Naïve raises $28.5M to automate running a company with AI agents

Naïve, which offers infrastructure letting AI agents take on much of the work of running a business, has raised $28.5 million in a Series A round led by Nexus Venture Partners. The startup said it had signed up more than 30,000 developer customers within months of launch.

Naïve’s pitch takes vibe coding a step further: it claims its infrastructure can automate most of the work of setting up and running a business — provided the user supplies the AI agents and the token budget — by packaging payments, email accounts, phone numbers, cloud infrastructure, storage, and company incorporation behind a single API. Developers can hand a prompt to tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex, which then connect to Naïve’s API to provision the infrastructure needed to set up a business, including forming a U.S. LLC by supplying details such as state, industry code, business description, and proposed names — though users still have to complete KYC/KYB checks and make any required payments themselves.

From there, AI agents can handle the rest of the setup: email inboxes, virtual cards, phone numbers, databases, computing resources, and connections to services like Stripe and QuickBooks. A governance layer promises to help users set budgets, restrict what their agents can do, and require human approval before sensitive actions; the company also provides templates for specific business types — including AI SEO, full-stack SaaS apps, recruiting, accounting, and customer support — plus a mobile emulator that lets agents operate smartphone apps on emulated devices.

CEO and co-founder Sean Dorje said Naïve has scaled its annual run-rate revenue 10x, to the low double-digit millions, over the past six months. “I think the one that’s growing the fastest right now is AI automation agencies,” Dorje said. “You know, the first business that a lot of people start is genuinely just selling agents to other small businesses […] We have some customers who run an entire rental-car agency autonomously.”

Naïve plans to use part of the new funding to make running those AI agent loops more efficient — building a model router that sends queries to the most cost-effective model for a task, a memory system that stores business context for agents to reuse, and an orchestrator to divide work among agents. It’s also building a serverless runtime that runs agents in lightweight JavaScript environments rather than dedicated virtual machines, so customers pay mainly when an agent is active.

The round also included Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, and angel investors including Gokul Rajaram, Apollo.io co-founder Tim Zheng, and former HubSpot COO JD Sherman, bringing Naïve’s total funding to roughly $32 million. The company has 10 full-time employees.

Why it matters

As AI agents take on more of the operational grunt work of running a business, the cost of keeping those agents running — not the cost of setting a company up — is emerging as the bigger long-term opportunity, which is where Naïve is now directing fresh capital.