Non-human identity security platform company GitGuardian SAS today announced that it had raised $50 million in new funding to fuel its expansion in secrets and artificial intelligence agent security as organizations grapple with exponential growth in nonhuman identities.

Founded in 2017, GitGuardian offers a security platform that is designed to detect, manage and govern secrets and nonhuman identities used in software development and production environments.

“Organizations that once managed hundreds of service accounts will now face thousands of autonomous AI agents, each requiring secure credentials,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Eric Fourrier. “While identity solutions matured for human users, nonhuman identities remain largely unmanaged and recent breaches prove the cost.”

The company addresses the problem of credentials such as application programming interface keys, tokens and service account secrets being embedded across source code, configuration files, automation pipelines and AI-driven systems, where they are difficult to inventory, monitor and rotate using traditional identity and access management tools focused on human users.

GitGuardian’s platform works by integrating directly into development workflows and code repositories such as GitHub and other version control systems where secrets are most commonly introduced. The platform continuously scans repositories, commits and related collaboration tools to find and identify exposed credentials and then correlates them with known secret types and maps their usage across environments.

GitGuardian’s core capabilities include automated discovery of secrets, continuous monitoring for new exposures and remediation workflows that support alerting, revocation and rotation. The platform also extends into non-human identity governance by tracking service accounts, applications and AI agents, providing visibility into credential lifecycles, usage patterns and policy enforcement.

The platform integrates with tools including Slack, Jira and Confluence to support cross-team workflows between development, security and identity teams.

“We’re moving beyond secrets detection into full NHI lifecycle governance,” Fourrier said. “Effective secrets management requires seamless collaboration between development, security and IAM teams at every stage of the workflow.”

GitGuardian has seen strong growth, with more than 115,000 developers using its platform to monitor more than 610,000 repositories and over 210,000 connected collaboration sources. The platform serves Fortune 500 companies spanning technology, financial services, healthcare, energy and manufacturing.

Notable GitGuardian customers included DigitalOcean Holdings Inc., Snowflake Inc., Datadog Inc., ING Groep N.V., Euronext N.V. and BASF SE.

The Series C funding round was led by Insight Partners LP, with Quadrille Capital, Balderton Capital Management Ltd., Banco BPI S.A., Eurazeo SE, Fly Ventures GmbH and Sapphire Ventures also participating.

The new funding takes the total raised by GitGuardian to approximately $106.2 million, based on data from Tracxn. The company’s last funding raised before today was $44 million in December 2021.

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