Willow Raises $7 Million for Securing Autonomous AI Agents

Willow (formerly Webrix) emerged from stealth mode on Thursday with an identity and access platform for enterprise AI agents and $7 million in seed funding. The Israeli company received funding from Hetz Ventures and executives at website-building platform Wix. Willow has developed an identity and access management layer designed to secure enterprise AI systems and autonomous agents. The platform serves as a centralized gateway for widely used tools such as Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and custom models.  Organizations can deploy the infrastructure through a software-as-a-service model, a dedicated cloud, or self-hosted setups, including fully air-gapped environments. The platform integrates directly with established identity providers, such as Okta and Entra, assigning a verifiable identity to every operating AI agent. The platform controls exactly which internal endpoints an agent can reach and enforces least-privilege access rules at runtime.  Administrators can leverage an internal catalog containing over 1,000 pre-built connectors, skills, and plugins to map specific tasks to these authorized models. The software continuously discovers shadow AI usage and flags unauthorized skills across the corporate network. Security teams receive audit logs and direct access approvals routed through messaging apps like Slack.  “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,” said Eyal Ben Ezra, co-founder and CEO of Willow.  Ben Ezra added, “Willow gives enterprises the control needed to adopt AI earnestly without letting it run unchecked. 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