Offroad emerges from stealth with $7 million to build the AI identity security team
The cybersecurity startup is building AI agents to autonomously manage identity risk across modern enterprise systems.
Cybersecurity company Offroad emerged from stealth on Thursday, alongside a $7 million Seed round led by Ibex Investors and Skywell Capital. The company develops an identity security platform for modern organizations.
Offroad was founded in 2025 by CEO Dan Bendler, who previously founded two AI startups that collectively raised more than $45 million, and CTO Philip Shteyn, a former Unit 8200 Captain who also helped build Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex platform. The company is based in New York and Tel Aviv.
Offroad is building an agentic identity security team for enterprises. The company’s agents gather context across fragmented systems, uncover both real-time identity threats and underlying posture risks, and autonomously resolve them - either by taking direct action where it is safe, or by involving the right people with the context needed to decide.
“Identity is no longer just a workforce access problem,” said Offroad co-founder and CEO Dan Bendler. “Enterprises now operate across a constantly changing mix of human users, machine identities, and AI agents. The context needed to understand and resolve identity risk is spread across dozens of systems and workflows, while security teams are still expected to investigate and remediate issues manually. That model is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain.”
“Most identity systems were designed around assumptions that no longer hold,” said Shteyn. “AI agents operate across systems at all hours and at a scale humans never could, which makes traditional behavioral baselines far less reliable. Security teams need systems capable of continuously investigating and reasoning through identity activity, not simply generating more findings.”
