Arcade
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Investors
Founders
About
Arcade builds an authorization and governance platform for production AI agents, enabling enterprises to control which actions agents can take across business applications 1. The company authored the MCP authorization spec and runs agent actions in production across Fortune 500 customers 1. Co-founders Alex Salazar (CEO) and Sam Partee (CTO) lead the company 2.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-18 | Seed | $12M | Laude Ventures | Flybridge Ventures, Hanabi Capital, Neotribe, Andy Rachleff 2456 |
| 2026-06-15 | Series A | $60M | SYN Ventures | Morgan Stanley, Wipro 123 |
What Investors Say
No independently sourced investor quotes located at time of publication.
What Founders Say
CEO Alex Salazar has stated Arcade aims to be “the secure action layer behind every production AI agent” 1.
On the origin story of the platform, Salazar wrote in the seed-round announcement post: “We’d created something that didn’t just unblock our agent – it could unblock anyone trying to build an agent that does more than just information retrieval.” 4
Sources
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BusinessWire, “Arcade Raises $60M to Become the Secure Action Layer Behind Every Production AI Agent,” June 15, 2026, accessed June 2026. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260615229631/en/Arcade-Raises-$60M-to-Become-the-Secure-Action-Layer-Behind-Every-Production-AI-Agent↩↩↩↩
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SiliconANGLE, “AI agent authorization startup Arcade nabs $60M investment,” June 15, 2026, accessed June 2026. https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/15/ai-agent-authorization-startup-arcade-nabs-60m-investment/↩↩↩
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HPCwire AIwire, “Arcade Secures $60M to Scale Authorization and Governance for AI Agents,” June 16, 2026, accessed June 2026. https://www.hpcwire.com/aiwire/2026/06/16/arcade-secures-60m-to-scale-authorization-and-governance-for-ai-agents/↩
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Arcade.dev company blog, “Arcade Secures $12M: How We Built SSO for AI Agents,” March 18, 2025, accessed July 2026. https://arcade.dev/blog/arcades-12m-milestone-a-conversation-with-alex/ — Company primary source confirming $12M seed led by Laude Ventures with Hanabi Capital (Mike Volpi), Flybridge Ventures (Chip Hazard), Neotribe (Kittu Kolluri), and Benchmark Capital’s Andy Rachleff as individual investor. ↩↩
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TechCrunch, “Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful,” March 18, 2025, accessed July 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/18/arcade-raises-12m-from-perplexity-co-founders-new-fund-to-make-ai-agents-less-awful/ — Contemporaneous press confirming Laude Ventures led the $12M seed round; quotes Pete Sonsini (Laude Ventures GP). ↩
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VC News Daily, “Arcade.dev Scores $12M Seed Round,” March 19, 2025, accessed July 2026. https://vcnewsdaily.com/arcade.dev/venture-capital-funding/jzzytmdsvw — Third independent source confirming Laude Ventures (Pete Sonsini) led with Flybridge Ventures (Chip Hazard), Hanabi Capital (Mike Volpi), Neotribe (Kittu Kolluri), and Andy Rachleff participating. ↩