Workplace chat was built for people sitting at desks. Zenzap argues that the other 99% of employees are still organizing shifts on consumer apps, and it has raised $44M to change that.
Staff coordinate on WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord or iMessage, exchanging documents as they go. Zenzap, Guy Weiss’s private messenger with AI, keeps IT and security rules intact while handing staff their organization’s context.
Bessemer and Lightspeed co-led a $33M round, the larger of two tranches the Tel Aviv company disclosed as it came out of stealth this week, with The Garage also participating. Early angel checks, including Wix president Nir Zohar and Yoram Tietz, formerly general manager at EY, bring the total to $44M.
Raising venture money was a first for Weiss. He founded e-commerce marketing platform StuccoMedia without outside funding, ran it until Market Group acquired the business, then invested for a few years. Teaming up with Bessemer partner Adam Fisher, Noam Neumann and Jonatan Bien, he started Zenzap in 2022 and built the first version at Bessemer’s office on his own capital.
Free accounts cover group chats, direct messages and scheduling. Paid tiers add video calls, smart task sorting and more storage. A plan serving up to 20 users begins at $51 a month, and AI features are billed by credits.
FedEx, Dollar General, Taco Bell, Regal, Casey’s and Starbucks appear among its listed customers, and the 50-person team is split between the US, Tel Aviv and Europe. Weiss says the gap is compliance: WhatsApp fails IT review, while Slack and Teams serve desk-bound work.
Competition is the obvious risk, since Microsoft and Meta can bolt agents onto tools that already hold the conversation. Shift work, the company bets, needs software of its own, not a desktop product shrunk onto a phone.
