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AuthMind

6701 Democracy Blvd. Suite 300, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States

Overview

AuthMind builds an observability-driven identity protection platform that monitors human, non-human, and agentic AI identities across multi-cloud, hybrid, SaaS, and on-premises environments. The platform delivers continuous identity observability, posture management, and threat detection to identify risks and attacks in real time. AuthMind emphasizes high-fidelity detection of "low-and-slow" and living-off-the-land attacks and aims to give security teams the context, clarity, and control to accelerate safe cloud and AI adoption. The product is described as award-winning, deploys throughout the enterprise in minutes, and the company was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Identity-First Security. AuthMind is based in Bethesda, Maryland, with R&D operations in Pune, India. Following a $19.3M seed round, the company will accelerate go-to-market operations and product innovations for its Identity Protection Platform. AuthMind offers an identity SecOps platform that correlates network flow activity with identity context and event logs to identify attacks and vulnerabilities in real time. The service can quickly build a holistic view of a customer’s cloud, on-prem, SaaS apps, password managers and more without prior knowledge of that company’s identities, assets or directories. AuthMind leverages AI-driven correlation to enable post-breach detection and to support post-incident investigations. The company was founded in 2020, is based in Maryland, and was co-founded by CEO Shlomi Yanai and CTO Ankur Panchbudhe. Early design partners became paying customers, and today AuthMind serves customers that manage tens—and in some cases more than 100,000—identities across their networks in industries including insurance, manufacturing and retail. The team plans to use the seed funding to expand go-to-market capabilities, improve core technologies, and eventually explore additional security areas such as helping customers with security audit certifications.

Total raised
$28M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Seed
Latest activity
Apr 2025

Industries

  • Cyber Security
  • Identity Management
  • Software Engineering
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Recent funding

  1. Seed

    Apr 2025

    $19M

  2. Seed

    Sep 2023

    $9M

Team