GitGuardian, a France-founded cybersecurity company specialising in secrets detection and non-human identity (NHI) security, has raised fresh capital of $50m.
The company has secured $50m in a Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Quadrille Capital and existing investors Balderton, BPI, Eurazeo, Fly Ventures and Sapphire Ventures. The backing brings together US and European growth capital as GitGuardian positions itself at the intersection of cybersecurity, compliance and AI infrastructure.
GitGuardian’s platform is designed to detect and remediate exposed secrets – such as API keys, tokens and credentials – embedded in code repositories and collaboration tools. As enterprises adopt automation and AI agents at scale, the company argues that the number of non-human identities, including service accounts and autonomous AI systems, is expanding rapidly. Unlike human identities, which are typically governed by mature identity and access management frameworks, NHIs are often left unmanaged, creating security blind spots.
According to the company, its platform continuously monitors more than 610,000 repositories and 210,000 collaboration sources including Slack, Jira and Confluence. In 2025 alone, it detected and remediated more than 350,000 secret exposures, marking fivefold year-on-year growth. GitGuardian says it now protects over 115,000 developers globally and serves Fortune 500 clients across sectors such as technology, financial services, healthcare, energy and manufacturing.
The new funding will be directed across three main areas. First, GitGuardian plans to deepen its AI agent security capabilities, expanding its ability to detect, monitor and govern credentials used by AI systems ranging from coding assistants to customer service bots.
Second, it intends to build out full NHI lifecycle management features for enterprises managing tens of thousands of machine identities, including automated discovery, credential rotation, usage analytics and compliance reporting. Third, the company aims to accelerate its geographic expansion, strengthening its presence in North America while growing further across DACH, the UK, France and the Nordics, and opening new markets in APAC, South America and the Middle East.
The company has also pointed to regulatory momentum as a tailwind. It says European enterprises are increasingly required to demonstrate continuous monitoring and audit trails under frameworks such as GDPR, NIS2 and DORA, elevating secrets management to a board-level issue. GitGuardian counts Deutsche Telekom, ING and BASF among customers navigating these requirements.
GitGuardian CEO and co-founder Eric Fourrier said, “The market has reached a critical inflection point. Organizations 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.”
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