Company profile
Mintive
Identity and control layer for company AI agents: each agent gets its own login and permissions, separate from the employee it works for.
- Status
- PrivateListed on CyberMerge Startup Radar (private vendors), snapshot Oct 30, 2026
- Valuation
- Undisclosed
- Latest funding
- Seed · $7M Oct 29, 2026TechCrunch / Mintive (Business Wire) Source
- HQ
- San Francisco Bay Area / US (Startup Radar)
- Last updated
Categories
Funding & valuation
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2026 | Seed | $7M | Undisclosed | TechCrunch / Mintive (Business Wire)TechCrunch / Business Wire Oct 29: Cowboy Ventures led; Coatue, Operator Collective, Burst Capital, Maven Ventures and Hustle Fund joined, plus angels including Frederic Kerrest, Jeff Dean and Andrej Karpathy. $11M raised in total. |
Latest signals
- Startup Radar · Identity · snapshot Oct 30, 2026 29 Oct 2026: announced a $7M seed led by Cowboy Ventures, bringing total funding to $11M, with Coatue, Operator Collective and Hustle Fund plus angels Frederic Kerrest (Okta co-founder), Jeff Dean and Andrej Karpathy. Says 50+ enterprise customers since its February launch, including Ro, Modern Treasury, the University of Michigan, Coursera, Apax and Stability AI. Founded by CEO Jiquan Ngiam (Coursera's first engineer, ex-Google Brain) and CTO Vijay Vasudevan (TensorFlow co-creator). Valuation: Undisclosed (per TechCrunch). Source
Competitors
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On the desk
- Startup Radar · Oct 29, 2026 Mintive, which gives every AI agent its own login and permissions the way a company gives each employee one, raised a $7M seed led by Cowboy Ventures, bringing total funding to $11M. TechCrunch / Mintive (Business Wire)
Figures appear only as recorded in CyberMerge data, with source and date. “Undisclosed” means no published figure in our data. Editorial, not investment advice. Last updated . Spot an error? Tell the desk.