Authentication AI Startup Jobs

Cato Networks develops a cloud-native Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that converges SD-WAN, SSE, ZTNA, and FWaaS into a single global service. Founded in Tel Aviv in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz, it serves over 1,000 enterprise customers and is a cybersecurity unicorn valued above $4.8B.

Socure is an AI-powered digital identity verification, fraud prevention, and risk-decisioning platform used by banks, fintechs, and government agencies. Its RiskOS platform combines identity verification, document/device checks, sanctions screening, and fraud decisioning for over 3,000 customers worldwide.

1Password provides password, secrets, and access management software for teams and enterprises, securing credentials, app access, and AI tool usage in one platform.

Saviynt builds enterprise identity security and governance software, offering a cloud-native platform that secures human, machine, and AI-agent identities across cloud and business systems. The company is headquartered in El Segundo, California, and was founded in 2010.

Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative providing a full backend-as-a-service platform built on PostgreSQL, including database, auth, realtime subscriptions, edge functions, storage, and vector embeddings for developers.

Tailscale builds identity-first networking software on WireGuard so teams can securely connect users, devices, services, and AI systems across private infrastructure without VPN complexity.

WorkOS is a developer platform that provides APIs for quickly adding enterprise-grade features like Single Sign-On (SSO), Directory Sync (SCIM), Audit Logs, and User Management to applications. Often described as 'Stripe for enterprise features,' WorkOS powers authentication and identity for the fastest-growing AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor.

Island builds the Enterprise Browser, a Chromium-based browser that embeds security, governance, and productivity controls directly into the browsing experience for organizations. It has expanded into an agentic control plane that governs how both employees and AI agents access corporate applications, networks, and data.

Privacy-first mobile carrier redesigning telecommunications from the ground up. Cape owns and operates its own mobile core and SIMs, providing ultra-private and secure connectivity for enterprises, government, and consumers.

Neo (Neo Security, Inc.) is a Boston-based, 2025-founded startup with an R&D center in Tel Aviv that is defining the 'Agentic Software Control' category: a real-time security control layer for enterprise AI agents and intelligent software. It discovers the AI agents, models, extensions, scripts, and MCP servers running on enterprise devices, inspects their permissions and data access, attributes each action to a person/agent/app, and can allow, block, or pause operations in real time, backed by its Neoverse knowledge base. Founded by former SentinelOne, Wiz, and Palo Alto Networks veterans (CEO Nick Warner, ex-SentinelOne president/COO), it emerged from stealth in July 2026 with $100M from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer.

Fingerprint provides device intelligence APIs that help teams recognize returning visitors, prevent fraud, secure accounts, and reduce abuse across web and mobile products.

Bureau is a no-code identity decisioning platform that uses AI-powered insights to prevent fraud in real-time. It serves over 200 global brands across fintech, banking, e-commerce, insurance, and gig economy sectors, having verified over 300 million identities.

Opal Security is the authorization reasoning platform built to secure every identity, from employees and contractors to service accounts and AI agents. Provides unified visibility and defense-in-depth infrastructure for access management.

Cloaked is a consumer-first privacy platform that enables individuals to protect their personal data by generating unlimited secure identities including phone numbers, emails, usernames and passwords with end-to-end encryption.

Footprint delivers KYC and KYB onboarding with AI-driven identity and fraud checks for financial services teams.

Middesk is a business identity platform that automates business verification, risk assessment, and underwriting for financial institutions and enterprises. Backed by Sequoia, Accel, and Insight Partners, the platform enables companies to verify business identities quickly and accurately.

Phantom is a leading multi-chain, self-custodial crypto wallet supporting Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Base, and Polygon with over 15 million monthly active users. The platform offers token swaps, staking, NFT management, and cross-chain capabilities.

Lumos builds an identity and SaaS management platform that helps IT and security teams automate access requests, lifecycle management, access reviews, and software spend controls from one system.

Oak builds an AI-native Identity Operating System that unifies identity governance and security across human, machine, and AI agent identities. The platform connects to enterprise systems to build a live identity graph and automate risk detection and remediation.

Persona provides identity infrastructure for businesses to verify people and organizations, manage onboarding, automate KYC and AML checks, and reduce fraud across regulated digital workflows.

Duna is an AI-native business identity platform that helps banks, fintechs, and enterprises automate business (KYB) onboarding and compliance. Founded in 2023 by Stripe alumni and headquartered in Amsterdam, it operates a shareable business-identity network and a policy engine that turns compliance rules into auditable, executable code. Customers include Plaid, Fiserv (CCV), Moss, and SVEA Bank.

Identity infrastructure provider for managing access to AI agent tools with task-based permissions and dynamic policy enforcement

Bluesky is a decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol, giving users control over their social graph and enabling an open, interoperable layer for social applications. Founded as a Public Benefit Corporation in 2021, it has grown to tens of millions of users as an open-protocol alternative to X, letting users choose their own algorithms, moderation tools, and data portability.

Digital trust infrastructure enabling governments and enterprises to issue, verify, and manage digital identity credentials using open-source decentralized identity toolkits.

Comun is a New York-based digital neobank providing fee-free financial services tailored to Latino immigrants in the United States. Users can open an FDIC-insured checking account and get a Visa debit card in minutes using 100+ Latin American ID types (no SSN required), with Spanish-first support, remittances, early paycheck access, and instant payments. The company monetizes through interchange, remittance fees, and interest on deposits.

Open-source, identity-aware access proxy providing zero-trust secure access to internal applications without requiring a VPN, continuously verifying user identity and device context.

Proof provides identity-centric trust infrastructure for high-stakes digital transactions, combining identity verification, notarization, and authorization workflows.

Consumer-permissioned data platform that provides API access to payroll, employment, and financial data for streamlined income and employment verification, asset verification, and direct deposit switching.

Clerk provides developer-first authentication and user management infrastructure, including embeddable sign-in flows, session management, organizations, and backend APIs for modern web applications.

Lookout is a San Francisco-founded (now Boston-headquartered) cybersecurity company providing mobile endpoint security and threat intelligence for enterprises, protecting smartphones and tablets from phishing, malware, and network-based attacks. It serves 2,000+ enterprise customers and telecom carrier partners, having divested its consumer app and cloud SSE business to focus on mobile-first endpoint protection.

Appwrite is an open-source Backend-as-a-Service platform that gives developers pre-built APIs for authentication, databases, storage, real-time messaging, and serverless functions. It positions itself as a self-hostable alternative to Firebase and Supabase, and offers a managed Appwrite Cloud offering.

KYB automation for fintechs-AI agents verify businesses and streamline compliance checks.

Bolt is a San Francisco-based fintech founded in 2014 by Ryan Breslow and Eric Feldman that provides one-click checkout, fraud protection, and payment infrastructure for e-commerce merchants. After peaking at an $11B valuation in 2022 and shrinking sharply amid leadership turmoil, Breslow returned as CEO in 2025 to pivot Bolt into a consumer 'super app' spanning payments, crypto, and peer-to-peer transfers.

CloudEagle.ai is an AI-powered SaaS management, spend optimization, and identity/AI governance platform for enterprises. It gives IT, finance, and procurement teams a single system to discover shadow SaaS, automate license provisioning and access reviews, and renegotiate vendor renewals. The company reports managing over $15B in SaaS spend and was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SaaS Management Platforms.

Cymphony is a New York/Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup building a 'workforce graph' that maps identities, permissions, and data access across humans and AI agents. It raised a $25M Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC in September 2026, bringing total funding to $30M.

Defakto (formerly SPIRL, rebranded October 2025) builds a non-human identity and access management platform that replaces static secrets and overprivileged service accounts with short-lived, cryptographically verifiable workload identities. Built on the open SPIFFE standard, it discovers, issues, enforces, and governs identities for services, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes workloads, and AI agents across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. Founded by Eli Nesterov (CTO) and Danny Oliveri (CEO), it was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Identity-First Security in 2025.

NewCore is a security-first, unified identity platform that secures and governs every human, machine, and AI-agent identity under one architecture, discovering all identities and access relationships and continuously governing permissions and agent behavior. It launched from stealth in June 2026 with $66M in seed funding at a $300M valuation, led by cybersecurity veterans behind Dome9.

Nord Security is a Lithuania-founded cybersecurity group behind NordVPN, NordPass, NordLocker, NordLayer, and NordProtect, offering privacy, encryption, and secure access products for consumers and businesses. It serves millions of users worldwide and reached unicorn status with a $3B valuation in 2023.

Authorization-as-a-service platform providing fine-grained access control with declarative policy language.

PropelAuth is a fully managed authentication and authorization platform built specifically for B2B SaaS products, covering multi-tenant organizations, enterprise SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and MCP server auth. It ships hosted pre-built UIs plus SDKs so developers can add org-aware login, user management, and self-service admin without building it in-house. A Y Combinator W22 company, it operates as a remote-first US team.

Reown (formerly WalletConnect, Inc.) builds developer toolkits, AppKit and WalletKit, that let apps and wallets connect securely across EVM, Solana, Bitcoin, and other chains. It remains the core commercial maintainer of the open-source WalletConnect network, which supports over 700 wallets and 70,000+ apps, and is expanding into onchain payments infrastructure.