en.Wedoany.com Reported - NewCore Ltd., an AI agent identity security startup, has officially launched its security-first platform for artificial intelligence agents after securing $66 million in seed funding. The company has built a comprehensive and highly scalable identity platform that protects and manages both human and autonomous AI agents within a single architecture, easily deployable on top of existing information technology systems. NewCore stated that existing identity systems are incapable of handling the reality where millions of AI agents work alongside humans, and have become a primary attack vector, making this platform essential.
NewCore founder and CEO Zohar Alon noted that the business world has undergone tremendous changes in recent years, with AI agents being created in seconds and requiring fine-grained, revocable access permissions to production systems. Most existing identity products are designed for human users, utilizing protocols such as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), static service accounts, and password-based session tokens, which were never designed to support agents. Alon previously founded cloud security company Dome9 Security Ltd., which was acquired by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. in 2018. The NewCore team also includes CTO Amihai Neiderman, an applied AI pioneer who previously served as head of research at Israel's 8200 unit signals intelligence agency, and Chief Revenue Officer Erez Yarkoni, who has worked at T-Mobile USA Inc. and Telstra Group Ltd.
NewCore has developed a new identity architecture for AI agents. While existing platforms focus on matters such as configuring seat counts and application federation, NewCore eliminates single points of failure in SAML signing infrastructure by using Secure SplitKeys, thereby removing a range of attack vectors, including Golden SAML, man-in-the-middle session hijacking, and token replay attacks. Alon stated that these vectors have been the cause of some of the largest identity-related cyberattacks in history. The platform treats AI agents as first-class identities with their own lifecycle, trust scores, and revocation paths, rather than operating as standard service accounts. The platform also introduces NewCore Agentic Skill, which is compatible with coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, enabling them to securely authenticate and operate within the enterprise trust map.
When using the NewCore platform, human user verification is transformed into a visually verifiable exchange through a visual multi-factor authentication process, resistant to relay, replay, and social engineering attacks. Each user is verified through hardware-based security credentials anchored in Trusted Platform Modules and secure enclaves to eliminate phishing attack risks. The platform is designed to support the scale of the world's largest enterprises, including environments where the number of non-human identities may be orders of magnitude higher than human employees.
The NewCore platform was showcased at Identiverse 2026 in Las Vegas and is now generally available to enterprises. The funding round was led by Cyberstarts, with participation from Index Ventures and Evolution Equity Partners. The company currently has offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, employing over 50 people.
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