--- title: Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem... description: Trace, a Y Combinator 2025 summer cohort startup, has raised $3M in seed funding to tackle slow AI agent adoption in enterprises. The London-based company... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/trace-raises-3m-to-solve-the-ai-agent-adoption-problem-in-enterprise-yyzjtvdww twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise | daily.dev og:description: Trace, a Y Combinator 2025 summer cohort startup, has raised $3M in seed funding to tackle slow AI agent adoption in enterprises. The London-based company... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/trace-raises-3m-to-solve-the-ai-agent-adoption-problem-in-enterprise-yyzjtvdww og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yyzjTVDWw.png og:image:alt: Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise 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. # Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Trace, a Y Combinator 2025 summer cohort startup, has raised $3M in seed funding to tackle slow AI agent adoption in enterprises. The London-based company builds knowledge graphs from a company's existing tools (email, Slack, Airtable) to give AI agents the context they need to operate effectively. Users can submit high-level tasks and Trace generates step-by-step workflows, delegating subtasks to AI agents or human workers with the right contextual data. The founders argue the industry is shifting from prompt engineering to context engineering, and Trace aims to be the infrastructure layer for AI-first companies. Competition includes Anthropic's enterprise agent plugins and native agents from tools like Atlassian's Jira. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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