Orchid Security emerged from stealth in January 2025 with a $36 million seed round and a mission to untangle the sprawling, fragmented identity environments that plague large enterprises. The company was founded by AI and cybersecurity experts Roy Katmor, Robert Weisman, and Ido Kelson; Katmor and Kelson previously co-founded endpoint-security company enSilo, which was acquired by Fortinet, while Weisman led identity-focused work at Team8 and Claroty. Headquartered in New York with R&D in Israel, Orchid sits at the intersection of identity security and applied LLMs.
The core problem Orchid addresses is that identity logic is scattered across hundreds of applications, each handling authentication and authorization differently, often with inconsistent, outdated, or invisible controls. Security and identity teams lack a clear, unified picture of how access actually works, making it hard to enforce policy, meet compliance requirements, or respond to identity-based threats. Orchid uses LLMs to discover and interpret the identity and access logic embedded in applications, normalizing it into a coherent view that humans can understand and act on.
With that clarity, Orchid helps organizations identify and remediate identity gaps, inconsistent controls, and risky configurations, and increasingly to govern the sprawl of AI agents that introduce new non-human identities at scale. By targeting AI agent identity governance, Orchid extends its platform to one of the fastest-growing sources of identity risk as enterprises adopt autonomous agents.
Orchid's $36 million seed round was co-led by Team8 and Intel Capital with support from CapitalOne and a roster of industry-leader angels, including Jeff Williams (FireEye, Cisco, McAfee), Dror Davidoff (Aqua), and Zohar Alon (Dome9, Check Point). The combination of a seasoned founding team, prominent strategic investors, and an LLM-native approach to a long-standing identity problem positions Orchid as a notable entrant in the modern identity security landscape.