Startups

Startup Spotlight

The startups in this week's spotlight on the CISO AI homepage, where one card shows at a time. Each has its own address here, such as cisoai.au/spotlight#baasplus. They are our picks, not paid placements; every startup we have featured is on /featured. Promote your brand here for A$10 a month.

Spotlight · week of 26 Oct

Baasplus

White-label banking apps, a back office and BaaS integrations for fintechs

Spotlight · week of 26 Oct

Context.dev

Y Combinator Summer 2026

We give AI agents realtime web context via API

Spotlight · week of 26 Oct

Apate AI

Backed by OIF Ventures and Investible

AI-powered fraud prevention and scam intelligence

Spotlight · week of 26 Oct

Trident

Y Combinator Summer 2026

Autonomous offensive security agents. The best defense is offense

Spotlight · week of 26 Oct

Space CoLAB

Backed by Antler Australia

Quantum encryption for secure communications in defence and critical infrastructure

Spotlight · week of 26 Oct

Authsignal

Backed by Blackbird

Drop-in authentication and fraud prevention for your identity stack

Spotlight · week of 26 Oct

Secure Code Warrior

Backed by AirTree

Secure coding training and AI software governance for developer teams

Spotlight · week of 26 Oct

Magma

Y Combinator Summer 2026

Monetize your agent's traces.

Spotlight · week of 26 Oct

Bloomy

Y Combinator Summer 2026

AI-native learning for every school

Spotlight · week of 26 Oct

Maritime

Y Combinator Fall 2026

Gives each AI agent its own isolated computer, Linux, Windows or Android, with its own kernel. An agent that goes wrong is contained to one machine, every session is auditable, and a human can take over at any time.

Spotlight · week of 26 Oct

Rhem Labs

Y Combinator Fall 2026

Home care technology for aging parents and their families

Spotlight · week of 26 Oct

antiburn

Stop hitting your token limits: antiburn watches your coding-agent sessions and shows you exactly where the tokens go, and what to turn off. Tiny, fast, free, local and open source.