Linx Security was founded in 2023 by cybersecurity veterans Israel Duanis (CEO) and Niv Goldenberg to rebuild identity governance for the AI era. Identity has become the most common failure point in enterprise security: organizations struggle to maintain an accurate picture of who and what can access their systems, and stale, excessive, or orphaned permissions create constant risk. Linx tackles this by building an AI-first platform that continuously discovers and maps every identity, human, machine, and increasingly AI agents, along with the access each one actually holds and uses.
The company's particular focus is the emerging problem of agent governance. As enterprises deploy autonomous AI agents, those agents inherit permissions and access rights traditionally assigned to people, often without the lifecycle controls that govern human accounts. Linx is designed to bring all identity types under a single governance architecture, detecting risky or excessive access, flagging dormant and orphaned identities, and helping teams enforce least privilege across a sprawling identity estate.
A centerpiece of the platform is Linx Autopilot, which automates identity governance workflows, turning what is often a slow, manual, audit-driven process into a continuous, automated one. Rather than relying on periodic access reviews that are out of date the moment they are completed, Linx aims to keep identity posture accurate and remediated in near real time.
Linx's investor base closely mirrors the early backers of cloud-security giant Wiz. The company raised a $50 million Series B in March 2026 led by Insight Partners with continued participation from Cyberstarts and Index Ventures, bringing total funding to $83 million; Wiz's own founders are also angel investors. CEO Israel Duanis has publicly framed the company's ambition as doing for identity what Wiz did for cloud security. With identity threats intensifying and AI agents multiplying machine identities, Linx positions itself as a next-generation identity governance and security platform for the agentic enterprise.