Naïve
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About
Naïve is a Palo Alto–based AI infrastructure company building the unified API that lets AI agents provision and run entire businesses — including payments, email, phone numbers, cloud infrastructure, storage, and company incorporation — from a single interface 123. The company was founded by Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax, 20-year-old Berkeley dropouts who had previously built and sold ezML together as teenagers before going through Y Combinator 2. As of the Series A, cumulative funding stands at approximately $32M 1.
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Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-06 | Series A | $28.5M | Nexus Venture Partners | Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, Gokul Rajaram, Tim Zheng, JD Sherman, Gert Lanckriet, Robert Chatwani, Zachary Sims 123 |
What Investors Say
“The next decade is about autonomous companies. Naïve gives millions of entrepreneurs and small businesses worldwide the turnkey infrastructure to build and run autonomous companies.” — Abhishek Sharma, Nexus Venture Partners 2
What Founders Say
“In this next decade, agent spend is set to scale into the trillions as companies completely run on agents that finish work autonomously.” — Sean Dorje, CEO & Co-Founder 2
Sources
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TechCrunch, “Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company,” August 6, 2026, accessed August 2026. 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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WebWire, “Naïve Raises $28.5M Series A to Build Autonomous Company Infrastructure,” August 6, 2026, accessed August 2026. https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=358555↩↩↩↩↩
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Y Combinator, “Naïve: Unified Agent Infrastructure,” accessed August 2026. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/naive↩↩