Zenity Ltd., a platform that secures artificial intelligence and low-code application development, today announced that it has raised $38 million in seed funding to expand its platform and help businesses as the AI and low-code programming are being adopted more widely.

The Series B round was led by Third Point Ventures and DTCP. Existing investors Intel Capital Corp. and Vertex Ventures also participated, bringing the total collected by the company more than $55 million, including $16.5 million raised in September 2023 under the leadership of Intel Capital.

Founded in 2021, Zenity started in the low-code/no-code application security platform industry by providing businesses with a way to detect and manage secrets and vulnerabilities. The company provides security management tools for Application Security Posture Management, or ASPM, and AI Security Posture Management, or AISPM. With these templates, businesses can centralize visibility and inventory of co-pilots and AI applications built on Microsoft, Salesforce and more on their system.

The platform allows users to secure enterprise co-pilots and AI agents to detect and prevent suspicious and malicious activity in real-time, preventing malicious actors from using them as attack surfaces. For example, it can help IT and security teams prevent and intercept prompt softwarean emerging threat to AI systems that attempts to jailbreak generative AI co-pilots using malicious prompts. It also allows policy authorization and custom configurations for data security and to prevent information leaks through AI and low-code applications.

The same system can help detect data poisoning, where maliciously hidden instructions could be inserted into real-time data before they reach a co-pilot via outside information. This can happen through a system called retrieval augmented generation, or RAG, which is used to update AI systems with up-to-date information to ensure answers are correct, but it can also retrieve sources who could have been “poisoned” by dangerous substances. information manipulated by bad actors.

“The future of work is now,” said Ben Kliger, co-founder and CEO of Zenity. “For the first time, large companies are leading the charge in bringing the power of AI and low-code to everyone, meaning anyone can now use and create AI agents. AI and business applications to do more.

Kliger argued that due to the rapid adoption of AI applications through low-code development, this means The need for powerful, purpose-built security solutions for IT teams is now at an unprecedented level.

Zenity own research showed that the average large enterprise had nearly 80,000 applications with built-in AI co-pilots or AI-based automation using low-code development platforms. Of these, almost 63% contained security vulnerabilities.

The use of AI tools is only increasing across the enterprise as the workforce continues to work. find themselves learning to adapt to the new paradigm. In the last McKinsey Global AI SurveyNearly 65% ​​of respondents said organizations regularly use generative AI, nearly double the 33% from the previous report 10 months ago.

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