Naïve Raised $28.5M to Build Tooling for Agents That Set Up and Operate Businesses End-to-End
Tech Startups (August 6 venture funding roundup, single source)·low signal
Naïve closed a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners, announced in the August 6 funding cycle, building developer tooling that lets autonomous AI agents stand up and run businesses end to end rather than assisting with individual tasks. This is a step past the vertical-agent thesis of selling completed work — it targets the operating layer itself, where the agent is the operator and the software categories underneath become interchangeable APIs. Single-round signal with no product detail public yet, so treat the thesis as funded rather than proven.