Mintive raises $7M seed for AI agent identity and MCP gateway governance platform
Mintive, an early-stage startup focused on enterprise AI agent identity and governance, announced a $7 million seed round led by Cowboy Ventures, bringing total funding to $11 million. Investors include Coatue, Operator Collective, Hustle Fund, and angels such as Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest, former Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy. The company was founded by Jiquan Ngiam (CEO, founding engineer at Coursera, ex-Google Brain) and Vijay Vasudevan (CTO, TensorFlow co-creator). Its platform offers an MCP gateway for authorizing which cloud services agents can access and what actions they may perform, an LLM gateway with cost caps, agent identity and authorization management distinct from the human employees served, and an agent monitoring layer. Mintive claims 50+ enterprise customers including Ro, Modern Treasury, the University of Michigan, Coursera, Apax, and Stability AI, in a crowded market contested by Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, New Relic, and Rippling. This is business/funding news with no direct threat content.
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Mintive raises $7M seed for AI agent identity and MCP gateway governance platform
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Mintive, an early-stage startup focused on enterprise AI agent identity and governance, announced a $7 million seed round led by Cowboy Ventures, bringing total funding to $11 million. Investors include Coatue, Operator Collective, Hustle Fund, and angels such as Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest, former Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy. The company was founded by Jiquan Ngiam (CEO, founding engineer at Coursera, ex-Google Brain) and Vijay Vasudevan (CTO, TensorFlow co-creator). Its platform offers an MCP gateway for authorizing which cloud services agents can access and what actions they may perform, an LLM gateway with cost caps, agent identity and authorization management distinct from the human employees served, and an agent monitoring layer. Mintive claims 50+ enterprise customers including Ro, Modern Treasury, the University of Michigan, Coursera, Apax, and Stability AI, in a crowded market contested by Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, New Relic, and Rippling. This is business/funding news with no direct threat content.