Apono
Tel Aviv, Israel
Just-in-time cloud access that kills standing privileges for humans, machines, and agents.
Raised $34M Series B led by USVP, November 2025
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Best Identity and access companies
Workforce, customer, and ITDR startups. Identity is the control plane; these companies treat it as the product.
Catalog last reviewed 2026-08-23. Page copy reviewed 2026-08-10. Next editorial review by 2026-09-10. Alphabetical order, no paid placement. 15 matched live listings.
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ConductorOne
San Francisco, United States
AI-native identity platform that folds IGA, IAM, and PAM into one access control plane.
Raised $79M Series B led by Greycroft, October 2025
Descope
Los Altos, United States
Customer identity workflows that let product teams ship login, MFA, and agent auth without an IAM rebuild.
Closed $35M seed extension, $88M total, September 2025
JumpCloud
Louisville, United States
Cloud directory that binds workforce identity, devices, and access without living on Active Directory.
Acquired Breez to add identity threat detection, October 2025
Lumos
San Francisco, United States
Autonomous IGA that reviews, provisions, and rightsizes access for people, NHIs, and AI agents.
Launched Identity Agent Force to govern human, NHI, and AI access, June 2026
Obsidian Security
Palo Alto, United States
SaaS identity and agent governance inside the third-party apps where work actually happens.
Raised $85M Series D at $1.1B valuation, August 2026
Opal Security
New York, United States
Policy-as-code access control plane for employees, service accounts, and AI agents.
Raised $23M and hired a new product bench, June 2026
P0 Security
San Francisco, United States
Cloud IGA and PAM that answers who or what can touch production, then enforces it at runtime.
Closed $15M Series A led by SYN Ventures, September 2024
Push Security
Boston, United States
Browser-native ITDR that stops phishing, token theft, and account takeover where the session lives.
Raised $30M Series B led by Redpoint Ventures, April 2025
Semperis
Hoboken, United States
Identity threat detection and forest recovery for Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta.
Secured $125M growth financing at a $1B+ valuation, June 2024
Silverfort
Plano, United States
Runtime identity protection that puts MFA and least privilege on systems IAM vendors leave naked.
Acquired Fabrix Security for autonomous runtime identity security, April 2026
Teleport
Oakland, United States
Infrastructure identity for SSH, Kubernetes, databases, and MCP servers without standing secrets.
Launched Beams trusted runtimes for AI agents, March 2026
Unosecur
Berlin, Germany
Agentless identity fabric for human, machine, and AI identities across hybrid cloud and on-prem.
Raised $5M seed led by VentureFriends and DFF Ventures, April 2025
Veza
Los Gatos, United States
Access graph that shows what every identity can actually do, not just which group it sits in.
Raised $108M Series D at $808M valuation, April 2025
WorkOS
San Francisco, United States
Enterprise identity APIs so product companies can ship SSO, SCIM, and audit without becoming an IAM vendor.
Raised $100M Series C at $2B valuation, March 2026
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