Orchid Security, an emerging leader in identity-first security orchestration, announced it has raised $36 million in seed funding. Co-led by Team8 and Intel Capital, with the support of CapitalOne and industry leaders, including Jeff Williams, Dror Davidoff, and Zohar Alon.
This funding round will accelerate Orchid’s pioneering work using Large Language Models (LLMs) to address the longstanding challenge of managing fragmented identity systems in large enterprises. And with this seed capital, Orchid is prepared to accelerate the development of its platform, scale up its sales and support teams, and build its marketing engine. Orchid already works with leading enterprises worldwide across finance, manufacturing, healthcare, and retail. Its customers include Fortune 500 companies, such as Costco and Repsol.
Orchid’s platform was designed to tackle a fundamental problem in identity security: the inherent complexity. Enterprises handle hundreds of applications hosted on-premise, in the cloud, or delivered as SaaS. And they must navigate a highly fragmented landscape of identity and access management tools that routinely evolve, keep up with identity protocols that continue to improve, remain compliant with changing regulatory requirements, and protect their data amid a dynamic threat landscape.
Orchid’s Identity-first Security Orchestration platform continuously discovers self-hosted and SaaS applications. It assesses their authentication and authorization flows to highlight exposure and facilitate remediation, ensuring a consistent, standardized posture through the organization’s identity stack. And unlike traditional solutions, which rely on manual, lengthy, and costly processes, Orchid’s automated platform offers deep application-centric visibility across all environments, delivering a comprehensive, real-time approach to managing identity security.
This positions Orchid as a dynamic, scalable, and enterprise-focused alternative for current manual solutions, which usually take years to implement and quickly become outdated with any change. With Orchid, customers have achieved a 90% faster onboarding process and a 75% reduction in professional services costs.
The founding team of Roy Katmor, Robert Wiseman, and Ido Kelson have substantial cybersecurity and identity management expertise. And Katmor co-founded enSilo, which Fortinet acquired, while Weisman has led identity-focused initiatives at Team8 and Claroty. Kelson, a co-founder of enSilo, is recognized for his work in endpoint security. Together, they utilize AI’s power to create a cybersecurity solution that addresses the complexities of modern identity infrastructures.
KEY QUOTES:
“Our objective with Orchid is to transform our largely (90%) manual process of onboarding applications – which can take weeks after release from development – to one that is highly (90%) automated and accomplished in just days. Orchid greatly improves our speed to delivery for business units.”
- Jon Raper, Costco’s CISO
“The latest LLM models include code recognition and reasoning skills that enable understanding of identity flows in running applications without requiring code access or input from the application owners. When prompted correctly, these models go beyond data processing —they comprehend context, make inferences, and deliver accurate decisions. They also provide clear justifications, ensuring the platform’s logic remains coherent and transparent. With advancements in AI and LLM technology, we can now offer a solution that automatically assesses identity capabilities and exposures -considering target regulations, frameworks, and security best practices—offers remediations, and helps organizations elevate and ensure consistency of their identity security posture, all while significantly reducing cost and time.”
- Roy Katmor, Co-Founder and CEO of Orchid Security
“With Orchid, Team8’s venture creation team recognized a unique opportunity to tackle one of the most pressing problems in the identity space. The integration of applications into the identity stack has long been a painful process, leading to limited posture and visibility for security teams. With their innovative approach leveraging GenAI, Orchid offers a first-of-its-kind identity fabric. This has been a top priority for our CISO village, and the traction we’ve seen for Orchid’s solution and outstanding founding team has been staggering.”
- Amir Zilberstein, Managing Partner at Team8
“Until now, getting the security benefits of existing identity solutions was a long, costly, and challenging process. Organizations had to locate, prioritize, and integrate all their applications into their identity systems. Orchid changes the game by enabling companies to seamlessly identify, assess, and enhance their applications’ identity controls for stronger security and compliance—no coding required.”
- Yoni Greifman, Investment Director at Intel Capital
“HUB completes about 65 acquisitions each year, encountering a wide variety of business-critical applications—many lacking native IAM integration capabilities. Orchid’s vision of continuously discovering application authentication and authorization configurations, securing them with key IAM controls like SSO, MFA, and Identity Governance, and providing ongoing security and compliance insights is truly game-changing. By automatically enforcing these controls even when they are not natively available, Orchid is providing a critical and foundational security capability that has traditionally been challenging to achieve. This helps enterprises ensure security and compliance across every application, setting a new standard for the future of enterprise IAM.”
- Jeremy Embalabala, CISO at HUB International
