Keycard
Give agents and other software identities controlled access to systems.
Keycard Funding History
Keycard provides non-human identity security for AI agents and workloads.
Company Overview
Keycard
Founded 2024 · San Francisco, California, US
Official WebsiteKeycard Funding Timeline
Seed + Series A
$38M
Keycard announced the two financings as it emerged from stealth with a system to manage AI agents’ identities and permissions.
Led by Acrew Capital. Participation included Andreessen Horowitz, Boldstart Ventures.
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Keycard Founding Team
Ian Livingstone, Jared Hanson, and Matthew Creager brought experience in identity and access to Keycard. They built it around the problem of authenticating AI agents and limiting what those agents can do as they move between tools and services.
Keycard Products
Keycard Company Development
Identity and Access for AI Agents
Keycard emerged from stealth in 2025 with access controls for AI agents and other non-human workloads. Its launch centered on the identity an agent uses to access another system, a problem that becomes distinct once software can initiate actions without a person clicking each step.
Keycard Competitive Landscape
Granting Access and Inspecting Model Traffic
Keycard focuses on who or what an agent can act as. Lakera Guard focuses on the instructions and data that pass through a model call. The controls address different risks when an application can both process untrusted input and invoke privileged tools.
