NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CB Insights today named Blue Hexagon to the fifth annual AI 100 ranking, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in the world. Blue Hexagon, a leading agentless cloud-native AI platform, is one of the two cybersecurity companies to be named in the AI 100 ranking two years in a row.
Through an evidence-based approach, the CB Insights research team selected the AI 100 from a pool of more than 6,000 companies based on several factors including patent activity, investor quality, news sentiment analysis, proprietary Mosaic scores, market potential, partnerships, competitive landscape, team strength, and tech novelty. The Mosaic Score, based on CB Insights’ algorithm, measures the overall health and growth potential of private companies to help predict a company’s momentum.
“This is the fifth year CB Insights has recognized the most promising private artificial intelligence companies with the AI 100, and this is one of the most international groups we’ve ever seen with this year’s report spanning 18 industries, with companies working on everything from climate risk to accelerating drug research and development,” said CB Insights CEO Anand Sanwal.
“Blue Hexagon is thrilled to be placed amongst the leading innovators in AI,” said Nayeem Islam, CEO and Co-founder, Blue Hexagon. “Our goal has always been to promote cloud security at a second’s speed. Providing agentless cloud-native AI security enables us to keep our customers safe 24x7x365. This recognition highlights the innovations and achievements we have accomplished in deep learning AI security.”
Blue Hexagon’s Agentless Cloud-Native AI Security technology has addressed the security needs of cloud-first and cloud-enabled enterprises. These cloud-enabled enterprises demand runtime security that provides actionable visibility, real-time threat defense, and continuous compliance. Blue Hexagon’s real-time threat defense protects against zero-day malware, ransomware, cryptojacking, command and control, lateral movement and other unauthorized activities. Blue Hexagon provides actionable security visibility with network, workload and storage as well as user/entity insights. The solution also helps achieve continuous compliance including misconfiguration and cloud intrusion detection. Through an agentless architecture, that doesn’t impact performance or privacy/confidentiality, it eliminates Security-DevOps friction and supports all workloads and OS platforms across major cloud providers.
Blue Hexagon is trusted by leading healthcare, e-commerce, insurance and financial services companies and recognized by Forbes AI for Next Gen NDR innovation, included in the 2020 Gartner Market Guide for Network Detection and Response, named to CNBC’s Upstart 100 list of “World’s Most Promising Startups” in 2019 and earned a Perfect Score in Network Threat Protection by PCSL.
About Blue Hexagon Inc.
Founded in 2017, Blue Hexagon is a deep learning innovator of Cyber AI You Can Trust™ to stop cyber adversaries and threats at sub-second speed. Blue Hexagon Agentless Cloud-Native AI Security deploys within minutes and delivers actionable visibility, real-time threat defense, and continuous compliance across all cloud workloads, network, and storage, at runtime. The agentless solution doesn’t impact performance or privacy/confidentiality, eliminates Security-DevOps friction and supports all workload types and OS platforms across major cloud providers – reducing security overhead and cost while significantly improving cloud security posture and visibility.
Blue Hexagon is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, and backed by Benchmark and Altimeter Capital. Follow us on Twitter @bluehexagonai or on the Web at www.bluehexagon.ai.