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Danny Brickman
Danny Brickman is the co-founder and CEO of Oasis Security, a New York and Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company building the first enterprise platform for non-human identity management and agentic access management. A former Israel Defense Forces cyber R&D leader with 11 years of service and an Israel Defense Prize to his name, Brickman started Oasis in 2022 with Amit Zimerman to tackle the fast-growing security gap around machine identities, which now outnumber human identities by roughly 20 to 1. The company has raised about $195 million, backed by Sequoia, Accel, Cyberstarts and Craft Ventures.
Beyond Identity
Beyond Identity is a New York-based identity security company that eliminates passwords and identity-based attacks by binding authentication to cryptographic, device-resident credentials. Its Identity Defense Platform delivers phishing-resistant MFA, continuous device trust, and deepfake protection for meetings, giving enterprises deterministic proof of who - and what device - is accessing their systems. Founded in 2019 by Silicon Valley veterans, the company has raised $205M and reached a $1.1B valuation.
Oasis Security
Oasis Security is a New York and Tel Aviv based cybersecurity company that built the first enterprise platform purpose-built to discover, secure, and govern non-human identities (NHIs) - the service accounts, API keys, tokens, workloads, and increasingly the AI agents that now vastly outnumber human users in modern cloud environments. Founded in 2022 by former Israeli intelligence engineers Danny Brickman and Amit Zimmerman, Oasis gives security teams a single source of truth for machine identities, automating inventory, posture management, threat detection, remediation, and full lifecycle governance. As enterprises race to deploy AI agents that can act autonomously with real credentials, Oasis positions its Agentic Access Management platform as the control layer that lets companies scale AI without losing control of who - and what - has access.
Token Security
Token Security is a New York- and Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity company that secures non-human identities (NHIs) - the service accounts, API tokens, workloads and, increasingly, autonomous AI agents that now vastly outnumber human users inside enterprises. Its agentless platform continuously discovers these machine identities across cloud, SaaS and AI environments, maps their ownership, permissions and access into a unified identity graph, and enforces least-privilege and lifecycle controls. Founded in 2023 by CEO Itamar Apelblat and CTO Ido Shlomo, the company has raised roughly $27M (Seed plus a $20M Series A led by Notable Capital) and counts customers such as GitLab, Bloomreach, HiBob, Dayforce and BetterHelp.
Veza
Veza is an identity security company that helps enterprises understand and control who can take what action on what data. Its patented Access Graph maps permissions across cloud platforms, SaaS apps, data systems, and infrastructure for human, machine, and AI identities, letting organizations enforce least privilege, automate access reviews, and govern non-human and AI-agent identities. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in the California Bay Area, Veza agreed to be acquired by ServiceNow in a deal announced December 2025.
Itamar Apelblat
Itamar Apelblat is the co-founder and CEO of Token Security, a cybersecurity company focused on securing non-human identities (NHIs) - the service accounts, API tokens, workloads, and AI agents that now vastly outnumber human users inside enterprises. A veteran of Israel's Unit 8200 with more than 15 years in cybersecurity, he founded Token Security in 2023 with Ido Shlomo after encountering a forgotten contractor service account that still had full access to a company's systems. The company emerged from stealth in 2024 and raised a $20M Series A in January 2025, relocating its headquarters to New York as enterprises race to secure the machine-first, AI-agent era.
Delinea
Delinea is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company that builds identity and privileged access management (PAM) software. Formed in 2021 from the merger of PAM veterans Thycotic and Centrify and rebranded as Delinea in 2022, the company secures the credentials, secrets, and privileged accounts that human users, machines, applications, and - increasingly - AI agents use to reach an organization's most sensitive systems. Its flagship Secret Server vault, Privilege Manager, DevOps Secrets Vault, and the cloud-native Delinea Platform are used by thousands of enterprises worldwide to enforce least privilege, rotate passwords, record sessions, and detect identity-based threats across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
BlueFlag Security
BlueFlag Security is a Sunnyvale, California cybersecurity company building an identity-centric security and governance platform for the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Rather than scanning code for vulnerabilities, BlueFlag watches the identities and tools behind the code - developers, service accounts, bots, and increasingly the AI coding assistants and autonomous agents that now write, test, and deploy software. Founded in 2024 by former CloudKnox and Symantec operators Raj Mallempati and Ken Schneider, the company applies AI/ML-based 'Identity Intelligence' to detect risky behavior, enforce least privilege, and govern AI agents across CI/CD pipelines. In March 2026 it announced a $28 million Series A and 300% year-over-year revenue growth.
Permiso Security
Permiso Security is a Palo Alto-based cybersecurity company that discovers, protects, and defends identities across cloud and on-prem environments. Founded by former FireEye/Mandiant executives, its identity security platform stitches human, non-human, and AI-agent identities into a single Universal Identity Graph, using 1,400+ detection rules and behavioral analytics to catch account takeovers, credential compromise, and insider threats. Permiso also runs the P0 Labs threat-research team, which has released ten open-source tools including CloudGrappler and YetiHunter.
Securden, Inc.
Securden is a cybersecurity company building a unified identity security platform that consolidates privileged access management (PAM), endpoint privilege management (EPM), identity governance (IGA), cloud entitlements (CIEM), and non-human/AI identity security into a single control plane. Founded in 2018 by former IT-security software builders, the company competes against legacy PAM vendors by pitching security that is simpler to deploy, easier to use, and more affordable. It is backed by Accel and Tiger Global and serves organizations from small businesses to enterprises across finance, healthcare, government, and manufacturing.
Obsidian Security
Obsidian Security is a Fortune 1000-focused cybersecurity company that secures business-critical SaaS applications, identities, and AI agents. Founded in 2017 by former Cylance and Carbon Black leaders, its platform unifies SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), and emerging AI agent and SaaS supply chain protection - giving enterprises visibility and control over the sprawling, interconnected SaaS ecosystems where modern breaches now begin.
Hasan Imam
Hasan Imam is the CEO of Obsidian Security, the SaaS security company protecting Fortune 1000 and Forbes Global 2000 enterprises across their cloud applications, AI agents, and integrations. He took the helm in 2021 when revenue was under $1 million and COVID had gutted the pipeline, then rebuilt the product and team and pushed Obsidian to win head-to-head customer evaluations more than 80% of the time. Before Obsidian, he grew Shape Security from under $3M to nearly $90M in revenue, ending in a $1 billion acquisition by F5. He has a master's in computer science from Stanford and a bachelor's from Wisconsin-Madison, which he finished in under three years.
Umaimah Khan
Umaimah Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Opal Security, a San Francisco identity security company building the controls that decide who - and increasingly what - can access an organization's systems. A homeschooled math kid who entered MIT at 16 and fell for cryptography, she did research embedded with government agencies including DARPA, then engineered infrastructure and security at two startups that became unicorns. She founded Opal in 2020 to treat authorization as the hard technical problem she believes it is, and has raised roughly $32M, including a $22M Series B in December 2023. Opal's customers include Cloudflare, Figma, Databricks, Scale AI, Grammarly and Perplexity.
Opal Security
Opal Security is an AI-native identity and access governance platform that gives enterprises real-time visibility and direct control over every identity - employees, service accounts, and AI agents alike. Founded in 2020 in San Francisco, Opal replaces stale, checkbox-style access reviews with policy-as-code and just-in-time access so organizations can enforce least privilege at scale instead of merely auditing it after the fact.
Jake Seid
Jake Seid is Co-Founder and General Partner at Ballistic Ventures, a cybersecurity-only venture capital firm managing over $700M in assets. A MIT-trained engineer with the school's highest student honor, he helped commercialize broadband at Cisco, launched Lightspeed Venture Partners as a founding team member, ran the 800-person team at Auction.com through its $1.6B acquisition, then backed 12 unicorns solo at Stone Bridge Ventures before co-founding Ballistic to go all-in on securing the digital world.
John Pritchard
Dr. John Pritchard is the CEO of Radiant Logic, where he leads a platform that unifies identity data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments for Fortune 500 enterprises. With a PhD in open innovation in AI from the University of Denver and over 25 years spanning Lockheed Martin, IBM, Adobe, and Okta, Pritchard joined Radiant Logic in 2022 as Chief Product Officer and expanded the company from a virtual directory provider into an AI-powered Identity Security Posture Management platform - before being appointed CEO in January 2025. He is a Forbes Technology Council contributor, Identiverse keynote speaker, and a vocal advocate for treating identity data as a strategic organizational asset.