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Naïve bags $28.5M in funding to automate the creation and day-to-day running of almost any business

$28.5M. Naïve just closed a Series A to build autonomous agents that set up and run entire businesses.

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A well-funded agent startup is making a bold bet on autonomous business creation—a real inflection point for agentic AI moving from narrow automation into end-to-end operational autonomy.

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  1. Series A: $28.5M

  2. Lead investor: Nexus Venture Partners

  3. Participants: Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, angels

  4. Company: Naïve Inc., Palo Alto-based AI lab

  5. Use case: autonomous agents for business setup and day-to-day operations

  6. Published: August 6, 2026

  7. Company focus: autonomous agents for business setup and operations

  8. Location: Palo Alto

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Publisher excerpt: Palo Alto-based Naïve Inc., an artificial intelligence lab that’s developing autonomous agents capable of setting up and running entire businesses, said today it has closed on a $28.5 million Series A round of funding. Nexus Venture Partners led the round, which saw participation from Y Combinator,…
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