Aembit
Silver Spring, United States
- Series A
- $45M raised
- Founded 2021
Workload IAM that issues short-lived, secretless credentials for services, scripts, and AI agents.
Raised $25M Series A led by Acrew Capital, September 2024
Secrets and non-human identity
Secrets, certificates, machine identity, and NHI startups. The credentials humans did not mean to ship.
12 companies · ordered by name · no paid placement · About this category
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Akeyless
Ramat Gan, Israel
- Series B
- $79M raised
- Founded 2018
SaaS vault for secrets, keys, and certificates that never stores the master key in the customer's cloud.
Took a strategic investment from Deutsche Bank Ventures, October 2024
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Clutch Security
Tel Aviv, Israel
- Series A
- $28.5M raised
- Founded 2023
Zero Trust for non-human identities: discover the secret, then make stolen static credentials useless.
Raised $20M Series A led by SignalFire, January 2025
Corsha
Washington, United States
- Series A
- $30M raised
- Founded 2017
Machine identity provider for operational technology, factories, and defense networks that still run API keys.
Raised $18M Series A-1 led by SineWave Ventures, April 2025
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Defakto
Palo Alto, United States
- Series B
- $50M raised
- Founded 2022
SPIFFE-based non-human IAM that replaces static secrets with short-lived workload identities.
Raised $30.75M Series B led by XYZ Ventures, October 2025
Doppler
San Francisco, United States
- Series A
- $29M raised
- Founded 2018
Developer-first secrets platform that syncs env vars, rotates them, and logs who changed what.
Launched Change Requests for approved secret edits, October 2024
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GitGuardian
Paris, France
- Series C
- $108M raised
- Founded 2017
Secrets detection plus NHI lifecycle, from leaked keys in git to the agents still using them.
Raised $50M Series C led by Insight Partners, February 2026
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Hush Security
Tel Aviv, Israel
- Series A
- $41M raised
- Founded 2024
Identity and access for AI agents: discovers them, ties each to a human owner, and swaps standing credentials for just-in-time access per action.
Raised a $30M Series A with Akamai as strategic investor, alongside Battery Ventures and YL Ventures, July 2026
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Infisical
San Francisco, United States
- Series A
- $19M raised
- Founded 2022
Open-source secrets manager you can self-host or run as SaaS, now adding agent-safe credential proxying.
Raised $16M Series A led by Elad Gil, June 2025
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Smallstep
San Francisco, United States
- Series A
- $26M raised
- Founded 2016
Private CA and device identity so internal TLS, SSH, and laptops get short-lived certificates instead of passwords.
Published hardware-bound device identity essay, May 2026
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Token Security
Tel Aviv, Israel
- Series A
- $27M raised
- Founded 2023
Machine-first identity security that finds every NHI, names an owner, and cuts leftover privilege.
Named to Rising in Cyber 2026 after a $20M Series A, May 2026
Truffle Security
San Francisco, United States
- Series B
- $40M+ raised
- Founded 2021
Verified secret scanning that proves a leaked key still works, then helps you kill it.
Raised $25M Series B led by Intel Capital and a16z, November 2025
About this category
About secrets and non-human identity
This is the live catalog slice for the Secrets and non-human identity category. A company appears here only when its primary category matches, and every entry carries a 2024 to 2026 proof-of-life signal recorded with a source link. A full page-unique intro for this category ships in a later polish pass.
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12 companies. Catalog last reviewed 2026-08-23. Page copy reviewed 2026-08-23. Next review by 2026-09-23. Ordered by name. No paid placement.