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Protect, monitor and defend your Internet presence

Winter 2026Founded 20253 peopleNew York City, NY, USA
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Internet Security MonitoringSaaSEnterprise security and infrastructure teamsMedium competition
Moat
Internet layer correlation and MPIC standard expertise create defensible threat detection.
Key risk
Existing security vendors (Cloudflare, CrowdStrike) may integrate similar capabilities.
Why now
Impersonation attacks and brand spoofing are accelerating; enterprises need layer-spanning defense.
Competitors
Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Rapid7

About

Crosslayer Labs detects impersonation attacks on websites and APIs. We provide "outside-in" monitoring of customer infrastructure, comprehensively discovering and monitoring all Internet dependencies, including DNS, BGP, TLS certs, Javascript. We correlate signals from different layers of the Internet stack to identify attack patterns. Our alerts are actionable and contain root cause analysis/remediation recommendations. Our founding team is world renowned for previously inventing the MPIC standard adopted by all the major CAs including Google, Apple, Amazon. The MPIC standard is securing over 700 million websites via the issuance of over 3 billion digital certificates, and is now a global internet standard that protects every single HTTPS connection.

Founders ยท 3

Henry Birge-Lee
Henry Birge-LeeFounder

I am am innovator in web and network security. I invented Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration (MPIC) which now secures every single HTTPS connection. I am currently focusing on building the Crosslayer Labs platform for web resource integrity.

Grace Cimaszewski
Grace CimaszewskiFounder
GooglePrinceton

I'm a recent PhD graduate from Princeton and security researcher. I've worked with the CA/Browser Forum to turn my research on TLS certificate security into ecosystem-wide requirements which now improve the security of every HTTPS connection you view in your browser. Before starting Crosslayer with my long-time research collaborators, I was a visiting research at Google and Corelight Labs.

Prateek Mittal
Prateek MittalFounder
OpenAIPrinceton๐ŸŽ“ Princeton University

I am a professor at Princeton University and co-founder of Crosslayer Labs (YC W26). I specialize in the field of cybersecurity/privacy and am the recipient of the ACM Grace Hopper Award. My research has helped secure every single web connection (HTTPS) worldwide and enhanced the security of deployed LLMs (e.g., GPT 3.5 and GPT4V at OpenAI).

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