Riptides 🇭🇺
Kernel-level runtime machine identity and access management for AI agents and workloads. Budapest.
About Riptides
Riptides provides runtime identity and access control for AI agents and other workloads, governing which tools, APIs, and data they can access while recording their actions. It uses kernel-level workload attestation and policy enforcement to issue just-in-time credentials, avoid storing long-lived secrets in applications, and control outbound access.
Riptides is a Hungary-based company founded in 2025, now around 17 people. FundFinder classes it as AI & ML.
Founded by Nándor István Krácser (Chief Information Security Officer; previously Banzai Cloud, Cisco; Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Janos Matyas (Head of R&D, Co-Founder; repeat founder; previously BEA Systems, Banzai Cloud; Polytechnic University of Timişoara), Zsolt Varga (CTO and Co-founder; previously Banzai Cloud, Cisco), Marton Sereg (CEO, Founder; previously Banzai Cloud, Cisco; Budapest University of Technology and Economics).
Its investors also appear on FundFinder's most-active lists for Pre-seed · Generalist (71 funds), Pre-seed · AI (60 funds), Pre-seed · Healthcare & Wellbeing (52 funds).
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Pre-seed · Apr 2025
- Kaya VC — Prague-based early-stage VC firm (founded 2010 as Enern) that invests from pre-seed to Series A in founders from the CEE region with global ambitions. · cheques £780k – £2.3M