Zenity Raises $125 Million to Secure the Era of 1 Billion AI Agents

Published at August 3rd 2026, 9:15 AM EDT via Business Wire

Led by Norwest, with participation from new investors Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi and LG Technology Ventures, the investment will accelerate Zenity’s global expansion and platform innovation as enterprises rapidly deploy autonomous AI across their most critical business systems.

Zenity, the AI security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents, today announced a $125 million Series C led by Norwest. The investment will accelerate Zenity’s global expansion, platform innovation and ability to meet rapidly growing enterprise demand for AI agent security. New investors Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures and LG Technology Ventures joined the round, alongside existing investors Vertex Ventures, Third Point Ventures, DTCP and Intel Capital.

“We have followed Zenity’s journey for years and have been impressed by the team’s vision and execution. As enterprises rapidly adopt AI agents across critical workflows, organizations need a new approach to security built for this new and continuously evolving reality,” said Assaf Harel, Partner at Norwest. “Zenity has an early mover advantage in building an end-to-end AI agent security and the largest and rapidly growing footprint of successful implementation across Fortune 1000 customers.”

Zenity is trusted by many of the world’s largest enterprises, with the majority of its customers comprising Fortune 500, Global 2000 and other leading global organizations, including SoftBank Corp. Across financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, energy, manufacturing and other highly regulated industries, these organizations rely on Zenity to securely govern and scale AI agents. Its longest-standing customers include many Fortune 50 companies. Zenity has tripled revenue in each of the past two years and is on track to triple revenue again this year.

“As our use of AI agents continues to grow, maintaining security, governance and operational control is essential,” said Tadashi Iida, Senior Vice President & CISO & CRO, SoftBank Corp. “Zenity enables us to confidently deploy AI agents across the enterprise, giving us the visibility and governance required to support innovation at scale.”

Enterprise AI security has historically focused on the model layer, or on trying to secure only the prompt layer. Today’s challenge is fundamentally different. AI agents can access critical systems and data, invoke tools, make decisions and take action, requiring a security approach built for increasingly autonomous agents.

Earlier this year, Gartner recognized Zenity in the report, AI Vendor Race: Zenity Is the Company to Beat in AI Agent Governance, published in April 2026.

“Enterprise AI is skyrocketing,” said Ben Kliger, co-founder and CEO of Zenity. “AI experimentation is long over and any organization on the planet is promoting AI agents at velocity and adoption rates never seen before in any tech wave… As we enter the era of 1 billion agents, our newly announced funding is helping make that vision a reality.”

Zenity’s platform deterministically allows, modifies or blocks an action before it occurs by understanding an agent’s intent. Unified security layer across Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Gemini, coding agents like Claude, Codex and Cursor, and custom systems in AWS Bedrock/AgentCore, Microsoft Foundry and Google Vertex AI.

Through Zenity Labs, the research team published AgentFlayer (zero-click agent hijacks), demonstrated calendar-invite hijacks of Perplexity Comet accessing 1Password, uncovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot Studio, and showed poisoned-document exfiltration via ChatGPT connected services.

Zenity now has more than 230 employees worldwide, with R&D in Tel Aviv and GTM/operations led from New York. Funding will expand Zenity Labs and deepen presence across Europe and Asia Pacific.

Secondary notes (Ctech / FinSMEs)

Total funding after round ~$185 million. Co-founded by CEO Ben Kliger and CTO Michael Bargury.