The Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator named Jazz as the 2026 winner. CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA supported the initiative. The announcement came during RSA 2026. CrowdStrike partnered with Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA for the program. It operates under the NVIDIA Inception initiative. Jazz gained recognition for its AI-driven data loss prevention technology. Moreover, the solution addresses critical enterprise security challenges.
Notably, the Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator received nearly 1,000 applications worldwide. This surge highlights strong demand for AI-powered cybersecurity solutions. However, only 35 startups entered the final eight-week program. These startups worked closely with industry experts. They refined technologies and improved cloud integrations. In addition, they strengthened their go-to-market strategies. The program helps founders convert ideas into enterprise-ready platforms.
Jazz Secures Top Spot at RSAC 2026
The final pitch event took place at RSAC 2026 in San Francisco on March 24. Jazz competed against five finalists. A panel of industry leaders evaluated the presentations. The panel included George Kurtz, CJ Moses, Bartley Richardson, and Robert Herjavec. Each finalist presented advanced cybersecurity innovations. Meanwhile, Above Security secured the runner-up position. Above Security uses AI agents to manage insider risks proactively. It replaces alerts with complete investigative narratives. Therefore, it improves threat visibility and response efficiency. The Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator reflects a wider industry shift. Companies now build solutions on unified security platforms. This trend also appeared at RSAC and NVIDIA GTC 2026.
“We’re incredibly grateful to be named the winner of the CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator,” said Ido Livneh, co-founder and CEO at Jazz. “DLP has been broken for decades by rule-writing, alert floods, and no real answers. So we rebuilt it from the ground up, from first principles thinking, as an AI-native system to truly understand how data moves through a business. The guidance and support we received through the Accelerator has been invaluable in helping us sharpen the product and validate it against real-world enterprise demands as we scale.”
Furthermore, industry leaders highlighted changing startup dynamics. They emphasized collaboration with infrastructure providers from the start.
“The path to becoming a defining cybersecurity company looks nothing like it did just three years ago,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. “Today’s most promising founders are building alongside the platforms that power modern infrastructure from day one. Together with AWS and NVIDIA, this Accelerator is about supporting that innovation early in the startup journey. Jazz stood out for replacing legacy DLP with an AI-native, context-aware approach, using Melody and Context Vault to replace noisy alerts with clear, actionable answers at scale, and demonstrating what it takes to lead in this new era of cybersecurity.”
Additionally, AWS leaders stressed the importance of real-world performance. They highlighted enterprise-scale security expectations.
“Security innovation only matters if it performs in real-world cloud environments,” said CJ Moses, CISO of integrated security at Amazon. “This accelerator connects founders directly with the infrastructure, operational expectations, and scale enterprises demand. What set Jazz apart was its ability to investigate signals with full business context and surface only meaningful incidents with minimal analyst overhead, reflecting the standards modern security teams expect.”
NVIDIA also pointed to the growing role of agentic AI. It continues to reshape cybersecurity systems and processes.
“The shift to agentic AI is transforming cybersecurity, requiring autonomous systems that can perceive, reason, and act against increasingly sophisticated threats,” said Bartley Richardson, senior director of agentic AI and cybersecurity engineering at NVIDIA. “This Accelerator equips the next generation of security platforms with the high-performance compute and foundational frameworks needed to build secure, scalable AI systems. Jazz distinguished itself through its agentic investigator, Melody, and its ability to analyze multi-dimensional context across data, systems, people, and business to drive precise, in-context prevention decisions – distilling millions of events into a small set of actionable insights.”
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Source: Businesswire
