Cybersecurity startups in Los Angeles
The LA security bench: cloud, identity and the defense-adjacent security work the region does well.
6 companies building in Cybersecurity here.
Jay Lee & Daniel Kim"
"Founded 2014, connected-risk / GRC SaaS for audit, risk and compliance teams; trusted by >50% of the Fortune 500. Acquired by London PE firm Hg for over $3B in 2024 (~20x its last VC valuation, having been ...
Stuart McClure & Ryan Permeh"
"Founded 2012, pioneer of AI/machine-learning endpoint protection that identifies threats without signatures. Acquired by BlackBerry for $1.4B in 2019 (later sold to Arctic Wolf in 2025). HISTORICAL/ACQUIRED...
Advait Shinde, Aza Steel & Jason Ramirez"
"Founded 2015, K-12 edtech SaaS for content filtering, classroom management and student-safety/security monitoring. Raised a $200M strategic investment from Tiger Global (2021) valuing it at a reported ~$1B;...
Hasan Imam (CEO), Glenn Chisholm, Ben Johnson & Matt Wolff"
"Founded 2017 by Cylance/Carbon Black veterans, SaaS-security and identity-threat platform that protects apps like Salesforce, GitHub, ServiceNow, Workday and Atlassian (cuts SaaS attack surface ~80%). Raise...
Dave Cole & Mark Curphey"
"Founded 2019, cloud-native data-security-posture-management platform (multi-cloud data discovery, classification and DLP), backed by KPCB. Acquired by Formstack in 2024 and folded into the AI-native no-code...
Andrew Peterson, Nick Galbreath & Zane Lackey"
"Founded 2014, developer-first web-application and API protection (next-gen WAF). Acquired by Fastly for ~$775M in 2020 — a landmark LA cybersecurity/SaaS exit; tech now core to Fastly's edge security. HISTO...
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