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Aembit Launches out of Stealth

David Goldschlag
David Goldschlag

Co-Founder and CEO

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Aembit, the identity platform that lets DevOps and Security teams discover, manage, enforce, and audit access between federated workloads, is launching from stealth today and has three exciting announcements:

  • Aembit’s Workload IAM service is now Generally Available (GA). Try it out and sign up here
  • Aembit is also announcing $16.6M in Seed financing from cybersecurity specialist investors Ballistic Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures. 
  • Aembit was also recently recognized as a Cool Vendor in the “2022 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Identity-First Security” report.

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Aembit Summary: Aembit is the Identity Platform that helps DevOps and Security manage, enforce, and audit access between federated workloads. Aembit provides seamless and secure access from enterprise workloads to the services they depend on, like APIs, databases, and cloud resources, while simplifying application development and delivery. Aembit allows the enterprise to manage access, not secrets, by explicitly managing access policies, while fully automating the lifecycle of credentials. 

Aembit’s Workload IAM Service is GA

  • Try it out and sign up here
  • Aembit’s basic tier is free forever and lets a DevOps group manage 10 workloads and access policies.

$16.6M Seed Investment

  • We are pleased to announce that we have raised a $16.6M Seed investment from Ballistic Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures
  • The investment will be used to accelerate product development and GTM.
  • We are very happy to welcome Jake Seid of Ballistic and Mark Hatfield of Ten Eleven to Aembit’s board.

Gartner Cool Vendor in Identity-First Security

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David Goldschlag
David Goldschlag

David Goldschlag is the co-founder and CEO of Aembit and an experienced cybersecurity entrepreneur. He previously co-founded New Edge Labs, a zero trust network access company acquired by Netskope, and MobileSpaces, a mobile security company acquired by Pulse Secure. David has held leadership roles at Netskope, Pulse Secure, McAfee, and USinternetworking. Earlier in his career, he worked at the National Security Agency and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, where he co-invented Onion Routing, the technology that later became the foundation for Tor.

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