Founder · Naïve

Sean Dorje

Founder & CEO of Naïve, an ai infrastructure company based in San Francisco.

Founder · CEOSan FranciscoAI Infrastructure
Founded
2025
San Francisco, California, USA
Raised to date
$28.5M
1 round on record
Latest round
Series A (Aug 2026)
$28.5M · Aug 2026
Team
1–10

About

Sean Dorje is Founder & CEO 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.

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Company

Est. 2025
Naïve
AI Infrastructure · San Francisco · 1–10 people · Active

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.

Funding
Aug 2026Series A (Aug 2026)$28.5MNexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Zetta Venture Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures
Company profile →1 round on record

Journey with Naïve

3 milestones
  1. 2025Founded

    Naïve founded by Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax, UC Berkeley dropouts who previously built and sold computer-vision startup ezML, and joined Y Combinator.

  2. Jan 2026Milestone

    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).

  3. Aug 2026Milestone

    Raised $28.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners to build infrastructure for autonomous companies; reported 30,000+ developer signups.

Also building Naïve

DZDennis ZaxCo-founder · CTO→

Coverage

1 story
Funding · 8 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Naïve Raises $28.5 Million in Series A Round Led by Nexus Venture Partners to Power Autonomous Companies