What happened
NewCore (founded by Dome9/Check Point veteran Zohar Alon) emerged from stealth on June 15, 2026 with $66M from Cyberstarts, Index Ventures, and Evolution Equity to build a ground-up identity platform for humans and AI agents. Key capabilities: Secure Split Key (eliminates Golden SAML/single-point-of-compromise), SPIFFE-based agentic identities with trust scoring and revocation, hardware-bound VisualMFA, continuous shadow-account discovery, and agentic coding-agent integrations (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor).
Why it matters
NewCore is targeting the architectural debt in SAML/OIDC-era identity platforms that underlies the largest recent breaches (MGM, Change Healthcare, Snowflake). By treating AI agents as first-class identity citizens from inception — not bolt-ons — it represents a genuinely new approach rather than an incremental NHI add-on.
Applicability
IAM leads at enterprises running AI agents in production should evaluate NewCore as a SAML/OIDC replacement; security architects should track Secure Split Key as a mitigation for Golden SAML attack class.