Hush Security lands $30M Series A to govern enterprise AI agents
Hush Security has raised $30 million in a Series A round to extend its identity governance platform to AI agents. Akamai Technologies joined as a strategic investor, alongside Battery Ventures and YL Ventures.
Hush gives companies a sanctioned path for AI agents to act across every system. Each agent is enrolled in a central registry, stripped of standing credentials, and granted scoped just-in-time permissions at runtime — with every action logged and a centralised kill switch on hand.
Gartner projects the average Fortune 500 company will run more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 last year. Yet Omdia research shows 96% of organisations run AI agents on governance models that weren't built for them.
"AI agents need strict identity, not just API keys," said Micha Rave, chief executive officer and co-founder of Hush Security. "We solved that for non-human identities, and now we're extending governance to AI agents."
Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, has deployed Hush internally and begun reselling it to enterprise clients. The platform lets companies discover every agent — managed or shadow — control access with least-agency defaults, and audit every action for compliance.
Akamai's involvement signals a shift in how enterprises think about security. "AI agents are driving the next transformation, and identity is the piece most companies haven't solved yet," said Ramanath Iyer, chief strategist at Akamai.
Yoav Leitersdorf, managing partner at YL Ventures, said Akamai joining "is a strong signal that the identity gateway for AI agents is quickly becoming core infrastructure."
At $30 million, the round sits in the upper tier of Series A deals — a bet that as autonomous agents flood enterprise systems, governing who and what they are will become as routine as managing human logins.
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