Mintive Raises $7 Million Seed to Govern Enterprise AI Agent Identities
The funding round led by Cowboy Ventures, with angels including Frederic Kerrest, Jeff Dean and Andrej Karpathy, marks the arrival of dedicated venture backing for AI agent identity management.
Mintive, a startup focused on identity and permission management for enterprise AI agents, has raised a $7 million seed round led by Cowboy Ventures, bringing its total funding to $11 million. The angel list includes Frederic Kerrest, co-founder of Okta, along with Jeff Dean and Andrej Karpathy. The company is building tooling to define which agents may do what inside corporate systems — a problem layer that barely existed as a product category a year ago.
The round is part of a busier week in adjacent funding: Infisical closed a $40 million Series B on October 27 centered on an Agent Vault that lets agents access infrastructure without holding passwords, and Serval raised a $150 million Series C for automation agents on October 30. Venture capital moving into this layer signals that agent identity is expected to become standard enterprise spending, echoing the surge in agent-related CVEs that is largely rooted in weak access control. As with any early funding news, product claims remain independently unverified and the young category is prone to consolidation.