For two decades, software assumed humans would log in to use applications. The next wave will be AI agents invoking business apps and APIs—on behalf of users or autonomously. Identity and access systems now have to prove who those agents are and what they’re allowed to do.
To address this shift, Scalekit today launched an authentication stack purpose-built for agentic apps and announced a $5.5 million seed round led by Together Fund and Z47, with angel backing from Adam Frankl, Oliver Jay, Jagadeesh Kunda, and others.
Gartner predicts that by 2028, 25% of enterprise breaches will be traced to compromised AI agents (Gartner Research, July 2025). Yet today’s identity systems still assume a human logs in through a browser and manually clicks “log out.” That model breaks when agents spin up, complete a task, and vanish, forcing developers to over-privilege agents or build brittle workarounds.
Scalekit secures both sides of agentic flows – incoming authentication for MCP servers and outgoing agent actions to third-party tools. Teams building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers can add a turnkey OAuth 2.1 authorization server in minutes. Agent builders can plug in an encrypted token vault and a tool-calling layer that lets agents act on a user’s behalf in Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, and Notion without custom token plumbing.
While agent identity is the headline need, many teams still need friction-free authentication for human users. Scalekit’s à-la-carte modules like email magic links, two-factor OTPs, single sign-on, and machine-to-machine service tokens—drop into an app in minutes. Developers can layer in user-to-agent delegated consent, step-up approvals, and ship agentic workflows before their coffee goes cold.
Teams such as Fello, Sifthub, Napkin, Unstract, Hubbl, and Aerchain use Scalekit as auth service for their AI-native applications and SaaS apps adding agentic features.
Looking ahead, Scalekit plans to deepen its agent-centric identity roadmap with capabilities such as background agent support, deepen tool-calling, granular auth logs, and prebuilt connectors for over 1,000 external apps.
Scalekit gets $5.5m as it launches authentication stack for AI agents
Posted in Commentary with tags Scalekit on September 16, 2025 by itnerdFor two decades, software assumed humans would log in to use applications. The next wave will be AI agents invoking business apps and APIs—on behalf of users or autonomously. Identity and access systems now have to prove who those agents are and what they’re allowed to do.
To address this shift, Scalekit today launched an authentication stack purpose-built for agentic apps and announced a $5.5 million seed round led by Together Fund and Z47, with angel backing from Adam Frankl, Oliver Jay, Jagadeesh Kunda, and others.
Gartner predicts that by 2028, 25% of enterprise breaches will be traced to compromised AI agents (Gartner Research, July 2025). Yet today’s identity systems still assume a human logs in through a browser and manually clicks “log out.” That model breaks when agents spin up, complete a task, and vanish, forcing developers to over-privilege agents or build brittle workarounds.
Scalekit secures both sides of agentic flows – incoming authentication for MCP servers and outgoing agent actions to third-party tools. Teams building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers can add a turnkey OAuth 2.1 authorization server in minutes. Agent builders can plug in an encrypted token vault and a tool-calling layer that lets agents act on a user’s behalf in Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, and Notion without custom token plumbing.
While agent identity is the headline need, many teams still need friction-free authentication for human users. Scalekit’s à-la-carte modules like email magic links, two-factor OTPs, single sign-on, and machine-to-machine service tokens—drop into an app in minutes. Developers can layer in user-to-agent delegated consent, step-up approvals, and ship agentic workflows before their coffee goes cold.
Teams such as Fello, Sifthub, Napkin, Unstract, Hubbl, and Aerchain use Scalekit as auth service for their AI-native applications and SaaS apps adding agentic features.
Looking ahead, Scalekit plans to deepen its agent-centric identity roadmap with capabilities such as background agent support, deepen tool-calling, granular auth logs, and prebuilt connectors for over 1,000 external apps.
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