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Guardare Named "AI Startup of the Year" at the 2025 A.I. Awards
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When we started Guardare, our mission was clear: to deliver intelligent and visualized risks to the world.
Internally, that mission has unified our product, approach, and teams under one shared purpose. Externally, it’s changed how organizations see and manage cybersecurity. Guardare isn’t just another tool to add to your stack. It’s a paradigm shift in how risk is visualized, scored, and understood.
That’s why this recognition means so much to us.
We’re proud to share that Guardare has been named “AI Startup of the Year” at the 2025 A.I. Awards, part of The Cloud Awards program that celebrates global innovation in AI and cloud technology.
This year’s program drew hundreds of entries from across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. To be recognized among so many remarkable innovators is both humbling and energizing for our team.
This recognition means a lot to us because it validates something we’ve believed from the beginning: that solving some of cybersecurity’s biggest problems doesn’t mean more tools, it means unified tools.
AI should simplify, not overwhelm. It should connect the dots across EDRs, XDRs, training tools, and cloud environments so security teams can see what’s really happening.
If you don’t believe us, read what Jon Whittall, A.I. Awards Judge, has to say.
“With cybersecurity challenges growing ever more complex, Guardare’s Cybersecurity AI Platform stands out as a powerful and practical solution. Its innovative Traceability Layer, offering audit-ready metrics, alongside an intuitive dashboard interface, sets a new standard for usability and accountability in cybersecurity.”
That feedback means a lot because it captures exactly what we set out to achieve with our in-house built AI combined with human experience.
Our platform collects data from across your ecosystem and unifies it into a centralized nerve center that identifies vulnerabilities, normalizes threat intelligence, and delivers actionable risk insights through dynamic spider charts and scoring dashboards.
Currently, it integrates with tools like SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, KnowBe4, and more than 175 others. Our proprietary AI transforms raw JSON logs into meaningful insights, producing multidimensional scores like:
Those insights come to life in the Spider Chart AI Dashboard, which shows a live, visual snapshot of an organization’s overall risk. Every score is backed by our Traceability Layer, ensuring every recommendation is explainable, auditable, and trustworthy.
Instead of spending days analyzing spreadsheets or siloed dashboards, teams can instantly see where they stand and what to do next.
Unified exposure management is paying off in measurable results:
This is how AI in cybersecurity should feel: human-led, transparent, and focused on outcomes.
This recognition is about more than technology; it’s about the people who built it and the mission that brought all of us together. Every developer, data scientist, and specialist at Guardare played a part in shaping a platform that makes cybersecurity simpler and more human.
From the start, our vision has been to help organizations understand and secure their environments by unifying their data through our AI-powered engine. That vision has helped guide every decision we’ve made from the beginning, because it’s kept us rooted in our customer-focused approach.
The platform we’ve built does not just surface information; it transforms data clutter into usable and actionable knowledge by simplifying complex systems and making raw data understandable.
Winning AI Startup of the Year validates the purpose behind our work. It recognizes the innovation, collaboration, and customer partnerships that make Guardare what it is today.
Winning AI Startup of the Year is not the finish line. It’s fuel for what comes next.
We’re continuing to expand integrations, deepen our AI explainability framework, and support new use cases for small businesses, mid-sized companies, enterprises, and government partners around the world.
In the past year alone, we have:
The future of cybersecurity will be shaped by how well organizations connect their data, their people, and their decisions. That’s what Guardare was built to do, and this recognition reminds us we’re on the right path.
We’re extremely grateful to The Cloud Awards and the A.I. Awards judges for recognizing our work, and to our customers and partners who continue to help inspire our innovation. This recognition helps give our Guardians even more momentum to carry our mission into 2026, stronger and more driven than ever before.
If you want to see why Guardare was named AI Startup of the Year, we’d love to show you.
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