In 2021, founders David Goldschlag and Kevin Sapp recognized a critical gap in cybersecurity: while identity and access management (IAM) solutions for humans were mature, the rapidly growing world of non-human identities - AI agents, applications, services, and workloads - remained dangerously exposed. Having previously built and sold New Edge Labs to Netskope, they understood firsthand how traditional secrets management approaches were failing distributed systems and creating security vulnerabilities at scale.
So they built Aembit - a Workload Identity and Access Management platform designed from the ground up for the autonomous era. By providing secretless access, real-time policy enforcement, and centralized control across any environment, Aembit enables organizations to secure how AI agents and workloads connect to enterprise systems. Today, the company is at the forefront of the emerging IAM for Agentic AI category, helping businesses accelerate their AI adoption without compromising security.
