Naïve Raises $28.5M to Let AI Agents Run Companies
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Naïve has raised $28.5 million in a Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners. The San Francisco, California company sells infrastructure that lets AI agents handle the bulk of the work involved in setting up and running a business.
The company has signed up more than 30,000 developer customers within months of launching, and annual run rate revenue has grown tenfold over the past six months to the low double digit millions.
What Naïve does is bundle the tedious parts of company formation and operation behind a single API. Payments, email accounts, phone numbers, cloud infrastructure, storage and incorporation all sit behind one interface. Developers hand a prompt to tools such as Cursor, Claude Code or Codex, which connect to the API and provision what is needed. An agent can orchestrate the formation of a US LLC by supplying the state, industry code, business description and proposed names, though a human is still required to complete KYC and KYB checks and make any payments.
From there the agents can set up inboxes, virtual cards, phone numbers, databases and compute, plus connections to services including Stripe and QuickBooks. A governance layer lets users set budgets, limit what their agents are allowed to do, and require human sign off before sensitive actions go through. Naïve also ships templates for common business types, among them AI SEO, full stack SaaS apps, recruiting, accounting and customer support, along with a mobile emulator that lets agents operate smartphone apps on emulated devices.
Customers are using it for AI automation agencies, faceless content channels on TikTok and YouTube, and in one case a rental car agency running autonomously. AI automation agencies are currently the fastest growing category.
The second half of the opportunity is cost. Agents that call expensive models, pass large amounts of context between tasks and consume resources while idle get expensive quickly. Naïve is putting some of the new capital into a model router that sends queries to the most efficient model for a given task while preserving and replaying reasoning already done, a memory system that surfaces business context on demand, and an orchestrator that divides work among agents. It is also building a serverless runtime that runs agents inside lightweight JavaScript environments rather than giving each one a full virtual machine, so customers pay mainly when an agent is actually working.
Naïve was founded by Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax, both 20, who dropped out of Berkeley and had been building software together since they were 14. They sold their previous company, ezML, as teenagers before joining Y Combinator.
Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2 and angel investors including Gokul Rajaram, Apollo.io co-founder Tim Zheng and former HubSpot COO JD Sherman also joined the round, which brings total capital raised to roughly $32 million. The company has 10 full time employees, and proceeds will go toward hiring researchers and developing its four infrastructure projects: virtualized sandboxes for agents, model routing and inference optimization, a memory layer, and governance and orchestration.