Zania, a fast-growing agentic AI company focused on governance, risk and compliance (GRC), has closed an $18m Series A funding round to accelerate its next phase of growth.
The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and joined by Anthology Fund, backed by Menlo Ventures and Anthropic, Palm Drive Capital, and a syndicate of senior executives from Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal, ByteDance, Reddit, Roblox and PwC.
The company develops domain-specific AI agents designed to support compliance teams as regulatory requirements become increasingly complex. Traditional GRC platforms often leave businesses reliant on large teams to perform manual tasks, but Zania’s technology aims to automate these processes, compressing work that once took months into minutes. Its agents carry out risk assessments, evidence collection, controls testing and gap analyses, using capabilities such as multilingual policy ingestion and mapping against regulatory requirements.
Zania plans to use the fresh capital to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams, while also accelerating development of its agentic AI platform. The system is designed to orchestrate full compliance workflows, shifting the sector from dashboards that track tasks to intelligent tools that execute them.
The business has seen rapid traction since its launch, achieving tenfold ARR growth in the last six months. It has signed customers including Plaid, Grant Thornton, Stanford University and one of the Big Four accounting firms. In addition, Zania has secured partnerships with Tata Consultancy Services and HCLTech to expand the reach of its compliance solutions.
Zania 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 said, “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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