""The program is our way to give back to the cybersecurity community - helping promising startups thrive as they tackle real challenges in securing AI, cloud, and data," Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike, told The Register. "This year, we're opening applications globally to tap the best ideas from around the world, and we expect another highly competitive class of companies.""
"This year's accelerator seeks companies developing technologies around cloud and application security, identity, agentic security, and data security, all of which become increasingly important - and challenging - as organizations seek to integrate AI into their business processes and deploy agents. As such, startups developing agentic AI security tech, especially around agent governance and agent identity security, are in high demand this year."
Applications for the third-year Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator are open to early-stage cloud and AI security startups through November 15, with selections announced for an eight-week program running January 5 to March 3. The accelerator targets technologies for cloud and application security, identity, agentic security, and data security, with particular demand for agentic AI security focused on agent governance and agent identity. Selected startups receive cloud, compute, and threat-intel resources from AWS, Nvidia, and CrowdStrike, mentorship, and investor exposure, and founders pitch at AWS' Demo Day in San Francisco during RSA Conference on March 24. Exceptional presentations may attract funding from CrowdStrike's Falcon Fund.
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