Zenyard, a cybersecurity startup building an AI agent purpose-built for software reverse engineering, has emerged from stealth following a pre-seed funding round led by Mindset Ventures.
The round also saw participation from TAU Ventures, Zuk Avraham, Raanan Raz and additional investors.
Reverse engineering plays a critical role in security research, vulnerability assessment, malware analysis and threat intelligence. Despite its importance, it remains one of the most complex disciplines within cybersecurity, practised by only a limited number of engineers, Zenyard explained. Current workflows are largely manual and time-consuming, often leaving researchers spending days reconstructing context, pursuing dead ends or overlooking relevant code due to time constraints.
While generic AI tools and DIY MCP-based solutions have recently entered the reverse engineering space, Zenyard argues that these approaches fall short in real-world research settings. Such tools are often restricted to partial analysis, lack complete binary context and can generate inaccurate or hallucinated outputs. This has led to scepticism among researchers who are wary of sacrificing reliability for speed.
Zenyard is positioning itself differently by building an AI agent designed specifically for reverse engineering and developed by reverse engineers themselves. Rather than analysing isolated snippets of code, the agent is designed to understand entire binaries, manage decompiled code analysis and provide explainable outputs so researchers can validate findings. The solution integrates directly into the decompilers already used by security professionals, allowing them to maintain their existing workflows while accelerating insight generation.
The company said its technology is already deployed across leading research teams in security and threat intelligence organisations. Its research and development roadmap includes expanding its multi-agent architecture to significantly accelerate experienced reverse engineers while also enabling SOC and security analysts to independently investigate software and malware without deep reverse engineering expertise.
Zenyard co-founder and CEO Yuval Luria said, “We built Zenyard out of our own experience working closely with security researchers and seeing the same bottlenecks repeat over and over.
“Even the best researchers spend too much time analyzing decompiled code with outdated tools instead of focusing on meaningful insight. Reverse engineering has not kept up with the pace of modern software. We’ve built Zenyard with the mission to help researchers focus on insight, not reconstruction, and give them AI they can actually trust on real, complex binaries.”
Mindset Ventures managing partner Boaz Albaranes said, “We see a strong parallel between what tools like Cursor and Codex did for developers and what Zenyard is doing for reverse engineering.
“As software complexity continues to grow, researchers need a fundamentally new way to understand binaries. Zenyard is creating a new category with a purpose-built AI agent, and the team’s firsthand experience with real-world reversing challenges, combined with deep security and AI expertise, uniquely positions them to lead this shift.”
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