Fall 2025

Multifactor

Zero-trust authentication, authorization, and auditing for AI agents

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What they do

auth, permissions and audit trail for AI agents using online accounts

How close to us

2, near

Audit trail of agent actions is adjacent to W2; security checks only.

Wedges

  • W2 Seeing whether your AI agents actually produce adjacent
L1 Company brain (knows the organisation) 0, none
L2 Agent team (runs agents, tools, approvals) 1, light
L3 Does and learns (finishes, checks, measures, updates the brain) 1, light

Who buys

Firm size
enterprise
Buyer type
business
Role
CISO
UK
not known
Their own description (from YC)

The agentic era is here, but its foundation is dangerously insecure. A growing number of high-profile "AI agent gone rogue" security incidents make headlines each week.

As enterprise adoption of agentic software has far outpaced the development of applicable cybersecurity solutions, CISOs have loudly voiced a growing need for verifiable, fine-grained security controls on complex multi-agent systems. That's why we built Multifactor.

Multifactor offers best-in-class authentication, authorization, and auditing technologies for agentic systems, allowing users to securely and revocably share online accounts with agents while maintaining fine-grained permissions and a detailed event history. We are doing for AI security what Cloudflare did for web security, Okta did for identity security, and Wiz did for cloud security: defining the category.

A world-class "account manager" that allows agents to securely use online accounts on your behalf is just the start—our early enterprise partners include companies using AI agents to manage $7.5+ billion manufacturing supply chains, where the consequences for lapses in security are severe. Our patented AI security technology seamlessly integrates with existing agentic software to thwart attacks like prompt injection, so CISOs and end users alike can breathe a sigh of relief, without slowing the pace of AI adoption.

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Technical detail
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multifactor
Lens hash
179096c479
Pass
screen
Stale
no