Zenity raises $125M to police AI agents
Zenity's Series C, backed by SoftBank and Intel Capital, funds a platform that inspects agent intent before execution rather than just prompts.
Zenity raised $125 million in a Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, with new backing from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures, LG Technology Ventures and Qumra Capital, alongside existing investors DTCP, Vertex Ventures, Third Point Ventures and Intel Capital. The round brings the Israeli company’s total funding to roughly $185 million. Founded in 2021 by Unit 8200 veterans Ben Kliger and Michael Bargury, Zenity says it has tripled revenue in each of the past two years and now employs more than 230 people, serving Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers across financial services, healthcare and manufacturing.
Zenity’s platform evaluates the intent behind an agent’s action before it executes, rather than relying on prompt inspection or after-the-fact log review, letting security teams approve, modify or block agent actions dynamically.
What it means for operators
This is the third large AI-agent-security round to close in the same week, alongside Obsidian Security’s $85M raise and Horizon3’s $250M round, and it confirms agent security has moved from a feature request to its own well-funded product category, the same trend behind Nvidia’s Open Secure AI Alliance. The specific bet Zenity is making, checking intent pre-execution instead of inspecting a prompt or a transcript after the fact, is the architecture worth evaluating if you’re buying into this space rather than building your own guardrails from scratch.