AI August 21, 2025 ยท Mike Small |
Wiz is a fast-growing cloud security company focused on modernizing cloud infrastructure protection. Renowned for its innovative, agentless security platform, Wiz helps organizations of all sizes… |
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Akana | 2001 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Acquired 2016 | Leadership Compass +4 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 ยท Alexei Balaganski |
Akana, originally SOA Software (founded 2001, Los Angeles, CA), provides Akana Enterprise API Platform for full API lifecycle management and security. After a series of acquisitions, it's now part of… |
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1touch.io | 2017 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Acquired 2026 | Leadership Compass +2 Generative AI Defense December 2, 2025 ยท Jonathan Care |
1touch.io is a US-headquartered, Israeli-based company specializing in automated, real-time discovery and tracking of sensitive data across structured and unstructured sources. Its Inventa platform… |
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Traceable | 2024 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Merged | Leadership Compass +2 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 ยท Alexei Balaganski |
Traceable is an application security company focused on distributed tracing and AI analytics for cloud-native applications and APIs. Its platform unifies security context across code, data, and user… |
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Informatica | 1993 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Acquired 2025 | Blog +20 AI in Cybersecurity December 7, 2021 ยท Warwick Ashford |
Informatica is a leading enterprise software company that specializes in data integration, cloud data management, metadata management, and data cataloging. The company offers a broad portfolio of… |
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Moesif | 2017 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Acquired 2025 | Leadership Compass API Security and Management July 24, 2025 ยท Alexei Balaganski |
Moesif is a software company specializing in API analytics, observability, governance, and monetization. Its cloud-based platform focuses on API productization, providing rich analytics, usage… |
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MuleSoft | 2006 | ๐บ๐ธ US | Acquired 2018 | Leadership Compass +3 API Security and Management July 24, 2025 ยท Alexei Balaganski |
MuleSoft is a long-standing API management vendor, now part of Salesforce, focusing on unified application integration, lifecycle management, and data protection. MuleSoft offers low-code API… |
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