Jazz wins CrowdStrike and AWS cybersecurity startup accelerator

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) announced Jazz as the winner of its third annual Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator with Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA through the NVIDIA Inception program. Jazz was selected for its AI-driven data loss prevention technology.

The 2026 accelerator attracted nearly 1,000 startups globally, with 35 companies selected for the eight-week equity-free program. Participants worked with experts from CrowdStrike, AWS, NVIDIA and the cybersecurity industry to develop their technology and go-to-market strategies.

Jazz emerged as the winner among six finalists during a pitch event at the RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco on March 24, 2026. The judging panel included George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike; CJ Moses, chief information security officer at Amazon; Bartley Richardson, senior director of agentic AI and cybersecurity engineering at NVIDIA; and Robert Herjavec, entrepreneur and Shark Tank judge.

Above Security was named runner-up for using AI agents to manage insider risk and replace alerts with investigative narratives.

"DLP has been broken for decades by rule-writing, alert floods, and no real answers," said Ido Livneh, co-founder and CEO at Jazz. "So we rebuilt it from the ground up, from first principles thinking, as an AI-native system to truly understand how data moves through a business."

Jazz's system includes features called Melody and Context Vault, which analyze business context to provide actionable security insights. The company focuses on replacing traditional data loss prevention systems with AI-native technology.

The information is based on a CrowdStrike press release statement.

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