Willow, an agentic access platform built to bring oversight and governance to enterprise AI deployments, has emerged from stealth after closing a $7m seed round aimed at helping organisations adopt AI agents safely without stifling innovation.
The round was led by Hetz Ventures, with early angel backing from Wix co-founder and CEO Avishai Abrahami and president Nir Zohar, who supported the company at its earliest stage. Proceeds will fund the next phase of Willow’s go-to-market strategy alongside accelerated product development.
The raise arrives as AI agents embed themselves deeper into corporate operations. According to figures cited by Willow, 79% of companies have introduced AI agents internally, while 73% are already running multi-agent systems.
Yet governance has struggled to keep pace with adoption: 65% of organisations reported agent-related incidents over the past 12 months, according to a 2026 Cloud Security Alliance survey. As agents operate continuously in the background with access to sensitive internal tools and data, the absence of meaningful controls has created what Willow describes as the fastest-growing and least-governed attack vector in the enterprise.
Willow’s platform addresses this by providing a governance and access layer that gives organisations complete visibility and control over how AI agents connect to internal systems and what actions they can take. It oversees which agents employees are already using, flags risky or unauthorised integrations, and applies detailed controls governing how agents interact with enterprise systems and data.
The platform is compatible with a broad range of AI agents, including Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini, n8n and custom-built solutions, and features a marketplace with over 1,000 ready-to-use connectors, more than 100 skills and over 100 plugins, each equipped with authorisations, access controls, audit trails and governance functions. Willow generates tools at runtime, scoped to the specific task at hand, detects and governs shadow AI across the organisation and can be deployed as SaaS, dedicated cloud or self-hosted, including air-gapped environments.
The company was founded by former Wix employees, with co-founders Eyal Ben Ezra serving as CEO, Shalev Shalit as CTO and Idan Chetrit as VP of platform. Over the past year, Willow has worked alongside enterprise design partners including Wix itself, where the platform is now deployed across more than 5,000 employees. The company is already extending deployments to additional enterprise customers across sectors including cybersecurity, real estate and FinTech.
Willow CEO and co-founder Eyal Ben Ezra said, “Currently businesses find themselves in an impossible trade-off: either lock AI down because it can’t be trusted or allow AI agents to operate with unrestrained access to systems and data and hope nothing goes wrong. Willow offers another option. Willow gives enterprises the control needed to adopt AI earnestly without letting it run unchecked. With complete oversight into how any AI agent is deployed, we ensure enterprises control every move an agent makes, narrowing the attack surface exponentially and providing companies with the assurance they need to roll out their AI agents.”
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