Glide Identity Raises $20 Million Series A to Reinvent Digital Authentication for the AI Era

Glide Identity, a digital identity-security startup, has raised over US $20 million in a Series A financing round aimed at building “AI-safe, agent-ready” authentication infrastructure. This round was led by Crosspoint Capital Partners with participation from Amigos Venture Capital, Singtel Innov8 Ventures and Sir Ronald Cohen. With this financing, Glide Identity’s total known funding now exceeds US $25 million.

Glide Identity’s core technology replaces traditional, vulnerable one-time-password (OTP) or SMS-based authentication with SIM-based cryptographic verification. Instead of requiring users to type codes or passwords — which can be phished, intercepted, or exposed to social engineering — the system uses cryptographic signals from the user’s mobile network to confirm identity. The company describes this as a way to make authentication “phishing-resistant, SIM-swap-resistant and socially-engineered-attack resistant.”

The funding is earmarked to support the further development of Glide Identity’s authentication and verification platform — designed to handle both human and AI-agent identity in the emerging “AGI era.” According to the company, as AI agents begin to conduct real online activity, such as making purchases and managing accounts, legacy authentication methods become increasingly insecure, exposing vulnerabilities at scale. Glide aims to build the infrastructure that can protect against these new risks.

Glide Identity recently unveiled its flagship products — MagicalAuth and SuperPasskey — at a major industry event. These offerings are described as the first SIM-anchored, cryptographically-based identity layer capable of replacing passwords and SMS-OTP flows. The company claims that with this technology, verification can become seamless, secure, and resistant to modern threats such as SIM-swap, device-swap, and number recycling.

In addition to product development, the company plans to expand partnerships with mobile network operators, telecom providers, cloud-infrastructure firms, and other stakeholders to scale its identity-verification platform globally. With growing concern over fraud, phishing, and AI-driven attacks, Glide Identity asserts that such robust authentication infrastructure will be critical to securing digital commerce and online identity in the coming years.

Glide Identity is led by founder and CEO Eran Haggiag, who has emphasized that securing human identity — as well as the identity of autonomous agents — is among the most urgent challenges in the age of advancing AI. The company is positioning itself as a foundational security provider that bridges telecommunications, cryptography, and cloud domains to provide next-generation authentication.

With the successful close of its Series A round, Glide Identity is now among the better-funded newcomers in the identity and authentication sector targeting AI-era threats. As its platform moves toward broader deployment and its products mature, many in the tech and security community will be watching to see whether its SIM-anchored cryptographic approach can help reshape how identity is managed and verified online.