Hush Security
Category: AI in Cybersecurity
Hush Security provides a secretless, policy-based access platform designed to secure machine identities and communications. Hush Security was founded in 2024. The company is led by Micha Rave. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $11 million. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Battery Ventures, YL Ventures.
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $11 million
Value proposition
To eliminate the security risks and operational overhead associated with managing, rotating, and protecting static secrets like API keys and credentials. Hush aims to provide a more secure and efficient alternative to traditional secrets vaults.
Products and solutions
Secretless Machine Access Platform, Unified Access Management Platform for Agentic AI and NHIs
Unique value
The core innovation is the 'secretless' approach. Instead of storing and managing credentials in a vault, Hush's platform issues just-in-time, short-lived, policy-based credentials at runtime that expire immediately after use. This fundamentally removes the attack surface of stolen or leaked secrets.
Target customer
The primary target customers are large enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, that are increasingly relying on AI agents, cloud infrastructure, and complex microservices architectures.
Industries served
Technology, Finance, Any sector with significant cloud and AI/ML infrastructure
Technology advantage
Hush Security's key advantage is its patent-pending technology that enables least-privilege access based on identity behavior rather than static permissions. This dynamic, policy-centric approach aligns with zero-trust security models and is built to handle the scale and complexity of modern IT environments, including the proliferation of AI agents and machine-to-machine communication.
How they differentiate
Hush Security differentiates itself by offering a "secretless" approach to machine access. Unlike traditional competitors that rely on storing and managing secrets in vaults, Hush uses a policy-based, just-in-time access model. This eliminates the operational and security risks associated with secrets management.
Main competitors
HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless
Key partnerships
Battery Ventures, YL Ventures, CrowdStrike, AWS, NVIDIA
Notable customers
Multiple Fortune 500 companies (names not publicly disclosed)
Major milestones
Emerged from stealth with a secretless machine access platform., Secured $11 million in seed funding., Acquired multiple Fortune 500 companies as paying customers while still in stealth mode., Launched Unified Access Management Platform for Agentic AI and NHIs (Feb 2026)., Selected for 2026 CrowdStrike, AWS & NVIDIA Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator (Jan 2026).
Growth metrics
As a startup that recently emerged from stealth, there are no public growth metrics available.
Market positioning
Hush Security is a newcomer in the secrets management market, positioning itself as an innovator with its secretless technology. The company is challenging established players by offering a new approach to securing machine identities, particularly relevant in modern, dynamic cloud environments.
Geographic focus
Hush Security is based in Tel Aviv, Israel, but has a global focus. The company plans to use its seed funding to expand its engineering team and accelerate its go-to-market efforts worldwide.
Patents and IP
The company has patent-pending technology related to its method for enabling least-privileged access based on identity behavior.
About Micha Rave
Previously served as Senior Director of Engineering at Akamai Technologies, where he led the development of their client-side security solution. Also co-founded and served as CTO of PageSeal, a cybersecurity company acquired by Akamai.
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Official website: https://www.hush.security/
