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Defakto

SPIFFE-based non-human IAM that replaces static secrets with short-lived workload identities.

Proof of life. Raised $30.75M Series B led by XYZ Ventures, October 2025

About Defakto

Defakto, formerly SPIRL, is a managed workload identity platform grounded in SPIFFE and WIMSE. Services, pipelines, and AI agents get verifiable identities instead of long-lived keys in vaults. CTO Eli Nesterov previously ran a large SPIFFE deployment.

The 2025 rebrand and Series B are the same event: sell NHI as IAM, not as another scanner.

Investors

XYZ Venture CapitalThe General PartnershipBloomberg Beta
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