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This week, we're spotlighting Non-Human Identity startups →
Every agent is a new identity. Who’s managing?
As enterprises deploy AI agents at scale, managing their permissions and access is the challenge and the opportunity.
Identity systems were built for employees. Today, non-human identities outnumber humans by more than 100:1.
Every agent a company deploys can authenticate, hold secrets, and take actions, so the authorization layer is the real control plane for the agentic enterprise.
Incumbents are aware and already lobbying to own the agent identity layer: Palo Alto bid for CyberArk, Okta acquired Axiom, Silverfort grabbed one-year-old Fabrix, and Snowflake just bought Natoma.
With security giants pacing ahead, investors are finishing second.
Agent Identity & Access Startups
Startups building the identity, authentication, authorization, & trust infra for autonomous AI agents, machines & cloud workloads. Ranked by website visit growth over the past 3 months.
Astrasync AI
A universal identity layer for AI agents with registration, verification, and trust scoring for every agent in an ecosystem. Raised a seed round in January 2026.
Keysborough, Australia
Archestra
An open-source security gateway for AI agents. Guardrails and access control that block prompt injection and data exfiltration before agents reach production systems. Raised a $10M Seed in June 2026.
London, UK
Keycard
Access infrastructure for trusted AI agents offering dynamic access tokens and federated identity that govern what each agent is allowed to reach. Raised a $30M Series A in October 2025.
Wilmington, US
Agentic Fabriq
A secure connectivity hub for AI agents with data permissioning and access control governing how agents touch tools and data. Raised a $0.5M Pre-Seed in December 2025.
San Francisco, US
Prefactor
An identity layer and control plane for AI agents, offering secure MCP-server authentication with auditable, controllable agent access. Raised a $1M Pre-Seed in June 2026.
Melbourne, Australia
Agent Identity & Access Founders
Recently funded founders building startups in non-human identity and AI-agent authorization.
Slavik Markovich
Founded Demisto, the SOAR pioneer, which was sold to Palo Alto Networks for $560M in 2019. Now cofounder & CEO of Descope, an external IAM platform extending authentication and authorization to users, AI agents, and MCP servers. Raised $88M Seed (including a $35M 2025 extension) in Sep 2025.
Los Altos, US
Henry Comfort
Former SVP, Business Ops at Darktrace. Now cofounder & CEO of Geordie AI, an agent-native security platform for real-time discovery, behavior monitoring, and governance of enterprise AI agents. Raised a $30M Series A in May 2026.
London, UK
Danny Brickman
Ex-Head of Cyber R&D of Israel's elite military technology units. Now cofounder & CEO of Oasis Security, enterprise non-human identity management and lifecycle governance. Raised a $120M Series B in March 2026.
New York, US
Dan Bendler
Serial security founder whose two prior AI startups raised $45M+ combined. Now cofounder & CEO of Offroad, an AI-powered identity security platform for human, machine, and AI identities. Raised a $7M Seed in 2026.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Márton Sereg
Co-founded Banzai Cloud (acquired by Cisco) & SequenceIQ (acquired by Hortonworks). Now cofounder & CEO of Riptides, building cryptographic identity infra for workloads and AI agents. Raised a $3.3M Pre-Seed in April 2025.
Budapest, Hungary
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