Identity startup Oak emerges from stealth with $60M to secure AI agents

Co-founded by serial entrepreneur Shai Morag and former Tenable product lead Tal Marom, Oak aims to replace fragmented legacy systems that struggle to manage the expanding digital workforce. The startup spent months interviewing over 100 CISOs to develop an AI connector framework that maps access to actual application usage. Unlike static tools that rely on periodic reviews, Oak performs real-time permission pruning to reduce the attack surface created by unused credentials.

Morag, a former army major who previously sold cybersecurity firm Secdo to Palo Alto Networks and Ermetic to Tenable, secured the massive seed round from a venture capital consortium led by Accel, CRV, and Greylock Partners. Andrei Brasoveanu of Accel noted that while the firm backs young founders in other sectors, the technical and organizational complexity of identity management requires the specific expertise Morag brings to the table. With a team of 50 already in place and expansion plans focused on the U.S. market, the company is positioning itself to challenge entrenched vendors in a sector prone to deep lock-in.