The prestigious list is revealed: about half of the most promising cyber companies in the world are Israeli

The Israeli representatives on the list are: Cyera, Grip Security, Island, Noma Security, Oligo Security, Orca Security, Token Security, Torq, Beacon Security, Clover Security, Descope, Echo Security, Terra Security and Tonic AI. The founder of another company, Runlayer, is Israeli and together the Israeli entrepreneurs make up about half of the 30 promising companies listed.

The companies selected this year for the list together raised more than 6.9 billion dollars, and operate in key areas including Identity and Authorization Management (IAM), Security Operations and Agentic AI security. The report indicates that the global cyber market is expected to reach $250 billion by 2029, compared to $151 billion in 2025, with the most significant growth expected in the areas of identity security, information security and cloud-native cloud application protection.

According to the data, the volume of strategic cyber M&A transactions will jump to $81 billion in 2025 – more than four times that of 2024 – as technology companies accelerate acquisitions of specialized security capabilities. According to the report, the momentum continues even in 2026. It also appears that the adoption of AI in organizations is progressing faster than the ability to secure it. More than 70% of the information security managers who participated in the survey reported that AI agents are already operating in production environments in their organizations, but only 11% defined the existing AI security tools in the organization as comprehensive and effective – a gap that the next generation of cyber startups Now trying to close.

The report indicates that identity and authorization management has become the main threat in the age of AI. About 20% of information security managers indicated that controlling the identities and authorizations of applications and AI agents is their main concern for the next 12 months. Accordingly, many of the companies selected this year focus on identity security, AI security, activity monitoring and anomaly detection.

Notable Capital is an American venture capital fund that focuses on early-stage investments in the fields of cloud infrastructure, AI, cyber, prosumer, and commerce with operations in the US, Israel, Europe and other global markets. The fund’s portfolio companies include: Airbnb, Anthropic, Drata, fal, HashiCorp, Slack, Quince, Vercel, Wisper Flow and other leading technology companies.