HR Technology Europe 2026 PitchFest
Insygna took first place at the HR Technology Europe 2026 PitchFest in Amsterdam, selected from more than 200 applicants and 16 finalists.
On April 23, 2026, Insygna Corporation walked out of the RAI Amsterdam as the winner of the PitchFest competition at HR Technology Europe 2026. The win came after a selection process that drew more than 200 early-stage companies from across the HR technology ecosystem and narrowed the field to 16 finalists evaluated on market differentiation, the credibility of the problem, and go-to-market strategy.
The judges — practitioners and investors actively deploying enterprise technology — selected Insygna as the platform that most clearly addressed an unresolved structural problem in enterprise AI deployment.
The Problem That Won the Room
AI agents are already inside enterprise organizations. They are running workflows, handling customer interactions, and operating inside regulated business processes. The structural gap is that HR and Procurement have no infrastructure to manage them the same way they manage any other worker.
Human employees move through established credentialing and compliance processes. AI agents currently do not. There is no standardized identity, no independent verification, and no persistent record of behavior across deployments. Enterprises accept that gap today because they have no alternative. Insygna is that alternative.
“AI agents are already inside enterprise organizations. They are running workflows, touching customer data, and operating inside regulated processes. The problem is that HR and Procurement have no infrastructure to manage them the same way they manage any other worker. That is the problem Insygna solves.”
Michael Beygelman, Co-founder & CEO, Insygna Corporation
A Platform Built for the Right Buyer
Insygna’s Agentic Workforce Management™ (AWM™) platform gives enterprises the infrastructure to activate AI agents as workforce participants: verify their identity and risk profile, authorize their access and scope, track spend, and maintain a continuous audit trail. When an agent is updated or redeployed, re-credentialing triggers automatically.
Insygna is built for HR and Procurement — the buyer organizations that adjacent platforms in the agentic AI governance space have overlooked entirely. Competing solutions target IT and security teams and focus on infrastructure-layer controls. Insygna operates at the workforce layer, extending the same governance applied to contingent workers and service vendors to AI agents.
The market signal is already visible at the enterprise level. Atlassian’s Chief People Officer recently expanded her mandate to absorb the company’s internal customer engineering organization, growing her team from 700 HR professionals to 3,500 employees that include developers and software engineers. “True efficiency at a company level comes from AI being used as a team, rather than at an individual level,” she told the Australian Financial Review. The implication for the broader market is clear: HR is becoming responsible for governing the AI workforce, and the infrastructure to support that has not existed. Until now.
“Every enterprise is wrestling with the same question right now: how do you govern AI agents the way you govern people? The frameworks for human workers exist. The infrastructure to apply those frameworks to AI agents has not, until now. Insygna has found the right problem, built for the right buyer, and shown up at exactly the right moment.”
Jason Averbook, Co-Founder, Now to Next
Regulatory Urgency and Commercial Momentum
The timing is not coincidental. The EU AI Act’s August 2026 enforcement deadline requires enterprises to document, monitor, and govern high-risk AI systems in production. That regulatory calendar is converting long-term strategic interest into near-term procurement decisions, and Insygna is positioned directly in that path.
Insygna closed its $500,000 pre-seed round in under 30 days, oversubscribed, and is currently closing a second $2 million pre-seed tranche toward a total pre-seed target of $2.5 million. The company is conducting a closed beta with select customers and is offering additional organizations the ability to join a waitlist for early adoption.
A Founding Team with a Track Record
Insygna’s founding team previously built Claro Analytics together — a workforce intelligence platform sold to WilsonHCG in 2022 and recognized as the 2024 HR Tech Product of the Year for Agentic AI Workforce Intelligence. Co-founder and CEO Michael Beygelman leads product vision, commercial strategy, and go-to-market. Co-founder and Head of Engineering Michail Rybakov leads platform architecture and technical execution, bringing nearly a decade of production AI systems development to the build. The Amsterdam win is their second major HR tech industry recognition — earned with a different company, solving the next unsolved problem in the same space.