Lightspeed and AWS are proud to recognize this year’s Fortune Cyber 60 Winners

Today, Lightspeed is excited to unveil the third edition of the Fortune Cyber 60, presented by AWS, which recognizes the top 60 cybersecurity startups in the market today. Get it here:

The 2025-26 Cyber 60, presented by AWS

Lightspeed has also published our third annual CISO Survey, exploring the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. We surveyed 200 CISOs at companies with $500M+ in revenue to understand the current threat landscape, investment priorities, and the critical skills gap reshaping the security market.

Get the full report here: The Cyber 60, presented by Fortune and Lightspeed

The data reveals a market at an inflection point:

1. AI attacks have moved from theoretical to operational:

2. The skills gap is the primary bottleneck:

3. Investment is urgent and universal:

To explore these findings and discover the five high-priority opportunity areas we've identified for builders in cybersecurity, please visit lsvp.com/cyber60.

Download and share the full report

We've created a PDF version of the Cyber 60 and CISO Survey you can download to share with colleagues, customers, and anyone you think will find value in this report.

You can also read our blog, which discusses these findings in more detail and discusses the solutions some of our winners are building to address the cybersecurity threat/opportunity driven by the emergence of AI.

Please also visit Fortune's presentation of the Cyber 60 report to learn more about the winning companies.

We're grateful to Fortune for their partnership in ensuring rigorous, objective research, and to AWS for presenting this work to the security community.

-Team Lightspeed