AKA Identity
Founded 2023 · 13 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
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AKA builds a security layer for AI agent systems, providing real-time monitoring and control of agent operations including prompt scanning and tool call enforcement. The company serves organizations deploying AI agents, offering both open-source and commercial security solutions.
Also known as AKA Security
Founders & leadership
AKA Identity was founded in 2023 by William Lin.

Investors · 4
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026AKA Identity, presenting itself publicly as AKA Security, provides security engineering and tooling for organizations building and running AI agent systems. Its stated model is to embed security developers with AI-native engineering teams to design purpose-built security controls, which a "Software Factory" then builds to production grade and maintains over time. The company positions this as tailoring security to a customer's existing environment rather than requiring the environment to change, with delivery of production capabilities described in terms of weeks.
The controls the company describes shipping include egress restriction (blocking calls to hosts that are not allowlisted), data protection (redacting protected health information before it reaches a model), execution gating (approval requirements for shell commands in production), and identity (least-privilege tokens for each MCP server). An audit capability, generating SOC 2 evidence from production logs, is described as in review rather than shipped.
Alongside delivery work, AKA maintains open-source projects. The primary one is AI Traffic Control (ai-tc), described as guardrails for the agent harness that keep regulated data on the local machine and scan every prompt and tool call before it runs, with enforcement performed locally so that PCI, PHI and PII data does not reach a model or third party. AI-TC is offered in Community and Enterprise editions. Other projects include claude-tools (a hardened baseline for Claude Code) and preflight-skills (multi-harness development skills), both listed as Community, with codex-tools (hardened baseline for Codex) and antigravity-tools (hardened baseline for Antigravity) listed as coming soon.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does AKA Identity do?
- AKA Identity embeds security engineers with AI-native teams to build purpose-built controls for AI agent systems.
- Who founded AKA Identity?
- AKA Identity was founded by William Lin in 2023.
- Who are AKA Identity's investors?
- AKA Identity's investors include Alumni Ventures, Basecamp Fund, ForgePoint Capital, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund).








