ClearVector, the creator of identity-driven security, today announced its $13 million Series A financing to accelerate its mission to redefine cybersecurity by shifting the focus to identity-driven security. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Okta Ventures, Inner Loop Capital, and existing investor Menlo Ventures, bringing the company’s total funding to $16 million. ClearVector is building an identity-driven security platform that enables organizations to detect, investigate, and stop threats, and will use the funding to expand the team to meet customer demand. Ariel Tseitlin, Partner at Scale Venture Partners will be joining the Board of Directors.
Traditional security approaches are failing despite the billions of dollars invested in security tools each year. Enterprises continue to be compromised at an alarming rate and are overwhelmed by excessive alerts from siloed security solutions that lack critical context on how the organization operates. According to a 2025 threat report, identity-based attacks continue to rise, yet traditional defenses remain ineffective. ClearVector shifts the security paradigm from chasing threats to understanding and controlling identity activity across production environments.
“Our vision is to fundamentally change the economics of cyberattacks by making the adversary’s mission prohibitively difficult and immediately visible,” said John Laliberte, CEO and founder of ClearVector. “Rather than chasing an ever-growing list of threats, we’re giving defenders unprecedented visibility and control over every identity operating in their environment. When an adversary can’t move without being detected and is immediately stopped, the advantage shifts dramatically to the defender.”
ClearVector addresses the defender’s visibility gap; understanding what’s happening in a dynamic and fragmented production environment, who is doing it, and being able to respond immediately. By focusing on identities and learning how a company’s identities—humans, machines, third parties or AI—operate at runtime, ClearVector proactively counters adversaries as their activity manifests through the misuse and abuse of corporate identities.
“ClearVector has pioneered a fundamentally different approach to cloud security that focuses on identity as the foundation,” said Ariel Tseitlin, Partner at Scale Venture Partners and ClearVector Board Member. “The deep domain expertise of John and his team has enabled them to build technology that cuts through the complexity of modern environments and deliver exactly what organizations need to detect malicious actors and stop the adversary.”
ClearVector’s identity-driven security platform provides organizations with:
- Real-time Threat Detection and Instant Mitigation: Detect, investigate, and stop adversaries in seconds without sifting through logs. The “Big Red Button” functionality allows teams to stop attacks with a single click, and conduct identity-aware investigations effortlessly.
- Comprehensive Identity Context: Automatically attributes siloed activity to the originating identities across control planes, cloud workloads (virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes), and third-party SaaS applications (e.g., GitHub).
- A Unified Security Model: ClearVector continuously learns how corporate identities—human, machine, third-party, or AI—operate, and builds adaptive risk models.
- Patented Identity Graph Technology: With a purpose-built, patented proprietary graph—currently comprising over 1 billion nodes and 4 billion edges and growing daily—enables unprecedented identity-tracing and attribution across complex environments.
- Tailored Security at Runtime: Dynamically adapts to each organization’s environment, making it difficult for adversaries to re-use capabilities across targets, providing defenders a strategic advantage while significantly increasing the adversary’s operational costs.
“As the identity provider that organizations trust for secure access, we see tremendous value in ClearVector’s ability to track what happens post authentication – an increasingly important attack space,” said Austin Arensberg, Senior Director, Okta Ventures.
ClearVector is hiring across product, engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success. For more information, visit www.clearvector.com.
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