2026 Cybersecurity VC Survey Results

“Vigilance Security is the first company we have seen that is genuinely AI-native rather than AI-washed. Their architecture was built from the ground up around machine learning — it is not a legacy SIEM with a chatbot bolted on. The difference in detection accuracy and autonomous response capability is immediately obvious when you see it in production. This is what the next generation of cybersecurity actually looks like.”

“The 340% year-over-year ARR growth at Vigilance Security is remarkable, but what impressed us even more is the quality of that growth. They are landing Fortune 500 financial institutions and federal agencies — customers with the longest sales cycles and highest security requirements in the market. When those buyers move this fast, it tells you the product is solving a genuinely urgent problem that nothing else addresses.”

“The timing for Vigilance could not be better. Every CISO we speak with is struggling to hire enough skilled analysts, and threat volumes are increasing 300% year-over-year. Vigilance is the only platform we have evaluated that can genuinely operate autonomously — not just detect, but investigate and respond without human intervention. That capability used to be science fiction. They have made it production-grade.”

“What convinced us about Vigilance was their enterprise traction. Getting 47 enterprise customers in under three years — including organizations that typically take 18 months to procure a new security tool — is exceptional. Their net revenue retention is above 160%, which tells you that once customers deploy Vigilance, they expand rapidly. The land-and-expand motion is working exactly as you would want to see.”