GitGuardian, a cybersecurity company specialising in secrets detection and non-human identity (NHI) security, has raised fresh capital of $50m.
The Paris-founded firm announced a $50m Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Quadrille Capital and existing backers Balderton, BPI, Eurazeo, Fly Ventures and Sapphire Ventures. The investment is intended to accelerate GitGuardian’s push into full lifecycle governance for non-human identities, a segment it believes remains underserved despite the rapid rise of AI-driven automation across enterprise systems.
GitGuardian’s platform is designed to detect exposed secrets – such as API keys, tokens and credentials – within code repositories and collaboration tools. As the use of AI agents expands, the company argues that the volume of machine-generated identities is growing at an exponential rate.
While identity and access management (IAM) frameworks have matured for human users, it says many organisations lack comparable controls for service accounts, bots and autonomous AI systems. The firm claims to be the number one app on the GitHub Marketplace and says its technology integrates across development and security workflows to provide continuous monitoring and remediation.
The newly secured funds will be deployed across three main priorities. First, GitGuardian plans to expand its AI agent security capabilities, aiming to detect, monitor and govern credentials used by AI systems ranging from coding assistants to customer service bots. Second, it will enhance its enterprise-grade NHI governance tools, including automated discovery, usage analytics, rotation policies and compliance reporting for organisations managing tens of thousands of non-human identities.
Third, the company intends to accelerate its geographic expansion, strengthening its presence in the US while targeting further growth across APAC, South America and the Middle East, alongside deeper penetration in DACH, the UK, France and the Nordics.
Insight Partners, which manages $90bn in regulatory assets under management and has backed cybersecurity companies including Wiz, SentinelOne and Darktrace, brings experience in scaling security businesses globally. Quadrille Capital and Eurazeo are expected to support GitGuardian’s expansion across EMEA markets, where compliance regimes such as GDPR, NIS2 and DORA are increasing scrutiny on secrets management and auditability.
According to the company, enterprise momentum has gathered pace. By the end of 2025, GitGuardian said it was protecting more than 115,000 developers across enterprise customers worldwide, monitoring over 610,000 repositories and connecting to more than 210,000 collaboration sources including Slack, Jira and Confluence. It reported detecting and remediating 350,000 secret exposures in 2025, a fivefold increase year-on-year, with more than 80% of new annual recurring revenue originating from North America.
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.””
Josh Zelman, managing director at Insight Partners, said, “”Software development and enterprise complexity continue to grow. We believe this is the moment to capitalize 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.””
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