Northmark
Identity and access primitives for machine agents.
The company
- Founded
- 2024
- First check
- Pre-seed
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Sector
- Infrastructure
- Partnered since
- 2024
Software agents now take actions on behalf of people — moving money, changing records, calling other systems. The identity infrastructure they use was designed for humans holding passwords.
Northmark issues scoped, short-lived, revocable credentials to agents, with a complete record of which agent did what on whose authority.
The company is building the accountability layer that autonomous software will require before enterprises trust it with anything consequential.
Why we invested
Iris and Paul came from identity infrastructure and saw the gap before the market did. The question they asked — when an agent acts, whose authority is it acting under? — is one every enterprise will be forced to answer.
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