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Cequence runs real-time API and bot defense across more than 10 billion daily transactions and has turned that engine toward controlling how AI agents reach enterprise applications. Its 2025 AI Gateway enforces policy inline on every agent tool call, and its page notes that independent research by Chase Cunningham and Anthropic reached the same architecture it had already shipped. The engine is one a funded rival could rebuild, the named accounts such as Saudi Aramco are the record's distribution asset, and the company's own record-quarter release reports two competitive wins over incumbent vendors in Q4 FY26. Cequence is most defensible inside enterprises that already run its API platform, and weakest where a buyer treats agent control as a feature of the API security it already owns.
| Description | Application, API, and AI protection company whose platform discovers and defends web, mobile, and API channels against bots, business-logic abuse, and fraud, and now secures and governs how AI agents access enterprise applications and data. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | [f2] |
| HQ | Santa Clara, CA | [f3] |
| Latest funding | Series C, $60M (December 2021) | [f4] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Cequence Platform | Platform that protects applications and data against attacks, business-logic abuse, and fraud across web, mobile, and API channels, with API discovery, bot management, and API protection capabilities. |
| Cequence AI Gateway | Agentic security layer that connects AI agents to enterprise and SaaS applications with no-code enablement and enforces policy inline in the request path on every tool call. |
AI Defense Matrix
| Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-Workload Platforms Inference servers, training platforms, vector DB platforms, and the model-loading supply chain. | ||||||
| AI Orchestration Tools Agentic orchestration tools, plus their plugins, skills, hooks, system prompts, scaffolding, harnesses, configuration settings, and MCP clients on user devices. | ||||||
| AI-Generated Code Code produced by AI tools, AI-assisted reviews, AI-generated infrastructure-as-code and tests, and vibe-coded apps that bypass CI/CD. | ||||||
| AI Gateways & Routers MCP proxies and gateways, LLM routers, outbound AI-service traffic, shadow AI egress, and model-registry traffic. | ||||||
| AI Model Model weights, fine-tuning checkpoints, model cards, registries, AIBOM, and the third-party LLMs your enterprise consumes. | ||||||
| Training Data Datasets used for training, fine-tuning, and continued learning. | ||||||
| Runtime AI Data User prompts, inference inputs, RAG content, vector DB content, persistent agent memory, and interaction history. | ||||||
| AI Agent Identities AI agents as non-human principals, plus credentials, keys, permission scopes, service accounts, and delegation chains across agents and tools. |
The AI Gateway connects and protects agentic AI workflows, authenticating agents and enforcing policy inline on every tool call, defending AI gateway and AI agent identity assets. That line is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix. [f5]
Cyber Defense Matrix
| Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devices Workstations, servers, phones, tablets, storage, network devices, IoT infrastructure, and similar hardware. | |||||
| Applications Software, interactions, and application flows on the devices. | |||||
| Networks Connections and traffic flowing among devices and apps, plus communication paths. | |||||
| Data Content at rest, in transit, or in use across devices, apps, and networks. | |||||
| Users The people using the devices, apps, networks, and data. |
The Cequence Platform discovers APIs, manages bot traffic, and detects and blocks attacks, abuse, and fraud across web, mobile, and API channels, defending conventional application assets. It is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f6]
How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.
| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. | 3/5 | The buyer is a clear CISO facing bots, business-logic abuse, fraud, and AI agent exposure, but the quantified pain (10 billion daily transactions, 10 trillion dollars defended) rests on Cequence's own pages while GlobeNewswire and Menlo corroborate the problem only qualitatively. [s1, s7, s9, s2] |
| Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs and third-party validation. | 3/5 | Product pages detail API discovery, bot management, and inline AI Gateway enforcement, but the site offers no documentation portal, demo, or third-party technical evaluation, and the cited Cunningham and Anthropic architecture convergence validates a concept rather than the product itself. [s2, s3, s9, s7] |
| Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. | 4/5 | GlobeNewswire ties demand to the EU AI Act and Anthropic ASL guardrails outpacing enterprise agent adoption in 2025, and the record-quarter wire reports competitive wins driven by agentic AI demand across financial services and government. These are recent demand-side signals, though a single category rather than multiple independent analyst benchmarks. [s7, s8, s3] |
| Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. | 3/5 | Co-founders Ameya Talwalkar and Shreyans Mehta both built security platforms at Symantec before founding Cequence in 2014, with Mehta holding several network-security patents and a decade of operation to Fortune and Global 500 customers behind them. The pedigree and patents rest on the company's own about page, with press corroborating the funding and product rather than the founders' Symantec record. [s4, s5, s10, s6, s9] |
| GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. | 3/5 | The CEO bio names Saudi Aramco and JD Sports and the record-quarter wire reports Middle East wins, but those names rest in Cequence's own voice and a single trade-press writeup. Gartner Peer Insights adds independent review volume at 4.7 across 44 ratings, a satisfaction and credibility signal rather than the independently reported revenue or customer-count traction a 4 needs, and Menlo and Prosperity7 backing adds only a small indirect signal. [s10, s8, s15, s4] |
| Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. | 3/5 | A 2019 SEC Form D independently confirms the 2019 Series B, recording $17,000,082 offered with a first sale in February 2019, and the priced record then stops at the December 2021 Series C. Output per dollar looks reasonable, but efficiency cannot be confirmed because revenue is private and the last priced round is more than four years old. [s6, s12, s14, s7, s8] |
| Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. | 3/5 | API security and bot management are categories a buyer can place, and Gartner Peer Insights now lists Cequence in its API Protection market, an analyst designation the prior record lacked. The score holds at three because the company leads its current positioning with agentic AI access control, a budget line still forming, so where Cequence is heading still needs vendor explanation. [s6, s9, s1, s3, s15] |
| Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. | 3/5 | Akamai bought Noname and Harness merged Traceable, so platform absorption of API security is demonstrated rather than hypothetical, and an AI gateway is a cell hyperscalers and network platforms can ship in a release cycle. Cequence's counterweights are a decade of attack telemetry, founder network-security patent experience, and regulated customers whose procurement slows displacement. [s11, s5, s4, s8] |
Cequence sells to enterprises whose web, mobile, and API channels face automated abuse that traditional controls miss. The platform pages name the concrete failures it hunts, attacks against APIs, business-logic abuse, bot-driven fraud, and account takeover across the surfaces a Fortune or Global 500 company exposes to the internet.
In 2025 the company widened the problem to AI agents reaching those same applications. The AI Gateway announcement argues that the rush to expose enterprise systems to agentic AI is outpacing the guardrails that the EU AI Act and Anthropic's safety levels call for, leaving CISOs without a way to let agents act safely at scale.
The quantified pain is mostly company-produced. Cequence cites more than 10 billion daily API transactions and over $10 trillion in defended assets on its own pages, while Menlo Ventures and GlobeNewswire corroborate the underlying API-attack and agent-access problems rather than the headline figures. [s1, s2, s7, s9, s4]
The Cequence Platform combines API discovery, bot management, and API protection so one system finds an organization's APIs, watches their traffic, and blocks attacks, abuse, and fraud in real time. Menlo Ventures describes the differentiator as detecting API vulnerabilities and blocking them inline rather than only reporting them, the runtime enforcement that separates it from discovery-only tools.
The 2025 AI Gateway extends that enforcement to agent traffic. The product connects AI agents to enterprise and SaaS applications with no-code onboarding and enforces policy inline in the request flow on every tool call, and its page notes that independent agentic zero-trust research by Chase Cunningham and Anthropic reached the same architecture Cequence had already shipped.
Evidence beyond marketing runs through investors and independent research rather than open documentation. Menlo's investment note asserts the real-time blocking claim and the cited zero-trust research backs the gateway architecture, while the site offers no public documentation portal or self-service trial, so the visible depth is real but mediated. [s2, s9, s3, s7]
Cequence competes against consolidated platforms and repositioning specialists at once. Akamai folded Noname into its edge and WAF business and Harness merged Traceable into its software delivery platform, leaving Cequence and Salt Security among the larger independents, both of which have turned toward securing AI agent access.
Against the consolidators, Cequence argues that agent access control is API security applied at runtime. The same engine inspecting more than 10 billion daily API transactions enforces policy on agent tool calls, which is a credible reuse argument and also the exact argument a Cloudflare, Akamai, or F5 can make from its own API and gateway estate.
Recent competitive wins give the position outside support. The record-quarter wire reports Cequence selected over incumbent vendors in two separate Middle East evaluations, the kind of head-to-head displacement that analyst placement alone would not show. [s11, s4, s8, s3]
Named marquee customers anchor the traction story more concretely than most API security peers manage. The CEO bio names Saudi Aramco and JD Sports as flagship accounts personally closed, and the company reports defending Fortune and Global 500 enterprises across five countries of operation.
Recent regional momentum extends the picture. The record-quarter wire reports new customer wins across digital banking, fintech, and government in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, with two competitive displacements of incumbent vendors.
Independent corroboration now reaches past the customer list. A 2019 SEC Form D confirms the $17 million Series B and Gartner Peer Insights lists 44 ratings of the platform at 4.7, while later scale, customer-count, and record-quarter claims still run through the company's own releases and a single trade-press writeup rather than independent reporting. [s10, s4, s8, s6, s14, s15]
Co-founders Ameya Talwalkar and Shreyans Mehta both came from Symantec, where Talwalkar led malware-prevention engineering and Mehta was Architect and Technical Director on a network-security platform. Mehta holds several patents in network security, and both have run Cequence since 2014.
A decade of operation backs the bios with execution rather than pedigree alone. The team grew the company to Fortune and Global 500 customers across five countries and closed flagship deals the CEO names directly, a record of sustained execution.
The public technical record is lighter than the customer record. The founders' patents and Symantec platform work are company-stated, but Cequence publishes less independent research output than some API security peers, so the credibility comes from prior builds and customer outcomes. [s4, s5, s10]
Cequence sells governance and control as core platform value, which raises the bar for its own attestations. The platform pages position the product as the security, governance, and control layer for applications and agent access, and the AI Gateway markets enterprise-grade guardrails aligned to the EU AI Act and Anthropic safety levels.
Cequence's trust center at trust.cequence.ai documents a SOC 2 Type II report, ISO 27001:2022, and PCI DSS v4.0.1, with an executive penetration-test report, so its attestation posture is current and inspectable as of June 2026. The regulated banking and government customers the company names align with that documented posture. [s2, s7, s8, s13]
| Company | Relationship | Note | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Security | competes with | API security company that, like Cequence, has repositioned around securing how AI agents and MCP servers reach applications. | |
| Akamai | competes with | Sells API security through the line built on its 2024 Noname acquisition and protects application traffic at the edge. | N/AWe scored these companies at different scopes, so the totals measure different things. |
| Wallarm | competes with | API security vendor that now brands its offering around securing AI agents and workloads. | |
| Kong | competes with | API and AI gateway vendor whose gateway estate positions it to enforce policy on agent tool calls from infrastructure buyers already run. | N/AWe scored these companies at different scopes, so the totals measure different things. |
Add analyzed competitors to compare them side by side with Cequence.
A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how defensible it is against market forces and examining the eight areas behind it.
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Cequence's durability is modest, because a gateway, edge, or WAF vendor inspecting API and web traffic can follow the same reuse logic Cequence leads with and add agent enforcement. Its real-time enforcement across more than 10 billion daily transactions and a decade of attack telemetry are hard engineering, yet a well-funded rival with comparable traffic could approximate that data. What rebuilding the software does not supply is the set of named flagship accounts such as Saudi Aramco and the effort of pulling out an enforcement point that runs inline in the API request flow and on every agent tool call. By casting agent control as API security enforced at runtime, Cequence points those vendors at the opening it occupies.
| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. | 1/3 | Customers buy a software platform they operate across API, bot, and agent traffic, and the record's Assessment Services, Managed Services, and CQ Prime threat detection read as optional attach services without evidenced outcome accountability, so the customer's team owns the results. |
| Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. | 2/3 | The platform sits inline in the request flow enforcing policy on every agent tool call, so removing it reabsorbs tuned policies and the runtime enforcement point, expensive in effort rather than a clean swap. No multi-year integration depth is independently evidenced. |
| Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. | 1/3 | No federal authorization or regulatory mandate that Cequence itself holds appears in the fetched record, only the EU AI Act and Anthropic safety levels its launch materials cite as reference points, and those obligations sit with the customer rather than the vendor. |
| Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. | 3/3 | Detecting and blocking attacks, bot abuse, and agent misuse in real time across more than 10 billion daily API transactions at Fortune and Global 500 scale is hard engineering that Menlo's diligence names as the differentiator. |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 3/3 | Cequence sells to CISOs at Fortune and Global 500 enterprises and names flagship accounts such as Saudi Aramco and JD Sports, with recent banking and government wins reinforcing a regulated buyer identity. |
| Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. | 2/3 | The AI Gateway enforces policy inline and can block agent actions, and the cited pages describe the platform operating at runtime in the request flow. Alongside that enforcement it also runs discovery and governance functions, so the product spans an enforcement layer and a management layer rather than sitting purely on the critical path. |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. | 1/3 | A decade of bot and API attack telemetry across more than 10 billion daily transactions is operating history, but the record names no retained non-public dataset or cross-customer reuse mechanism, an asset a funded rival with comparable traffic could rebuild. The CTO's patents read as team credibility, not evidenced company IP. |
Cequence sells globally to large enterprises whose internet-facing applications draw automated abuse. The company reports defending Fortune and Global 500 customers and building teams across five countries, and the record-quarter wire places recent demand in digital banking, fintech, and government across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. The segmentation follows API exposure and regulatory pressure rather than a single vertical.
The newest demand signal is current, which matters for a company a decade past founding. The AI Gateway was announced July 22, 2025, with availability listed for August 2025, after the current agent-tooling generation arrived, and the company reframed its pitch around agent access rather than leaving it where the API security market settled. Competitive wins reported for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 are recent rather than legacy traction.
The economic buyer the materials address is the CISO who already owns an application and API security line, while the agent-access framing targets the same leader confronting unsanctioned AI adoption. Persona detail below that level stays general on public pages, and no pricing page reveals segment tiers.
The claimed advantage is inline enforcement built on behavioral context from a decade of traffic. Menlo Ventures describes the differentiator as detecting API vulnerabilities and blocking them in real time rather than only reporting them, and the company reports inspecting more than 10 billion daily API transactions. The platform combines API discovery, bot management, and protection so one system finds APIs, watches their traffic, and stops attacks, abuse, and fraud.
The 2025 AI Gateway extends that enforcement to agent traffic. The product connects AI agents to enterprise and SaaS applications with no-code onboarding and enforces policy inline in the request flow on every tool call, and its page notes that independent agentic zero-trust research by Chase Cunningham and Anthropic reached the same architecture Cequence had already shipped.
External validation runs through investors and vendor-cited research rather than open artifacts. Investor Menlo Ventures describes real-time blocking as the differentiator, and Cequence's own page says outside zero-trust research reached the same architecture, while the site exposes no public documentation portal or self-service trial, so the depth is real but vendor-mediated.
Cequence runs a hired, channel-assisted enterprise motion appropriate to its maturity. The CEO reports building teams across five countries and personally closing flagship deals, the stage-appropriate shape for a decade-old company where founders fronting every sale would be the warning sign. A published executive bench spans engineering, finance, marketing, and regional sales leadership.
Regional expansion drives the recent motion. The Prosperity7 Ventures investment in 2023 was framed as fueling Middle East growth, and the record-quarter wire reports new banking, fintech, and government wins across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE with two competitive displacements of incumbents during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026.
The visible entry point for agent access is a demo request. The AI Gateway promises no-code onboarding that connects agents to applications quickly, but its calls to action are demos rather than a self-serve trial, and enterprise platform deals run through direct sales and partners.
Cequence publishes no pricing, which signals negotiated enterprise deals aimed at procurement rather than self-service adoption. The public pages give an evaluator no unit to weigh against the size of the problem, the pattern that fits a vendor selling into an established budget line.
The unit the platform charges by is not disclosed. Nothing public states whether Cequence prices by API traffic volume, transaction count, or another measure, or whether AI Gateway coverage prices separately from API and bot protection, a question the agentic expansion makes commercially significant at renewal.
No free tier or self-serve trial appears on the fetched pages. The AI Gateway markets no-code onboarding while routing prospects to a demo, and what a paid contract bundles is not disclosed on the fetched pages.
Delivery centers on inline enforcement in the request flow. The AI Gateway page describes policy enforced inline for the full session on every tool call, and Menlo describes the platform blocking API attacks in real time, so the product sits on the critical path for agent and API traffic rather than only observing out of band.
Time-to-value claims center on rapid enablement. The AI Gateway markets no-code, no-risk connection of agents to enterprise applications, and the platform reports operating at a scale of more than 10 billion daily transactions. Operational collateral such as published SLAs, uptime commitments, or a status page does not appear among the pages reviewed.
Cequence sells governance and control as core platform value, which raises the bar for its own attestations. The platform pages position the product as the security, governance, and control layer for applications and agent access, and the AI Gateway launch cites the EU AI Act and Anthropic's safety levels as the guardrail reference points the agentic rush is outpacing.
Cequence's trust center at trust.cequence.ai documents a SOC 2 Type II report, ISO 27001:2022, and PCI DSS v4.0.1, with an executive penetration-test report, so its attestation posture is current and inspectable as of June 2026. The banking and government wins the company reports align with that documented posture.
Cequence positions as a platform spanning discovery, bot management, API protection, and agent access on one system. The product pages present these as a single platform protecting applications and data, and the AI Gateway extends the same enforcement engine to agent tool calls, so the modules share the runtime inspection point rather than operating as disconnected tools.
Distribution assets exist that a copycat could not assemble by writing software alone. Marquee accounts such as Saudi Aramco, a decade of enterprise relationships, operating teams across five countries, and the reported Middle East expansion are distribution assets built over years. The moat holds better against startups than against edge and gateway platforms that already sit in the traffic flow.
Third parties building on Cequence are not visible. The ecosystem runs inward, with the platform inspecting customer traffic, rather than outward through public APIs and an app marketplace, so network-effect platform economics remain ambition rather than evidence.
Co-founders Ameya Talwalkar and Shreyans Mehta both came from Symantec, where Talwalkar led malware-prevention engineering and Mehta was Architect and Technical Director on a network-security platform. Mehta holds several patents in network security, and both have run Cequence since 2014.
A decade of operation backs the bios with execution. The team grew the company to Fortune and Global 500 customers, built teams across five countries, and closed flagship deals the CEO names directly, the sustained build that matters more than a single credential for buyer-facing credibility.
The public technical record is lighter than the customer record. The founders' patents and Symantec platform work are verifiable, and the fetched record shows customer outcomes more than a public research voice, so the credibility comes from prior builds and customer results.
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | Cequence homepage | official | 2026-06-20 |
| f2 | About Cequence page (CEO and co-founder Ameya Talwalkar bio) | official | 2026-06-20 |
| f3 | Cequence AI Gateway launch announcement (GlobeNewswire, July 22, 2025) | press | 2026-06-20 |
| f4 | Cequence adds $60M Series C to improve API security (TechCrunch, December 15, 2021) | press | 2026-06-20 |
| f5 | Cequence AI Gateway product page | official | 2026-06-20 |
| f6 | Cequence Platform products page | official | 2026-06-20 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Cequence homepage “The Cequence platform enables organizations to secure and govern how humans, bots, and AI agents access your applications and data, while powering AI-fueled productivity and growth at enterprise scale.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s2 | Cequence Platform products page “Cequence's platform gives organizations the security, governance, and control they need to protect their applications and data against attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s3 | Cequence AI Gateway product page “The gateway enforces policy inline in the request flow, for the full session, on every tool call. Independent research from Dr. Chase Cunningham and Anthropic arrived at the same architecture Cequence had already built.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s4 | About Cequence page (CEO Ameya Talwalkar bio) “He founded the company in 2014 with a bold vision: to protect the digital connections powering the modern world. Today, Cequence safeguards over 10 billion daily API transactions and defends more than $10 trillion in assets for Fortune and Global 500 enterprises.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s5 | About Cequence page (CTO Shreyans Mehta bio) “Shreyans Mehta is an innovator in network security and holds several patents in the field. Before co-founding Cequence Security, he was Architect and Technical Director at Symantec.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s6 | Cequence adds $60M Series C to improve API security (TechCrunch, December 15, 2021) “in February 2019, the company had just closed a $17 million Series B and was concentrating on security to protect business logic. While it still does that, it has shifted focus to API security, and today it announced a $60 million Series C. Menlo Ventures led the latest round” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s7 | Cequence AI Gateway launch announcement (GlobeNewswire, July 22, 2025) “For CISOs and security-first engineering leaders, the rush to expose applications to agentic AI is outpacing guardrails such as those outlined by the EU AI Act and Anthropic's ASL.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s8 | Cequence posts record quarter closing largest deal in company history (Cyber Defense Wire, June 2026) “The Middle East emerged as a standout region for Cequence in Q4 FY26, with new customer wins spanning digital banking, fintech, and government verticals across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. In two separate competitive evaluations, Cequence was selected over incumbent vendors.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s9 | Menlo Ventures on its investment in Cequence Security (December 15, 2021) “Cequence is unique in that it can detect API vulnerabilities but also block them in real time.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s10 | About Cequence page (CEO bio, marquee deals) “He has driven the company's global expansion, built high-performing teams across five countries, and personally secured flagship deals with enterprises like Saudi Aramco and JD Sports.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s11 | Salt Security comparison page (Akamai acquired Noname) “Akamai acquired Noname in 2024 to add API discovery to its edge and WAF platform.” | other | 2026-06-20 |
| s12 | Cequence secures investment from Prosperity7 Ventures (April 19, 2023) “Cequence Security, the leading provider of Unified API Protection (UAP), today announced Prosperity7 Ventures, has made an investment in the company.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s13 | Cequence Trust Center “Compliance: SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS v4.0.1, ISO 27001:2022. Resources: Executive Report Pen Test.” | official | 2026-06-24 |
| s14 | SEC Form D, Cequence Security Inc. (CIK 1731265, filed 2019-03-08) “Total Offering Amount $ 17,000,082 USD or Indefinite Total Amount Sold $ 13,584,999 USD” | regulatory | 2026-06-30 |
| s15 | Gartner Peer Insights, Cequence Unified Application Protection Platform (API Protection market) “Cequence Unified Application Protection Platform by Cequence Security in API Protection 4.7 (44 Ratings)” | research | 2026-06-30 |
| s16 | OpenCorporates registry record, Cequence Security Inc. “CEQUENCE SECURITY, INC. (Delaware (US), 5411983) (Delaware (US)) Trademarks: Stealth Security VELOCITY MANAGER STEALTH SECURITY HONEY TRAP” | regulatory | 2026-06-30 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Cequence homepage “The Cequence platform enables organizations to secure and govern how humans, bots, and AI agents access your applications and data, while powering AI-fueled productivity and growth at enterprise scale.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s2 | Cequence Platform products page “Cequence's platform gives organizations the security, governance, and control they need to protect their applications and data against attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s3 | Cequence AI Gateway product page “The gateway enforces policy inline in the request flow, for the full session, on every tool call. Independent research from Dr. Chase Cunningham and Anthropic arrived at the same architecture Cequence had already built.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s4 | About Cequence page (CEO Ameya Talwalkar bio) “Today, Cequence safeguards over 10 billion daily API transactions and defends more than $10 trillion in assets for Fortune and Global 500 enterprises.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s5 | About Cequence page (CTO Shreyans Mehta bio) “Shreyans Mehta is an innovator in network security and holds several patents in the field. Before co-founding Cequence Security, he was Architect and Technical Director at Symantec.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s6 | Menlo Ventures on its investment in Cequence Security (December 15, 2021) “Cequence is unique in that it can detect API vulnerabilities but also block them in real time.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s7 | Cequence AI Gateway launch announcement (GlobeNewswire, July 22, 2025) “For CISOs and security-first engineering leaders, the rush to expose applications to agentic AI is outpacing guardrails such as those outlined by the EU AI Act and Anthropic's ASL.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s8 | Cequence posts record quarter closing largest deal in company history (Cyber Defense Wire, June 2026) “The Middle East emerged as a standout region for Cequence in Q4 FY26, with new customer wins spanning digital banking, fintech, and government verticals across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. In two separate competitive evaluations, Cequence was selected over incumbent vendors.” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s9 | About Cequence page (CEO bio, marquee deals) “He has driven the company's global expansion, built high-performing teams across five countries, and personally secured flagship deals with enterprises like Saudi Aramco and JD Sports.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s10 | Salt Security comparison page (Akamai acquired Noname) “Akamai acquired Noname in 2024 to add API discovery to its edge and WAF platform.” | other | 2026-06-20 |
| s11 | Cequence adds $60M Series C to improve API security (TechCrunch, December 15, 2021) “it has shifted focus to API security, and today it announced a $60 million Series C. Menlo Ventures led the latest round” | press | 2026-06-20 |
| s12 | Cequence secures investment from Prosperity7 Ventures (April 19, 2023) “Cequence Security, the leading provider of Unified API Protection (UAP), today announced Prosperity7 Ventures, has made an investment in the company.” | official | 2026-06-20 |
| s13 | Cequence Trust Center “Compliance: SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS v4.0.1, ISO 27001:2022. Resources: Executive Report Pen Test.” | official | 2026-06-24 |
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