Who founded Riptides?

Riptides was founded by Janos Matyas, Marton Sereg in 2025.

Who are Riptides's investors?

Riptides's investors include KAYA, Oktogon Ventures.

How much funding has Riptides raised?

Riptides has disclosed $3.3M raised across 1 round.

Where is Riptides headquartered?

Riptides is headquartered in Budapest, HU.

Riptides

Budapest, HU · Founded 2025 · 16 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors

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Riptides provides identity, access control, and audit trails for AI agents and traditional workloads, enforcing security at the Linux kernel level so workloads receive short-lived, just-in-time credentials instead of holding long-lived API keys. It targets security and platform teams and integrates with existing secret stores, cloud IAM, and observability tools via SPIFFE, Kubernetes metadata, and federation with AWS and GCP.

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Founders & leadership

Riptides was founded in 2025 by Janos Matyas and Marton Sereg.

Janos MatyasHead of R&D, Co-Founder

Marton Sereg CEO, FounderMarton Sereg has an engineering background in cloud infrastructure, networking, and security. He is the founder of Riptides, which provides workload identity and access control by anchoring trust to runtime identity rather than long-lived credentials.

Investors · 2

KAYAlisted by KAYAPrague · $108K – $3.2M

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Oktogon Ventureslisted by Oktogon Ventures$100K – $400K

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Funding

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$3.3M disclosed across 1 round · 2025

$3.3MPre-SeedApr 2025 · 3 sources
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Riptides Raises $3.3M in Pre-Seed Fundingfinsmes.com · Apr 2025

Frequently asked questions

What does Riptides do?: Riptides provides identity, access control, and audit trails for AI agents and traditional workloads, enforcing security at the Linux kernel level so workloads receive short-lived, just-in-time credentials instead of holding long-lived API keys. It targets security and platform teams and integrates with existing secret stores, cloud IAM, and observability tools via SPIFFE, Kubernetes metadata, and federation with AWS and GCP.
Who founded Riptides?: Riptides was founded by Janos Matyas, Marton Sereg in 2025.
Who are Riptides's investors?: Riptides's investors include KAYA, Oktogon Ventures.
How much funding has Riptides raised?: Riptides has disclosed $3.3M raised across 1 round.
Where is Riptides headquartered?: Riptides is headquartered in Budapest, HU.