The hottest cybersecurity startups to watch in 2023, according to VCs

R2C built a software around Semgrep that makes the technology more accessible and easier for companies to use and build the most up-to-date version of Semgrep.R2C was founded in 2017 by Drew Dennison, Isaac Evans, and Luke OMalley. The question is how do you recover from [the attack] quickly, and reduce the impact from two months or two weeks down to five minutes.Founded in 2021 by Miller and CTO Ryan Smith, the company raised $20 million in seed funding from backers such as Syn Ventures. Graphiant was launched this year by CEO Khalid Raza and CTO Stefan Olofsson, who previously founded networking technology startup Viptela, which was acquired by Cisco in 2017 for $610 million. Our goal is to solve enterprises challenges, connecting resources, clouds, and applications across this digital wilderness, he added.In December 2020, the startup raised $33.5 million in funding led by Sequoia and Two Bear. The company was founded by CEO Robert Lee, chief data scientist Justin Cavinee, and CTO Jon Lavender in 2016 and was incubated in Maryland-based cybersecurity foundry DataTribes.Iren Reznikov of S Ventures highlighted Noetic Cyber.