As the founder of a high-growth startup, you’ve spent months in your office getting your beta up, and the efforts have just borne fruit. You’ve just got Techcrunched, and all manner of Valley influencers, from VCs to Fortune 500 execs have signed up to your service to see what the fuss is all about. Good times. Before you call for the next round shots at the nearest watering hole, we recommend exploring this list of 25 companies from the enterprise security space, which can help you in preventing your startup’s data from being compromised, and landing your fledgling venture in a soup.
As recent hacks against Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai show, securing your enterprise against attacks from hackers can no longer be an afterthought. The following list of security focused startups covers several methods to boost the security of your website against hackers. It covers both bootstrapped and well funded vendors providing software and solutions for biometric security, identity verification, multi-factor authentication, password managers, and data security software.
| Company Name | Security Offering | Country | Total Funding | Select Investors |
| AirSig | Behavioral biometrics like hand gesture based authentication | Taipei, Taiwan | $2M | Foxconn Electronics |
| BioCatch | Detection using biometric behavior | Boston, United States | $18.1M | JANVEST Capital Partners |
| Behaviosec | Behaviometric & machine learning based authentication solutions | Lulea, Sweden | $7.17M | Octopus Investments, Northzone |
| Aimbrain | Mobile behavioural biometric security layer for payment services. | London, United Kingdom | $530k | Episode1 |
| aPersona | Behavioral based adaptive authentication solution | Raleigh, United States | $440k | |
| Zense | Behavior based authentication & mobile security | Mountain View, United States | ||
| Zighra | Mobile authentication security | Ottawa, United States | $1M | |
| Verifyoo | Biometrics based identity verification & authentication solution | Petah Tikva, Israel | ||
| EyeVerify | Access via Eyeprint Verification | Kansas City, United States | $9.7M | Think Big Partners, Nebraska Angels |
| MultiSense | Multimodal biometrics based identification & authentication solutions | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Startupbootcamp | |
| Ack3 Bionetics | Voice biometrics based authentication gateway solution | Singapore | Wavemaker Partners | |
| Keeper | Data security software | Chicago, United States | ||
| Meldium | Password management & SSO for SaaS apps | San Francisco, United States | $1M | FundersClub, Y Combinator |
| Intuitive Password | Online password manager | Sydney, Australia | ||
| LastPass | Password management & protection solutioins | Fairfax, United States | ||
| Authomate | Personal authentication technology | Morganville, United States | $1M | |
| Dashlane | Password manager & digital wallet | New York City, United States | $52.5M | FirstMark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners |
| UnboundID | Customer Identity Management Software | Austin, United States | $17M | Silverton Partners, OpenView |
| ID.me | Omni-channel digital identity network and management solutions | Virginia, United States | $16.7M | Red Swan Ventures |
| Authentiq | Authentication without the passwords, Multi factor authentication | England, United States | Seedcamp | |
| Ping Identity | Cloud Identity Security | Denver, United States | $136.58M | Appian Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson |
| TextPower | SMS based 7 factor authentication | Los Angeles, United States | $525k | ACE fund, Tech Coast Angels |
| Stormpath | User Management & SSO API for developers | San Mateo, United States | $24.7M | Flybridge Capital Partners, NEA, Pelion Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners |
| Sonikpass | Biometrics, behavior & geolocation based multi-factor authentication solution | Los Angeles, United States | ||
| loqr | QR code & encryption based multi-factor authentication | Braga, Portugal |