Naïve, a startup that provides infrastructure for AI agents to automate business setup and operations, has raised $28.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners. The company says it has signed up over 30,000 developer customers within months of its launch and has scaled annual run-rate revenue by 10x to the low double-digit millions over the past six months.
Naïve packages the process of assembling payments, email accounts, phone numbers, cloud infrastructure, storage, and company incorporation behind a single API. Developers can supply a prompt to tools like Cursor, Claude Code or Codex, which connect to Naïve's APIs to provision infrastructure, including forming a U.S. LLC. Users are still required to complete KYC/KYB processes and make any required payments.
CEO and co-founder Sean Dorje said customers are using Naïve to run autonomous businesses such as AI automation agencies, "face-less" online content channels on TikTok and YouTube, and even a rental car agency. He noted that the fastest-growing use case is AI automation agencies.
Naïve is also using some of the new capital to develop infrastructure to make agent loops more efficient, including a model router, a memory system, an orchestrator, and a serverless runtime that runs agents in lightweight JavaScript environments. Dorje said optimizing inference costs is one of its fastest-growing sources of demand.
The company currently has 10 full-time employees. Proceeds from the Series A will be used to hire researchers and develop the four infrastructure projects. Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2 and angel investors including Gokul Rajaram, Apollo.io co-founder Tim Zheng, and former HubSpot COO JD Sherman also participated. The funding brings Naïve's total capital raised to roughly $32 million.