AI-powered security governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) startup Zania has announced raising $18 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $20 million.
The investment round was led by NEA (New Enterprise Associates), with additional support from Anthology Fund, Palm Drive Capital, and various angel investors.
Founded in 2023, Palo Alto, California-based Zania has built an agentic AI platform that relies on autonomous, domain-specific AI ‘teammates’ to perform risk and compliance operations.
The AI teammates, the company explains, execute tasks based on each company’s context. They continuously collect evidence, and test controls and identify gaps against compliance frameworks.
Additionally, they can perform full-lifecycle assessment of vendors, provide evaluations of internal risk, and use these evaluations to answer incoming vendor questionnaires with precision.
The fresh investment, the company says, will help it “build AI agents that can execute the full spectrum of risk and compliance work”.
Aiming to automate the entire GRC lifecycle, the company will expand its agent library to cover end-to-end compliance, and will invest in proprietary models performing complex, multi-step reasoning. Additionally, it plans to triple its engineering and go‑to‑market teams.
“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,” Zania founder and CEO Shruti Gupta said.
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