Zenity raises $125m to secure AI agents, not models

This article was published on August 3, 2026 Zenity has raised $125m to secure not AI models but the agents built on them, as they start touching real enterprise systems. The round, backed by SoftBank, Hitachi and LG, lands the week OpenAI’s own agents broke out and hacked another company. Most of the money spent guarding AI has gone to the model and the prompt. Zenity has just raised $125m on a different argument: both miss the real danger. That danger is the AI agent that acts on its own. The Israeli startup secures what agents do once a company lets them loose inside its systems. Norwest led the Series C. SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures and LG Technology Ventures joined, the company announced. That takes its total funding to roughly $185m. Zenity did not disclose a valuation. Tellingly, the new backers are all firms deploying agents in their own businesses. Two Unit 8200 veterans, Ben Kliger and Michael Bargury, founded Zenity in 2021. Both previously built security products at Microsoft. It now has more than 230 staff, with research in Tel Aviv and its sales team in New York. Its customers, it says, are mostly Fortune 500 and Global 2000 firms in regulated industries