Cybersecurity startup Scalekit has announced raising $5.5 million in a seed funding round co-led by Together Fund and Z47, with support from several angel investors.
Founded in 2024, the US-based cybersecurity startup has built a developer toolkit for verifying AI agent identity and securing both incoming authentication and outgoing agent actions.
Scalekit’s authentication stack, purpose-built for agentic apps, is tailored for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, allowing security teams to easily add an OAuth 2.1 authorization server.
According to the startup, its solution enables developers to rapidly add an encrypted token vault, along with a tool-calling layer, so that AI agents can act on a user’s behalf in popular services such as Gmail, HubSpot, Notion, and Slack.
Scalekit provides individual modules such as two-factor OTPs, email magic links, single sign-on, and machine-to-machine service tokens that can be included in applications within minutes.
The company also enables developers to implement step-up approvals and user-to-agent delegated consent, to create agentic workflows fast.
Scalekit says it is also considering expanding its agent-centric identity roadmap with background agent support, granular authentication logs, deepened tool-calling, and prebuilt connectors for more than 1,000 external apps.
“For years, software focused on blocking bots. Now business apps must let authenticated agents in and decide exactly what data they can read or write. Scalekit sits at that intersection of verifying every agent’s identity and enforcing precise, least-privilege access through a single drop-in toolkit,” Scalekit co-founder and CEO Satya Devarakonda said.
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