Stellar Cyber is the Only Cybersecurity Company Named to The Software Report’s Top 25 AI Companies of 2025

Stellar Cyber Founder and CTO Aimei Wei Also Named to Top AI Executives List

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stellar Cyber, the cybersecurity illumination company, today announced that The Software Report has named it one of the Top AI Companies of 2025. Stellar Cyber landed at number 14 on the annual list of the 25 most influential companies in the field of artificial intelligence, ranked alongside such high-growth companies as Anthropic, Glean, and Linksquares. Stellar Cyber is the only cybersecurity company to make the list. In addition, Stellar Cyber Founder and Chief Technical Officer Aimei Wei was named to The Software Report’s Top 25 AI Executives of 2025, recognizing her innovations and contributions to the advancement of AI in the cybersecurity industry.

The organizations named to this year’s list of Top 25 AI Companies were selected by the judges at The Software Report based on a wide range of criteria evaluating their industry expertise, overall impact on the advancement of AI, and the influence over the markets they serve, according to The Software Report. Each company on the list demonstrated tangible results through their AI-powered platforms and solutions. They showed how their commitment to continuous AI innovation is helping their customers solve complex challenges.

“Ever since I was a software engineer working at enterprise technology companies like Nortel and Cisco, I’ve been thinking of ways to automate many of the processes and consolidate the many tools professionals in this field must manage. In cybersecurity, the development and application of AI is about collaboration between human security analysts and highly intelligent machines. Agentic AI, like the technology built into our Open XDR platform, has the power to see attacks in real time, know how to defend against them, and assist the human analyst to act more decisively before attacks can take hold,” said Aimei Wei, Funder and CTO of Stellar Cyber. “We’re proud to be recognized as the only cybersecurity company on this list of prestigious, disruptive companies changing the AI landscape.”

Stellar Cyber’s Autonomous SOC capabilities built into its Open XDR platform bring clarity to chaos by automating detection, security alert triage, and threat response across the whole attack surface while empowering security analysts with AI-driven insight. At the heart of Stellar Cyber’s innovation is Agentic AI—a collaborative system of specialized, multi-layered agents trained to work alongside humans rather than replace them. These AI agents autonomously triage alerts, build threat narratives, generate AI-powered case summaries, and continuously evolve based on human input. Lean security teams can do more with less, with AI Agents serving as always-on copilots, ready to investigate and prioritize alerts, pull greater context around alerts across multiple systems, and escalate their findings to the security analyst and recommendations on next steps.

Aimei Wei was also recognized as a Top AI Executive of 2025, based on her significant contributions to developing Stellar Cyber’s Open XDR Platform and its groundbreaking AI features. She founded the company in 2015 with CEO Changming Liu. Her vision is that AI will help organizations improve their security posture and thwart devastating attacks by detecting and responding to threats more quickly and accurately than with traditional methods, because it can analyze data more quickly and accurately than humans.

For more information about Stellar Cyber’s AI-driven security approach, visit https://stellarcyber.ai/platform/.

About Stellar Cyber

By shining a bright light on the darkest corners of security operations, Stellar Cyber empowers organizations to see incoming attacks, know how to fight them, and act decisively – protecting what matters most. Stellar Cyber’s award-winning open security operations platform includes NG SIEM, NDR, Open XDR, and Multi-Layer AI™ under one license. With almost 1/3 of the top 250 MSSPs and over 14,000 customers worldwide, Stellar Cyber is one of the most trusted leaders in security operations. Learn more at https://stellarcyber.ai/.

About The Software Report

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