--- title: Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of... description: Naïve, a startup offering infrastructure for AI agents to automate business setup and operations, has raised $28.5M in a Series A led by Nexus Venture... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/na-ve-raises-28-5m-to-automate-the-grunt-work-of-setting-up-and-running-a-company-gsoceuxe1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company | daily.dev og:description: Naïve, a startup offering infrastructure for AI agents to automate business setup and operations, has raised $28.5M in a Series A led by Nexus Venture... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/na-ve-raises-28-5m-to-automate-the-grunt-work-of-setting-up-and-running-a-company-gsoceuxe1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GsOCeuXE1.png og:image:alt: Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Naïve, a startup offering infrastructure for AI agents to automate business setup and operations, has raised $28.5M in a Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners. The platform packages payments, email, phone numbers, cloud infrastructure, storage, and U.S. LLC incorporation behind a single API, letting tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex provision everything autonomously. It has signed up over 30,000 developer customers and grown ARR 10x to low double-digit millions in six months. Beyond business setup, Naïve is building inference optimization tools including a model router, memory system, agent orchestrator, and a serverless runtime that runs agents in lightweight JavaScript environments rather than full VMs — reducing idle costs for large agent deployments. The $28.5M will fund hiring and four infrastructure projects: virtualized sandboxes, model routing, a memory layer, and governance/orchestration. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What does Naïve's platform actually do for AI agent-powered businesses? Naïve packages payments, email inboxes, virtual cards, phone numbers, databases, cloud computing, and U.S. LLC incorporation behind a single API. Developers supply a prompt to tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex, which connect to Naïve's APIs to provision all infrastructure. A governance layer lets users set budgets, restrict agent capabilities, and require human approval before sensitive actions. KYC/KYB steps still require human involvement. _Developers building autonomous businesses with AI agents track infrastructure options like these on daily.dev._ ### How does Naïve reduce the cost of running large numbers of AI agents? Naïve is building a serverless runtime that runs agents inside lightweight JavaScript environments instead of assigning each agent a full virtual machine. This means customers pay primarily when an agent is active, making it cheaper to deploy many agents at once. It is also building a model router to direct queries to the most cost-efficient model per task and a memory system to surface stored business context rather than re-reasoning it each time. _Teams managing inference costs across large agent fleets find the latest approaches covered on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe](https://daily.dev/posts/natural-raises-30m-to-reinvent-payments-for-ai-agents-and-take-on-stripe-sobjswbmq) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Natural raises $30M to build a Stripe for AI agents](https://daily.dev/posts/natural-raises-30m-to-build-a-stripe-for-ai-agents-8jjtdhg1k) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in](https://daily.dev/posts/datadog-veterans-launch-ai-coding-startup-niteshift-on-a-bet-against-big-ai-lock-in-gs7f2xz2a) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [NanoCo bets the future of enterprise AI is one sandboxed agent per employee](https://daily.dev/posts/nanoco-bets-the-future-of-enterprise-ai-is-one-sandboxed-agent-per-employee-g5lb20bx3) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#serverless](https://daily.dev/tags/serverless), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding), [#ai-infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-infrastructure) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/na-ve-raises-28-5m-to-automate-the-grunt-work-of-setting-up-and-running-a-company-gsoceuxe1) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/na-ve-raises-28-5m-to-automate-the-grunt-work-of-setting-up-and-running-a-company-gsoceuxe1","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/na-ve-raises-28-5m-to-automate-the-grunt-work-of-setting-up-and-running-a-company-gsoceuxe1"},"datePublished":"2026-08-06T17:05:30.885Z","dateModified":"2026-08-06T17:06:02.508Z","description":"Naïve, a startup offering infrastructure for AI agents to automate business setup and operations, has raised $28.5M in a Series A led by Nexus Venture...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/552eaec75a0acbbf5529fb4c3e78e811?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/552eaec75a0acbbf5529fb4c3e78e811?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"TechCrunch","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TechCrunch","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tc","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/na-ve-raises-28-5m-to-automate-the-grunt-work-of-setting-up-and-running-a-company-gsoceuxe1","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-agents,serverless,vibe-coding,ai-infrastructure","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TechCrunch","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tc"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/na-ve-raises-28-5m-to-automate-the-grunt-work-of-setting-up-and-running-a-company-gsoceuxe1#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What does Naïve's platform actually do for AI agent-powered businesses?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Naïve packages payments, email inboxes, virtual cards, phone numbers, databases, cloud computing, and U.S. LLC incorporation behind a single API. 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