# Naïve Raises $28.5M Series A to Automate Business Setup and Operations

> Naïve raised a $28.5M Series A to let AI agents do the unglamorous work of starting and running a company. Led by Nexus Venture Partners with Y Combinator and angels including Gokul Rajaram and a former HubSpot COO, the round backs a single API that bundles payments, email, phone numbers, cloud infrastructure, storage and even LLC formation. The idea is that an autonomous agent should not have to stitch together a dozen services to spin up a business. Naïve exposes all of it through one interface, so software can register the entity, set up the plumbing and keep operations running. The traction is real for a company this young: more than 30,000 developer customers signed on, and annualized revenue scaled tenfold to low double-digit millions in six months. It is one of the clearer bets on an agent-run economy, where the customer buying infrastructure is not a founder at a laptop but a piece of software acting on someone's behalf.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: TechCrunch · Published Tuesday, August 11, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Naïve raised a $28.5M Series A to let AI agents do the unglamorous work of starting and running a company. Led by Nexus Venture Partners with Y Combinator and angels including Gokul Rajaram and a former HubSpot COO, the round backs a single API that bundles payments, email, phone numbers, cloud infrastructure, storage and even LLC formation. The idea is that an autonomous agent should not have to stitch together a dozen services to spin up a business. Naïve exposes all of it through one interface, so software can register the entity, set up the plumbing and keep operations running. The traction is real for a company this young: more than 30,000 developer customers signed on, and annualized revenue scaled tenfold to low double-digit millions in six months. It is one of the clearer bets on an agent-run economy, where the customer buying infrastructure is not a founder at a laptop but a piece of software acting on someone's behalf.

## Source

[Read the full story at TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/naive-raises-28-5m-to-automate-the-grunt-work-of-setting-up-and-running-a-company/)

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