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Descope Raises $35 Million Seed Extension to Reach $88 Million, Unveils Customer Advisory Board

Investor support signals growing demand for identity controls tailored to AI agents.

Overview

  • Descope closed a $35 million seed extension, bringing total funding to $88 million, with the round open only to existing backers.
  • Participants included Notable Capital (GGV), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Unusual Ventures, Cerca Partners, and Triventures, with Lightspeed stating Notable led the round.
  • New funding will be directed to agentic identity R&D, regional expansion, and hiring across engineering, product, and customer experience teams.
  • Descope named an advisory board featuring leaders from GoFundMe, Databricks, GoodRx, MongoDB, OpenWeb, and You.com to guide product direction.
  • Positioned as a developer-first no-code/low-code external IAM platform for humans and AI agents, the company reports over a thousand organizations in production and hundreds of paying customers, while Lightspeed projects ARR will triple this year.