Naïve raised a $28.5 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners, TechCrunch reported on August 6. The round brings the company's total capital raised to roughly $32 million. Y Combinator, Zetta and Liquid 2 also participated, alongside angel investors Gokul Rajaram, Apollo.io co-founder Tim Zheng and former HubSpot COO JD Sherman.
The company sells infrastructure that lets AI agents set up and operate a business without a human doing the paperwork. Per TechCrunch, a single configuration file provisions company incorporation, email inboxes, phone numbers, cloud compute, storage, databases and payment processing, with integrations into services including Stripe and QuickBooks.
The traction
Naïve has signed up more than 30,000 developer customers within months of launch, and annual run-rate revenue has grown roughly 10x over the past six months to what the company describes as the low double-digit millions. TechCrunch reports the company runs on ten full-time employees.
Alongside provisioning, Naïve's own product pages list the controls a company would need before letting software spend its money: spend-capped virtual cards with hard limits, human-in-the-loop approval policies for sensitive operations, audit logging, and the ability to revoke an agent's access mid-flight. The company says it routes across more than 300 models with fallbacks, and offers identity services including KYC/KYB and US LLC formation with an EIN. That model-routing bill is the same inference cost Google is trying to move onto local hardware, where it launched the Pixel 11 lineup on its Tensor G6 chip.
The founders
Per the company's Y Combinator profile, Naïve was founded in 2025 by Sean Dorje, the CEO, and Dennis Zax, the CTO. Pulse 2 reports the pair are 20-year-old Berkeley dropouts who have been building together since they were 14, and sold a previous company, the machine-learning startup ezML, as teenagers before going through Y Combinator.
Prior coverage
Uristocrat has covered other AI infrastructure rounds this year: Baseten raised a $1.5 billion Series F at a valuation of up to $13 billion and Cognition raised $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, up 2.5x in eight months.
Uristocrat previously covered RentAHuman.ai, which launched a platform that lets AI agents hire humans for physical tasks.
The same thesis is being funded at a far larger scale: Thrive Holdings raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation to buy service businesses and rebuild them on AI.
Source: TechCrunch, Pulse 2, and FinSMEs.
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