# Naïve raises $28.5M Series A for autonomous company infrastructure

> Naive, a Palo Alto AI lab founded this year by Berkeley dropouts Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax, has raised a $28.5 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners. The company's premise is cheeky but concrete: automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company. It offers a unified API and serverless stack designed so that AI agents can handle the operational plumbing a business needs, from the boring setup tasks on up. The traction numbers are what caught investors' eyes. Naive says it has signed more than 30,000 developer customers within months and grown revenue tenfold to the low double-digit millions. Y Combinator, Zetta, and angels from HubSpot, Amazon, and DocuSign joined the round. It is an early bet on a genuinely ambitious idea, that much of a company's back office can be run by software agents rather than staff, and the rapid developer uptake suggests the pain point is real, even if the vision of the largely autonomous company is still a long way from proven.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: TechCrunch · Published Sunday, August 16, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Naive, a Palo Alto AI lab founded this year by Berkeley dropouts Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax, has raised a $28.5 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners. The company's premise is cheeky but concrete: automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company. It offers a unified API and serverless stack designed so that AI agents can handle the operational plumbing a business needs, from the boring setup tasks on up. The traction numbers are what caught investors' eyes. Naive says it has signed more than 30,000 developer customers within months and grown revenue tenfold to the low double-digit millions. Y Combinator, Zetta, and angels from HubSpot, Amazon, and DocuSign joined the round. It is an early bet on a genuinely ambitious idea, that much of a company's back office can be run by software agents rather than staff, and the rapid developer uptake suggests the pain point is real, even if the vision of the largely autonomous company is still a long way from proven.

## Source

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