Guardare

What Guardare does

Guardare is an AI-powered unified cybersecurity SaaS platform that consolidates exposure management across identity, endpoint, cloud, and application environments into a single risk-prioritized view. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Clearwater, Florida (Delaware-incorporated), the company positions itself as a 'Unified Exposure Management' layer rather than a replacement for existing EDR, MDR, SIEM, SOAR, or GRC tools — its read-only API integrations with 100+ (reportedly 160+ as of 2025) platforms ingest normalized telemetry and apply AI to surface, score, and prioritize risks across people, devices, and software.

The platform's core technology combines Azure AI search with proprietary in-house models using Graph Neural Networks, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and graph-based retrieval, anchored by a continuously updated cybersecurity knowledge base trained on NIST, ISO, SOC2, CIS, MITRE ATT&CK, and CVSS frameworks. Flagship components include the Spider Chart AI Dashboard (multidimensional risk visualization), GuardMap (network asset mapping with initial setup under 10 minutes), GuardScan (proprietary NMAP-based on-premise network scanning agent), and a custom risk algorithm that assigns measurable baseline scores at both organization and individual employee levels. The product supports compliance with SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001.

Guardare monetizes through a per-user-per-month SaaS subscription with quote-based pricing, multi-year discounts, and a hybrid go-to-market combining product-led growth (self-serve beta signup with ~45-minute onboarding), enterprise field sales, and a channel-first motion targeting MSPs, MSSPs, and resellers. The company serves three primary segments — startups and SMBs (its smallest end, positioned as 'first cybersecurity analyst'), mid-market and enterprise customers requiring unified risk visibility, and MSPs/MSSPs requiring multi-tenant dashboards with per-client data isolation. As of early 2026, Guardare has begun international expansion into the United Kingdom and Ireland via channel partnerships and has raised $5.1M in seed funding (2025) with a planned additional exempt offering of approximately $6.99M.

Name

Guardare

Legal name

Guardare, Inc.

Website

https://guardare.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Guardare is an AI-powered unified cybersecurity SaaS platform that consolidates exposure management across identity, endpoint, cloud, and applications for startups, SMBs, enterprises, and MSPs/MSSPs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Unified Exposure Management / Cybersecurity SaaS

NAICS

Security Systems Services (56162), Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) (561621)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Vulnerability Assessment & Scanning (HDADAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG)

Keywords

• Unified exposure management
• Cybersecurity SaaS platform
• AI risk scoring
• Security stack optimization
• Compliance automation

Headquarters

HQ city

Clearwater

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Guardare operates as a SaaS platform with subscription-based pricing. Customers pay per user per month based on actual usage. There are no hidden fees or surprise charges after signing. The pricing scales with organization size, goals, and growth stage. Multi-year plans including 3-year agreements are available with discounts. Additional seats can be added beyond subscription allotment, with follow-up to update seat counts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Guardare is an AI-powered Unified Exposure Management SaaS platform that aggregates telemetry from existing identity, endpoint, training, cloud, and application security tools via read-only API integrations. The platform uses Azure AI search combined with proprietary models (Graph Neural Networks, RAG, and a custom risk algorithm) to deliver real-time, explainable risk scoring across users, devices, and applications, with audit-ready compliance mapping to NIST, ISO, SOC 2, CIS, and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks. Core components include the Spider Chart AI Dashboard, GuardMap asset mapping, and the GuardScan on-premise network scanner.

Product overview

Guardare is an AI-powered unified cybersecurity platform (Unified Exposure Management) that consolidates IT, security protocols, and compliance into a single platform. The core offering consists of the Guardare Platform, GuardScan (network scanning agent), Spider Chart AI Dashboard (for risk visualization), and GuardMap (network asset mapping tool). The platform uses AI to correlate risks across identity, endpoint, cloud, and application data, delivering real-time visibility and prioritized risk recommendations. Guardare serves startups/SMBs, enterprises, and MSPs/MSSPs, with pricing based on per-user-per-month model. The company has also developed free tools and exposure management resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Guardare Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• 60.44% of organizations assessed uncover highly critical exposures
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration13 records

AI capability9 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Amicis GroupcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 28 January 2026Strategic partnership with Amicis Group marking Guardare's second UKI market partnership within two weeks of the Cyber Protection UK announcement. Strengthens Guardare's channel presence and market access in the UK through established local partner relationships.
• Cyber Protection UKcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 14 January 2026Strategic channel partnership marking Guardare's official expansion into the United Kingdom and Ireland market. The agreement represents a significant milestone in Guardare's international expansion and strengthens access to modern cybersecurity solutions in the UK market. This was the first UK partnership announcement.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Brinqa: Brinqa is a cybersecurity exposure management platform that aggregates vulnerability, asset, and threat data into a unified risk view — directly overlapping with Guardare's 'Unified Exposure Management' positioning and explicitly named by Guardare as a comparable vendor.
• Balbix: Balbix uses AI to quantify cyber risk across assets and users and prioritize remediation; it is named as a direct competitor in Guardare's own resource center and competes for the same exposure-management budget.
• CardinalOps: CardinalOps applies AI to security operations telemetry (SIEM/EDR) to surface coverage gaps and detection issues, intersecting Guardare's value prop of finding misconfigurations and gaps across an existing security stack.
• Axonius: Axonius is a cybersecurity asset management platform that unifies asset data from existing security and IT tools — the same core problem Guardare solves at the user/device/application level, making it a closely comparable direct peer.
• Vulcan Cyber: Vulcan Cyber is a vulnerability remediation and exposure management platform that ingests data from multiple scanners and security tools to prioritize and orchestrate fixes — overlapping closely with Guardare's risk-prioritization layer.
• JupiterOne: JupiterOne is a cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) platform that creates a unified graph of assets, users, and applications — directly comparable to Guardare's GuardMap and unified exposure-management thesis.

Broad incumbents

• Tenable: Tenable is a large incumbent in vulnerability and exposure management (Nessus, Tenable One); it competes for the same exposure-management budget but offers a much broader, more established platform portfolio than Guardare.
• Rapid7: Rapid7 provides InsightVM (vulnerability management), InsightConnect (SOAR), and Metasploit; it competes with Guardare in vulnerability prioritization and security stack unification but as part of a much wider portfolio.
• Wiz: Wiz (now part of Google) is a leading cloud security platform with exposure/graph-based risk prioritization that increasingly overlaps with Guardare's exposure-management positioning, particularly for cloud and identity risk.
• CrowdStrike: CrowdStrike's Falcon platform combines EDR, XDR, exposure management (Falcon Exposure Management), and SIEM; it is an integration partner of Guardare but also a strategic competitor as it expands its own unified visibility layer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/guardare

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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