Zenity, an Israel-based cybersecurity startup, has raised $125 million as part of a Series C funding round, in a bet that AI risks don’t come from powerful models, but instead from what happens when AI agents are set loose to act on their own.
This funding round for the Tel Aviv–based startup, which secures AI agents inside corporate systems, was led by Norwest, with SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures, and LG Technology Ventures joining as investors.
The round lands as enterprises across Asia-Pacific rush to deploy AI agents that take actions, make decisions, and touch “every aspect of the enterprise,” in the words of Zenity CEO Ben Kliger.
“We’ve seen several waves of AI security over the last decade, starting with models and securing prompts. But putting the agent at the center of security is unique,” he says. “It’s happening in Asia-Pacific faster than in previous waves—in Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Australia.”
Most AI security to date has focused on screening what a user asks a model to do, or auditing the model’s output after the fact. Zenity, instead, says it monitors the agent’s actions in real time, and can block or alter what it does if those actions drift from its original purpose.
