AWS and CrowdStrike Open Cybersecurity Accelerator to Startups Worldwide

The AWS & CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Accelerator is now open to cloud and artificial intelligence security startups around the world.

The third annual program is accepting applications through Nov. 15 and will run for eight weeks, from Jan. 5 to March 3, 2026, according to a Monday (Nov. 3) press release.

The Accelerator provides early-stage startups with mentorship from leaders across AWS, CrowdStrike and Nvidia; access to cybersecurity investors and technical experts; and opportunities for global visibility across the companies’ ecosystems and marketplaces, according to the release.

At the conclusion of the program, participants will showcase their innovations at an in-person Demo Day that coincides with the RSAC Conference and may be eligible for investment from the Crowdstrike Falcon Fund, the release said.

This year’s Accelerator is the first to accept applications from around the world. The first program was limited to startups from the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, while the second was expanded to include those from the United States as well as EMEA.

The two previous editions of the Accelerator graduated 59 startups, per the release. Following their participation in the program, the startups collectively raised over $730 million in funding, and several achieved successful acquisitions.

“The impact of our past cohorts shows how much can be achieved when the world’s leading technology companies and bold entrepreneurs unite to secure tomorrow,” CrowdStrike Chief Business Officer Daniel Bernard said in the release.

Chris Grusz, managing director of technology partnerships at AWS Marketplace, said in the release that the company, along with CrowdStrike and Nvidia, is “helping founders use the scalability of AWS and the expertise of our partners to accelerate their growth and bring new cloud and AI security solutions to market faster.”

Bartley Richardson, senior director of agentic AI and cybersecurity engineering at Nvidia, said in the release that through the Accelerator, Nvidia, AWS and CrowdStrike are “empowering founders to harness the full potential of accelerated computing and agentic systems to meet the evolving security needs of the modern enterprise.”

The winners of the two previous cohorts of the AWS & CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Accelerator are Remedio (formerly GYTPOL) in 2023-2024 and Terra Security in 2024-2025, according to the release.

When Remedio announced in a September press release that it raised $65 million in its first funding round, the company included a quote from CJ Moses, chief information security officer and vice president of security engineering at Amazon, who said Remedio won the inaugural Accelerator prize and that Amazon is using its technology.

“Remedio offers automated endpoint security remediation, making what is normally a reactive and time-consuming process proactive and easy,” Moses said in the release.

Terra Security said in a September press release that raised $30 million in a Series A funding round just a few months after its $8 million seed round.

The company said that since the seed round, it had won the Accelerator, launched an agentic AI continuous penetration testing platform and expanded its customer and partner base.