Aembit offers a non-human identity and access management (IAM) platform that secures access between workloads and the services that authorize access to sensitive data and infrastructure. Its Aembit Workload IAM Platform enforces secretless, just‑in‑time access based on a workload’s identity and posture via a policy engine. The platform’s identity control plane enables DevSecOps teams to automate secretless, policy-based, Zero Trust workload access with MFA-strength capabilities. Aembit supports workloads across clouds, SaaS, and data centers to govern non-human access. The company was co-founded by David Goldschlag and Kevin Sapp and is based in Silver Spring, MD. It plans to use newly raised funds to expand operations and accelerate product development. Aembit offers a workload identity and access management service that helps DevOps and security teams manage how federated workloads (APIs, databases and other cloud resources) talk to each other without code changes. The company is officially launching its service and raised a $16.6M seed round to support that rollout. Its platform aims to become the system of record for workload identities and workloads themselves, including ephemeral workloads, and can run in a non-enforcement discovery mode to reveal access patterns. Aembit positions itself distinct from API gateways by focusing on the client side — authorizing the client that accesses an API. Co-founders David Goldschlag and Kevin Sapp previously co-founded New Edge Labs (acquired by Netskope) and Trust Digital (acquired by McAfee), and left Netskope in summer 2021 before starting Aembit. The company has 11 full-time employees, mostly engineers, has been selling to large enterprises, and plans to grow its marketing team and launch a self-serve product to expand into SMBs.

Total raised

$42M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Sep 2024