Naïve Raises $28.5M Series A

Naïve, a Palo Alto-based AI lab, announced a $28.5 million Series A round to advance its infrastructure platform designed to support autonomous companies. The company, which provides a unified API and serverless operating stack for AI agents, aims to enable businesses to operate independently by automating tasks ranging from legal incorporation and financial management to cloud computing and multi-agent orchestration.

Investors

This round was led by Nexus Venture Partners. Additional participants included Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, and angel investors Gokul Rajaram, Tim Zheng of Apollo, JD Sherman, formerly of HubSpot, Gert Lanckriet of Amazon, Robert Chatwani of Docusign, and Zachary Sims of Codecademy.

Naïve Use of Funds

Naïve plans to allocate the new capital toward frontier research focused on maximizing efficiency within agent loops. The research will center on four key pillars: developing serverless runtimes to minimize compute costs, optimizing inference by routing calls to cost-effective models, refining memory layers to reduce input token usage, and enhancing orchestration to delegate tasks more effectively to subagents.

About Naïve

Founded in 2026 by Berkeley dropouts Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax, Naïve is an AI lab building foundational infrastructure for the era of autonomous companies. The company provides developers with tools to provision entire operating stacks, including identity verification, cloud storage, and governance gateways, allowing agents to function as secure, economic entities.

Funding Details

Company Website: https://usenaive.ai/

Company: Naïve
Raised: $28.5M
Round: Series A
Funding Date: August 6, 2026
Lead Investor: Nexus Venture Partners
Additional Investors: Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, Gokul Rajaram, Tim Zheng, JD Sherman, Gert Lanckriet, Robert Chatwani, Zachary Sims
Company Website: https://usenaive.ai/
Software Category: AI Infrastructure
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