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Britive sells cloud-native privileged access management that mints just-in-time ephemeral credentials and enforces zero standing privileges at runtime. It has extended that same policy engine from human and cloud access to non-human and AI agent identities. Founded in 2018, Britive shows real enterprise pull, with the CISO of Splunk among its named references and revenue that TechCrunch reported growing 3x a year across dozens of accounts. Britive's hardest advantage to copy is where the product sits, in the authentication path issuing short-lived credentials, rather than data it has gathered, since no proprietary cross-customer data advantage is evidenced in the public record. That position is a head start a funded identity vendor could bundle, not yet a lasting moat.
| Description | Cloud-native privileged access management that mints just-in-time ephemeral credentials and enforces zero standing privileges at runtime across human, non-human, and AI agent identities through one policy model. | [f1] |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | [f2] |
| HQ | Glendale, California, US | [f3] |
| Funding | $36M total | [f4] |
| Latest funding | Series B, $20.5M (March 2023) | [f4] |
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Britive Cloud-Native PAM | Cloud-native privileged access management that grants and revokes access at runtime, minting ephemeral just-in-time privileges across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem to enforce zero standing privileges. |
| Britive Agentic AI Identity Security | Extends Britive's runtime authorization to AI agents, brokering short-lived credentials through OAuth and JWT claims and tying MCP tool requests to on-behalf-of policies bound to human privilege. |
AI Defense Matrix
| Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-Workload Platforms Inference servers, training platforms, vector DB platforms, and the model-loading supply chain. | ||||||
| AI Orchestration Tools Agentic orchestration tools, plus their plugins, skills, hooks, system prompts, scaffolding, harnesses, configuration settings, and MCP clients on user devices. | ||||||
| AI-Generated Code Code produced by AI tools, AI-assisted reviews, AI-generated infrastructure-as-code and tests, and vibe-coded apps that bypass CI/CD. | ||||||
| AI Gateways & Routers MCP proxies and gateways, LLM routers, outbound AI-service traffic, shadow AI egress, and model-registry traffic. | ||||||
| AI Model Model weights, fine-tuning checkpoints, model cards, registries, AIBOM, and the third-party LLMs your enterprise consumes. | ||||||
| Training Data Datasets used for training, fine-tuning, and continued learning. | ||||||
| Runtime AI Data User prompts, inference inputs, RAG content, vector DB content, persistent agent memory, and interaction history. | ||||||
| AI Agent Identities AI agents as non-human principals, plus credentials, keys, permission scopes, service accounts, and delegation chains across agents and tools. |
Britive extends its cloud-native PAM to AI agent identities with just-in-time ephemeral credentials, zero standing privileges, and runtime on-behalf-of policy enforcement. It is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix. [f5]
How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.
| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity How precisely the company defines its problem, with evidence the problem exists at the scale claimed. | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth How specific the technical capabilities are, with evidence beyond marketing claims such as docs, demos, and third-party validation. | 3/5 |
| Market Timing Whether the market is ready for this product, with evidence that buyers are actively seeking solutions. | 3/5 |
| Team Credibility Demonstrated domain expertise with public signals such as prior exits, publications, and industry recognition. | 3/5 |
| GTM Proof Evidence of actual traction (customers, revenue signals, partnerships) beyond stated intentions. | 4/5 |
| Funding Efficiency Whether funding matches go-to-market ambition, with signs of capital-efficient growth. | 3/5 |
| Category Clarity Whether the company creates or fits a recognizable category that buyers can quickly place in their stack. | 4/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility How vulnerable the core value proposition is to absorption as a feature by a platform vendor. | 3/5 |
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| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery Does the product sell software as the product, or judgment, trust, or accountability with software as the delivery mechanism. | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost How expensive leaving is for a customer: data portability, integrations, learned workflows, network effects, regulatory data residency. | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat Whether certifications, liability acceptance, or audit trails block an easy replacement. | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity Whether the product requires ML, optimization, real-time systems, or years of specialized expertise. | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile Whether buyers are SMB operators, mid-market IT teams, or regulated enterprises and governments with procurement gates. | 3/3 |
| Layer Whether the product is an end-user application, a platform with application features, or infrastructure other applications depend on. | 3/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP Whether the product accumulates datasets, content licenses, or IP that a rival cannot recreate from scratch. | 1/3 |
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| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | Britive: Runtime PAM for Agentic AI, NHI and Humans | official | 2026-06-25 |
| f2 | Los Angeles Business Journal: Britive Gets Patent Award (founding year corroborated by britive.com WHOIS creation date 2018-05-30) | press | 2026-06-25 |
| f3 | NHI Mgmt Group forum: Britive announcement (GLENDALE, CA dateline) | other | 2026-06-25 |
| f4 | TechCrunch: Britive, which helps secure public clouds, lands $20.5M investment | press | 2026-06-25 |
| f5 | AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping | other | 2026-06-25 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Britive: Runtime PAM for Agentic AI, NHI and Humans “One runtime authorization model enforcing zero standing privileges for humans, NHIs, and AI agents.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s2 | Britive Platform capabilities “Eliminate the risks associated with standing privileges. Ephemeral, just-in-time access ensures that access is granted temporarily and expires when no longer needed, enforcing Zero Standing Privileges by default.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s3 | About Britive “Britive co-founders Art Poghosyan, Alex Gudanis, and Sameer Hiremath had cause for concern. As security entrepreneurs with 20+ years of industry experience, they recognized the gaps between the needs of enterprises building digital services in the cloud.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s4 | Agentic AI Identity Security “Approved requests receive short-lived credentials brokered through OAuth/JWT claims and others are blocked. Agents can only use authorized tools and take specific actions while on-behalf-of policies tie requests back to human privilege boundaries.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s5 | Cloud PAM for NHIs, Automations, and AI Agents “Credentials and access are short-lived. Machine access is granted only when needed for routine tasks and automatically revoked without impacting workflows.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s6 | Britive Security and Architecture “Britive has maintained SOC2 Type 2 certification since early in our company history. This is verified annually by an independent audit firm. We're happy to make this available upon request and execution of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s7 | Britive named Trusted Cloud Provider by CSA “Britive is pleased to announce it is now recognized as a Trusted Cloud Provider by CSA.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s8 | TechCrunch: Britive, which helps secure public clouds, lands $20.5M investment “the new brings Britive's total raised to $36 million. Poghosyan says that annual recurring revenue is in the millions of dollars and growing 3x annually, and that Britive now has dozens of customers, including several Fortune 500 brands.” | press | 2026-06-25 |
| s9 | AI Defense Matrix Catalog: Britive “Extends cloud PAM to AI agent identities with just-in-time ephemeral credentials, zero standing privileges, and runtime on-behalf-of policy enforcement.” | other | 2026-06-25 |
| s10 | NHI Mgmt Group forum: Britive announcement, AI Identity Security to Govern and Secure Agentic AI Access at Runtime “Britive extends its cloud-native PAM platform to govern agentic AI identities, providing runtime authentication, just-in-time access, and continuous policy enforcement so AI agents are held to the same Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) standard as humans and traditional NHIs.” | other | 2026-06-25 |
| s11 | Agentic AI Security with Dynamic Access Control “Continuously evaluate policies based on attributes (ABAC) and permissions (PBAC) to enforce JIT, least-privileged access by default. High-risk actions can trigger step-up authentication or human-in-the-loop approval.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s12 | Britive homepage customer testimonials “Britive finally solves the unique access management challenges for cloud applications and infrastructure. Yassir Abousselham, CISO, Splunk. Sameer Patwardhan, SVP Technology, Forbes. Customer stories: Forbes, Splunk, Nayya, Reltio, Marqeta, Signal Sciences.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s13 | Pulse 2.0: Cloud Identity Security Company Britive Raises $20.5 Million In Series B Funding “This Series B funding round was led by Pelion Venture Partners with participation from Liberty Global Ventures and insiders Crosslink Capital and One Way Ventures. The funding comes at a time marked by more than 300% year-over-year revenue growth fueled by major customer wins.” | press | 2026-06-25 |
| s14 | Los Angeles Business Journal: Britive Gets Patent Award “Poghosyan co-founded the company in 2018 with Alex Gudanis and Sameer Hiremath, and the three founders filed a patent application soon after launching Britive's platform in 2020. the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office eventually agreed on the patentability of Britive's technology.” | press | 2026-06-25 |
| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | Britive: Runtime PAM for Agentic AI, NHI and Humans “One runtime authorization model enforcing zero standing privileges for humans, NHIs, and AI agents.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s2 | Britive Platform capabilities “Just-in-Time Ephemeral Cloud Access enforces Zero Standing Privileges by default. Universal Secrets Management and Credential Vaulting: Store, manage, and access credentials securely with temporary, auto-expiring permissions.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s3 | About Britive “Britive co-founders Art Poghosyan, Alex Gudanis, and Sameer Hiremath had cause for concern. As security entrepreneurs with 20+ years of industry experience, they recognized the gaps between the needs of enterprises building digital services in the cloud.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s4 | Agentic AI Identity Security “Approved requests receive short-lived credentials brokered through OAuth/JWT claims and others are blocked. Agents can only use authorized tools and take specific actions while on-behalf-of policies tie requests back to human privilege boundaries.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s5 | Cloud PAM for NHIs, Automations, and AI Agents “Credentials and access are short-lived. Machine access is granted only when needed for routine tasks and automatically revoked without impacting workflows.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s6 | Britive Security and Architecture “Britive has maintained SOC2 Type 2 certification since early in our company history. This is verified annually by an independent audit firm. We're happy to make this available upon request and execution of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s7 | Britive named Trusted Cloud Provider by CSA “Britive is pleased to announce it is now recognized as a Trusted Cloud Provider by CSA.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s8 | TechCrunch: Britive, which helps secure public clouds, lands $20.5M investment “Poghosyan says that annual recurring revenue is in the millions of dollars and growing 3x annually, and that Britive now has dozens of customers, including several Fortune 500 brands.” | press | 2026-06-25 |
| s9 | AI Defense Matrix Catalog: Britive “Extends cloud PAM to AI agent identities with just-in-time ephemeral credentials, zero standing privileges, and runtime on-behalf-of policy enforcement.” | other | 2026-06-25 |
| s10 | NHI Mgmt Group forum: Britive announcement, AI Identity Security to Govern and Secure Agentic AI Access at Runtime “Britive extends its cloud-native PAM platform to govern agentic AI identities, providing runtime authentication, just-in-time access, and continuous policy enforcement so AI agents are held to the same Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) standard as humans and traditional NHIs.” | other | 2026-06-25 |
| s11 | Agentic AI Security with Dynamic Access Control “Continuously evaluate policies based on attributes (ABAC) and permissions (PBAC) to enforce JIT, least-privileged access by default. High-risk actions can trigger step-up authentication or human-in-the-loop approval.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s12 | Britive homepage customer testimonials “Britive finally solves the unique access management challenges for cloud applications and infrastructure. Yassir Abousselham, CISO, Splunk. Sameer Patwardhan, SVP Technology, Forbes. Customer stories: Forbes, Splunk, Nayya, Reltio, Marqeta, Signal Sciences.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s13 | Pulse 2.0: Cloud Identity Security Company Britive Raises $20.5 Million In Series B Funding “This Series B funding round was led by Pelion Venture Partners with participation from Liberty Global Ventures and insiders Crosslink Capital and One Way Ventures. The funding comes at a time marked by more than 300% year-over-year revenue growth fueled by major customer wins.” | press | 2026-06-25 |
| s14 | Britive Platform, Access Builder module “Empower your teams with the ability to securely request access to cloud resources and applications as needed. Britive's self-service model and Access Builder module enhances operational efficiency by reducing dependencies across teams for provisioning.” | official | 2026-06-25 |
| s15 | Los Angeles Business Journal: Britive Gets Patent Award “Poghosyan co-founded the company in 2018 with Alex Gudanis and Sameer Hiremath. Britive's technology is software as a service and is offered on a subscription basis, with the cost determined by the number of users and number of platforms being managed.” | press | 2026-06-25 |
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