GitGuardian announced it has raised a $50 million in Series C financing to expand its secrets security and Non Human Identity (NHI) governance capabilities, positioning the round as a response to the rapid growth of service accounts, applications, and autonomous AI agents that require credentials, permissions, and oversight. The company says enterprises are facing an “exponential growth in non-human identities,” with the emergence of autonomous agents widening what it describes as an AI agent security gap.
Insight Partners led the Series C, joined by Quadrille Capital and existing investors Balderton, BPI, Eurazeo, Fly Ventures, and Sapphire Ventures. GitGuardian said it will use the capital to accelerate expansion across the Americas and EMEA, while also pursuing growth in additional regions, including APAC, South America, and the Middle East, and targeting verticals such as technology, financial services, and pharmaceutical and healthcare.
GitGuardian framed the round as a deliberate mix of US and European capital, pairing Insight Partners’ scale-up experience in cybersecurity and AI with Quadrille’s enterprise network in Europe. The company also cited rising regulatory pressure in EMEA as a driver of demand for secrets management and NHI governance, citing frameworks such as GDPR, NIS2, and DORA, and noting the need for continuous monitoring and audit trails to satisfy regulators.
The company said it finished 2025 with record enterprise momentum, including more than 115,000 developers protected across enterprise customers globally, more than 610,000 repositories monitored continuously, and more than 210,000 connected collaboration sources across tools such as Slack, Jira, and Confluence. GitGuardian also reported detecting and remediating 350,000 secret exposures in 2025, with 60% of new enterprise customers committing to multi-year agreements and more than 80% of new ARR originating from North America.
GitGuardian said capital deployment will focus on three areas. First, it plans to expand AI agent security features to detect, monitor, and govern credentials used by AI systems, including coding assistants and customer service bots. Second, it intends to broaden enterprise-scale NHI lifecycle management, including discovery, usage analytics, rotation policies, and compliance reporting across development ecosystems for organizations managing tens of thousands of NHIs. Third, it aims to deepen geographic expansion, strengthening presence in key European markets including DACH, the UK, France, and the Nordics, while accelerating US market penetration and opening new regions.
GitGuardian describes its platform as an end-to-end NHI security offering that combines secrets security and governance, supporting more than 550 types of secrets, offering public monitoring for leaked data, and using honeytokens. The company said it is trusted by more than 600,000 developers and is the most installed GitHub application, with enterprise customers including Snowflake, ING, BASF, and Bouygues Telecom. GitGuardian also said it plans to expand hiring across engineering, sales, and customer success teams in both the US and Europe.
KEY QUOTES:
“The market has reached a critical inflection point. Organizations that once managed hundreds of service accounts will now face thousands of autonomous AI agents, each requiring secure credentials. While identity solutions matured for human users, non-human identities remain largely unmanaged and recent breaches prove the cost. We’re moving beyond secrets detection into full NHI lifecycle governance. Effective secrets management requires seamless collaboration between development, security and IAM teams at every stage of the workflow.”
Eric Fourrier, CEO And Co-Founder, GitGuardian
“Software development and enterprise complexity continue to grow. We believe this is the moment to capitalize on GitGuardian’s approach, which starts from where secrets live in the development workflow and expands into full NHI lifecycle management. This is critical as AI agents rapidly approach parity with developers, with each agent needing credentials, permissions, and governance – further fueling GitGuardian’s growth.”
Josh Zelman, Managing Director, Insight Partners
“Not only do these enterprises need to secure code, they then have to demonstrate continuous monitoring and audit trails that satisfy regulators. As compliance deadlines approach over the next 18 months, GitGuardian solutions become critical. That’s the market timing we invest behind.”
Romain Stokes, Partner, Quadrille Capital
