Security 2 min read Clutch Security raises $20Mn in Seres A funding With this funding, Clutch will expand its GTM team to accelerate customer adoption, invest in R&D and product innovation to further enhance its platform, and scale its workforce to support its growing enterprise customer base. Clutch Security, the pioneer in Non-Human Identity (NHI) security, announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding, bringing total funding raised to $28.5 million. The round was led by SignalFire, with participation from current investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Merlin Ventures. This substantial funding comes less than a year after Clutch began building its groundbreaking platform and will fuel the company’s growth in go-to-market (GTM) efforts, R&D, and product innovation.
The cybersecurity ecosystem is undergoing a seismic shift. While traditional security solutions focused on human identities, attackers are now increasingly targeting NHIs — API keys, service accounts, tokens, secrets, and certificates — which form the backbone of modern IT and automation. This shift has been accelerated by the rapid adoption of agentic AI in the enterprise, which relies heavily on NHIs to drive innovation and efficiency.
Cloud services, DevOps automation, and AI advancements have led to a surge in NHIs, often scattered across Cloud, SaaS, and on-premise environments, and holding elevated privileges. This growth has resulted in limited visibility, weak lifecycle management, and challenges in risk mitigation, posture control, and timely detection and response to NHI-based incidents — any of which could have severe consequences to an organisation.
Clutch Security’s Universal NHI Security Platform provides a unified view of all NHIs across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. Through detailed Identity Lineage™, the platform tracks the origin, ownership, storage, usage, and access of NHIs, empowering security teams with complete context. It ensures comprehensive governance, advanced risk prioritisation, actionable remediation playbooks, and real-time anomaly detection, all designed to minimize incident impact and reduce the attack surface.
Clutch’s Zero Trust approach validates every NHI usage in real time, addressing exploitable gaps left by static credentials and secret rotation policies. By championing ephemeral credentials and dynamic security controls, Clutch ensures that even exposed credentials are rendered useless to attackers. Beyond security, this approach enhances operational efficiency, reducing reliance on IT and engineering teams while enabling security teams to work independently and focus on strategic initiatives, and allows engineering teams to ship code.
“Our unique Zero Trust approach to NHI security has resonated deeply with enterprise customers,” said Ofir Har-Chen, Co-Founder and CEO of Clutch Security. “This funding is a testament to the outstanding traction we’ve seen, the trust we’ve built, and the growing recognition that NHI security is no longer optional — it’s critical. We’re excited to continue scaling our team and our impact.”
The $20M Series A round underscores the urgency of securing NHIs and reflects the market’s confidence in Clutch’s ability to lead this charge. With this funding, Clutch will expand its GTM team to accelerate customer adoption, invest in R&D and product innovation to further enhance its platform, and scale its workforce to support its growing enterprise customer base.
