Clutch

Clutch (Clutch Security) is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based cybersecurity company founded in October 2023 that builds a platform for discovering, governing, and securing non-human identities (NHIs) — API keys, service accounts, tokens, certificates, and secrets — as well as, more recently, AI agents operating across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. Its core technology, the ‘Identity Lineage Graph,’ maps relationships between an identity’s origin, owner, storage location, and the resources it accesses, which the company uses to build behavioral baselines, detect anomalous credential use, and progressively enforce zero-trust controls such as ephemeral credentials. The platform integrates with roughly 60-100+ infrastructure and identity tools and reports named enterprise customers including NTT Data, Fluidra, OpenWeb, and Cedar.

In January 2025, Clutch raised a $20 million Series A led by SignalFire, with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Merlin Ventures, bringing its total funding to roughly $28.5 million since its $8.5 million seed round. The raise and the broader machine-identity security category were covered independently by TechCrunch, SecurityWeek, and Calcalist. CEO Ofir Har-Chen has a two-decade cybersecurity background, and co-founders Sagi Haas and Tal Kimhi previously worked at Axonius. The company operates in an increasingly crowded but fast-growing NHI and machine-identity segment alongside competitors such as Astrix Security, Entro Security, Oasis Security, and Token Security.