# Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company

> Naïve has raised $28.5 million in a Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners, pushing its total funding to roughly $32 million. The startup's pitch is to collapse the tedious back office of running a company, payments, email, phone, cloud services, even LLC formation, into a single API that AI agents can operate. The traction is what stands out. Naïve says it signed more than 30,000 developer customers and grew revenue tenfold in six months, with early users spanning AI automation agencies, autonomous content channels, and, in one eyebrow-raising case, a fully autonomous rental-car operation. The idea reflects a growing thesis that agents need infrastructure, not just intelligence. If software is going to spin up and run real businesses with minimal human involvement, someone has to handle the plumbing underneath, and Naïve is betting it can be that layer. It is also building a lightweight serverless runtime to make deploying those agents cheaper.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: TechCrunch · Published Friday, August 7, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Naïve has raised $28.5 million in a Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners, pushing its total funding to roughly $32 million. The startup's pitch is to collapse the tedious back office of running a company, payments, email, phone, cloud services, even LLC formation, into a single API that AI agents can operate. The traction is what stands out. Naïve says it signed more than 30,000 developer customers and grew revenue tenfold in six months, with early users spanning AI automation agencies, autonomous content channels, and, in one eyebrow-raising case, a fully autonomous rental-car operation. The idea reflects a growing thesis that agents need infrastructure, not just intelligence. If software is going to spin up and run real businesses with minimal human involvement, someone has to handle the plumbing underneath, and Naïve is betting it can be that layer. It is also building a lightweight serverless runtime to make deploying those agents cheaper.

## Source

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