# mega-seed

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Last updated: 2026-11-05
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A mega-seed is a seed-stage funding round of $20 million or more. Start with Identity defined the term, and the related **mega-seed share** (the share of all priced seed capital that sits in seed rounds of $20 million or more), in the [Identity Funding Report 2026](https://startwithidentity.com/reports/identity-funding-report-2026/), which covers identity security rounds announced between 1 January 2025 and 31 October 2026.

In that dataset the mega-seed share is 55%: six of 31 priced seed rounds hold $237.0 million of $433.7 million in seed capital, against a median seed round of $9.5 million. Three of the six are pitched at AI agent identity, including the two largest (NewCore at $66 million and Oak at $60 million, both Israeli). For buyers, the report's advice is that a round label is not a maturity signal: a $60 million seed from a company that left stealth this year shows investor confidence, not years of production deployments, so ask for references at your scale and negotiate change-of-control terms, since well-funded agent startups are frequent acquisition targets. For founders, it recommends benchmarking against the stage median rather than the headlines.

See also: [agentic identity](https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/agentic-identity/), [AI identity vendors](https://startwithidentity.com/vendors/ai-identity/), [AI agent identity tools ranking](https://startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-ai-agent-identity-tools/), [identity consolidation report](https://startwithidentity.com/reports/identity-consolidation-report-2026/), [acquisitions](https://startwithidentity.com/acquisitions/)