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CrowdStrike has announced Jazz as the winner of the third annual Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA through the NVIDIA Inception program.
The 2026 accelerator attracted nearly 1,000 startups from around the world, highlighting a new generation of founders focused on AI-driven cloud security innovation. Thirty-five startups participated in the eight-week, equity-free program, collaborating with experts from CrowdStrike, AWS, NVIDIA, and the broader cybersecurity ecosystem to refine their technology, strengthen cloud integrations, and accelerate go-to-market strategies.
During the final pitch day at the RSAC 2026 Conference in San Francisco on March 24, 2026, Jazz emerged as the winner among six finalists. The judging panel included George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike; CJ Moses, chief information security officer for integrated security at Amazon; Bartley Richardson, senior director of agentic AI and cybersecurity engineering at NVIDIA; and special guest judge Robert Herjavec. Above Security was named runner-up for its use of AI agents to proactively manage insider risk and replace alerts with full investigative narratives.
Jazz was recognized for its innovation in AI-driven data loss prevention (DLP) and its potential to address critical security challenges in the AI era. The company rebuilt DLP from first principles as an AI-native system designed to understand how data moves through a business, replacing legacy rule-based approaches with context-aware capabilities.
“We’re incredibly grateful to be named the winner of the CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator,” said Ido Livneh, co-founder and CEO at Jazz. “DLP has been broken for decades by rule-writing, alert floods, and no real answers. So we rebuilt it from the ground up, from first principles thinking, as an AI-native system to truly understand how data moves through a business. The guidance and support we received through the Accelerator has been invaluable in helping us sharpen the product and validate it against real-world enterprise demands as we scale.”
“The path to becoming a defining cybersecurity company looks nothing like it did just three years ago,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. “Today’s most promising founders are building alongside the platforms that power modern infrastructure from day one. Together with AWS and NVIDIA, this Accelerator is about supporting that innovation early in the startup journey. Jazz stood out for replacing legacy DLP with an AI-native, context-aware approach, using Melody and Context Vault to replace noisy alerts with clear, actionable answers at scale, and demonstrating what it takes to lead in this new era of cybersecurity.”
“Security innovation only matters if it performs in real-world cloud environments,” said CJ Moses, CISO of integrated security at Amazon. “This accelerator connects founders directly with the infrastructure, operational expectations, and scale enterprises demand. What set Jazz apart was its ability to investigate signals with full business context and surface only meaningful incidents with minimal analyst overhead, reflecting the standards modern security teams expect.”
“The shift to agentic AI is transforming cybersecurity, requiring autonomous systems that can perceive, reason, and act against increasingly sophisticated threats,” said Bartley Richardson, senior director of agentic AI and cybersecurity engineering at NVIDIA. “This Accelerator equips the next generation of security platforms with the high-performance compute and foundational frameworks needed to build secure, scalable AI systems. Jazz distinguished itself through its agentic investigator, Melody, and its ability to analyze multi-dimensional context across data, systems, people, and business to drive precise, in-context prevention decisions – distilling millions of events into a small set of actionable insights.”
The accelerator program underscores the growing collaboration between hardware providers, enterprise services, and innovative startups building on modern security platforms.
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike, a global cybersecurity leader, has redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced cloud-native platform for protecting critical areas of enterprise risk – endpoints and cloud workloads, identity and data. Powered by the CrowdStrike Security Cloud and world-class AI, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform leverages real-time indicators of attack, threat intelligence, evolving adversary tradecraft and enriched telemetry from across the enterprise to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritized observability of vulnerabilities.
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