Artificial intelligence-powered German identity security startup Unosecur GmBH announced Wednesday it has raised $5 million in seed funding, with an additional $3 million in additional investor commitments.

The round was led by VentureFriends and DFF Ventures, with participation from Leo Capital, Heartfelt and a number of prominent business angel investors.

Founded in 2021, Unosecur focuses on identity and access management, a cybersecurity industry field that has continued to become more complex as companies add more applications that require secrets and access conditions such as software-as-a-service.

The emergence of autonomous artificial intelligence applications, such as AI agents, billed as “teammates,” which also require credentials and access protocols has only served to complicate identity.

As organizations scale, the number of identities they must serve and manage multiply. This includes employee logins, service accounts, application programming interfaces and now the aforementioned AI agents. Identity is part of the security perimeter. Employee, service or AI credentials leaking can mean a malicious attacker can reach into a network and do tremendous damage.

According to a report from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., 80% of cyberattacks use identity-based attack methods. IBM Corp. reported that the global average cost of a data breach in 2024 rose to over $4.8 million, a 10% increase over the previous year.

To help companies handle the increasing amount of identity sprawl, Unosecur developed an AI-driven solution called Unified Identity Fabric. It brings together human, machine and AI identities into one platform so that they can be handled within one system.

Using artificial intelligence, Unosecur’s system learns normal patterns of behavior, monitors identity access and tracks activity to spot anomalies and risky deviations to catch and stop them in real time. This strategy allows the company’s platform to be useful for identity threat detection and response, identity security posture management and nonhuman identity management.

“Before bringing Unosecur on board, our large-scale identity solutions provided ample visibility but lacked effective remediation for anomalies, and despite robust CNAPP alerts, our ITDR setup remained under-optimized and trapped in silos for nearly 90% of our processes,” said Vijay Muthu, chief information security officer of Rakuten Symphony, a company that provides cloud-native telecommunications infrastructure.

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