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Silverfort’s Bet: Protect the Logins Your Security Stack Forgot
Most identity tools guard the front door. Silverfort built a checkpoint for the side doors - legacy apps, service accounts, command lines and now AI agents - without asking companies to rebuild the house.
Imprivata Found a $3.6 Million Tax Hiding in Hospital Logins
A badge tap looks trivial. Across 19 hospitals, it helped give clinicians back 49,057 hours a year - and turned a login utility into the wedge for a much larger identity business.
Saviynt Spent 16 Years Policing Employee Access. Then the Employees Stopped Being Human.
The enterprise-security company built one control room for human access. Now a fast-growing population of AI agents is testing whether that converged model can govern machines moving at machine speed.
Lumos
Lumos began by replacing the IT ticket queue with an internal app store. Six years later, it is betting that the next identity administrator will be a coordinated crew of software agents - with humans reserved for the judgment calls.
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.
Ev Kontsevoy
Ev Kontsevoy is the co-founder and CEO of Teleport, a cybersecurity company building the identity-native infrastructure access platform trusted by organizations like Samsung, NASDAQ, and IBM. A serial entrepreneur who grew up in Siberia and studied applied mathematics, he previously co-founded Mailgun (acquired by Rackspace in 2012) before starting Teleport in 2015 to eliminate the fragmented, secrets-based approach to infrastructure security. Under his leadership, Teleport reached a $1.1B valuation with its $110M Series C, and he authored an O'Reilly book on identity-native infrastructure access management. He is now focused on defining agentic identity frameworks for the era of AI-driven enterprise infrastructure.
Teleport
Teleport is the infrastructure identity company. Its open-source Access Platform replaces shared secrets, VPNs, and long-lived credentials with short-lived cryptographic identities for humans, machines, and AI agents accessing servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, applications, and Windows desktops.
Cerby
Cerby is an identity security automation platform that brings nonstandard and disconnected applications - the ones that don't speak SAML, SCIM, or OIDC - into the identity lifecycle of enterprise IdPs like Okta, Azure AD, and Ping. Using robotic process automation and agentic AI, Cerby automates onboarding, offboarding, credential rotation, and access governance for the apps traditional IAM tools leave behind.
Belsasar Lepe
Belsasar 'Bel' Lepe is co-founder and CEO of Cerby, the identity automation platform built to secure the applications that traditional identity tools ignore - the sprawling layer of disconnected, nonstandard, and unmanageable apps that enterprises actually run on. A first-generation Mexican-American and Stanford Computer Science graduate, Lepe started at Google at 18, then co-founded Ooyala - a video technology company that achieved two exits totaling over $440M - before turning his attention to the gaping hole in enterprise identity security. Cerby raised $54M in Series B funding in 2025, counts L'Oréal, Fox, and Allstate among its customers, and has grown ARR 10x in under two years.