Mintive raises $11 million for AI agent identity management, with Jeff Dean and Andrej Karpathy among backers
AI agent identity management startup Mintive has raised a total of $11 million, including a newly announced $7 million seed round led by Cowboy Ventures. Other investors in the company include Coatue, Operator Collective, Hustle Fund, and angel backers such as Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest, Discovery Loop co-founder and former Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy. Founded by Jiquan Ngiam and Vijay Vasudevan, Mintive is building a platform that includes an MCP gateway, an LLM gateway, an agent identity and authorization system, and an agent monitor. The company says the product is designed to handle governance, configuration, and identity management for enterprise AI agents. Mintive also said it has signed more than 50 enterprise customers since launching the product in February, naming Ro, Modern Treasury, the University of Michigan, Coursera, Apax, and Stability AI among its users. The report was cited by TechCrunch.
