€2.66m · Pre-Seed · Software · Berlin, Germany
Berlin-based Cygrid has raised €2.66m in pre-seed funding led by Atlantic, with d11z and angel investors including Andreas Bermig, Boris Gorin and Vlad Tropko participating. According to the company announcement, the capital will expand the platform’s enforcement capabilities, grow the team and support go-to-market activity across Europe and beyond.
Identity controls move from login to each action
Cygrid is building an identity-enforcement platform for companies deploying AI agents alongside employees, service accounts and software integrations. Its product maps those identities into a shared graph, compares what each identity is entitled to do with its observed behaviour, and applies policy before access is granted, when permissions drift, and while an agent is executing a tool call.
The commercial proposition goes beyond detecting excess access. Cygrid says its MCP Gateway can evaluate an agent’s action before it reaches the target system, then allow, rewrite or block the request. That makes the product an operating control rather than another risk dashboard. For security teams, the value depends on whether the platform can connect identity data across SaaS and cloud tools, identify genuinely risky behaviour and intervene without interrupting legitimate work.
This action-level model matters because a valid credential does not prove that every subsequent action is appropriate. An employee may authorise an AI application correctly while the application later accesses more data than the task requires. Cygrid’s approach is to keep policy attached to the identity and the immediate action, giving customers a way to adopt agents while retaining limits that traditional login checks do not provide.
Early deployments shift the test to repeatability
Cygrid says it has more than 20 design partners across fintech, e-commerce and SaaS, including Barfer’s and Horizn Studios, and that its software is already running in production across environments including Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Slack and HubSpot. The company also reports stopping more than 2,000 risky identity actions before emerging from stealth. These are company-reported figures, but they show the product being tested inside live software estates rather than only in a laboratory setting.
The next execution test is repeatability. Each customer has a different mix of permissions, applications and agent workflows, so deployment can easily turn into bespoke security engineering. Cygrid will need to standardise integrations and policies while keeping enforcement precise enough that customers trust automated intervention. The funding gives founders Dmitry Kharchenko and Dekel Paz room to widen coverage and build distribution; durable software economics will depend on making that control layer quick to deploy across many enterprise environments.
