Co-founder & CTO of Naïve, an ai infrastructure company based in San Francisco.
Dennis Zax is Co-founder & CTO of Naïve, an ai infrastructure company based in San Francisco, founded in 2025. Naïve's most recent disclosed round was a funding round of $28.5M in Aug 2026.
Naïve (Naïve Inc.) is a US AI-infrastructure startup founded in 2025 by Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax. Its unified API and serverless runtime let AI agents provision and run businesses, from company incorporation, payments and phone numbers to compute, memory and multi-agent orchestration.
Naïve founded by Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax, UC Berkeley dropouts who previously built and sold computer-vision startup ezML, and joined Y Combinator.
Raised seed capital ahead of its Series A; total funding before the Series A was roughly $3.5 million (implied from the ~$32M cumulative total).
Raised $28.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners to build infrastructure for autonomous companies; reported 30,000+ developer signups.
