Why the 2026 CrowdStrike, AWS & NVIDIA Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator Matters for Identity Security

Raz Rotenberg, CEO of Fabrix Security, explains why the 2026 CrowdStrike, AWS & NVIDIA Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator marks a meaningful shift for identity security.

Raz Rotenberg

January 5, 2026

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Fabrix selected for CrowdStrike, AWS and NVIDIA cybersecurity accelerator

We’re excited to share that Fabrix Security has been selected to participate in the 2026 Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, delivered by CrowdStrike in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA through the NVIDIA Inception program.

Announcements like this often read as milestones, and it is one. But for me, this moment is really about something deeper: a growing acknowledgment that identity security, as an industry, has reached a breaking point.

Identity is where security decisions break down

Every meaningful security decision today routes through identity. Who can access what. From where. Under which conditions. Acting on behalf of whom.

Yet most identity systems were never designed to reason. They enforce static rules across fragmented data, then rely on humans to fill in the gaps. That model doesn’t scale in a world of cloud infrastructure, non-human identities, and AI agents operating at machine speed.

At Fabrix, we started with a simple but uncomfortable question:
What if identity systems actually understood context and could explain their decisions?

That question has shaped everything we’re building.

Why this accelerator matters to us

The CrowdStrike, AWS & NVIDIA Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator brings together companies working at the edge of AI-driven cybersecurity. The eight-week program runs from January 5 through March 3, 2026, and provides hands-on mentorship, deep technical enablement, and go-to-market guidance from teams who operate some of the most advanced security and AI platforms in the world.

For Fabrix, this is a chance to pressure-test our thinking alongside leaders in endpoint security, cloud infrastructure, and accelerated AI computing, and to push further on what AI-native identity systems should look like in practice.

The program culminates in an in-person Demo Day on March 24, 2026, at the AWS Startup Loft in San Francisco, alongside RSA Conference. That setting matters too. RSA has always been a place where the industry debates where security is heading. Identity deserves a much bigger seat at that table.

Why Fabrix was selected

Fabrix was selected for our work in AI-native Identity Security and our focus on enabling systems that can make access decisions with real context.

Our platform connects access, activity, and organizational knowledge, so AI agents and humans can reason about identity continuously, not episodically. The goal isn’t more automation for its own sake. It’s better decisions: explainable, auditable, and aligned with how organizations actually operate.

As enterprises introduce more autonomy into their environments, identity can’t remain static. It has to think.

Looking ahead

This accelerator builds on a global program that has already helped its alumni raise significant funding, scale their platforms, and shape the future of cybersecurity. We’re grateful for the opportunity to learn from this community—and to contribute our own perspective from the identity layer.

Over the coming months, we’ll share more about what we’re building, what we’re learning, and how identity security must evolve in an AI-driven world.

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