Israeli artificial intelligence startup Zenzap has emerged from stealth with $44 million in total funding, led jointly by Bessemer Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from The Garage. The company has developed a collaborative workplace platform designed to allow employees and AI agents to work together in shared conversations, manage tasks and automate business processes.
The funding will support the expansion of Zenzap's development and sales teams, the introduction of new product capabilities and accelerated growth in international markets.
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Founded in 2022, Zenzap is led by CEO Guy Weiss, who previously founded bootstrapped technology company Stucco Media and guided it through an acquisition; Chief Technology Officer Jonatan Bien, who held senior technology positions at Voca.ai and Viz.ai; and Chief Operating Officer Noam Neumann, who previously held senior roles at Mobox and Matomy.
The company currently employs 45 people across Tel Aviv, the United States and Europe and serves thousands of organizations, ranging from small businesses with dozens of employees to large enterprises with thousands of workers.
Zenzap is seeking to change how organizations adopt artificial intelligence by moving beyond individual chatbots and personal AI assistants. Its platform, which the company describes as "Multiplayer AI," integrates specialized AI agents directly into team communication channels, allowing employees and agents to collaborate in real time.
Rather than relying on isolated conversations with AI tools, employees can assign tasks to agents, share documents and relevant information, monitor progress and make decisions within the same workspace.
Bringing AI agents into everyday workplace conversations
Zenzap aims to replace fragmented workplace communication, including work-related conversations conducted through private WhatsApp groups, with a centralized, managed environment accessible on mobile devices and desktop computers.
The platform connects team conversations with thousands of enterprise applications, allowing AI agents to access relevant information and carry out tasks across different business systems.
According to the company, this approach allows agents to complete workflows from start to finish while giving managers greater visibility and control over organizational information.
Unlike private messaging applications, where business information can become scattered across personal accounts and conversations, Zenzap is designed to retain organizational knowledge and make it available for future collaboration.
The platform requires no programming knowledge or extensive technical training. Employees can communicate with AI agents through text or voice messages, while prebuilt agents and automation tools can be activated with a few clicks.
Zenzap said its customers have already created more than 40,000 automated workflows using the platform's integrations with business applications. The company says teams can configure an AI agent in less than 90 seconds.
These workflows range from routing employee requests and locating missing invoices to updating customer relationship management systems, generating marketing content and coordinating tasks across departments.
For operations teams, including those working in logistics, warehouses, medical clinics and nursing homes, AI agents can collect daily requests, prepare shift schedules, generate calendar summaries and track task completion.
In health care settings, for example, the system can help verify that required medication administration procedures have been completed before employees change shifts.
Sales and customer service teams can use the agents to receive alerts about new inquiries, assess potential customers, update CRM records and direct requests to the appropriate employees. The agents can also draft email responses in a company's preferred writing style.
For finance departments, the platform can reconcile transactions and payments, record receipts and expenses in accounting systems and identify overlooked payments or discrepancies.
Security and enterprise adoption
Zenzap says its platform was designed to meet enterprise security requirements, including centralized oversight by chief information security officers, protection against data leaks and safeguards against malicious software.
The company says it complies with SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and GDPR requirements, positioning the platform for use in regulated industries such as health care and financial services.
Its customer base already includes small and medium-sized businesses, financial institutions, hospitals and multinational corporations, according to the company.
"Until now, artificial intelligence has been a personal experience: one person, one chatbot, one private conversation," said Weiss, Zenzap's co-founder and CEO.
"The strength of companies lies in teamwork, collective thinking and collaboration toward business goals. Zenzap was designed and built from the ground up as a secure platform where agents and humans can work together, share the same context and turn AI into a force multiplier for employees and the business as a whole."
Weiss said the platform is intended to make AI a collaborative part of everyday business operations rather than a separate tool employees use individually.
Adam Fisher, a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, said companies should approach AI agents in much the same way they structure human teams, with different roles, responsibilities and areas of expertise.
"In every organization, each role is held by someone with focus and expertise who can influence others and help reach the best decision," Fisher said.
"Agents should work the same way: not one super-agent acting as an alter ego, but a team of specialized agents operating with supervision, oversight and control, using business tools just as employees would and collaborating naturally with colleagues."
Fisher also pointed to the security risks associated with employees independently introducing AI tools into the workplace without organizational oversight.
"Zenzap's secure platform makes AI capabilities available to the entire organization through an interface accessible to every employee, while eliminating the risk of unsupervised personal agents entering under the radar, as happened in the past with WhatsApp," he said.
"The system gives businesses a secure, controlled solution to both challenges."
Investors see opportunity beyond the tech industry
Tal Morgenstern, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, said Zenzap is targeting a gap between the rapid development of AI technology and its relatively limited adoption across many industries.
"Personal AI assistants have entered our private lives. Zenzap brings that same opportunity to companies and teams of every size and industry," Morgenstern said.
"The vast majority of humanity is still not truly benefiting from AI. There is a significant gap between technological capabilities and the pace of their adoption."
According to Morgenstern, businesses have been reluctant to integrate AI agents into their daily operations because they lacked a suitable platform combining ease of use with security and organizational oversight.
"Organizations have avoided collaborating with agents because they lacked the right platform," he said.
"Zenzap built a secure platform that allows people and agents to work together, with cybersecurity requirements already addressed, enabling employees to create AI-powered digital workers quickly, safely and with organizational control."
Morgenstern said the platform's accessibility could help bring AI into workplaces that have not traditionally adopted advanced enterprise collaboration tools.
He compared Zenzap's potential impact to that of Slack, which transformed communication among software development teams beginning in 2012 but, he argued, struggled to achieve similar adoption beyond the technology industry.
"Slack revolutionized the way development departments in high-tech companies work, but hit a ceiling of 50 million users because of its technical interface and preference for desktop applications," Morgenstern said.
"In 2026, thanks to its accessible design, strong mobile capabilities and built-in AI architecture, Zenzap enables AI adoption not only in high-tech companies, including nontechnical departments that Slack never managed to penetrate, but also across the vast majority of organizations worldwide that never moved to Slack and remained reliant on WhatsApp and similar applications."
With its latest funding, Zenzap plans to expand its international presence while continuing to develop AI agents that can work alongside employees within existing business processes.
The company is betting that the next stage of enterprise AI adoption will focus less on individual productivity tools and more on teams of humans and AI agents working together in shared digital environments.