The 9 top cybersecurity startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield

Summary

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, 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. Here is the full list of the cybersecurity Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition. What it does: AIM offers enterprise cybersecurity products that both protect against new AI-enabled attacks and use AI in that protection. Why it’s noteworthy: 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. What it does: 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. Why it’s noteworthy: The product allows the creation of AI agents that can secure code and works with, it says, any popular language and their libraries. What it does: CyDeploy offers a security product that automates asset discovery and mapping of all the apps and devices on a network. Techcrunch event San Francisco | October 13-15, 2026 Why it’s noteworthy: 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. What it does: Cyntegra offers a hardware-plus-software solution that prevents ransomware attacks. Why it’s noteworthy: By locking away a secure backup of the system, ransomware doesn’t win. It can restore the operating system, apps, data, and credentials in the minutes after an attack. What it does: HACKERverse’s product deploys autonomous AI agents to implement known hacker attacks against a...