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Playbook & Handbook · February 6, 2026
Winning Accelerator Playbook 2026 by BambuUP
EDTECH: LEVERAGING AI-POWERED TECHNOLOGIES TO TRANSFORM THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
Trent AI Security Engineer
Trent AI is a London-based agentic security company founded in 2025 by Eno Thereska, Neil Lawrence and Zhenwen Dai, former engineering leaders at Amazon/AWS and Spotify with research…
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Mallory Threat Intelligence Platform
Mallory is a security company led by founder and CEO Jonathan Cran, based in Austin, Texas according to the launch press release dateline. It addresses the gap between…
Cylake AI-Native Sovereign Security Platform
Cylake is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2026 by Nir Zuk (founder of Palo Alto Networks), Udi Shamir and Wilson Xu. It targets large…
Cantina Agentic Security Platform
Cantina is a New York-based security company, per Dealroom, with Hari Mulackal as co-founder and CEO. Its domain cantina.xyz now redirects to cantina.security. It addresses the work that…
Quantro VM.Analyst Agentic Vulnerability Management
Quantro Security is based in New York and led by founder and CEO Sasan Padidar and founder and CPO Mehul Revankar, with engineering and product leaders from CrowdStrike,…
NewCore Agentic Identity Platform
NewCore is an identity company founded by Zohar Alon (CEO, previously founder of Dome9, acquired by Check Point), Amihai Neiderman (CTO) and Erez Yarkoni, with offices in Tel…
Oak AI-Native Identity Operating System
Oak is an identity security company led by founder and CEO Shai Morag and co-founder and CPO Tal Marom. Globes reports it was founded in December 2025 and…
Venice Adaptive Privileged Access Platform
Venice Security, led by co-founder and CEO Rotem Lurie and CTO Or Vaknin, operates from Tel Aviv and New York and launched publicly in February 2026. It targets…
Lema Agentic Third-Party Exposure Management
Lema AI was founded in 2023 by Eddie Dovzhik (CEO), Omer Yehudai (CPO) and Tomer Roizman (CTO), and its release is datelined New York. It addresses third-party risk,…
1stProtect AgentProtect and Endpoint Protection
1stProtect is a prevention-first endpoint security company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with an Asia headquarters in Tokyo, per its distribution announcement. It targets credential theft, EDR-killing attempts…