Less than a year after launch: Hush raises $30 million
Less than a year after its unveiling, Israeli cyber company Hush Security has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round. The company's total funding has now reached $41 million.
The Hush team with Tommy Elliot, the office poodle. Photo: Eric Sultan
AI has long been used for more than just writing emails or summaries. AI agents now operate independently within the most sensitive systems in an organization, with some receiving access that even your CEO does not get. Agents are already opening tickets, accessing production environments, and even moving funds — often autonomously. In fact, according to a Gartner report, by 2028, the average Fortune 500 company will operate over 150,000 AI agents, a sharp jump compared to fewer than 15 agents in 2025. But at the same time, as models become smarter and more independent, they also become a security risk, which happens, for example, when they rely on fixed API keys to communicate with other systems.
Israeli cyber company Hush Security, which was unveiled less than a year ago, announces today (Tuesday) a $30 million Series A funding round to solve exactly this problem. The round was led by Battery Ventures with YL Ventures and Akamai, which joined as a strategic investor. The company's total funding now stands at $41 million.
Limited and timed access
Instead of relying on static keys that can leak, the company's platform operates on a Just-in-Time approach, granting AI agents access permissions only when they truly need them, and only for the duration of the required action. Every step is documented, and the organization can revoke access in a second. In a conversation with Geektime, the company's CEO, Micha Rave, explains that the more powerful the models are, the shorter the time between access and potential damage. "An attacker who finds credentials in code or a token that no one has changed in two years no longer needs weeks to figure out what to do with it," he explains.
According to him, it is impossible to secure only AI or non-human identities, because they depend on each other. "Hush secures both of them together: the agent and the key that gives it access. This way, no agent takes a key without oversight," he adds. Rave also notes that as models have more authority, the question is no longer how smart the model is, but what it is allowed to do, on whose behalf, and how to prove in retrospect what it performed.
When we ask what differentiates Hush's product compared to the many other solutions on the market, Rave emphasizes that Hush's solution was built from the start as a full infrastructure for the entire world of non-human identities, and not as a point solution for agents only. He adds that as models improve, the central question shifts to the ability to prove in retrospect who acted on whose behalf, and control over identities becomes more critical than ever. Rave also reveals that the connection with Akamai, which eventually invested in the company, began when the network giant examined Hush's solution as a potential customer, and the relationship quickly developed into a strategic collaboration and investment. Beyond the technology, he explains, Hush is built by a founding team that has already built an enterprise security company in the past (Meta Networks), which was sold to Proofpoint: "The team has been working together for years and brings deep experience in the field," he concludes.
Hush was founded in 2024 by Micha Rave, Shmulik Ledkani, Alon Horowitz, and Chen Nissenkorn. The four worked together in the past and founded the information security company Meta Networks, which was sold to Proofpoint for $120 million. Today, the company employs 31 people in Israel and the United States.
