What Anetac does

Anetac is a Delaware-incorporated cybersecurity company headquartered in Los Altos, California, founded in 2022-2023, that developed an AI-powered Identity Vulnerability Management (IdVM) platform purpose-built to discover, monitor, and respond to identity vulnerabilities across Human, Non-Human, and Agentic AI identities. The platform uses real-time, dynamic linking of access, behavior, and privilege data patterns across fragmented hybrid environments to surface hidden vulnerabilities that static tools miss, with proprietary capabilities in privilege chain mapping, time-series AI-driven behavioral analysis, and dynamic risk reduction. Core technology features include continuous monitoring of service accounts, APIs, AI agents, and human accounts, with specific detection of hardcoded secrets, dormant access, privilege inheritance, prompt injection risk, and misused tools in agentic environments. Anetac operates a subscription-based SaaS revenue model with quote-based enterprise pricing, distributing through direct enterprise field sales and a growing channel partner network, supplemented by a community-led GTM motion via the Anetac Linked Community. The company targets six primary verticals — Financial Services, Healthcare, Critical Infrastructure, Aviation, Retail, and Education — with named enterprise customers including a Global Investment Bank, a Major US and Canadian Bank, and a Leading Pharmaceutical Retailer. Anetac raised approximately $25.3M across multiple funding events including a $16M seed round led by Liberty Global in May 2024, and was acquired by Quest Software, backed by Clearlake Capital, in June 2026 to integrate IdVM capabilities into Quest's broader security platform.

Name

Anetac

Legal name

Anetac, Inc.

Website

https://anetac.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Anetac is an AI-powered Identity Vulnerability Management platform that discovers, monitors, and responds to vulnerabilities across human, non-human, and agentic AI identities. The company serves enterprise customers in financial services, healthcare, critical infrastructure, aviation, retail, and education.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Identity Security

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) (HDAEAJAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Secrets Management & Machine Identity (API keys, certificates, workload identity) (HDAEAJAJ)

Keywords

• Identity vulnerability management
• Non-human identity security
• Agentic AI identity protection
• Privileged access monitoring
• Identity threat detection

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Altos

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Identity Vulnerability Management Platform Subscription: SaaS-based platform providing continuous discovery, monitoring and response for identity vulnerabilities across human, non-human, and agentic AI identities. Revenue is generated through subscription licensing with enterprise customers.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Anetac provides an AI-powered Identity Vulnerability Management (IdVM) platform that continuously discovers, monitors, and responds to identity vulnerabilities across human, non-human, and agentic AI identities in hybrid environments. The platform dynamically links access, behavior, and privilege data to reveal hidden vulnerabilities, over-permissioned accounts, toxic access paths, and privilege misuse that static identity tools miss. It serves as a dynamic system of record for enterprise identity vulnerabilities spanning on-premises infrastructure through to SaaS applications.

Product overview

Anetac offers a single unified AI-powered Identity Vulnerability Management (IdVM) Platform that discovers, monitors, and responds to identity vulnerabilities across Human, Non-Human, and Agentic AI identities. The platform uses continuous linking of access, behavior, and privilege to uncover hidden business-impacting vulnerabilities that static tools miss. Key capabilities include real-time discovery and monitoring, privilege chain mapping, AI-driven behavioral analysis, and dynamic risk reduction. The platform is designed for enterprise identity vulnerabilities and serves organizations across aviation, financial services, healthcare, critical infrastructure, retail, and education sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Anetac Identity Vulnerability Management (IdVM) Platform AI-native SaaS platform that provides continuous discovery, monitoring, and response for identity vulnerabilities across human, non-human (service accounts, APIs, scripts), and agentic AI identities in hybrid on-premises and SaaS environments. Sold to enterprise customers.
• Anetac Human Link Pro Product that secures both human and non-human identities by managing and protecting identity vulnerabilities across both identity categories.

Quantifiable outcome

• 75% of organizations misuse service accounts, exposing critical security vulnerabilities
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Various Cybersecurity FirmscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with various cybersecurity firms to expand the use of Anetac's Identity Vulnerability Management Platform across multiple sectors. The partnerships have driven significant growth in customer revenue and assessment conversions.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• CyberArk: CyberArk is a leader in privileged access management and identity security with growing machine identity and ITDR capabilities, directly overlapping with Anetac's identity vulnerability management focus across human and non-human identities.
• Okta: Okta is a leading identity and access management platform with workforce identity, IGA, and privileged access offerings, competing broadly with Anetac for enterprise identity security budgets.
• SailPoint: SailPoint specializes in identity governance and administration for both human and non-human identities, addressing the same privileged access and compliance pain points that Anetac targets.
• Microsoft Entra ID: Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) is the default identity platform for many enterprises and continues to expand into identity protection, workload identity, and identity governance — competing broadly with Anetac in the same buyer accounts.

Direct peers

• Astrix Security: Astrix Security focuses specifically on securing non-human identities and AI agent identities, making it one of the closest direct competitors to Anetac's IdVM platform.
• Venafi: Venafi specializes in machine identity management for certificates, keys, and workloads, with overlapping coverage of non-human identity security challenges central to Anetac's proposition.
• Saviynt: Saviynt provides cloud-native identity governance and privileged access management, with comparable focus on managing access risk across human and machine identities at enterprise scale.
• BeyondTrust: BeyondTrust offers privileged access, endpoint, and vulnerability management solutions, with overlapping capabilities in privileged account discovery and service account governance relevant to Anetac.

Emerging players

• Tenable: Tenable is a leading exposure and vulnerability management vendor that has been expanding into identity-based attack surface and cloud identity exposure, adjacent to Anetac's IdVM focus.
• Wiz: Wiz is a fast-growing cloud security platform with expanding identity and entitlement analysis capabilities (e.g., CIEM, workload identity), targeting similar enterprise CISOs and overlapping with Anetac's cloud identity visibility use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/anetac

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors3 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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