Willow, an agentic access platform focused on helping enterprises securely adopt and govern AI agents, announced it has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Hetz Ventures and follows early angel investments from Avishai Abrahami and Nir Zohar. The company plans to use the funding to accelerate product development and expand its go-to-market efforts.
As enterprises increasingly deploy AI agents across their organizations, Willow is addressing the governance, security, and oversight challenges that accompany widespread adoption. According to the company, AI agents are becoming deeply integrated into enterprise operations, yet many organizations lack adequate controls to monitor how these systems access internal data, applications, and infrastructure.
Willow’s platform provides enterprises with visibility into AI agent activity while enabling granular control over how agents connect to internal systems and what actions they can perform. The platform helps organizations monitor approved and unauthorized AI agent usage, manage integrations, and enforce governance policies designed to reduce security and operational risks.
The company’s technology connects AI agents such as Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex, Gemini, n8n, and custom-built agents to enterprise systems. Willow also offers a marketplace containing more than 1,000 connectors, over 100 skills, and more than 100 plugins, all supported by authorization controls, audit trails, and governance capabilities. The platform can be deployed as a SaaS solution, in a dedicated cloud environment, or as a self-hosted deployment, including air-gapped environments.
Willow was founded by former Wix engineers Eyal Ben Ezra, Shalev Shalit, and Idan Chetrit. The company has worked closely with enterprise design partners, including Wix, where the platform has been deployed internally across more than 5,000 employees. Willow is also expanding deployments among customers in sectors including cybersecurity, real estate, and fintech.
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“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.”
Eyal Ben Ezra, CEO and Co-Founder, Willow
“Thousands of Wix employees are using AI agents every day, and at our scale, visibility and control over those agents are absolutely critical. To accelerate AI adoption safely, we need guidelines, governance, and full visibility across the company. Willow provides exactly that.”
Avishai Abrahami, Co-Founder and CEO, Wix
“The gateway between AI agents and an enterprise’s internal systems is rapidly becoming one of the most overlooked blind spots in enterprise security. What convinced us to lead this round was watching Willow solve the problem inside Wix first, at the scale of thousands of employees, before bringing it to market. Eyal, Shalev, and Idan have built something rare: a governance layer that enterprises actually deploy, rather than another framework that sits on a shelf. They’re the right team to define this category.”
Guy Fighel, Partner, Hetz Ventures
