Darktrace
Darktrace, founded in 2013 and based in Cambridge, builds self-learning AI that detects and counters unknown cyber threats across networks, cloud, email, endpoints and OT for nearly 10,000 organisations.
Darktrace is a cybersecurity firm founded in 2013 by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge and headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Its core technology is proprietary self-learning, unsupervised machine learning that adapts to each organisation's data in real time, in order to detect and counter unknown and evolving threats. The company has filed more than 200 patent applications and maintains a substantial research and development programme.
The firm's principal product is the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform, which applies its self-learning AI across an organisation's digital estate to identify threats and intervene against attacks. The platform includes capabilities in network detection and response (NDR), cloud security, email security, endpoint security, operational technology (OT) security and identity protection. It was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response. A separate division, Darktrace Federal, serves government agencies.
Darktrace employs over 2,400 professionals globally and protects nearly 10,000 organisations worldwide, spanning commercial enterprises and the public sector across multiple industries. Technical work at the company covers artificial intelligence, unsupervised machine learning, cyber resilience and the security domains listed above.