Cygrid Exits Stealth with €2.66M Pre-Seed Round for Identity-Enforcement Platform

The funding round was led by pan-European pre-seed fund Atlantic, with participation from D11Z and angel investors, including Boris Gorin of Zscaler, bonify CEO Andreas Bermig and Vlad Tropko of AmberVale Capital.

Cygrid will use the funding to improve its security technology, expand its team and grow its business across Europe. The startup aims to become a European alternative to AI identity security providers from the US and Israel.

“Dmitry and Dekel are proven builders who combine deep cybersecurity experience with a real understanding of what enterprises need: security that stops the wrong action without slowing the business down. AI agents are widening the identity attack surface faster than any control can keep up. Intelligence driven enforcement is the only answer that scales. The timing for Cygrid couldn’t be better,” said Marc-Olivier Lücke, General Partner, Atlantic.

“Access control tells you who can log in. It says nothing about what they do next. Every identity in an enterprise can act, and once a token is valid, not one control in the stack can stop the action. Cygrid is the platform that does: it decides what each identity may do and enforces it before anything executes,” said Kharchenko, CEO and co-founder of Cygrid.

Founded in January 2026, by Dmitry Kharchenko and Dekel Paz, Cygrid aims to improve enterprise security as more companies start using AI agents. Both founders previously served in Israeli Military Intelligence. They identified the need for better security tool's to manage how AI agents access sensitive company information.

According to Microsoft’s Cyber Pulse 2026 report, more than 80% of Fortune 500 companies are already using AI agents, while nearly one-third of employees use connected AI agents without company approval. Cygrid sees this growing use of AI as an opportunity to help businesses improve security and control access.

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