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NCSC For Startups

Meet our alumni community

This powerful alumni network has seen peers address comparable challenges or experience similar scenarios, while scheduled meetups have allowed the founders to cover everything from raising capital and scaling internationally through achieving a successful exit.

Since 2017 we’ve explored opportunities and experimented in doing things differently. Many businesses have made a name for themselves since getting involved, find out more about our alumni and their continuing journeys.

Startups acubed.it

Joined: September 2023

Committed to supporting the public sector to ensure the UK's ever-evolving cyber security is top priority, providing a novel security product for solving complex cross-domain problems.

Cynalytica

Advanced monitoring and defense solutions for the cyber-physical protection of modern and legacy critical infrastructure

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Ethicronics

Joined: September 2022

A Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that addresses hacked, counterfeit, or recycled electronics.

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Kalgera

Joined: October 2020

Is a RegTech platform that protects vulnerable people using data. Kalgera identifies individuals at risk of financial abuse and impaired financial resilience and helps them manage this risk.

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CounterCraft

Joined: January 2017

Countercraft’s cyber technology solutions help teams stay one step ahead of threat actors, protect key assets, and provide real-time, adversary generated threat intelligence based on their unique attack surface.

OrbiSky

Experience unparalleled security and efficiency in edge data processing.

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BlackDice

Joined: October 2018

BlackDice delivers smarter cybersecurity for telecoms, covering device control, data privacy and security. Significantly reducing churn, lowering operational costs, and increasing revenue per subscriber.

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Secure Code Warrior

Joined: October 2017
Secure Code Warrior equip developers to be security-driven by teaching them the skills needed to defend their organization through secure code.

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Rebellion Defence

Joined: August 2021
Rebellion Defence is a British-American software company building AI products exclusively for the defence sector and national security purposes.

Kuro

Kuro's mission is to lower the barriers to deploying complex cloud capabilities.

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Elliptic

Joined: October 2017

Helping businesses make the crypto economy a safe place to transact and invest by managing financial crime in crypto

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Elemendar

Joined: January 2017

Elemendar develops artificial Intelligence which reads cyber threat reports (CTI) authored by humans and instantly translates them into industry standard machine readable and actionable data.

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Vault Sentinel

Joined: April 2022
Enables organisations to recover from a catastrophic cyber or ransomware attack in days rather than weeks with everything an organisation needs to recover.

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Pixel Pin

Joined: August 2019
 

Pixel Pin were acquired by Trust Stamp in April 2021

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SOS Intelligence

Joined: April 2022
Providing early detection of breached data and credentials, through active monitoring of multi-source OSINT threat intelligence sources

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CyberSmart

Joined: January 2017

Cyber Smart is making cybersecurity simple and accessible to everyone. 

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Fezzant

Joined: September 2022

Fezzant is on a mission to make cyber security and learning experiences accessible and inclusive for all.

Status Today

Status Today was acquired by Glickon in June 2020.

RevEng.AI

Joined: September 2023

Building foundational AI models for understanding the contents and behaviours of software supply chains.

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Fraud.net

Joined: August 2019

Fraud.net provides a fraud detection platform that helps digital businesses quickly identify transactional anomalies and pinpoint fraud using AI, big data and live-streaming visualisations.

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ExactTrak

Joined: October 2017

ExactTrak, installed by governments and commercial customers around the world, devices autonomously change functionality based upon location or customer generates security profiles.

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Insurtechnix

Joined: July 2020

Insurtechnix was acquired by cyban

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PORGiESOFT

Joined: August 20221
Helping employees stop online fraud in its tracks. Its SenseText product uses AI to calculate a fraud risk score, providing a second opinion on suspicious emails.

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Lexverify

Joined: January 2023

An AI-powered assistant that prevents legal and compliance risks on electronic communication in real time.

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Intruder

Joined: October 2017

Intruder is a cloud-based vulnerability scanner that finds cyber security weaknesses in external infrastructure

TurgenSec

Joined: October 2020
Turgen specialised in analysis of large network datasets to find novel vulnerabilities in public facing infrastructure.

Acquired in September 2022

Watchkeeper

Watchkeeper were acquired by Dataminr

Vistal Works

Joined: October 2020
Helping you protect citizens and economies from online illicit trade.

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Exalens

Joined: August 2021

Exalens equips SME manufacturers with advanced cyber security that tends to be reserved for large enterprises.

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Angoka

Joined: July 2020

Protects machine-to-machine communications from cyber threats, creating trusted connectivity over zero trust network.

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Mission Secure

Joined: October 2018

Mission Secure is a leading industrial control system cyber security company focused on defence and critical infrastructure industries.

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ThinkCyber

Joined: September 2022
Its award winning Redflags™software applies behavioural science theory to deliver real-time, context-aware, on-device security interventions and nudges at the point of risk.

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Configured Things

Joined: October 2018

Configured Things helps you model, configure and co-ordinate your network equipment, servers, management content systems and much more.

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Naq Cyber

Joined: July 2020

The personalised and holistic cyber security service specifically designed to empower small businesses and protect their livelihood.

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CyberOwl

Joined: January 2017

Cyber Owl were acquired by DNV in September 2024

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nettoken

Joined: October 2018

Your private place to keep your secrets safe, with password management and digital journaling to give you peace of mind.

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Aquilai Cyber Intelligence

Joined: October 2017

Aquilai was acquired in May 2021 by Egress Software Technologies. 

Spherical Defence

Joined: January 2017
Spherical Defense offers an alternative approach to WAFs and first generation API security tools.

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Meterian

Joined: August 2021

Using automation, Meterian secures open source software by building a scalable and sustainable line of defence for apps. It wants to empower time-pressured developers to become the first line of defence for security.

Trust Elevate

Joined: October 2017
Facilitating safe digital parenting opportunities that build transparency and accountability into the digital ecosystem. 

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LuJam

Joined: October 2018

LuJam provides small and mid-sized businesses with a level of cyber security enjoyed by major enterprises.

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Cyntegra

Joined: April 2022

Provides a recovery solution that ensures rapid restoration of end user computing from ransomware and major cyber-attacks in minutes rather than days or weeks.

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Cyber Defence Service

Joined: February 2021

Providing traceable identification of an invisible battlespace that threatens a growing and connected world of billions of IoT devices.

Coc00n

Joined: September 2023

cocoon provides cyber security services to high value, high risk individuals at a level previously only available to those under government protection

Trust Stamp

Joined: August 2019
The Privacy First Identity Company(TM) Secure, Private & Trusted Identity

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Awen Collective

Joined: February 2021

Awen was aquired in September 2023 by Sapphire

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RoboShadow

Joined: January 2023
A cyber security startup aiming to bridge the cyber technology gap for everyone through simple software with advanced functionality that’s free or ultra-low cost.

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ZORB Security

Joined: January 2023
Providing cyber protection for business employees who need to access confidential data from outside of the corporate office.

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All about the programme, the alumni and the key highlights to date.

Vivida

Joined: October 2020

Making learning for organisations unforgettable

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IDEE

Joined: July 2020

Delivers truly password-less authentication and authorisation that is use case agnostic. We run a zero trust distributed architecture.

Salt secure communications

Joined: January 2024

With advanced security and encryption, you can trust that your data is protected with Salt. Whether you’re sharing it over mobile or desktop devices, meetings and conversations are now as productive and private as those held in person.

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ESPROFILER

Joined: November 2021

A platform to help organisations maximise return on their cyber security investments, increasing efficiency and security.

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RazorSecure

Joined: October 2017
Specialists in rail cyber security solutions.

Iothic

Iothic enables post quantum secure smart networks to function without reliance on third parties or single points of vulnerability at lower risk and lower cost.

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Ohalo

Joined: August 2019

Ohalo help their clients quickly and efficiently gain an understanding of their data privacy risk through their automated discovery and mapping software.

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RankedRight

Joined: November 2021

RankedRight were acquired by Lansweeper in January 2023 

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Visible

Joined: September 2022
Empowering people to see their digital-self, control the underlying data and change how others perceive them. 

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Rowden Technologies

Joined: January 2023
Working on the digital fingerprinting of devices to help secure networks. The business integrates, customises and operationalises advanced technology from a wider ecosystem that it orchestrates for government customers.

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Validato

Joined: April 2022
Using safe-to use breach & attack simulations to validate and dashboard the effectiveness of security controls against a wide range of threats.

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Goldilock

Joined: April 2022

Physical airgap solution that allows remote, instant control of true, physical disconnection and connection from the internet – without using the internet.

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Lupovis

Joined: November 2021

An AI-based deception solution for manipulating adversaries that have penetrated your network.

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Secure Schools

Joined: August 2019
Secure Schools were aquired by Wonde in August 2022

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barac

Joined: October 2018

Barac was acquired by Venari in January 2021.

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Traced

Joined: November 2021
Traced believes that privacy is a human right. And it’s created a mobile threat defence solution that provides protection against mobile-borne threats to businesses, without compromising people’s privacy.

MemCrypt

Joined: September 2023

Specialises in detection of active ransomware attacks, supporting recovery of encrypted data to remove the need to pay any ransom.

Cyber Tzar

Joined: September 2023

Delivering cyber resilience with its online cyber risk management platform. Providing dynamic, data-driven insights, it empowers businesses with effective remediation pathways through empirical vulnerability scanning, cyber security profiling and scoring.

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RapidSpike

Joined: July 2020
Monitor, protect and improve your website and digital platforms with insights on digital experience, performance, uptime, security and Magecart.

Startups lists

Tables of the current Alumni in alphabetical, trading status, challenge area and year of graduation from the programme.

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iHackLabs

Joined: October 2018

iHackLabs offer a cyber security training and simulation platform, to support the improvement of cyber security capabilities and develop top-level cyber security talent.

ElevenPaths acquired iHackLabs in September 2020

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Enclave

Joined: August 2021

Enclave helps organisations take a Zero Trust approach by using overlaying networks that make private systems invisible to the public internet until defined trust standards have been met.

CyberFish

Joined: August 2019

Making Teams Crisis - Ready through the Resilience Dojo Incident Exercising and Learning Platform