Trailblazer Alumni Newsflash

Seven Tech Trailblazers alumni making headlines — plus your chance to help choose our 2026 winners

It has been another busy week for the Tech Trailblazers community, with former winners and runners-up continuing to push the boundaries of enterprise innovation.

From AI-powered cybersecurity and financial fraud prevention to cloud infrastructure and next-generation software testing, the latest alumni announcements show just how far our Trailblazers have come.

The team here at Tech Trailblazers Towers has picked out seven stories worth celebrating this week.

And as judging gets under way for our 2026 Awards, we’re also inviting experienced enterprise technology leaders to put themselves forward for our Secret Judging Panel.

Axonius puts more than 50 AI virtual-worker types to work in cybersecurity

2019 Security Trailblazers runner-up

Axonius has unveiled its AI Workforce, introducing more than 50 types of virtual workers designed to help security and IT teams monitor their environments, identify exposures and carry out remediation.

Announced on 19 October, the new offering builds on Axonius’s asset intelligence platform, enabling autonomous security operations while retaining human approval for sensitive actions.

The launch also coincides with the general availability of its AI Companion and MCP Server.

For security teams grappling with increasingly complex environments, that combination of verified asset intelligence and automation could be particularly valuable.

Axonius was recognised as a Security Trailblazers runner-up in 2019, and it’s encouraging to see its continued development of technologies that help businesses understand and protect their digital environments.

Congratulations to the Axonius team!

Source: Axonius announcement, 19 October

DataVisor accelerates financial crime prevention with agentic AI

2018 Fintech Trailblazers winner

Financial crime continues to evolve, and so do the tools being developed to combat it.

DataVisor has launched Vera Code, an agentic AI capability intended to help financial institutions develop and maintain fraud detection and anti-money laundering programmes using natural-language instructions.

Unveiled at Money20/20 USA, the technology enables teams to translate requirements into configured solutions, test changes and accelerate deployment.

The company reports that one Fortune 500 insurer implemented a real-time fraud solution in four days, compared with a typical timescale of several months.

It’s a compelling example of AI being applied to a practical and pressing challenge.

DataVisor was our 2018 Fintech Trailblazers winner, as well as an AI Trailblazers runner-up that year.

Huge congratulations to DataVisor on continuing to blaze a trail in financial crime prevention.

Source: FinTech Futures, 21 October

mabl brings independent testing to the age of AI-generated software

2018 Firestarter and AI Trailblazers runner-up

AI coding agents are helping developers produce software at remarkable speed. But who’s checking that the resulting applications work as intended?

That’s the challenge mabl is tackling with its new Agentic Testing Harness.

Announced on 21 October, the technology enables engineering teams to establish testing standards and guardrails for AI-generated code, assess the potential impact of changes and identify testing gaps before pull requests.

The company is also previewing desktop application testing alongside its existing web and mobile capabilities.

For organisations accelerating software development through AI, ensuring testing can keep pace is becoming increasingly important.

mabl was recognised in both our Firestarter and AI Trailblazers categories in 2018.

It’s wonderful to see another former Trailblazer addressing a challenge that continues to evolve with the technology landscape.

Congratulations to the mabl team!

Source: DevOps.com, 21 October

Jumio celebrates global identity verification momentum

2017 Mobile Trailblazers winner

Identity verification specialist Jumio has reported strong momentum following the third quarter of 2026.

In its 21 October announcement, the company highlighted the worldwide rollout of selfie.DONE, its reusable identity solution, alongside advances in AI-powered fraud detection and customer expansion across several industry sectors.

As businesses seek to reduce friction in digital onboarding while maintaining trust and security, identity intelligence is becoming increasingly important.

Jumio was crowned our 2017 Mobile Trailblazers winner, following runner-up recognition in 2016.

Seeing that earlier innovation evolve into a broader global identity platform is precisely the kind of alumni progress we enjoy celebrating.

Well done to everyone at Jumio!

Source: Business Wire coverage via Yahoo Finance, 21 October

Zscaler joins NVIDIA’s push towards safer enterprise AI agents

2013 Security Trailblazers winner

AI agents are moving rapidly into enterprise workflows, bringing new opportunities alongside significant questions about visibility, governance and security.

Zscaler has announced support for NVIDIA’s newly introduced OpenShell Reference Architecture, designed to help enterprises build and operate AI agents within defined security boundaries.

NVIDIA named Zscaler among the cybersecurity providers integrating support for the architecture, which brings together software-based agent isolation and hardware-level security enforcement.

It’s a significant development in an emerging area of enterprise cybersecurity.

Zscaler was our 2013 Security Trailblazers winner, and it’s fantastic to see the company continuing to contribute to new approaches to enterprise protection.

Congratulations to the Zscaler team on this latest collaboration.

Source: NVIDIA, 21 October

Snyk introduces security agents for AI-powered software development

2018 Developer and Security Trailblazers runner-up

With AI agents increasingly writing code, the security tools protecting software development must evolve as well.

Snyk has launched Evo Agentic AppSec, a suite of AI security agents designed to identify vulnerabilities, support remediation and prevent malicious dependencies from entering applications.

The announcement covers several specialised capabilities, including code scanning, dependency protection and automated remediation.

Some features are available in preview, while other elements of Snyk’s wider offering are already generally available.

The significance is clear: the faster software gets created, the more important it becomes to validate and protect it.

Snyk was recognised as a runner-up in both our Developer and Security Trailblazers categories in 2018.

Congratulations to Snyk on helping shape the future of secure software development.

Source: Snyk, 15 October

Nutanix expands Kubernetes and AI infrastructure capabilities

2013 Cloud Trailblazers winner

Last but certainly not least, Nutanix has detailed the latest release of its Kubernetes Platform, NKP 2.19.

The 20 October release introduces bare-metal Kubernetes deployment capabilities, simplified cluster upgrades and improvements supporting AI and GPU workloads.

It also expands the ability to manage virtual machines alongside containers, helping infrastructure teams operate increasingly diverse enterprise environments.

Nutanix was crowned our 2013 Cloud Trailblazers winner, and this latest release underlines the continued evolution of cloud infrastructure as businesses adopt more demanding AI workloads.

Congratulations to Nutanix on another step forward.

Source: Nutanix, 20 October

Once a Trailblazer, always a Trailblazer

Here at Tech Trailblazers, we’re proud to see the continued achievements of the innovative companies our judges have recognised over the years.

From the early promise of emerging startups to technologies deployed across global enterprises, each of these stories reminds us why we started the Tech Trailblazers Awards.

We congratulate all of our previous Tech Trailblazers Awards winners and runners-up who continue to innovate, grow and make a difference.

And we’re now looking ahead to identifying our next generation of Trailblazers.

Could you help choose our 2026 Tech Trailblazers?

Entries for the 2026 Tech Trailblazers Awards are now closed, and our international judging process is getting under way.

Alongside our established judging panel and the voting public, we’re recruiting experienced technology professionals to join our Secret Judging Panel.

We’re particularly interested in hearing from CIOs, CISOs and other senior enterprise IT decision-makers who can bring practical industry experience and independent perspectives to the judging process.

Secret judges will have an opportunity to review shortlisted innovations, help recognise emerging enterprise technology companies and contribute to selecting this year’s winners and runners-up.

Interested in joining us?

Complete our Secret Judging Panel interest form to be considered.

You can also read more about our 2026 judging process or visit TechTrailblazers.com.

Keep blazing those trails!

Rose Ross
Chief Trailblazer & Founder
Tech Trailblazers Awards