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NTT and Harvard find multi-agent AI performance peaks near 16 agents then degrades — design, diversity, and human oversight matter more than headcount.
Shiplog, a Paris-based startup, has raised $930,000 in pre-seed funding, with Kima Ventures and Project Europe leading the round. Shiplog's AI agent, Ada,...
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# Zenity raises $125 million to expand AI agent security platform ## The company's platform helps enterprises secure and govern AI agents as they gain access to critical systems, data and workflows, with the new funding aimed at global expansion and product development [ynet Global](https://www.ynetnews.com/topics/ynet_Global)|00:17 [AI agents](https://www.ynetnews.com/topics/AI_agents) 00:00 01:56 [Zenity, an AI security and governance company](https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/sy9xmgfuxe) focused on enterprise AI agents, said Monday it raised $125 million in a Series C funding round led by Norwest.
Artificial intelligence security startup Zenity Ltd. said today it has closed on a $125 million Series C round of funding to expand its platform,...
### Israeli startup Zenity bags $125M in funding to build the security layer for AI agents  by [Mike Wheatley](https://siliconangle.com/author/mikewheatley/) Artificial intelligence security startup [Zenity Ltd.](https://www.zenity.io/) said today it has closed on a $125 million [Series C round of funding](https://zenity.io/company-overview/newsroom/company-news/zenity-raises-125-million-to-secure-the-era-of-1-billion-ai-agents?) to expand its platform, which secures autonomous agents in production across large global organizations. Today’s round was led by Norwest and saw participation from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Qumra Capital and others, including Hitachi Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, Vertex Ventures, DTCP and Intel Capital. It means Zenity has now raised $185 million in total funding to date. The startup now has a massive war chest available to it as it looks to tackle a security problem that’s becoming much more urgent as enterprises shift away from experimental AI agent deployments to scale them in production. They create an entirely new and sprawling attack surface, which cannot easily be covered using existing identity, application and data security tools designed for human users. In an interview with [Calcalist](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1ahbbcbfe), Zenity co-founder and Chief Executive Ben Kliger said the adoption of AI agents is accelerating dramatically. “Every organization is deploying off-the-shelf AI agents or developing its own,” he said. It’s time for us to accelerate our growth.” Zenity has built a platform that analyzes business computing environments to understand where AI agents are embedded and how they interact with different systems. It figures out what business purpose each AI agent is meant to fulfil, and then monitors them closely in real time to ensure they’re not getting up to anything they shouldn
National Australia Bank Ltd.'s technology chief said the firm will soon begin testing the security and operational guardrails of an agentic artificial...
Israel-founded Zenity, which develops security and governance software for AI agents and has offices in New York and Tel Aviv, has raised US$125 million in...
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Enterprise teams building AI agents keep hitting the same wall: a chatbot that can answer a prompt but can't remember what the last five people asked it, and can't tell you whether last month's version actually worked. The product treats AI agents as coachable teammates that operate alongside humans rather than as one-to-one assistants. ## More [\ \ Greg Ulrich, Chief AI and Data Officer at Mastercard, speaks during a fireside chat at VB Transform 2026 in Menlo Park. Image credit: Michael O'Donnell Photography.](https://venturebeat.com/security/mastercard-spent-decades-training-its-fraud-system-to-see-bots-as-thieves-now-bots-are-the-ones-doing-the-buying) [\ \ From left to right: Carl Franzen of VentureBeat interviews Rashed Haq, GM VP of Autonomous Vehicles, at VB Transform 2026 conference. Credit: Michael O'Donnell Photography](https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/gm-redesigned-its-engineering-workflows-around-ai-agents-and-tripled-its-merged-pull-requests) When Runway's real-time AI avatars kept drifting off-center, engineers spent weeks chasing a back-end fix.
AI agents have moved into mainstream enterprise use, but the content infrastructure needed to support them has struggled to keep up, according to a new...
Anthropic said last week that some of its Claude models hacked into three companies' systems during cybersecurity tests, days after OpenAI revealed one of its AI agents had gone rogue.
Can autonomous AI agents be sued or prosecuted for hacking? It's no longer a question for sci-fi movies. It's a question human lawyers and judges may soon...
AI security platform Zenity raised $125 million in a Series C funding round for enterprise expansion. The Boston and Tel Aviv-based company secures...
# Plaid Gives Sierra’s AI Agents Live Access to Bank Accounts By[PYMNTS](https://www.pymnts.com/author/pymnts/) | August 3, 2026 [Share on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/plaid-gives-sierras-ai-agents-live-access-to-bank-accounts/&t=Plaid+Gives+Sierra%E2%80%99s+AI+Agents+Live+Access+to+Bank+Accounts)[Tweet This Post](https://twitter.com/share?text=Plaid+Gives+Sierra%E2%80%99s+AI+Agents+Live+Access+to+Bank+Accounts%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20-&url=https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/plaid-gives-sierras-ai-agents-live-access-to-bank-accounts/)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/plaid-gives-sierras-ai-agents-live-access-to-bank-accounts/&title=Plaid+Gives+Sierra%E2%80%99s+AI+Agents+Live+Access+to+Bank+Accounts&summary=&source=)[Share via Email](mailto:?subject=Plaid%20Gives%20Sierra%E2%80%99s%20AI%20Agents%20Live%20Access%20to%20Bank%20Accounts&BODY=I%20found%20this%20article%20interesting%20and%20want%20to%20share%20it%20with%20you.%20Check%20it%20out:%20https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/plaid-gives-sierras-ai-agents-live-access-to-bank-accounts/) | Listen to ArticleListenPause The agent walks through the options, then stalls the moment it needs real financial data. [Sierra](https://sierra.ai/) and [Plaid](https://plaid.com/) built an integration to close that gap: Sierra’s AI agents can now request permission to connect a customer’s bank account mid-conversation and use that data without the customer leaving the chat, according to a blog post [announcing](https://sierra.ai/blog/our-partnership-with-plaid) the integration. ## **Sierra’s Agents Now Run on Plaid’s Existing Reach** The integration runs on [Horizon](https://sierra.ai/blog/horizon), a Sierra platform launched July 16 and built for agents that work a cust
OpenAI and Anthropic incidents show how autonomous AI agents can reach real systems, exposing CX teams to risks around customer data.
OpenAI and Anthropic models broke containment and hacked other companies. Who is liable when an autonomous AI agent goes rogue? The law has no clear answer.
Editor's note: This article is Part 2 of a two-part series on Manus AI. Part 1 discusses autonomous agents, their benefits for accounting and finance,...
# Why AI agents need their own identity In December 2025, the [AWS AI coding agent Kiro](https://www.scworld.com/perspective/what-zero-trust-looks-like-for-ai-agents) was given a minor bug to fix in production. In March 2026, an internal AI agent at Meta autonomously posted technical guidance to an engineering forum without approval. The agent that deleted AWS Cost Explorer didn't need standing production privileges. ### Related [](https://www.scworld.com/brief/aitm-phishing-overtakes-credential-theft-as-top-threat-to-law-firms) ### Get daily email updates SC Media's daily must-read of the most current and pressing daily news
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Zenity has raised $125 million in a Series C financing round led by Norwest to expand its artificial intelligence agent security and governance platform.
Non-human identities in Fortune 500 companies grew 480% in the last six months alone, and enterprises have no visibility into most of them. The moment an AI...
# Video Interview: ChipAgents CEO on Latest Funding for Agentic AI in EDA ## At DAC 2026, EE Times spoke with ChipAgents CEO William Wang about the company’s $134 million in funding to date and what it means for agentic AI in semiconductor design. By[Nitin Dahad](https://www.eetimes.com/author/nitin-dahad/)08.03.20260 ### Share this: - [Share on X (Opens in new window)X](https://www.eetimes.com/video-interview-chipagents-ceo-on-latest-funding-for-agentic-ai-in-eda/?share=twitter&nb=1) - [Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Facebook](https://www.eetimes.com/video-interview-chipagents-ceo-on-latest-funding-for-agentic-ai-in-eda/?share=facebook&nb=1) - [Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)LinkedIn](https://www.eetimes.com/video-interview-chipagents-ceo-on-latest-funding-for-agentic-ai-in-eda/?share=linkedin&nb=1) At [DAC, The Chips to Systems Conference](https://dac.com/2026) in Long Beach, California, last week, two-year old startup [ChipAgents](https://www.eetimes.com/chipagents-raises-21-million-for-agentic-chip-design/) announced it had closed an extended series A round, adding $60 million to the $50 million it had raised in February 2026 and bringing its total funding to $134 million. The news reflects renewed investor confidence in EDA startups. As ChipAgents founder and CEO William Wang told EE Times in a [video interview at DAC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md5137_pFfU), the conference is experiencing a huge renaissance of startups in the sector. Examples include [Ricursive, with $335 million](https://www.eetimes.com/startup-ricursive-to-create-an-end-to-end-ai-model-for-chip-design/) in funding to date; Normal Computing, with $85 million to date; [Cognichip](https://www.eetimes.com/cognichips-artificial-chip-intelligence-will-rely-on-data/), with $93 million to date; Vinci, with its $46 million so far; Hiveware, with $28 million to date; Agentrys, with $25 million; and Architect Labs, with a $24 million seed round announced last month. Wang also t
Zenity Raises $125 Million Series C To Expand AI Agent Security Platform Zenity has raised $125 million in a Series C financing round led by Norwest to expand its artificial intelligence agent security and governance platform. New investors Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures and LG Technology Ventures joined the round. Existing investors Vertex Ventures, Third Point Ventures, DTCP and Intel Capital also participated. Zenity plans to use the funding to accelerate product development, expand globally and address growing enterprise demand for security products designed specifically for autonomous AI agents. The company will use the financing to expand Zenity Labs and deepen its presence in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. _“As we enter the era of 1 billion agents, our newly announced funding is helping make that vision a reality._ _This investment allows us to bring AI agent security to many more organizations around the world.”_
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Israeli cybersecurity company reaches $185 million in total funding as enterprises race to secure autonomous AI agents.
Zenity raises $125 million in series C funding to accelerate global expansion and platform innovation as enterprises rapidly deploy autonomous AI.
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# SoftBank, Hitachi, LG back Zenity’s $125 million round to police AI agents  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](https://fortune.com/company/softbank-group/) Vision Fund 2, [Hitachi](https://fortune.com/company/hitachi/) Ventures, and [LG](https://fortune.com/company/lg-electronics/) 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’re looking into the engine, into what agents are doing behind the scenes, in order to determine if they’re deviating from their intent—if they’re doing things that put the organization, or their clients, or their data at risk,” Kliger says. ## **AI security in the spotlight** By creating an account, I have read and agreed to Fortune's [Terms of Use](https://fortune.com/terms-of-use/?_ptid=%7Bkpdx%7DAAAAs0vSdGDzdgoKY2ZRajJmTTN6ahIQbXNlYTR2dW9vZWY1bTNpcxoMRVhVMDFMN0hNS1RKIiUxODA4c3U4MGRnLTAwMDAzN3ViZXZ1cW5uZDBhYWw3bjhoM2NrKhxzaG93VGVtcGxhdGVKSlpMVFpTV08wTDAyMjUyMAE6DE9UUldQV1dZWVREVlISdi13APAYdGhtZ2Zwa3ZxWg03Ny4yNDcuMTE4LjU5YgNkbGNoqrHL0wZwCHgE) and [Privacy Policy](https://fortune.com/privacy-policy/?_ptid=%7Bkpdx%7DAAAAs0vSdGDzdgoKY2ZRajJmTTN6ahIQbXNlYTR2dW9vZWY1bTNpcxoMRVhVMDFMN0hNS1RKIiUxODA4c3U4MGRnLTAwMDAzN3ViZXZ1cW5uZDBhYWw3bjhoM2NrKhxzaG93VGVtcGxhdGVKSlpMVFpTV08wTDAyMjUyMAE6DE9UUldQV1dZWVREVlISdi13APAYdGht
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