Hush Security Raises $30 Million for AI Agent Identity Governance
Hush Security, an Israeli non-human identity governance startup, raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Akamai, Battery Ventures and YL Ventures, announced on July 28, 2026. The company has raised $41 million total since emerging from stealth less than a year ago, and cites a Gartner projection that Fortune 500 companies will run more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028.
Hush Security Raises $30 Million for AI Agent Identity Governance
Hush Security, an Israeli startup focused on non-human identity governance, raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Akamai Technologies, Battery Ventures and YL Ventures, according to an announcement released on July 28, 2026 and reported by Unite.AI, SecurityWeek and Ventureburn.
What Hush Security Does
Based in Tel Aviv, the company runs a platform that secures an organization's entire non-human workforce, including access secrets, service accounts, non-human identities in general and AI agents. Hush was founded by the team behind Meta Networks, a company acquired by Proofpoint in 2019, and is led by CEO Micha Rave.
$41 Million in Under a Year
The new round brings Hush Security's total funding to $41 million since it emerged from stealth less than a year ago, a fundraising pace that reflects investor appetite for solutions built specifically around AI agent identity.
Where the Money Is Going
According to the company, the funds will go toward expanding its engineering and sales teams, particularly in the United States, accelerating support for enterprise identity and access management ecosystems and agentic environments, and strengthening corporate partnerships, with Akamai also coming on as a strategic investor.
The Size of the Problem, According to Gartner and Omdia
Gartner projects the average Fortune 500 company will run more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 last year. Even so, research from Omdia shows 96% of organizations still operate on legacy governance frameworks built to manage human identities, not the growing volume of autonomous agent identities.
Why It Matters for Brazilian Agencies and SMBs
The projected jump from fewer than 15 AI agents to more than 150,000 within a few years, even if framed around large corporations, illustrates how fast this problem is likely to reach Brazilian agencies and SMBs that are already deploying multiple AI agents for different clients today. Each agent should be treated as an identity with its own lifecycle, one that needs to be created, monitored and deactivated like an employee account, not a static API key forgotten inside a configuration file. Agencies that organize this kind of control today, even in a simple form, will be ahead once clients start demanding this kind of governance as a contractual requirement.