Enterprise security teams are facing an important change. It’s not just employees logging into systems anymore.
Now, thousands of service accounts, bots, APIs, and AI agents access sensitive information every day. These non-human identities are growing quickly, but security measures haven’t kept up. This has led to breaches that highlight the security gap.
And here’s where GitGuardian aims to fix that.
The company has raised $50 million in Series C funding, led by Insight Partners, with participation from Quadrille Capital and existing investors Balderton Capital, Bpifrance, Eurazeo, Fly Ventures and Sapphire Ventures.
Where will the funds go?
The fresh capital will fuel expansion across the Americas and EMEA, while doubling down on AI agent security and full non-human identity lifecycle governance. The company outlined three priorities: AI agent security, enterprise-scale NHI governance, and geographic expansion.
GitGuardian will expand detection and governance capabilities for credentials used by AI systems, from coding assistants to enterprise bots. The company plans to deepen automated discovery, usage analytics, credential rotation and compliance reporting for organisations managing tens of thousands of non-human identities.
GitGuardian will accelerate U.S. growth while expanding into APAC, South America and the Middle East. In Europe, it is strengthening its presence across the DACH, UK, France, and Nordic markets.
Additionally, the company plans to expand hiring across engineering, sales, and customer success teams in both the US and European markets.
Eric Fourrier, CEO and Co-Founder, GitGuardian, says, “The market has reached a critical inflexion point. Organisations that once managed hundreds of service accounts will now face thousands of autonomous AI agents, each requiring secure credentials. While identity solutions matured for human users, non-human identities remain largely unmanaged and recent breaches prove the cost. We’re moving beyond secrets detection into full NHI lifecycle governance. Effective secrets management requires seamless collaboration between development, security and IAM teams at every stage of the workflow.”
GitGuardian in 2025
In 2025, GitGuardian made significant strides, protecting over 115,000 developers and monitoring more than 610,000 repositories.
The platform seamlessly connected with 210,000 collaboration sources, including Slack, Jira, and Confluence, while detecting and addressing 350,000 secret exposures during the year.
Notably, 60% of new enterprise customers opted for multi-year contracts, with over 80% of new annual recurring revenue coming from North America.
GitGuardian now serves a range of Fortune 500 companies across sectors such as tech, finance, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing, with notable customers including Snowflake, ING, BASF, and Bouygues Telecom.
NHI Security platform
GitGuardian is a security platform designed to protect Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and ensure compliance with industry standards.
As attackers increasingly target service accounts and applications, GitGuardian combines Secrets Security with NHI Governance to detect compromised secrets in development environments and manage the lifecycle of NHIs and their secrets.
It’s the most commonly used GitHub application, supports over 550 types of secrets, offers public monitoring for data leaks, and uses honeytokens for extra protection.
Many developers and notable organisations like Snowflake, ING, BASF, and Bouygues Telecom rely on GitGuardian for strong secrets protection.
Software development and enterprise complexity continue to grow. We believe this is the moment to capitalise on GitGuardian’s approach, which starts from where secrets live in the development workflow and expands into full NHI lifecycle management. This is critical as AI agents rapidly approach parity with developers, with each agent needing credentials, permissions, and governance – further fueling GitGuardian’s growth,” says Josh Zelman, Managing Director, Insight Partners
