Act Security raises $60M to take action against agentic access sprawl at the infrastructure layer
Cloud security startup Act Security Ltd. says it’s primed and ready to help enterprises safely deploy artificial intelligence agents at large scale after raising $60 million in funding across two rounds.
The company was founded last year and closed on a hefty $20 million seed funding round led by Team8 and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Caltech and Hetz Ventures. That round remained undisclosed until today, when it clinched yet more backing in the shape of a $40 million Series A investment led by Notable Capital, with participation from Startpoint Capital and SVCI.
Act Security says it’s launching its “action-centric” security platform in response to traditional cloud security models being stretched beyond their limits by the emergence of agentic AI systems. Traditionally, large organizations have slowly but surely enabled massive access across their cloud environments, but the vast majority of the permissions they’ve allowed are unneeded, essentially sitting dormant.
For instance, a contractor may once have been given access to a certain database system in order to fix something, and that access was never revoked, or an employee may have access to systems they never use. That has never really been much of an issue because of the slow speed at which human attackers operate.
