Israeli startup Oak secures $60M seed for AI-powered identity OS

Identity is quietly becoming one of the first places where organizations feel the impact of non‑human ‘users’. Oak’s pitch—that you need a single, continuously updated control plane for humans, machines and AI agents—isn’t just a compliance story. It’s about building the scaffolding for a world where agents can request access, rotate credentials and act across SaaS and on‑prem systems without turning the entire environment into a permission soup.

From an AGI race standpoint, this is foundational plumbing. Highly capable agents will be useless in enterprises that can’t reason clearly about who (or what) has access to what, and why. Conversely, if the identity layer becomes rich, dynamic and AI‑aware, it makes it much easier to safely grant agents powerful capabilities on a just‑in‑time basis. The calibre of Oak’s founding team—serial entrepreneurs with multiple security exits—and its backers suggests investors see identity as an essential control surface for agentic AI, not an afterthought bolted onto legacy IAM.