Hush Security, a Tel Aviv-based provider of a non-human identity and AI agent governance platform, announced a $30 million Series A on July 28, 2026, with Akamai Technologies joining as a new strategic investor alongside existing backers Battery Ventures and YL Ventures. The round brings Hush's total funding to $41 million.

What the platform does

Hush sells a control layer for the credentials AI agents use to act inside enterprise systems. Rather than issuing agents long-lived, standing credentials the way many organizations still do for service accounts, the platform lets security teams register each agent, strip out permanent access keys, and grant scoped, just-in-time permissions only for the duration of a specific task. The pitch is that agents accumulating broad, unmonitored access to internal systems is one of the more concrete security gaps opened up by agentic AI adoption, distinct from — and less discussed than — model-level risks like prompt injection.

Where the money goes

Hush said it will use the funding to grow its engineering and sales teams, particularly in the United States, deepen integrations with enterprise identity and access management systems and agentic AI platforms, and expand corporate partnerships. Akamai's participation as a strategic investor, rather than purely financial backer, points to potential distribution through Akamai's existing enterprise security customer base.

Why it matters

The raise lands alongside a wave of similarly focused funding this year — rivals and adjacent players including Neo and Act Security have all raised in 2026 to police what agents are allowed to do inside company networks. Investors are betting that as enterprises move from piloting a handful of agents to running fleets of them, credential sprawl becomes a bigger operational risk than any single model's behavior. Gartner has forecast that the average Fortune 500 company will operate more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 a year earlier — a scaling curve that, if it holds, would turn agent identity and access management from a niche security category into standard enterprise infrastructure.