NewCore raises $66M to give AI agents corporate credentials

NewCore raised $66 million to give AI agents corporate credentials

Startup NewCore emerged from stealth mode and raised $66 million to solve a problem that few have put on the agenda so far: managing the identification of AI agents in a corporate environment. According to the founders, this — and not protection from hackers or employee monitoring — will become the main challenge of corporate security in the coming years.

AI agent as a new employee

AI agents in large companies have already stopped being pilot projects. They rewrite code, process customer requests, execute transactions, and manage supply chains. One agent can simultaneously operate in dozens of corporate systems: read databases, initiate payments, send emails. This is where the problem arises that NewCore calls critical. Traditional identity and access management (IAM) systems were built for people: each employee has a unique name, role, history of actions, and accountability. An AI agent lacks this in the conventional sense — it can change context, work under multiple names, and act without clear attachment to a specific human operator.

Credentials for an algorithm

NewCore builds infrastructure that assigns each AI agent a verified digital identifier — a functional analogue of a corporate badge for a software entity. The idea is for any company to know precisely: which agent has access to which resources, what it's doing right now, and who is responsible for its actions. The platform solves several tasks simultaneously:

• Unique identification of each agent within the organization
• Granular access control to systems and data
• Complete audit trail: what the agent did, in what context, and on whose instructions
• Integration with existing SOC, SIEM, and IAM tools
• Detection of anomalous requests and potential data leaks through agents

A $66 million round is a serious signal: investors consider the problem real and the potential market large enough to bet on it right now.

Why the moment has come now

Several factors have converged. OpenAI is pushing Operator, Anthropic — Claude Agents, Google — Gemini Workspace Actions, Microsoft — Copilot agents in corporate packages. Companies from the Fortune 500 are increasingly deploying agents in critical business processes: finance, compliance, HR, legal department.

"The next challenge of corporate security is managing AI agents, not people," —

NewCore's position.

At the same time, most companies have not yet established policies for such a scenario. An agent can receive temporary access to sensitive data, use it — and no internal audit will record this tied to a specific business task or responsible person. Regulators in the EU and US are already looking at this gap, and new norms are inevitable.

What this means

NewCore bets on a new category: Agent Identity Management as an independent discipline of corporate security. If the company's forecast proves correct, the next three years will determine who becomes the analogue of Okta or CrowdStrike for the agent era. For security directors, this is a signal to start an inventory right now: how many AI agents are operating in your infrastructure — and who is responsible for them.