Infisical, founded in 2022 and backed by Y Combinator and Elad Gil, is an open-source platform for managing application secrets, certificates, SSH keys, and configurations across teams and infrastructure. The company has raised $16 million in a Series A round and operates at significant scale, handling over 500 million secrets daily for tens of thousands of developers and organisations, including Hugging Face, NVIDIA, and UPS.
The platform consolidates several areas of security infrastructure into a single system: secrets management, certificate lifecycle automation, privileged access management, and dynamic secrets generation. It is designed to integrate into existing development stacks without adding operational overhead, making it applicable across organisations ranging from early-stage startups to large enterprises.
Infisical positions its platform as infrastructure for the AI era, where the proliferation of services, agents, and automated pipelines creates greater demand for secure, programmatic credential management. Its open-source model has driven broad developer adoption and underpins its community-led growth.