Zenity raised $125 million in a Series C round, announced on August 3, 2026 and led by Norwest Venture Partners, with SoftBank Vision Fund 2 co-leading. The round lands as enterprises push AI agents into production at scale and discover they have almost no visibility into what those agents are actually doing.
Here's the full breakdown of the raise, who backed it, and what it means for the emerging AI agent security category.
What is Zenity?
Zenity is a cybersecurity platform built specifically to monitor and secure AI agents running inside corporate systems. Founded by Michael Bargury and Ben Kliger, the company's core job is detecting when autonomous AI systems drift away from the tasks they were built to do — a failure mode that traditional security tooling, designed for human users and static software, was never built to catch.
Its customers span logistics and energy, including DHL, Uber, Kuehne + Nagel, Naturgy and Repsol — the kind of large, operationally complex enterprises where an AI agent with too much autonomy (or a compromised one) can cause real damage.
The raise: $125M Series C
The headline numbers:
- Amount: $125 million
- Round: Series C
- Valuation: not disclosed
- Announced: August 3, 2026
- Lead investor: Norwest Venture Partners
- Co-lead: SoftBank Vision Fund 2
Prior funding terms for Zenity were not disclosed, so there's no public valuation trajectory to compare this round against. What stands out instead is the investor list: a mix of traditional venture (Norwest, Vertex Ventures, Third Point Ventures), strategic corporate capital (SoftBank, Hitachi, LG, Intel Capital) and growth equity (DTCP) — a signature of a company that both financial and strategic investors see as infrastructure-critical.
Who invested in Zenity?
The Series C was led by Norwest Venture Partners, with SoftBank Vision Fund 2 co-leading. Additional participants included:
- Hitachi Ventures
- LG Technology Ventures
- Vertex Ventures
- Third Point Ventures
- DTCP
- Intel Capital
The presence of corporate venture arms from Hitachi, LG and Intel alongside SoftBank's growth-stage vehicle suggests strategic interest from hardware and industrial players that are themselves deploying AI agents internally and want a security layer they can plug in.
What Zenity will do with the money
Zenity said the funding will go toward expansion across Asia-Pacific, the U.S. and Europe, along with accelerating platform innovation and growing Zenity Labs, its research arm. That's a fairly standard growth-stage playbook — geographic expansion plus continued product investment — but the underlying driver is the pace at which enterprises are rolling out AI agents faster than they can govern them.
Why it matters
- Agent governance is becoming its own security category. As companies hand more operational authority to autonomous AI agents, monitoring what those agents actually do — not just what they're authorized to do — has emerged as a distinct problem from conventional identity and access management, one Zenity is positioned to own early.
- Enterprise trust is the bottleneck for agent adoption, not capability. Zenity's customer list overlaps with companies like HappyRobot, which sells the agents themselves — a sign that as agentic AI moves into logistics and operations, the tooling to secure those agents is scaling in parallel with the tooling to build them.
- Strategic corporate investors are hedging on agent risk. SoftBank, Hitachi, LG and Intel Capital backing a security-focused AI agent startup — rather than an agent-building one — signals that large industrials see governance as the harder, more durable investment than the agents themselves.
Source: SoftBank, Hitachi, LG back Zenity's $125 million round to police AI agents
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