Zania, an agentic AI company focused on governance, risk, and compliance, has completed an $18m Series A funding round.
The oversubscribed round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from Anthology Fund — backed by Menlo Ventures and Anthropic — Palm Drive Capital, and a group of senior executives from Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal, ByteDance, Reddit, Roblox, and PwC.
Founded to address the mounting challenges faced by compliance teams, Zania has developed AI-powered “teammates” designed to automate risk assessments, evidence collection, controls testing, and gap analyses. Its technology enables organisations to replace manual processes with automated workflows, compressing tasks that previously took months into minutes. One example is its Gap Assessment module, which scans thousands of policies and evidence files in over 80 languages, mapping them against hundreds of control requirements to identify deficiencies.
The company said the fresh capital will be used to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams while further advancing its agentic AI platform. The focus will be on scaling operations to meet increasing demand and enhancing its ability to orchestrate end-to-end compliance workflows that go beyond tracking tasks to executing them.
Since its launch, Zania has reported rapid growth, achieving tenfold ARR expansion in the last six months. Its client base includes Plaid, Grant Thornton, Stanford University, and one of the Big Four accounting firms. The company has also partnered with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and HCLTech to extend the global reach of its compliance solutions.
Zania founder and CEO Shruti Gupta said, “Zania has experienced explosive growth in revenue and customers since we launched our first AI agents late last year. We’re excited to continue revolutionizing the security risk, compliance, and audit space by transforming it from tools that merely organize work into true AI teammates that execute highly complex and critical tasks from start to finish.”
NEA partner Mustafa Neemuchwala said, “Cybersecurity GRC is mission-critical, yet workflows remain manual, painful, and impossible to scale. Shruti and the team at Zania bring together a rare combination of battle-tested cybersecurity, GRC, and agentic AI expertise, giving enterprises minutes-not-months speed. Their strong product-market fit is already driving rapid adoption, and we’re thrilled to lead Zania’s Series A.”
Plaid head of security GRC Kenneth Moras added, “Zania’s AI agents have made our risk assessments dramatically faster and more efficient. By automating evidence collection and analysis, they turned a manual marathon into a sprint, freeing our team to focus on strategic risk management.”
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