# Oak Emerges from Stealth with $60M Seed to Build AI-Native Identity Operating System

> Every wave of enterprise software creates a new identity mess, and AI agents are making this one worse. Oak, an Israeli startup, emerged from stealth with $60 million in seed funding from Accel, Greylock, and CRV to tackle it, proposing a single control plane that governs human, machine, and AI agent identities together rather than through a tangle of disconnected tools. The problem it targets is unglamorous but real: most enterprises cannot say with confidence who, or what, has access to which systems at any given moment. Oak automates permission management by mapping access to how applications are actually used, instead of relying on the periodic manual reviews that everyone dreads and few do well. As autonomous agents start acting inside corporate systems on their own, that gap turns from a compliance headache into a security liability. Oak is led by Shai Morag, a serial founder with three prior cybersecurity exits, alongside co-founder Tal Marom, and says its 50-person team has already deployed the platform with enterprise customers.

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## Wortins' read

Every wave of enterprise software creates a new identity mess, and AI agents are making this one worse. Oak, an Israeli startup, emerged from stealth with $60 million in seed funding from Accel, Greylock, and CRV to tackle it, proposing a single control plane that governs human, machine, and AI agent identities together rather than through a tangle of disconnected tools. The problem it targets is unglamorous but real: most enterprises cannot say with confidence who, or what, has access to which systems at any given moment. Oak automates permission management by mapping access to how applications are actually used, instead of relying on the periodic manual reviews that everyone dreads and few do well. As autonomous agents start acting inside corporate systems on their own, that gap turns from a compliance headache into a security liability. Oak is led by Shai Morag, a serial founder with three prior cybersecurity exits, alongside co-founder Tal Marom, and says its 50-person team has already deployed the platform with enterprise customers.

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[Read the full story at techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/backed-by-60m-in-funding-oak-steps-out-of-stealth-to-fix-the-identity-mess-that-ai-agents-are-making-worse/)

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