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Naïve, a startup offering infrastructure to automate business operations through AI agents, has secured $28.5 million in Series A funding led by Nexus Venture Partners. The platform enables developers to delegate routine tasks in company setup and management, building on the growing trend of automation-focused development tools.
The company has experienced rapid adoption since launch, accumulating over 30,000 developer customers and scaling its annual revenue run rate tenfold to reach the low double-digit millions within six months. Naïve consolidates essential business functions—including payment processing, email, phone numbers, cloud infrastructure, and company incorporation—into a single API that AI agents can access and configure independently through prompts supplied to tools like Cursor and Claude Code.
Early customers have employed the platform to launch autonomous ventures ranging from content creation channels to AI automation agencies and even a fully autonomous rental car service. While business automation represents current demand, the startup is investing heavily in reducing operational costs for AI agents, developing technologies such as a model router for efficient query handling, a memory system for business context, and a serverless runtime environment that charges primarily during active agent usage.
CEO Sean Dorje indicated that cost optimization for running AI agents is becoming the fastest-growing area of demand, particularly among enterprise customers. As developer-users scale their operations, managing inference expenses appears positioned to become more valuable than the initial appeal of automated company setup.
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Originally reported by Techcrunch →
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