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Crosslayer Labs (YC W26) — Protect, monitor and defend your internet presence

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.

Crosslayer Labs is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Protect, monitor and defend your Internet presence. The founders listed are Henry Birge-Lee (Founder/CEO), Grace Cimaszewski (Founder/CTO), Prateek Mittal (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 9, 2026).

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Crosslayer Labs

New accelerator entry · 2026-02-09 · the record

Winter 2026
batch
3
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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BatchWinter 2026
Announced2026-02-09
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size3
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Security
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedNew York City, NY, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.crosslayerlabs.com/
Founded2025
YC group partnerTyler Bosmeny

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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.

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