Hush Security raises $30M Series A for just-in-time AI agent access control, with Akamai as strategic backer
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A $30M Series A for AI-agent-specific just-in-time access control, backed strategically by Akamai and channel-validated via Kyndryl, updates the AI-infrastructure security player map without resolving an open debate.
Named counterparties: Akamai Technologies
Hush Security raises $30M Series A for just-in-time AI agent access control, with Akamai as strategic backer
Tel Aviv-based Hush Security closed a $30 million Series A on July 28, with Akamai Technologies joining as a new strategic investor alongside existing backers Battery Ventures and YL Ventures. The round brings Hush's total funding to $41 million; valuation was not disclosed. Funds go toward engineering and sales expansion, deeper enterprise IAM integration, and partnership growth. IT services firm Kyndryl has deployed Hush internally and now resells it to its own enterprise customers.
Hush targets a governance gap created by non-human identities — CI/CD pipelines, service accounts, and now autonomous AI agents — accessing databases, SaaS, and cloud systems via long-lived API keys stored in code or a secrets vault, with little visibility into which agent used which credential. Its platform continuously discovers running agents without manual registration, evaluates policy at the moment of access, and issues scoped, time-limited permissions at runtime on top of the SPIFFE workload-identity standard, with full audit logs and a central kill switch. Per the AI Market Watch index — which tracks roughly 5,000 companies as a coverage sample, not a census — Hush is logged as founded in 2024 under AI-in-Cybersecurity.
For builders, securing agentic AI in production increasingly means giving agents their own runtime access controls rather than folding them into existing service-account provisioning. For investors, Kyndryl's deploy-then-resell motion is a distribution pattern worth tracking in agent-identity security, and Akamai's strategic check at the Series A stage suggests infrastructure incumbents see agent access governance as an adjacent category worth watching rather than building alone.