The Connected Startup Episode 2: Icite

Every startup is born to solve a problem. The hard part is everything that breaks on the way there.

The Connected Startup is a monthly podcast about those roadblocks, and the founders who discovered a graph was the way through. Each episode traces one company’s path from the wall they hit to what they could finally build once their data matched the shape of the problem.

We ask every guest the same question: describe the moment you realized a graph was the right tool.

Episode 2 will feature Wes Mullins, Founder and CEO of Icite. Icite is a multi-data-source identity threat detection and response (ITDR) platform built on a simple insight: identity is multi-surface, spanning event logs, configuration state, and the relationships between people, permissions, and systems that a graph is uniquely suited to model. Founded by a former MDR CTO who watched identity attacks slip past standalone SIEM, EDR, and cloud tools, Icite joins those signals, including a relationship graph on one query surface, so security teams can catch what single-surface tools miss and build custom detections in minutes.