# Shruti Gupta

> Shruti Gupta is the founder and CEO of Zania, a Palo Alto startup building agentic AI 'teammates' that execute governance, risk, and compliance work end to end. Before founding Zania in 2023, she spent years inside security teams at Microsoft Identity, Airbnb, Instacart, and Brex, moving from founding security engineer to CISO. In September 2025 Zania raised an $18 million Series A led by NEA, backed by the Anthology Fund (Menlo Ventures and Anthropic) and a syndicate of operators from Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal, and PwC. Her pitch is simple: stop shipping compliance tools that organize work, and start shipping AI that does the work.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Zania
- **Organizations:** Zania, Microsoft, Airbnb, Instacart, Brex
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** Master of Science in Computer Science (Information Security), Georgia Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Founded and leads Zania, an agentic AI GRC company backed by NEA, Raised an $18M Series A in September 2025, roughly $20M total raised, Grew Zania's annual recurring revenue 10x in six months

## Career timeline

- **pre-2023** — Founding security engineering and CISO roles at Airbnb, Instacart, and Brex
- **pre-2023** — Led AI-driven identity security and privacy work at Microsoft Identity
- **2023** — Founded Zania in Palo Alto, California
- **2024** — Launched Zania's first AI compliance agents in late 2024
- **2025** — Grew annual recurring revenue tenfold within six months
- **2025** — Closed $18M Series A led by NEA (September 2025)

## Achievements

- Founded and leads Zania, an agentic AI GRC company backed by NEA
- Raised an $18M Series A in September 2025, roughly $20M total raised
- Grew Zania's annual recurring revenue 10x in six months
- Landed enterprise customers including Plaid, Grant Thornton, Stanford University, and a Big Four accounting firm
- Led AI-driven identity security and privacy at Microsoft Identity
- Held CISO and founding security engineering roles at Airbnb, Instacart, and Brex
- Earned a Master of Science in Information Security from Georgia Tech

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Zania closed an $18M Series A led by NEA, with participation from the Anthology Fund (Menlo Ventures and Anthropic) and Palm Drive Capital.
- **2025-09** — Company announced plans to triple its engineering and go-to-market teams and expand its agent library.

## Links

- Website: https://zania.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/shrutigupta22
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8znyOWQVHE

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Last updated: 2026-07-29