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QIZ Security sells a platform that finds the cryptography an organization runs, ranks the riskiest uses, and plans the migration to quantum-resistant algorithms. A July 2026 announcement put its seed round at $17 million, led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Merlin Ventures, and in its first year it announced a Google Cloud collaboration and joined the CrowdStrike and AWS accelerator and the PKI Consortium. The company's public disclosures run to partnerships, not customers: the reviewed record has no customer name, price, or product documentation, and the 100-plus organizations it cites are ones it says it has worked with on PQC readiness, not named deployments. The vendor offers demos and proof-of-concept engagements, so buyers evaluate privately what the public record does not show.
| Description | Cryptographic posture management company whose platform discovers an organization's cryptographic assets, ranks the risks by context and impact, and guides remediation and the migration to post-quantum cryptography. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2025 | [f2] |
| HQ | Ra'anana, Israel, with a US address in Lewes, Delaware | [f3] |
| Funding | $17M total | [f4] |
| Latest funding | Seed, $17 million (announced July 2026), led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Merlin Ventures | [f4] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| QIZ Cryptography Management Platform | Discovers cryptographic assets across infrastructure, applications, and data stores, ranks risks by context and impact, and produces remediation plans for post-quantum readiness. |
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 platform inventories cryptography across applications, data stores, and network protocols and guides post-quantum migration. QIZ Security defends conventional cryptographic infrastructure and is mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix. [f1]
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. | 4/5 | QIZ defines the problem as unmanaged cryptography blocking post-quantum migration and names CISOs, compliance teams, and application owners as the stakeholders. Jerusalem Post coverage of the Cyberweek panel and trade reporting on the Google Cloud deal corroborate the pain and its timeline beyond vendor marketing. [s1, s6, s12] |
| Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs and third-party validation. | 2/5 | Capability claims live only on marketing pages, with no public documentation, demo environment, or third-party technical evaluation. The one product surface visible in public sources is the TLS PQC Enablement dashboard in the Business Wire release. [s1, s5, s7] |
| Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. | 4/5 | Cyberweek panelists put quantum decryption roughly three years out against five-to-ten-year enterprise migrations, Google Cloud partnered into the space in May 2026, and trade coverage describes post-quantum preparedness becoming an operational category. Experts describe adversaries harvesting encrypted data now to decrypt later, and trade coverage reports that Google and Cloudflare target 2029 for post-quantum security while the White House recommends businesses adopt post-quantum cryptography by 2035. [s6, s12, s7, s8] |
| Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. | 3/5 | Three named co-founders lead the company, Ben Volkow’s PKI Consortium biography describes 20 years of networking and cyber CEO roles with PKI and cryptography, and the Jerusalem Post presents him as a Cyberweek expert. Prior builds or exits are not press-verified in the sources reviewed here, and the advisor roster is self-published. [s2, s6, s8] |
| GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. | 3/5 | A Google Cloud collaboration, an accelerator deal recorded by PitchBook, and a standards-body membership evidence a real motion, but no customer is named anywhere public. The vendor’s 100-plus-organizations figure describes the founders’ prior readiness work, so the score stays at adequate. [s7, s5, s12, s2] |
| Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. | 3/5 | PitchBook records a $10M seed, a figure the other reviewed sources do not repeat, and people from Bessemer Venture Partners, Merlin Ventures, and Qbeat Ventures sit on its board and advisory roster, backing that matches an enterprise motion in a deep-expertise category. Within a year the company shipped a platform, joined an accelerator, and partnered with Google Cloud. Deployment evidence and revenue remain undisclosed, which keeps the score at baseline. [s5, s7, s9, s13] |
| Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. | 3/5 | Cryptographic posture management is an emerging label that the company’s own release and independent trade coverage both use, and several vendors sell into the same post-quantum readiness programs. No established budget line exists yet, so buyers still need help placing the purchase. [s7, s12, s2] |
| Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. | 2/5 | Cryptographic discovery and PQC readiness reporting are plausible feature additions for certificate, key-management, and machine-identity incumbents already deployed with the same buyers, and cloud providers operate the encryption endpoints themselves. No proprietary data flywheel or workflow lock-in is visible in public materials. [s1, s7] |
QIZ Security sells visibility into the cryptography an organization already runs, framed as the prerequisite for the move to post-quantum algorithms. The homepage describes cryptography as fragmented, hidden, and hard to manage, and positions the platform as the way to answer what cryptography the organization uses, where it runs, and what to fix first. The named stakeholders are CISOs, compliance teams, and application owners.
Independent coverage corroborates the urgency framing. Experts speaking at Tel Aviv Cyberweek in January 2026 put the preparation window at roughly three years, while a typical organization needs five to ten years to become quantum safe, according to Jerusalem Post coverage. Ben Volkow, the QIZ Security CEO, called the gap one of the biggest cyber challenges of the decade on that panel.
The buyer pressure is regulatory as much as technical. The company’s Google Cloud announcement aims the joint offering at financial services, government, telecommunications, and critical infrastructure, and trade coverage of the announcement describes post-quantum preparedness becoming an operational program rather than a thought exercise. [s1, s6, s7, s12]
The QIZ Cryptography Management Platform covers four marketed stages: discovery, prioritization, remediation, and governance. The homepage describes mapping cryptographic assets against policy, ranking findings by context, impact, and remediation effort, producing step-by-step remediation plans, and building crypto-agility across the organization. The company states the platform connects through APIs rather than agents or probes and covers data in transit and at rest, from on-premises systems to cloud.
Public evidence for these capabilities stops at marketing prose. QIZ publishes no product documentation and no demo environment, the site carries a blog link but no technical blog content appeared in the reviewed materials, and the demo sits behind a sales form. PitchBook’s profile describes continuous discovery and inventory across infrastructure, applications, code, third-party components, and data stores, a more granular account that still traces back to company materials.
One indirect signal adds texture. The Google Cloud release shows a TLS PQC Enablement dashboard, the one product surface visible in public materials. [s1, s5, s7, s4]
QIZ Security positions itself as the management layer for cryptographic risk rather than a supplier of cryptography. The company frames the offering around crypto-agility and leans on the founding team’s prior PQC work with more than 100 organizations as proof it understands the migration journey.
The competitive set spans specialists and incumbents. SandboxAQ and QuSecure sell into the same post-quantum readiness budgets, Keyfactor and Entrust bring certificate and PKI install bases, and CyberArk’s machine-identity products already manage the certificates and keys QIZ wants to discover. Cloud providers sit closest of all, since they operate the TLS endpoints and key-management services a discovery platform inventories.
The differentiation claim centers on organizational context and breadth, connecting scattered cryptographic findings into one prioritized map that several stakeholders share. No third party has publicly tested that claim, and no comparative evaluation of the category appears in the cited record. [s2, s1, s7, s15]
QIZ Security runs a demo-led enterprise motion with no public customer evidence. Every call to action routes to a booking form, pricing is unpublished, and no case study or named customer appears in any reviewed material. The company says it has worked with more than 100 organizations on PQC readiness, a figure that reads as the founding team’s prior readiness record rather than platform customers.
Ecosystem motion supplies the visible traction. QIZ announced a Google Cloud collaboration in May 2026 for unified cryptographic risk visibility across cloud and on-premises environments. CrowdStrike’s January 2026 release names QIZ Security in the cybersecurity startup accelerator cohort it runs with AWS and NVIDIA, PitchBook records an accelerator deal, and the PKI Consortium lists QIZ Security as a member since January 2026.
Ben Volkow fronts the public selling. He speaks on conference panels, announces the company’s milestones, and appears as the company’s voice in every press item reviewed. A commercial organization is now visibly forming: the careers page advertises a Sales Engineer opening on the US East Coast, described in the posting as the initial SE hire in North America, covering discovery, demos, architecture discussions, POCs, design-partner work, and channel enablement. The role reports to a Head of Sales, North America, whom no public page names. [s4, s2, s7, s5, s14, s8, s6, s3, s9]
Three co-founders lead QIZ Security: Ben Volkow as CEO, Lenny Ridel as CTO, and Itan Barmes as CSO. Ben’s PKI Consortium biography describes 20 years of CEO roles in networking and cyber, working with PKI and cryptography, and the Jerusalem Post presents him as a Cyberweek panel expert. Independent verification of the other founders’ backgrounds is absent from the reviewed sources.
The board and advisory roster adds weight beyond the founders. Amit Karp, a Bessemer Venture Partners partner, and Seth Spergel, the Merlin Ventures managing partner, hold board seats. Advisors include Benny Schnaider, a co-founder of Ravello and Qumranet, Colin Bell, a former CEO of HSBC Bank PLC and HSBC Europe, and Dorit Dor, a co-founder of Qbeat Ventures. The roster is self-published on the company page, so the titles come from QIZ rather than independent reporting.
The experience claims that anchor the pitch remain vendor claims. The company page states more than 6 years of PQC field experience and work with more than 100 organizations, figures no third party corroborates in the reviewed sources. [s2, s8, s6, s13]
QIZ Security publishes no trust artifacts in the reviewed pages. The homepage, company, careers, and demo pages show no SOC 2 or ISO claims, no trust center, no security documentation, and no vulnerability disclosure policy. A vendor that wants to hold the map of a customer’s weakest cryptography will face that gap early in regulated-sector procurement.
Membership in the PKI Consortium since January 2026 places the company inside the standards community whose guidance its buyers follow. Public sources do not document which deployment models the company offers, so regulated buyers weighing where the cryptographic inventory would live must ask inside the sales process. [s8, s2]
| Company | Relationship | Note | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|
| SandboxAQ | competes with | Quantum-focused vendor whose security products sell cryptographic asset discovery and management into the same post-quantum readiness budgets. | N/AWe scored these companies at different scopes, so the totals measure different things. |
| QuSecure | competes with | Post-quantum cryptography vendor whose orchestration products target the same enterprise migration programs. | |
| Keyfactor | competes with | Machine-identity and PKI management vendor selling crypto-agility tooling to the same enterprise buyers from an established install base. | |
| Entrust | adjacent | PKI and certificate incumbent whose post-quantum migration offerings sit next to QIZ’s discovery foothold in the same accounts. | |
| CyberArk | adjacent | Identity-security platform whose machine-identity products manage the certificates and keys QIZ discovers, a natural absorption path. | N/AThese companies operate in different domains, so the scores reflect readiness in different markets. |
| IBM | adjacent | Platform incumbent whose quantum-safe services and consulting reach the same regulated buyers through existing relationships. | N/AIBM is scored by product line, not as a whole company, so there is no company-wide column to compare. Open its profile to compare a specific product. |
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What little protects QIZ Security comes mainly from its buyers, not its product. It aims at financial services, government, telecommunications, and critical-infrastructure firms whose procurement and legal review slow any vendor switch, and a deployed installation holds the customer's cryptographic inventory and remediation plans a rival would rebuild. Nothing else in the record resists copying. The platform sells as software with no public accountability offer, and the record shows no certification or regulatory mandate for cryptographic posture tools. The six years of PQC fieldwork QIZ cites is founder experience a funded rival could re-earn rather than proprietary data the company holds. Being early into a category regulators are pushing is a head start, not yet a durable advantage.
| 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 would buy the platform as software, its license form undisclosed, and no managed service, audit role, or accountability offer is public. The field-experience heritage informs the product but is not sold as the product. |
| Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. | 2/3 | A deployed installation holds the customer’s cryptographic inventory, policies, and remediation plans, and API integrations across a customer’s estate take effort to rebuild. Nothing public adds network effects or regulatory data residency beyond that operational friction. |
| Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. | 1/3 | PQC guidance and future deadlines create urgency, but QIZ shows no vendor-specific certification, authorization, or mandated reporting role. The reviewed record shows no regulation naming cryptographic posture platforms as required tooling, so the category pull stops short of protecting any single vendor. |
| Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. | 2/3 | Cryptographic discovery, dependency mapping, and PQC migration planning demand scarce domain expertise, and the team claims six years of PQC fieldwork as its differentiator. Public evidence of hard technology, benchmarks, or operating scale is absent, which keeps the demonstrated complexity moderate. |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 3/3 | The company aims at financial services, government, telecommunications, and critical infrastructure, buyers whose procurement and legal review gate any replacement. The Google Cloud collaboration targets the same regulated set. |
| Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. | 1/3 | The platform is a posture-management application for security and compliance teams. No production workflow or third-party application depends on it to function, and removing it costs visibility rather than uptime. |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. | 1/3 | No proprietary dataset, threat feed, or licensed content is claimed publicly. The record describes no use of customer inventory data beyond each customer, and the methodology is founder experience rather than an accumulating asset a rival could not re-earn. |
QIZ Security targets regulated enterprises preparing for post-quantum migration. The Google Cloud announcement names financial services, government, telecommunications, and critical infrastructure as the aimed-at sectors, and the urgency argument the company makes publicly, migrations of five to ten years against a three-to-five-year quantum timeline, lands hardest on exactly those buyers.
The pitch names three personas inside each account. The homepage describes CISOs, compliance teams, and application owners collaborating on crypto-agility, which positions the purchase as an organization-wide program rather than a single team’s tool, and the demo page addresses CISOs, architects, and developers in the same multi-stakeholder frame.
Geography follows the company’s footprint and channels. QIZ operates from Ra’anana in Israel with a US address in Delaware, and its open go-to-market role is a US East Coast Sales Engineer aimed at financial services, critical infrastructure, federal, and large enterprise accounts. The newest public proof of demand is the May 2026 Google Cloud collaboration, an ecosystem signal rather than a customer one, and no case study or named account appears anywhere in the reviewed sources.
The platform’s marketed loop runs discover, prioritize, remediate, govern. QIZ describes mapping cryptographic assets against policy, revealing vulnerabilities and dependencies, ranking findings by context, impact, and remediation effort, and producing step-by-step plans, with governance and policy enforcement as the continuing layer. Coverage claims span data in transit and at rest, from unencrypted databases to weak cipher suites and outdated TLS, across on-premises and cloud estates.
The architecture claim is API-first. The homepage states no agents, no probes, no friction, just APIs that plug into the enterprise fabric, with room for other methods where they make sense. That choice lowers deployment friction and matches the posture-management pattern buyers know from cloud security, and while the vendor leaves room for other methods where they make sense, what non-API discovery covers is not addressed publicly.
No AI or proprietary-data advantage is claimed. The marketing language emphasizes automation and contextual insight without specific machine-learning claims, and nothing public describes a dataset that accumulates across customers. The advantage the company does claim is methodological, more than six years of PQC fieldwork across over 100 organizations, which is experience held by people rather than a data moat held by the product.
Outside verification is not yet possible. QIZ publishes no documentation, sandbox, or third-party evaluation, and the product artifacts in the reviewed materials are marketing images: a TLS PQC Enablement dashboard in the Google Cloud release plus knowledge-graph, structure-mapping, and insight-card visuals on the site.
QIZ appears to run a demo-gated enterprise motion, with founder visibility in the public selling moments. Every call to action routes to a booking form, prices are unpublished, and Ben Volkow fronts the public selling at conference panels and in press items, though no reviewed source establishes that the founders directly run the sales organization. The commercial opening on the careers page is a US East Coast Sales Engineer who runs discovery, delivers demos and architecture discussions, supports POCs, helps design partners shape deployments, and supports channel-partner enablement. That role reports to a Head of Sales, North America, so a sales organization is taking shape beyond the founders even though no salesperson is publicly named.
Channels and ecosystems carry the visible distribution. The company-announced Google Cloud collaboration, carried via Business Wire with no Google-authored confirmation, points QIZ at regulated accounts, the CrowdStrike and AWS accelerator seat adds vendor-ecosystem proximity, and PKI Consortium membership puts the company inside the standards conversation its buyers follow. None of these yet shows up as a marketplace listing, reseller program, or published integration count that an imitator could not quickly assemble.
Customer proof is the missing layer. No named customer, case study, usage metric, or review-site presence appears in any reviewed source, and the company’s 100-plus-organizations figure describes organizations it says it has worked with on PQC readiness rather than named platform deployments. Beyond the accelerator seat, the Google Cloud collaboration, and the standards-body membership, no revenue disclosure, named logo, or independent review appears in the reviewed sources.
QIZ publishes no pricing and no packaging. The site offers a demo rather than a price list, and no tier names or charging units appear in the reviewed materials, nor does any marketplace listing appear in the reviewed source set. For a sales-led platform aimed at regulated enterprises, hidden pricing is consistent with negotiated deals though it does not establish deal size, and it also withholds the strongest public clue to how the company believes buyers measure the problem.
The eventual charging unit will be a strategic statement, because the natural options all carry tradeoffs. Per-asset pricing would penalize thorough discovery, the very behavior the product exists to create, while per-application or per-environment pricing would better match how compliance programs budget for migration. Nothing public indicates which direction QIZ has taken, so a buyer cannot yet compare the platform against alternatives on cost.
Public delivery detail is thin. The homepage claims coverage from on-premises systems to cloud, the Google Cloud release says the platform can deploy in Google Cloud environments, and current public pages do not state whether it otherwise ships as SaaS, customer-managed cloud, or an on-premises installation. A buyer weighing where the cryptographic inventory would run has no public answer.
The API-first architecture shapes the operational story. Integration through existing enterprise APIs avoids agent rollout and the friction that stalls posture-tool deployments, and the Google Cloud collaboration extends the same pattern, with the platform analyzing cryptographic risk across cloud and on-premises environments from inside Google Cloud.
Operational transparency is absent. No documentation portal, SLA, support-tier description, or data-residency statement is public, so a buyer’s operational diligence currently starts and ends inside the sales process.
No attestation was found by probe of the trust subdomain and the /security and /trust paths as of July 15, 2026, and the reviewed pages carry no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 claim, trust center, penetration-test summary, or vulnerability disclosure policy. The vendor asks customers to centralize an inventory of their weakest cryptography, among the most sensitive datasets a security tool can hold, and procurement teams in the targeted sectors will press exactly there.
Affiliation stands in for attestations today. PKI Consortium membership since January 2026 places the company inside the standards community, and the Business Wire release QIZ issued about the Google Cloud collaboration associates the brand with a hyperscaler's security marketing. Beyond the Google Cloud deployment option the release describes, public sources do not document the delivery models, so a buyer cannot yet tell whether the weakness map can stay inside its own boundary.
QIZ positions itself as a multi-stakeholder platform inside one account, not an ecosystem platform. The marketing describes CISOs, compliance teams, and application owners working from the same cryptographic map, which is breadth of internal audience rather than third parties building on QIZ, and nothing public exposes APIs for others to extend.
The partnership posture is ecosystem-taker rather than ecosystem-maker. QIZ plugs into Google Cloud’s push toward quantum-resistant cryptography and into the CrowdStrike and AWS accelerator’s orbit, sensible distribution borrowing for a seed-stage company. The risk inside that posture is dependency, since each of those partners operates platform layers that could absorb cryptographic posture reporting natively.
A possible category path, suggested by PKI Consortium CBOM activity rather than by QIZ’s own claims, runs through cryptographic bills of materials. If regulators and auditors converge on those inventories as standing audit evidence, the system holding an enterprise’s crypto inventory becomes the integration point for scanners, key managers, and GRC tools. QIZ’s public materials describe governance ambitions but do not yet claim that system-of-record role.
The founding trio matches the problem. Ben Volkow, the CEO, describes 20 years of chief-executive roles in networking and cyber, working with PKI and cryptography, in his PKI Consortium biography. Lenny Ridel is CTO and Itan Barmes is CSO, and the company presents its founders as serial entrepreneurs and cites over six years of PQC field experience and more than 100 organizations it has worked with on PQC readiness. Independent verification of the individual backgrounds is thin: Ben has conference visibility, and the funding release records that Itan Barmes previously led Deloitte's Global Quantum Cyber Readiness Team.
The board and advisors compensate for the company’s youth. Amit Karp of Bessemer Venture Partners and Seth Spergel of Merlin Ventures hold board seats, and the advisor list pairs deep-tech entrepreneurship from Benny Schnaider, a co-founder of Ravello and Qumranet, with regulated-industry credibility from Colin Bell, a former CEO of HSBC Bank PLC and HSBC Europe, and quantum-sector insight from Dorit Dor, a co-founder of Qbeat Ventures.
The execution gaps are the ones a seed-stage company expects. The careers page references a Head of Sales, North America, to whom the open Sales Engineer role reports, though no public page names the person, and the roster still shows no named sales or marketing leadership. Converting early PQC-readiness relationships into platform deals will test a team whose stated depth is technical and advisory.
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | QIZ Security homepage | official | 2026-06-11 |
| f2 | PitchBook profile for QIZ Security | research | 2026-06-11 |
| f3 | About QIZ Security page | official | 2026-06-11 |
| f4 | Industrial Cyber: QIZ Security secures $17 million (bot-walled live page, proven via the 2026-07-10 archive capture) | press | 2026-07-15 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | QIZ Security homepage “The QIZ Cryptography Management Platform was built for end-to-end discovery, prioritization, remediation, and governance.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s2 | About QIZ Security page “With over 6 years PQC field experience and +100 organizations that we’ve worked with on PQC readiness, we offer the market first next generation Crypto Agility platform.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s3 | QIZ Security careers page “You will own the technical thread in every customer and partner engagement: running discovery, delivering demos and architecture discussions, supporting POCs, and helping design partners shape how QIZ fits into their environments.” | official | 2026-07-01 |
| s4 | QIZ Security demo booking page “See how QIZ maps your cryptography in context, uncovers hidden risks, and guides you toward quantum-safe readiness.” | official | 2026-06-12 |
| s5 | PitchBook profile for QIZ Security “QIZ Security has raised $10M.” | research | 2026-06-12 |
| s6 | Jerusalem Post on the Cyberweek quantum panel “Organizations take about five to ten years to cross the chasm to become what is called quantum safe. And with estimates that quantum computing is coming in three years” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s7 | QIZ Google Cloud announcement via Business Wire “Today, QIZ Security is announcing a collaboration with Google Cloud to help enterprises accelerate their transition to quantum-resistant cryptography.” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s8 | PKI Consortium member page for QIZ Security “Member since: January 2026” | other | 2026-06-12 |
| s9 | VC Cafe Firgun newsletter on the stealth exit “Congrats Ben Volkow and team QIZ Security on coming out of stealth with an undisclosed seed round to manage cryptographic risk in dynamic environments!” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s10 | Merlin Ventures portfolio page | other | 2026-06-12 |
| s11 | Qbeat Ventures portfolio page for QIZ | other | 2026-06-12 |
| s12 | Hipther cybersecurity roundup on the QIZ Google Cloud deal “The segment also said Google and Cloudflare are targeting 2029 for post-quantum security on their systems, while the White House is recommending that businesses adopt post-quantum cryptography by 2035.” | press | 2026-06-12 |
| s13 | QIZ Security investor logos and board roster “Trusted by Leading Investors” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s14 | CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA 2026 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator cohort “Mate Security NANO Corp Nebari Nimble Security Opti Pluto Security QIZ Security Raven Sevii Simbian AI SurePath AI Synqly Tika Security” | press | 2026-07-01 |
| s15 | CyberArk Machine Identity Security product page “Manage and protect all machine identities, including secrets, certificates and workload identities” | other | 2026-07-01 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | QIZ Security homepage “API First Seamless integration with existing infrastructure. No agents, no probes, no friction, just APIs that plug into your enterprise fabric, with room for other methods where they make sense.” | official | 2026-06-11 |
| s2 | About QIZ Security page “With over 6 years PQC field experience and +100 organizations that we’ve worked with on PQC readiness, we offer the market first next generation Crypto Agility platform.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s3 | QIZ Security careers page “You will own the technical thread in every customer and partner engagement: running discovery, delivering demos and architecture discussions, supporting POCs, and helping design partners shape how QIZ fits into their environments.” | official | 2026-07-01 |
| s4 | QIZ Security demo booking page “See how QIZ maps your cryptography in context, uncovers hidden risks, and guides you toward quantum-safe readiness.” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s5 | PitchBook profile for QIZ Security “QIZ Security has raised $10M.” | research | 2026-06-11 |
| s6 | Jerusalem Post on the Cyberweek quantum panel “Organizations take about five to ten years to cross the chasm to become what is called quantum safe. And with estimates that quantum computing is coming in three years” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s7 | QIZ Google Cloud announcement via Business Wire “Today, QIZ Security is announcing a collaboration with Google Cloud to help enterprises accelerate their transition to quantum-resistant cryptography.” | press | 2026-06-18 |
| s8 | PKI Consortium member page for QIZ Security “performing CEO roles in the networking and cyber domain for the last 20 years, working with PKI and Cryptography” | other | 2026-06-11 |
| s9 | VC Cafe Firgun newsletter on the stealth exit “Congrats Ben Volkow and team QIZ Security on coming out of stealth with an undisclosed seed round to manage cryptographic risk in dynamic environments!” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s10 | Merlin Ventures portfolio page | other | 2026-06-11 |
| s11 | Qbeat Ventures portfolio page for QIZ | other | 2026-06-11 |
| s12 | Hipther cybersecurity roundup on the QIZ Google Cloud deal “QIZ says the collaboration is aimed at regulated sectors such as financial services, government, telecommunications, and critical infrastructure.” | press | 2026-06-11 |
| s13 | QIZ Security company page founders and Bessemer Venture Partners board seat “Ben Volkow CEO | Co-founder Lenny Ridel CTO | Co-founder Itan Barmes CSO | Co-founder” | official | 2026-06-18 |
| s14 | CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA 2026 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator cohort “Mate Security NANO Corp Nebari Nimble Security Opti Pluto Security QIZ Security Raven Sevii Simbian AI SurePath AI Synqly Tika Security” | press | 2026-06-13 |
| s15 | QIZ trust probe 2026-07-15 (trust. subdomain, /security and /trust paths, static fetch): subdomain unresolved, paths 404, no attestation found “QIZ Security” | official | 2026-07-15 |
| s16 | Industrial Cyber: QIZ Security secures $17 million (bot-walled live page, proven via the 2026-07-10 archive capture) “QIZ Security announced a US$17 million seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Merlin Ventures” | press | 2026-07-15 |
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