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Offroad Emerges From Stealth With $7M to Build the AI Identity Security Team
As identity security work outpaces what teams can handle manually, Offroad uses AI agents to automatically investigate and remediate risks across human identities, non-human identities, and AI agents. NEW YORK & TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2026-- Identity security has moved beyond the simple question of who has access. It is now a continuous operational challenge: why access exists, whether it is still justified, how it is being used, who owns the decision, and what could break if that access changes. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260604700002/en/ The context needed to answer those questions is scattered across identity providers, HR systems, SaaS apps, cloud platforms, security tools, tickets, logs, business owners, and more. Enterprises were already struggling to manage identity risk for human users across fragmented systems. AI agents and other non-human identities are now pushing that problem beyond what security teams can manually investigate and remediate. To help enterprises close that gap, Offroad emerged from stealth today with $7 million in seed funding led by Ibex Investors and Skywell Capital Partners. Offroad is building an agentic identity security team for modern enterprises. Instead of giving organizations another dashboard or list of alerts, Offroad's agents gather context across fragmented systems, uncover both real-time identity threats and underlying posture risks, and autonomously resolve them - either by taking direct action where it is safe, or by involving the right people with the context needed to decide. OAuth applications are just one example of how identity risk is becoming harder to govern. These apps often receive broad, persistent access to business-critical systems such as Google Workspace or GitHub, sometimes including files, email, code, calendars, and other sensitive business data. Yet security teams may lack the context to understand whether that access is justified, who owns it, what the app actually does, or what risk it creates. To better understand the scale of that problem, Offroad audited 2,890 public OAuth applications listed in the Google Workspace Marketplace and GitHub Marketplace as of May 2026. The company found that roughly one in three apps, representing more than 1.85 billion installs, showed serious structural security concerns that a careful security analyst would likely reject during manual review. Alongside the research, Offroad is launching ohauth.ai, a free OAuth security catalog that helps teams review app permissions, security concerns, and governance risks. "Identity is no longer just a workforce access problem," said Offroad co-founder and CEO Dan Bendler. "Enterprises now operate across a constantly changing mix of human users, machine identities, and AI agents. The context needed to understand and resolve identity risk is spread across dozens of systems and workflows, while security teams are still expected to investigate and remediate issues manually. That model is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain." Offroad was founded in 2025 by CEO Dan Bendler, who previously founded two AI startups that collectively raised more than $45 million, and CTO Philip Shteyn, a former Unit 8200 Captain who also helped build Palo Alto Networks' Cortex platform. "Most identity systems were designed around assumptions that no longer hold," said Shteyn. "AI agents operate across systems at all hours and at a scale humans never could, which makes traditional behavioral baselines far less reliable. Security teams need systems capable of continuously investigating and reasoning through identity activity, not simply generating more findings." "What sets Offroad apart is how its agents actually work alongside the team," said Sean Mullins, Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure & CISO. "Rather than adding more alerts to an already noisy environment, they gather context, work through the risk, and hand off something actionable. For teams stretched thin on identity security, that's a meaningful shift." "Companies now run on significantly more autonomous identities with broader permissions than the people who deployed them, operating at machine speed through authorization flows that were never designed for autonomous access," said Adi Dangot Zukovsky, Partner at Ibex Investors. "The market is flooded with tools that find identity risk. Security teams do not need another tool that provides findings. They need operational leverage, not more interfaces. Offroad is betting on closing this loop autonomously from finding to full resolution." To learn more about Offroad's AI identity security platform and latest research findings, visit www.offroad.ai About Offroad.AI Offroad.AI is building an AI identity security team for the modern enterprise. The company helps organizations move from identity visibility to identity resolution by investigating, governing, remediating, and verifying identity risks across human users, machine identities, OAuth applications, service accounts, and AI agents. Founded in 2025, Offroad operates from New York and Tel Aviv. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260604700002/en/ Deb Montner and Hannah Sather [email protected] [email protected] Montner Tech PR
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Offroad launches with $7M to automate identity security with AI agents
Offroad launches with $7M to automate identity security with AI agents Offroad Inc. launched today with $7 million in funding to build what it calls an agentic identity security team, using artificial intelligence agents to investigate and remediate access risks across human users, machine identities and AI agents. Founded in September 2025 and based in New York and Tel Aviv, Offroad is targeting a problem that has outgrown manual review. Identity security is no longer simply a question of who has access, the company argues, but a continuous operational challenge of why access exists, whether it remains justified, how it is used and what breaks if it changes. The context needed to answer those questions is scattered across identity providers, human resources systems, software-as-a-service applications, cloud platforms, security tools, tickets and logs. Rather than surfacing another dashboard of findings, Offroad's agents gather that context, investigate posture and runtime issues together and then resolve them, either by acting directly where it's safe or by routing high-impact changes to the right people with the context needed to decide. The company is pitching AI agents as the reason the old model no longer holds. Autonomous identities now operate at machine speed across many systems at once, breaking the behavioral baselines that runtime detection tools were built on. Service accounts, application programming interface keys and machine identities often carry broad, persistent access with weak ownership and long lifecycles that most organizations lack the processes to govern. The company put numbers to that risk, auditing 2,890 public OAuth applications across the Google Workspace Marketplace and GitHub Marketplace as of May 2026. It found that roughly one in three, representing more than 1.85 billion installations, showed serious structural security concerns that a careful analyst would likely reject during manual review. Alongside the launch, the company released ohauth.ai, a free OAuth security catalog for reviewing app permissions and governance risks. "Identity is no longer just a workforce access problem," explains co-founder and Chief Executive Dan Bendler. "Enterprises now operate across a constantly changing mix of human users, machine identities and AI agents. The context needed to understand and resolve identity risk is spread across dozens of systems and workflows, while security teams are still expected to investigate and remediate issues manually. That model is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain." Bendler previously founded two AI startups that together raised more than $45 million. Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Philip Shteyn is a former captain in Unit 8200, the Israeli military's elite cyber unit, and helped build the Cortex platform at Palo Alto Networks Inc. The seed round was led by Ibex Investors and Skywell Capital Partners. Adi Dangot Zukovsky, a partner at Ibex Investors, framed the investment as closing the loop between detection and remediation. "The market is flooded with tools that find identity risk," she said. "They need operational leverage, not more interfaces." Offroad said it will put the funding toward hiring, product development and a bigger U.S. footprint.
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Offroad emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding to tackle identity security challenges that have outpaced manual security efforts. The company deploys AI agents that autonomously investigate and remediate identity risks across human users, machine identities, and AI agents, gathering context from fragmented systems to resolve threats without adding more dashboards to security teams' workloads.
Offroad emerged from stealth today with $7 million in seed funding led by Ibex Investors and Skywell Capital Partners, introducing an AI-powered identity security platform designed to address a problem that has grown beyond what manual security efforts can handle
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. Founded in September 2025 by CEO Dan Bendler and CTO Philip Shteyn, the New York and Tel Aviv-based startup is building what it calls an agentic identity security team that uses AI agents to autonomously investigate and remediate identity risks across human users, non-human identities, and autonomous AI identities1
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The company addresses a fundamental shift in how identity security operates. Rather than simply determining who has access, enterprises now face continuous operational challenges around why access exists, whether it remains justified, how it's being used, and what could break if that access changes [1](https://venturebeat.com/business/offroad-em erges-from-stealth-with-7m-to-build-the-ai-identity-security-team). The context needed to answer these questions is scattered across identity providers, HR systems, SaaS apps, cloud platforms, security tools, tickets, logs, and business owners, creating a fragmented landscape that security teams struggle to navigate manually
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.Instead of adding another dashboard or alert system to security teams' already noisy environments, Offroad's AI agents gather context across fragmented systems, uncover both real-time identity threats and underlying posture risks, and resolve them autonomously
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. The agents take direct action where it's safe to do so, or involve the right people with the context needed to make informed decisions about high-impact changes2
. This approach provides operational leverage rather than simply generating more findings for overwhelmed security teams to manually investigate1
."What sets Offroad apart is how its agents actually work alongside the team," said Sean Mullins, Vice President of Enterprise Infrastructure & CISO. "Rather than adding more alerts to an already noisy environment, they gather context, work through the risk, and hand off something actionable. For teams stretched thin on identity security, that's a meaningful shift"
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.To demonstrate the scale of the identity security problem, Offroad audited 2,890 public OAuth applications listed in the Google Workspace Marketplace and GitHub Marketplace as of May 2026
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. The company found that roughly one in three apps, representing more than 1.85 billion installs, showed serious structural security concerns that a careful security analyst would likely reject during manual review1
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.OAuth applications often receive broad, persistent access to business-critical systems such as Google Workspace or GitHub, sometimes including files, email, code, calendars, and other sensitive business data
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. Yet security teams frequently lack the context to understand whether that access is justified, who owns it, what the app actually does, or what access risks it creates1
. Alongside the launch, Offroad released ohauth.ai, a free OAuth security catalog that helps teams review app permissions, security concerns, and governance risks1
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The rise of machine identities and AI agents has fundamentally changed the identity security landscape. These autonomous identities now operate at machine speed across many systems simultaneously, breaking the behavioral baselines that traditional runtime detection tools were built on
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. Service accounts, API keys, and machine identities often carry broad, persistent access with weak ownership and long lifecycles that most organizations lack the processes to govern2
."Most identity systems were designed around assumptions that no longer hold," said Shteyn, a former Unit 8200 Captain who helped build Palo Alto Networks' Cortex platform. "AI agents operate across systems at all hours and at a scale humans never could, which makes traditional behavioral baselines far less reliable. Security teams need systems capable of continuously investigating and reasoning through identity activity, not simply generating more findings"
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.Adi Dangot Zukovsky, Partner at Ibex Investors, framed the investment as closing the loop between detection and remediation. "Companies now run on significantly more autonomous identities with broader permissions than the people who deployed them, operating at machine speed through authorization flows that were never designed for autonomous access. The market is flooded with tools that find identity risk. Security teams do not need another tool that provides findings. They need operational leverage, not more interfaces"
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.Offroad plans to use the seed funding for hiring, product development, and expanding its U.S. footprint
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. Bendler previously founded two AI startups that collectively raised more than $45 million1
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