ZenData

Zendata is a San Francisco-based technology company that provides a no-code platform for AI governance and data privacy. The company's platform offers visibility into how data is collected, shared, and exposed across AI-enabled applications and data pipelines. By observing key application, data, and AI surfaces, Zendata generates AI risk signals and actionable intelligence without requiring invasive instrumentation or runtime enforcement. This allows security and privacy teams to identify exposure paths, third-party dependencies, and pre-production risks, enabling them to enforce guardrails and maintain compliance with data privacy regulations across the entire data lifecycle.

The platform addresses critical challenges for organizations integrating AI and large language models, where traditional privacy tools often lack sufficient context regarding data usage. Zendata serves businesses across sectors such as financial services and e-commerce by providing tools for privacy assessments, PII identification, and AI risk management. Founded in 2021 by Narayana Pappu and Pedro Pinango, the company emerged from stealth in 2024 with seed funding from investors including PayPal Ventures. It aims to help organizations manage the complexities of data governance, ensuring they can innovate and adopt AI technologies while mitigating security risks and protecting intellectual property.