Jazz Wins the 2026 CrowdStrike and AWS Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator

Nearly 1,000 cybersecurity startups applied. Thirty-five were selected for the program. Six made it to the finals. One walked away with the win.

Jazz.

On March 24, at RSAC 2026 in San Francisco, Jazz co-founder and CEO Ido Livneh took the stage and pitched in front of a panel that included George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike; CJ Moses, CISO of integrated security at Amazon; Bartley Richardson, senior director of agentic AI and cybersecurity engineering at NVIDIA; and special guest judge Robert Herjavec — entrepreneur, investor, and Shark Tank judge.

Jazz was named the winner of the third annual Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator with CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA through the NVIDIA Inception program.

The Program

The accelerator isn't a trophy competition. It's an eight-week, equity-free program where selected startups work closely with experts from CrowdStrike, AWS, NVIDIA, and the broader cybersecurity ecosystem — refining technology, deepening cloud integrations, and sharpening go-to-market execution.

For Jazz, the program was a pressure test. Eight weeks of operating alongside some of the biggest names in cybersecurity, with direct access to the people building the platforms that define the industry. 

The program culminated in a live pitch event at RSAC, where six finalists presented their companies to the judging panel and a packed room of security leaders.

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What the Judges Said

The judges explained why they picked Jazz — and their words mirror what we've been hearing from CISOs for the past two years.

"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."

Daniel Bernard, Chief Business Officer, CrowdStrike

"What set Jazz apart was its ability to investigate signals with full business context and surface only meaningful incidents with minimal analyst overhead."

CJ Moses, CISO, Amazon

"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."

Bartley Richardson, Senior Director, Agentic AI & Cybersecurity Engineering, NVIDIA

Read those quotes again. "Replace noisy alerts with clear, actionable answers." "Investigate signals with full business context." "Distilling millions of events into a small set of actionable insights."

That's not marketing language. That's what Jazz actually does — and the people evaluating 1,000 startups recognized it.

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Why Jazz Won

DLP has been broken for over two decades. The entire category was built on a fundamentally flawed model: machines detect with rigid rules, humans investigate the noise. That model was never going to scale. It created alert fatigue, operational burnout, and an industry where security teams either drown in tens of thousands of low-confidence detections or — increasingly — abandon DLP altogether and accept the risk.

Jazz doesn't patch the old model. It replaces it.

We combined a forensic endpoint agent — the Context Vault — that provides total visibility at the OS level with an Agentic Investigator called Melody that actually understands what's happening. Not pattern matching. Not regex. Understanding. 

Melody looks at every event across four dimensions — the data, the systems, the people, and the business process — and delivers pre-investigated answers instead of alerts.

The math from a real deployment: 2 million signals in. 80 investigated incidents out. That's a 20,000:1 signal-to-noise ratio.

No rules to write. No browser extension to deploy. No team of engineers required to operate it. One agent, under 0.5% CPU, full coverage from day one.

The judges saw what our customers already knew: this isn't a better version of the old thing. It's the new thing.

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What This Win Means

Winning the CrowdStrike and AWS Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator is a validation for a market that's been screaming for something different.

Every CISO we've spoken to over the past two years has some version of the same story: "Our DLP is broken." "We turned it off." "We can't afford to keep investigating noise." The demand for intelligent, effective data protection has never been higher — and the old playbook of more rules, more policies, more configuration isn't going to cut it.

Jazz exists because this category needed to be rebuilt from first principles. The judges confirmed what the market already knows: the future of DLP isn't about better detection. It's about deep understanding.

We're building that future. This is just the beginning.

Want to see what the judges saw? Book a demo right here.

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