Hush Security has raised $30 million in Series A funding to expand its identity security platform for AI agents and other non-human users of enterprise systems. Akamai Technologies joined the round as a strategic investor alongside existing investors Battery Ventures and YL Ventures.
The financing brings Hush’s total capital raised to $41 million less than a year after the company emerged from stealth. It will use the funding to expand engineering and sales, particularly in the United States, deepen integrations with enterprise identity and access management systems and establish additional corporate partnerships.
Hush was founded to secure non-human identities such as service accounts, application credentials, machine secrets and automated processes. The company is extending that architecture to AI agents that can independently perform tasks and interact with sensitive corporate systems.
Its platform places AI agents in a central registry and removes persistent credentials that provide continuous access. Instead, agents receive narrowly defined, just-in-time permissions when they need to perform an approved action.
Each action is logged, and administrators can revoke access through a centralized kill switch. This structure is intended to apply the principle of least privilege, under which a user or system receives only the access required for a specific task and period.
Hush’s discovery capabilities identify managed and unsanctioned agents, desktop assistants and custom-built AI systems. The platform also maps the models, tools, Model Context Protocol servers and other corporate resources that each agent can access or use.
Its control layer connects agents with existing permissions and limits their authority at runtime. The audit layer records activity for investigations, compliance reviews and governance reporting.
Kyndryl has deployed Hush within its own organization and has begun reselling the platform to enterprise customers. Hush was founded by members of the team behind Meta Networks, which Proofpoint acquired in 2019.
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“We’ve spent decades protecting enterprises from rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats. Every major shift in internet usage and traffic has forced a rethink of how enterprises are secured.”
“AI agents are driving the next transformation, and identity is the piece most companies haven’t solved yet. That’s the layer Hush is building.”
Ramanath Iyer, Chief Strategist at Akamai Technologies
“Our collaboration with Hush is rooted in a shared security philosophy: identity is the ultimate control point for the modern agentic workforce.”
“Hush protects both the autonomous agents and the infrastructure they inhabit, allowing enterprises to deploy AI without sacrificing speed. Believing deeply in this unified approach to identity security, our own organization is working with Hush at scale globally.”
Adeel Saeed, Senior Vice President and CTO of Global Cyber Resiliency at Kyndryl
“Every company already knows how to manage identity for its people and its applications. But now software acts autonomously, on its own initiative, inside your most sensitive systems.”
“AI agents need strict identity, not just API keys. We solved that for non-human identities, and now we’re extending governance to AI agents.”
Micha Rave, Co-Founder and CEO of Hush Security
“A year ago, we said Hush had the right technology at the right time for machine identity. That thesis has only sharpened, with AI agents already a core element in the enterprise workforce, and multiple Fortune 500 companies trusting Hush as they prioritize governance of the AI workforce.”
“Akamai joining this round is a strong signal that the identity gateway for AI agents is quickly becoming core infrastructure, as well.”
Yoav Leitersdorf, Managing Partner at YL Ventures
“When we backed Hush at seed, static secrets were already a liability and agentic AI has turned that liability into something enterprises can’t ignore.”
“Companies are handing autonomous software real authority over real systems, often through the same standing credentials Hush was built to eliminate. Our expanded support of Hush is a bet that proactively securing identities is what will make that authority safe to grant as we head deeper into the agentic age.”
Barak Schoster, Partner at Battery Ventures
