NewCore, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Dome9 CEO Zohar Alon, announced a $66 million seed investment on Monday, valuing the company at $300 million. The round was led by Cyberstarts, with participation from Index Ventures and Evolution Equity Partners. The funding will fuel the launch of a platform that treats AI agents as first‑class identities, a capability the founders argue is missing from today’s enterprise security tools.
Companies are increasingly deploying autonomous software assistants that act like employees. Goldman Sachs experimented with an AI coding agent named Devin as a new hire last year, and consulting firm McKinsey reported that 25,000 AI agents already work alongside its 60,000 staff. As these digital workers proliferate, Alon says identity systems become the weakest link in corporate security. “The scale and the complexity that those things [AI agents] are going to add to 15‑ or 20‑year‑old identity platforms are going to break them,” he told TechCrunch.
NewCore’s solution bundles human and AI‑agent identities in a single management system. The platform assigns each agent its own permissions, lifecycle controls and revocation mechanisms, rather than relying on generic service accounts or shared machine credentials. A “split‑key” architecture separates critical credentials between the customer and the platform, eliminating a single point of compromise.
To make the system usable for developers, NewCore offers an “Agentic Skill” integration package that works with coding assistants such as Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex and Cursor. The package lets these tools access enterprise resources as managed identities, removing the need for manually distributed passwords. A mobile app gives security teams a human‑oversight layer: they can grant, review and revoke access for any AI agent in real time.
The company’s leadership team blends security, telecom and military experience. Alon serves as chief executive officer, Amihai Neiderman—formerly a Unit 8200 research leader and founder of health‑AI startup Nym Health—acts as chief technology officer, and Erez Yarkoni, a former CIO of T‑Mobile USA and Telstra, fills the chief commercial officer role. Together they have built a workforce of more than 50 employees across the United States and Israel.
NewCore’s technology is already in use by fewer than ten paying customers, with more than ten design partners testing the platform. The startup plans to begin charging customers this summer, aiming to capture a market that traditional identity providers such as Okta and Microsoft’s Entra are only beginning to address. Alon argues those incumbents are retrofitting legacy systems, whereas NewCore was designed from the ground up for a mixed human‑machine workforce.
Looking ahead, Alon predicts AI agents could soon outnumber human staff at many tech‑focused firms. He cites a recent comment from TCS chairman N. Chandrasekaran, who warned that AI agents might rival the Indian IT services giant’s own employee count. If that scenario unfolds, enterprises will need new guardrails to monitor, authorize and revoke software workers operating across their networks. “It’s inevitable,” Alon said. “The question is whether we’re going to build the guardrails in time.”
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