Security Startups

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12 companies. Sorted by name. No paid boost.

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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

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

C

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

D

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

G

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

H

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

T

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

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