--- title: Act Security exits stealth with $60m to kill the patch... description: Act Security has emerged from stealth with $60m in funding, founded by the team behind Medigate (sold to Claroty for ~$400m). The startup argues that patching... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/act-security-exits-stealth-with-60m-to-kill-the-patch-problem-eamrpt6r7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Act Security exits stealth with $60m to kill the patch problem | daily.dev og:description: Act Security has emerged from stealth with $60m in funding, founded by the team behind Medigate (sold to Claroty for ~$400m). The startup argues that patching... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/act-security-exits-stealth-with-60m-to-kill-the-patch-problem-eamrpt6r7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EaMRpT6R7.png og:image:alt: Act Security exits stealth with $60m to kill the patch problem og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Act Security exits stealth with $60m to kill the patch problem **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Act Security has emerged from stealth with $60m in funding, founded by the team behind Medigate (sold to Claroty for ~$400m). The startup argues that patching is no longer viable as a primary security strategy — with ~59,000 new CVEs projected this year and AI accelerating vulnerability discovery. Instead, Act focuses on eliminating dormant cloud access (claiming ~97% of customer cloud permissions are unused) and enforcing least-privilege boundaries for users, workloads, and AI agents. The platform reasons over identity and network reachability together, simulates changes before applying them, and integrates with existing cloud controls. The $60m raise was led by Team8, Bessemer, Notable Capital, and Lux Capital, though Act enters a crowded market alongside incumbents in cloud posture management and entitlement management. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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