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As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities

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Source: TechCrunch (Security)June 15, 2026

Summary

NewCore, a new cybersecurity startup, has raised $66 million to help companies manage AI agents as workplace participants by giving them digital identities with proper authentication and access controls. As companies increasingly deploy AI agents alongside human employees, NewCore argues that traditional identity platforms (systems that verify who users are and what they can access) are outdated and designed only for humans, not software workers. NewCore's platform treats AI agents as first-class identities with their own permissions and access controls, using a 'split-key' architecture (dividing credentials between the customer and the platform to prevent a single point of failure) to secure them.

Solution / Mitigation

NewCore's platform addresses this through several built-in features explicitly described in the source: a 'split-key' architecture that divides critical identity credentials between the customer and the platform to eliminate a single point of compromise; an 'Agentic Skill' integration package for coding assistants like Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, and Cursor that allows AI tools to access enterprise systems as managed identities rather than through manually distributed credentials; and a mobile app that lets employees grant, review, and revoke access for AI agents, providing human oversight as companies deploy more autonomous systems.