At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 52 Cloud Security companies in San Francisco, California. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Cloud Security Companies & Startups (San Francisco, California)
SafeBase
SafeBase helps B2B SaaS companies close enterprise deals faster by streamlining the security assessment process.
Founder(s): Adar Arnon, Al Yang, Stan Chang
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Network Security, SaaS, Sales Automation
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Privacera
Privacera is a SaaS-based data security and governance platform that offers data sharing without compromising regulatory compliance.
Founder(s): Balaji Ganesan, Don Bosco Durai
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Cloud Security, Compliance, Cyber Security, SaaS
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CloudPassage
CloudPassage offers a server security and compliance platform that works seamlessly across data centers and elastic infrastructure.
Founder(s): Carson Sweet, Talli Somekh, Vitaliy Geraymovych
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Data Center, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Internet, Network Security, Security, Software
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Deepfence Inc
Kubernetes, Serverless and Virtual Machines, Deepfence protects it all. Pioneering industry’s first Cloud Native DPI technology.
Founder(s): Sandeep Lahane, Shyam Krishnaswamy, Swarup Sahoo
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Network Security, Security
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Paubox
Secure email for modern healthcare. Right out of the box. HITRUST CSF certified.
Founder(s): Hoala Greevy
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Email, Enterprise Software, Health Care, Information Technology
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Lookout
Lookout is a cybersecurity company that integrates endpoint security with SASE technologies to secure data while respecting user privacy.
Founder(s): James Burgess, John Hering, Kevin Mahaffey
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Network Security, Predictive Analytics
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Altitude Networks
Altitude Networks provides a cloud native DLP to protect Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace data from accidental loss or malicious theft.
Founder(s): Amir Kavousian, Michael Coates
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Collaboration, Cyber Security, Internet, Software
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i2Chain
I2Chain is a SaaS platform that secures information and delivers privacy compliant clouds, folders, and files.
Founder(s): Ajay Jotwani, Rao Bhethanabotla, Sanjay Jain
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Identity Management, Information Services, SaaS, Software
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NodeSource
Building products focused on Node.js security and performance for the Enterprise.
Founder(s): Dan Shaw, Joseph McCann
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Application Performance Management, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, Open Source, SaaS, Software
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Sosivio
Sosivio is the only non-intrusive Autonomous Cloud Native platform
Founder(s): Adam Weiner, Avi Stokholm-Cohen, Liran Cohen, Nuri Golan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Management, Cloud Security, Enterprise Software, Machine Learning, Software
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Bluebox
Bluebox offers software that secures company data as it interacts with employee mobile devices, apps and services.
Founder(s): Adam Ely, Caleb Sima
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Cloud Security, Information Technology, Mobile, Mobile Devices, Security, Software
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Cobalt
Cobalt is a PTaaS platform that transforms traditional pentesting into a data-driven vulnerability management engine.
Founder(s): Christian Hansen, Esben Friis Jensen, Jacob Hansen, Jakob Storm
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Enterprise Applications, Penetration Testing, SaaS, Security
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Tigera
Active, zero-trust based security for cloud-native applications
Founder(s): Alex Pollitt, Andrew Randall, Christopher Liljenstolpe
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Compliance, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, Network Security, Open Source, SaaS, Security, Software
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OneLogin
OneLogin is a cloud identity and access management solution that enables enterprises to secure all apps for their users on all devices.
Founder(s): Christian Pedersen, Thomas B. Pedersen
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Enterprise Software, Identity Management, Information Technology, SaaS
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Vectrix
Vectrix helps IT and security teams detect security issues across their SaaS applications.
Founder(s): Alex Dunbrack, Corey Mahan, Matthew Lewis
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Network Security, SaaS, Security, Software
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Port53 Technologies
Port53 Technologies is a cybersecurity firm that offers solutions for resource-restrained IT Teams.
Founder(s): Omar Zarabi
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Information Technology, Network Security
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Okera
Okera provides secure data access at scale so that data teams have the confidence to unlock the power of their data for innovation & growth
Founder(s): Amandeep Khurana, Nong Li
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Data Services, Cloud Security, Information Technology, Privacy, Software
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SEWORKS
Automated offensive security developed by a team of white hat hackers.
Founder(s): Min Pyo Hong
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Penetration Testing, Security
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Picus Security
Picus developed a novel and holistic approach to IT security: Continuous Security Validation.
Founder(s): Aycan İrican, Hamdi Alper Memiş, Süleyman Özarslan, Volkan Ertürk
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, Network Security
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Bridgecrew
Bridgecrew is a developer of a codified cloud security platform used to help organizations deploy cloud security engineering.
Founder(s): Barak Schoster Goihman, Guy Eisenkot, Idan Tendler
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Data Services, Cloud Security, Cyber Security
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StealthMail
StealthMail makes your emails secure and invisible to email relays, hackers, or Public Internet threats.
Founder(s): Dima Bull, Evgen Verzun
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Email, Enterprise Software
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Apcera
The Apcera cloud platform helps enterprises innovate at speed with full confidence and trust.
Founder(s): Derek Collison
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Software
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Pulselocker
Pulselocker is a music subscription service that allows DJs to stream music from a library, play tracks offline, and download music.
Founder(s): Alvaro Velilla, Joshua Goltz, Ryan Walsh
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Digital Entertainment, Music
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Odaseva
Odaseva is the leading Enterprise Data Platform for Salesforce offering powerful tools to keep Salesforce data protected
Founder(s): Chantal Quentin, Richard Zolezzi, Rémy Claret, Sovan Bin, Vincent Delamarre
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Business Information Systems, Cloud Security, Compliance, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Software
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nOps
nOps is a cloud management platform for AWS.
Founder(s): JT Giri, Sumit Gupta
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Compliance, SaaS, Software
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nClouds
nClouds is an award-winning provider of AWS and DevOps consulting and implementation services.
Founder(s): JT Giri, Ryan Clark
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Consulting, Information Services, Information Technology, Internet, Software, Technical Support
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Switchboard Sally
Switchboard Sally leverages the transformational potential of artificial intelligence, trustworthy computing and blockchain technologies.
Founder(s): Elizabeth Deegan, Patrick Deegan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Security, Communities, Identity Management, Predictive Analytics, Privacy, Social Network
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Trustworthy.
Trustworthy. is an operating system that secures and organizes all family tasks in one place.
Founder(s): Dan McCool, Nathaniel Robinson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Software
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Conveyor
Conveyor is a software company that makes vendor security reviews fast, frictionless, and accurate for both vendors and customers.
Founder(s): Chas Ballew
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Internet, Risk Management, SaaS, Software
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Theom
Theom is an IT company that specializes in cloud and data security services.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Data Services, Cloud Security, Information Technology
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C3M
C3M’s Cloud Control offers cloud security governance, cloud risk scoring, compliance, IAM, SOAR and cloud inventory for the public cloud.
Founder(s): Padmanabhan Viswanathan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Management, Cloud Security, Compliance, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, SaaS, Security
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Hypersphere
Cybersecure Network Cryptocurrency
Founder(s): Evgen Verzun
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Cloud Data Services, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Cloud Storage, Cryptocurrency, Cyber Security, Network Security
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SylLab Systems
Cybersecurity
Founder(s): Bartosz Slowik
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Information Technology
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CRFT
No-Code Automation Platform for Cybersecurity
Founder(s): Anton Goncharov, Austin McDaniel
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software
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GBMV
Software Service, Mobile App, Payment
Founder(s): Gustavo Valadao
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Aerospace, Cloud Security, Compliance, Information Technology, Software, Web Development
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Metamanagement
Metamanagement allows B2B companies to securely deploy their software to customer virtual private clouds (VPCs).
Founder(s): Nikhil Bhargava
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: B2B, Cloud Data Services, Cloud Security, Software
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FlawCheck
Container Security. Acquired by Tenable 09/2016
Founder(s): Anthony Bettini, Sasan Padidar
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software, Network Security, Security
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Definitive Data Security, Inc. (DefiniSec)
DefiniSec builds non-intrusive host data security products that protect against today’s most advanced threats.
Founder(s): John Poffenbarger
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Data Services, Cloud Security, Cloud Storage, Risk Management, Security
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Avantgarde Partners
Avantgarde Partners triages security alerts through orchestrated actions of predefined responses to allow focus on exception handling.
Founder(s): Robi Papp, Robi Papp
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Data Center Automation, Professional Services, Security, SEM
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Solidify Security
Automated Security / Security as a Service (SecaaS)
Founder(s): Lars Grorud, My-Kell Davis
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Network Security, Software, Subscription Service
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Cloud Security Labs
Cloud Security Labs is a boutique security advisory firm focused on helping clients build and update their Information Security.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advice, Cloud Security, Computer, Network Security, Security
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PassiveTotal
Digital Footprint Security company
Founder(s): Brandon Dixon, Stephen Ginty
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Risk Management
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MixedBit
Web authorization/authentication SaaS
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, SaaS, Security, Software
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Panther Labs
Panther Labs is a cloud-scale security analytics company that develops infrastructure security and compliance platform.
Founder(s): Jack Naglieri
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Cloud Security, Cyber Security, IT Infrastructure, Open Source
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AppOmni
AppOmni is a SaaS security management solution that enables security and IT teams to secure applications used by their employees.
Founder(s): Brendan O’Connor, Brian Soby
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Management, Cloud Security, Cyber Security, SaaS, Software
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Silverback Networks
Silverback Networks specializes in computer support services for small and medium businesses.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Information Technology, Technical Support
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ChronoCI
Continuous Integration Security.
Founder(s): Max Chakhmatov
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Internet
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Mitech
Mitech provides technological and IT business solutions, desktop programming, cloud security and support.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Data Services, Cloud Security, Information Technology, IT Infrastructure, Software
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GitLab
GitLab is the DevOps platform that empowers organizations to maximize the overall return on software development.
Founder(s): Dmitriy Zaporozhets, Sytse Sijbrandij
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Developer Tools, Open Source, SaaS, Software
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Ankr
Ankr is a Web3-native infrastructure platform.
Founder(s): Chandler Song, Ryan Fang, Stanley Wu
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Blockchain, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, PaaS, Sharing Economy
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Sysdig
Sysdig is driving the standard for cloud and container security.
Founder(s): Loris Degioanni
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Cyber Security, SaaS
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Fastly
Fastly helps digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering secure and online experiences.
Founder(s): Artur Bergman
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Data Services, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Security, Content Delivery Network, Enterprise Software, Security
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