RapidFort, Inc.

RapidFort, Inc. is a cloud-native cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It operates in software supply chain security, with a focus on containerised workloads: the firm provides a platform that automatically secures container applications across the software development lifecycle by removing unused software and developer tools from containers, analysing container software, prioritising genuine security risks and automating remediation workflows. The approach requires no code, operating-system or pipeline changes, and is designed for organisations running large-scale container infrastructure in finance, healthcare, the public sector and AI.

The company's principal product, the RapidFort Platform, is reported to deliver containers that are 80% smaller and 80% lower in CVE count, with a 300% improvement in boot speed and up to 99.9% of CVEs eliminated on a continuous basis. A second product line, Near-Zero CVE Images, provides a library of hardened public container images intended as drop-in replacements for vulnerable ones; more than 35,000 such images are available and they have passed one million downloads.

RapidFort reports serving more than 100 customers and raised $42m in a Series A round. The company was named a finalist in the Top Infosec Innovator Awards 2026 by Cyber Defense Magazine. Its stated emphasis is on eliminating risk across the software stack at scale and on automation-first remediation that leaves existing code, operating systems and build pipelines untouched.