Funding

Naïve Raises $28.5 Million in Series A Round Led by Nexus Venture Partners to Power Autonomous Companies

Sabyasachi Chandra

Naïve has raised $28.5 million in a Series A round led by Nexus Venture Partners, taking total capital raised to roughly $32 million; the valuation was not disclosed.

The startup packages company incorporation, payments, phone numbers, compute and storage behind one API so AI agents can set up and run businesses, provisioned from a prompt pasted into coding tools.

Founded in 2025 by 20-year-old Berkeley dropouts Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax, who previously built and sold ezML, the company reports 30,000+ developer signups and a tenfold ARR increase to the low d…

Those figures are company-stated and unaudited; the flagged use cases are low-cost and churn-prone, and the more durable opportunity, cutting the cost of running agents, puts Naïve up against the h…

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