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Keycard puts users, developers and companies in control of AI agents with real-time, adaptive permissions and complete transparency.
Joined December 2024
We’re thrilled to announce that Keycard has raised a combined financing round of $38M, led by @a16z, @AcrewCapital, and @Boldstartvc, to enable everyone to build, control, and adopt trusted AI agents in production. We’re defining the next-generation of identity and access, for
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In an agent native world, legacy machine identity solutions can't keep up. On the De-FUD podcast, @ianlivingstone digs into these fundamental issues and how we’re addressing them at Keycard. Full episode:
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Is your team figuring out how to build secure AI systems? We’ll be in NYC during @aidotengineer's AI Code Summit hosting a meet-up for high quality conversations that go deep into secure AI infra, identity, governance & agent trust. To join the Keycard team and @vermilionfund
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AI isn’t neutral — it reflects the people who build it. When bias and censorship are written into the code, the machine doesn’t just think — it believes. We breaks down how ideology seeps into technology on the newest episode of the Influence Watch Podcast.
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If you're attending @AISecSummit make sure to see @jaredhanson at the panel this afternoon on agentic identity. Afterwards, catch us at the Keycard booth to continue the conversation.
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Catch our co-founder @Matt_Creager at the @AISecSummit opening keynote today where he'll be discussing the next wave in AI adoption and agentic workflows security.
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Read more in our announcement and if you’re interested in building with us, we’re hiring for engineering and marketing roles: https://t.co/qTDwrdU4un
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Additional support has been made by: @EssenceVenture, @ExceptionalCap, @mantisVC, @mtf_vc, @TapestryVC, and @vermilionfund as well as our angel investors: @brittwalker, @dok2001, @eaescob, @mgonto, @inowland, @jankytweet, @joaomdmoura, @__nikitha , @ryantcarlson, @swyx, and
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3 / Under the hood, Keycard gives you everything to build, run, and adopt trusted AI systems: 🔷 Dynamic access tokens (no static secrets) 🔷 Federated identity & distributed auth 🔷 SDKs for agent-aware apps 🔷 Centralized policy, auditing, and standards interoperability All
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2 / AI agents are changing how software works. They access tools and data on their own behalf and our's across both internal and external systems. @KeycardLabs gives developers, users, and companies control, visibility, and security for this new era of agentic applications.
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Enable secure, transparent, context-aware AI agent interactions with Keycard. Identity infrastructure for MCP servers and tools, agent workflows, and security teams in the evolving AI landscape
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Exclusive: Keycard, a new startup looking to secure AI agents for developers, has launched out of stealth with $38M from a16z, boldstart and others. Repeat entrepreneur and CEO Ian Livingstone (@ianlivingstone) says he's addressing the "missing pillar" in building with agents.
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Happy Veterans Day to all the Veterans and THANK YOU. And a special shoutout to my grandfather, William Parker Jr. During WWII, he piloted many flights over the Himalayan Mountains between India and China, including the first successful night mission – opening that concept
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Big week ahead – Keycard is opening @AISecSummit with a keynote on the future of agent security. Our founders will also join the Agentic Identity & Security panel and our team will be at the booth all week. Come say hi and see what we’re building.
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Excited to have @ianlivingstone, Co-Founder & CEO of @KeycardLabs, at the AI Security Summit 2025! He’s kicking off the Opening Keynote & joining a panel on Agentic Identity and Security. Don’t miss his insights on building secure, agent-native systems! 🔗
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The recipe for building Trustworthy AI includes a strong auth strategy. We need a new solution to be rebuilt specifically for agents that takes their non-determinism into account and can make decisions based on the current context. You'll want to keep an eye on @KeycardLabs 👀
Agents break the fundamentals of traditional IAM systems - overtime, if you build them, as you did a traditional service, they will end up with god-mode privileges -- access to everything, for every user that interacts -- like katamari damacy. Ultimately, we need IAM systems
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Agents broke our auth systems. We’re all pretending they didn’t. I wrote about the shared guilt, duct-taped credentials, and what we’re building @KeycardLabs to fix it: https://t.co/acINJnjm1F
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Agents broke our auth systems. We’re all pretending they didn’t. Over the past few months, I’ve been talking to everyone building agents (who’ll give me the time of day). And they all give the same...
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Agents break the fundamentals of traditional IAM systems - overtime, if you build them, as you did a traditional service, they will end up with god-mode privileges -- access to everything, for every user that interacts -- like katamari damacy. Ultimately, we need IAM systems
we hijacked microsoft's copilot studio agents and got them to spill out their private knowledge, reveal their tools and let us use them to dump full crm records these are autonomous agents.. no human in the loop #DEFCON #BHUSA @tamirishaysh
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Interested in Agent Identity? You won't want to miss @jaredhanson at The Lastmile Meetup in SF on Tuesday evening!
Taking AI to production with reliability and safety is hard. Join me with @KeycardLabs + friends tomorrow night at @github in San Francisco for The Last Mile in AI where we will discuss how to solve these challenges.
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Join me at @aiDotEngineer World's Fair next week in San Francisco! I'll be discussing how to secure agents using OAuth and what we are building at @KeycardLabs. The talk is Thursday, June 5 in the security track. See you there!
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