Clutch Security
A Tel Aviv company securing non-human identities—API keys, tokens, service accounts, and AI agents—through short-lived, auto-expiring credentials.
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Clutch Security builds a Universal Non-Human Identity (NHI) Security Platform covering discovery, lifecycle governance, risk posture, and real-time threat detection for machine credentials: API keys, tokens, service accounts, and increasingly AI agents. Its core technical bet is on ephemeral identities—short-lived credentials that automatically expire rather than requiring manual rotation—which it frames as a more scalable answer to machine-identity sprawl than static-secret vaulting.
Founded in Tel Aviv in late 2023 by Ofir Har-Chen (CEO, previously COO at Hunters), Sagi Haas, and Tal Kimhi (both previously of Axonius), the company has raised $28.5 million across an $8.5 million seed and a $20 million Series A (January 2025, led by SignalFire). It competes in a non-human-identity category that consolidated quickly in 2026: two close rivals, Astrix Security and Entro Security, were acquired by Cisco and SailPoint respectively, and category leader Oasis Security is reportedly being acquired by Cyera for roughly $1 billion.
Innovation Matrix Assessment
Ephemeral, auto-expiring NHI credentials are a concrete technical differentiator from static-secret rotation used by several competitors.
Addresses a measurable, growing problem—CyberArk's 2025 Identity Security Landscape report cites roughly 82 machine identities per human employee at the average enterprise.
Raised $28.5M from Lightspeed, SignalFire and Merlin Ventures across two rounds in about 14 months, in a category that just saw two competitors acquired and a third in a $1B deal.
Non-human identity security is a real, fast-moving category, but Clutch is one of several well-funded entrants rather than a clear category leader post-consolidation.
No named customer case studies or independent test results were found; evidence is limited to funding announcements and investor commentary.
Machine and AI-agent identity sprawl will keep growing as agentic AI adoption increases, giving the category durable multi-year relevance.
Why CISOs Should Care
Lets CISOs discover and govern the explosion of API keys, service accounts, and AI-agent credentials without relying on manual secret rotation.
What Makes It Different
Uses ephemeral, auto-expiring identities rather than long-lived secrets managed through periodic rotation.
The Matrix Verdict
62/100 — INCREMENTAL INNOVATOR
Clutch Security is an Incremental Innovator: technically sound and well-funded in a genuinely important category, but not yet differentiated from a NHI field that is actively consolidating around a handful of leaders.
Editorial Note: Claims vs. Verified Findings
Funding figures and founder backgrounds are independently reported by TechCrunch and Calcalist; no independent efficacy data exists beyond company and investor statements.
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