Willow Emerges With $7 Million and Access Controls for Enterprise AI Agents
Summary
Willow emerged from stealth with an identity and access platform for enterprise AI agents and announced $7 million in seed funding. It offers agent identities, runtime access controls, shadow-AI discovery, and audit logs.
Key points
- Willow, formerly Webrix, announced $7 million in seed funding from Hetz Ventures and Wix executives.
- Its platform assigns verifiable identities to AI agents and applies least-privilege access controls to internal endpoints at runtime.
- The platform integrates with identity providers including Okta and Entra and can be deployed as SaaS, in a dedicated cloud, or self-hosted, including air-gapped environments.
- Willow says the platform discovers shadow AI usage and flags unauthorized skills across corporate networks.
- The platform provides audit logs, routes access approvals through messaging apps such as Slack, and includes a catalog of more than 1,000 connectors, skills, and plugins.
Article Details
- Event Type
- Willow emerged from stealth and announced $7 million in seed funding to develop its identity and access platform for enterprise AI agents.
- Impact
- Willow says its platform assigns identities to AI agents, limits their access to internal endpoints, enforces least-privilege rules, detects unauthorized AI usage and skills, and provides audit logs and access approvals. The article reports no security incident or deployment outcome.
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ChatGPTThe platform serves as a centralized gateway for widely used tools such as Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and custom models.ClaudeThe platform serves as a centralized gateway for widely used tools such as Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and custom models.EntraThe platform integrates directly with established identity providers, such as Okta and Entra, assigning a verifiable identity to every operating AI agent.GeminiThe platform serves as a centralized gateway for widely used tools such as Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and custom models.OktaThe platform integrates directly with established identity providers, such as Okta and Entra, assigning a verifiable identity to every operating AI agent.SlackSecurity teams receive audit logs and direct access approvals routed through messaging apps like Slack.