Naïve, a startup that lets AI agents automate the setup and operation of a business, announced in August 2026 that it has raised $28.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners. Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, and angel investors including Gokul Rajaram, Apollo.io co-founder Tim Zheng, and former HubSpot COO JD Sherman also participated. The round brings the company’s total capital raised to roughly $32 million.
Naïve packages the process of forming a U.S. LLC, setting up email inboxes, virtual cards, phone numbers, databases, cloud computing resources, and connections to services such as Stripe and QuickBooks behind a single API. Developers supply a prompt to tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex, which connect to the API and provision the infrastructure needed to stand up a business. Users are still required to complete KYC/KYB processes and make required payments, but the company says the rest can be handled by AI agents.
The startup also offers a governance layer that lets users set budgets, restrict agent capabilities, and require human approval before sensitive actions are taken, along with business templates covering categories such as AI SEO, full-stack SaaS apps, recruiting, accounting, and customer support.
CEO and co-founder Sean Dorje said Naïve has signed up over 30,000 developer customers since launch and has scaled annual run-rate revenue by 10x to the low double-digit millions over the past six months. Customers are using the platform to run AI automation agencies, autonomous content channels on TikTok and YouTube, and at least one rental car agency.
Beyond business setup, Naïve is developing infrastructure to reduce the cost of running AI agents at scale. This includes a model router, a memory system, an agent orchestrator, and a serverless runtime that runs agents in lightweight JavaScript environments rather than full virtual machines — an approach that could lower costs when deploying large numbers of agents. Dorje said inference and serverless agent demand is among the company’s fastest-growing areas.
Naïve currently employs 10 people. Proceeds from the Series A will fund hiring and development across four infrastructure areas: virtualized agent sandboxes, model routing and inference optimization, a memory layer, and governance and orchestration.
Source: TechCrunch