Zenity (https://www.zenity.io), a Tel Aviv-based security and governance platform for AI agents, has raised $125 million in Series C funding led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Qumra Capital, Hitachi Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, Vertex Ventures, Third Point Ventures, DTCP, and Intel Capital. The platform spans SaaS applications, home-grown cloud platforms, and end-user devices, delivering discovery, posture management, runtime enforcement, and real-time threat detection through Guardian Agents that evaluate behavior at the decision point. The capital supports scaling operations amid growing enterprise adoption of autonomous AI agents.
Elite Investors Back Agent Governance
The round arrives as enterprises deploy AI agents across Microsoft Copilot Studio, Salesforce Agentforce, and Anthropic Claude environments. Zenity's approach integrates with these platforms to monitor agent identity and enforce policy at runtime, addressing risks that arise when agents decide and act independently rather than executing static code.
New Attack Surfaces Emerge From Autonomous Agents
Zenity's research has disclosed vulnerabilities such as AgentForger, which allows zero-click forging of agents inside trusted boundaries, and PleaseFix, a class of issues affecting agentic browsers. These findings, presented at Black Hat and DEF CON, highlight how conventional prompt filtering falls short when intent and context drive agent actions across 150,000-plus resources in customer environments.
Full-Lifecycle Platform Covers Discovery to Response
Zenity's Surface, Enforce, and Protect pillars provide continuous agent inventory, configuration assessment, and intent-based detection. Guardian Agents create a feedback loop by learning from observed actions to refine policy. This differs from narrower LLM-focused tools by covering the complete lifecycle from build-time posture to runtime boundaries across SaaS, cloud, and endpoint agents.
"The era of 1 billion AI agents has begun. Every AI agent that reasons, decides, and acts creates a new security challenge."
Norwest-Led Syndicate Signals Sector Validation
Norwest Venture Partners led the round alongside strategic investors including Hitachi Ventures and LG Technology Ventures. The syndicate composition reflects conviction in a platform that already serves Fortune 20 technology companies, Fortune 50 pharmaceuticals, and government agencies through a Carahsoft partnership, with reported outcomes including 90 percent vulnerability remediation within four months.
Gartner Recognition and Standards Leadership Accelerate Momentum
Gartner named Zenity the "Company to Beat" in AI Agent Governance for 2026 and included the company in its Hype Cycle for Agentic AI. Zenity contributes to OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications and MITRE ATLAS, positioning its framework as a reference for the category. The company also holds FedRAMP In Process status and maintains an active research program through Zenity Labs.
Partnerships Expand Government and Enterprise Reach
Recent integrations with Claude Enterprise and AWS Security Hub, combined with the Carahsoft partnership, extend coverage to federal, state, and local agencies. These moves follow selection for AWS Security Hub and inline runtime security for agents built on Microsoft Foundry.