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Cloudflare is introducing a new infrastructure allowing AI agents to autonomously handle payments for APIs, digital content, and online services.
# Enrola’s pivot to AI sales-tech lands $2.1 million Seed ##### Enrola, a three-year-old women-founded startup that pivoted in 2025 from education to sales tech, has raised $2.1 million in Seed funding. They built an AI sales agent to convert Enrola’s leads, and in that moment saw the real opportunity: not the marketplace idea, but the agent itself, tackling a far larger problem in any business selling high-value services to consumers. So in September last year, Enrola 1.0’s marketplace was parked to focus on the AI sales agents side to engage and convert customers in the moments they’re making a final decision. ## Get the best of Startup Daily straight to your inbox Enrola 2.0’s agent answers customer questions, and either hands a sales-ready buyer back to the team or closes the sale itself. “We build the agents that let our customers meet buyers wherever buying actually happens, today and as it shifts to agent-to-human and agent-to-agent.
LAS VEGAS — A new open-source red teaming tool designed to “break” AI agents — without breaking the bank — was presented by NVIDIA researchers Thursday...
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya predicted that the rise of AI agents and growing corporate concerns over data security will fundamentally reshape...
# Anaconda acquires Enkrypt AI to secure the Trillion-Token Enterprise It is vendor-neutral and cloud-agnostic, built for organizations deploying autonomous AI agents.
### Naïve bags $28.5M in funding to automate the creation and day-to-day running of almost any business Palo Alto-based [Naïve Inc.](https://usenaive.ai/), 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](https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=358555) of funding. Nexus Venture Partners led the round, which saw participation from Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2 and a host of angel investors. It has developed the infrastructure for AI agents to automate all of the steps required to establish a company and then run it on a day-to-day basis, so long as the customer provides the actual agents and the token budget. When prompted, these agents will connect to Naïve’s API to provision all of the infrastructure and other things needed to establish a company. But just about everything else can be automated by AI agents. Naïve has also built a comprehensive governance layer that can be used to restrict the capabilities of user’s AI agents, establish budgets and decide which actions require human approval before they’re taken by the agents. It even has a mobile emulator that can be used by AI agents to navigate smartphone apps on virtual devices. Customers have used its agentic infrastructure to create and run a range of autonomous businesses, including content channels on apps such as TikTok and YouTube, car rental firms that are fully managed by AI agents and more. That’s why Naïve is also looking for ways to improve the efficiency of AI agents. Its innovations include a model router that instructs agents to always choose the most cost-effective AI model for each task and a memory system that allows them to store and reuse business context. “Naïve gives millions of entrepreneurs and small businesses worldwide the turnkey infrastructure needed to build and run autonomous companies without needing to become AI experts,” he said. # Are yo
In roughly 120 countries by Yury Akinin's (LinkedIn) count, anything touching personal data — a bank record, a patient file, even an email — has to sit on...
ETIH edtech news covers the UK AI Security Institute's finding that AI agents took 19 unsanctioned actions in 10 of 122 cyber test runs, including an...
When applied to autonomous AI agents that run continuously, legacy infrastructure breaks down on both operational efficiency and cost. As autonomous AI agents take over broader business functions, managing compute costs becomes an existential challenge.
# Series of new security incidents reveals startling behavior by rogue AI agents ## Latest breaches unveil AI’s ability to conceive and execute deceptive strategies against individuals, and even leave messages for future versions of itself During the testing, 19 of 122 test runs resulted in agents taking “autonomous, unsanctioned action on the live internet” and, in one instance, attempting to insert malicious code into an open-source software project. Last month, OpenAI reported a “security incident” in which an autonomous AI-powered agent found its way out of a digitally isolated test setting, accessed the internet and hacked a tech startup in search of information related to a task it had been given. [Autonomous AI agent hacked a business. Is it sign of things to come?](https://www.deseret.com/business/2026/07/22/openai-artificial-intelligence-agents-security-breach-website-hack-hugging-face-regulation-oversight/)
A new report from the UK's AI Security Incident details a series of breaches by autonomous AI programs, including attempts at social engineering.
When you move AI agents from prototype to production, the infrastructure challenges multiply. Your agents need to persist state across multi-step workflows...
Fullcast, the leader in go-to-market (GTM) and revenue operations (RevOps) automation, today announced that it has been recognized as a Market Shaper in the...
# Atropos Health partners with Health Universe on AI clinical decision support Earlier this year, Health Universe [announced exclusively through _MobiHealthNews_](https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/exclusive-health-universe-raises-6m-ai-agents-medical-workflows) that it secured $6 million in seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing its total raise to $9.5 million. At the time, Dan Caron, founder and CEO of Health Universe, told _MobiHealthNews_ that the company would use the seed funding to expand its workforce and sales efforts, deepen oncology and clinical research integrations, and accelerate adoption of its AI agent infrastructure across healthcare and life sciences organizations. The company scored [$14 million in Series A funding](https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/biofourmis-scores-another-20m-and-more-digital-health-fundings) in 2022.
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The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
Adtech startup Gravity raised $30.5M Series A to place ads in ChatGPT and other AI platforms. It is testing "agent-to-agent" ads that target AI bots,...
The VA, Air Force and Department of Labor are deploying AI agents to automate workflows and expand citizen services. Here's how agencies can build a...
DEF CON 34 opens August 6-9, 2026, in Las Vegas as autonomous AI hacking agents shift from novelty to standard competition weapon -- the AI Village's debut...
# Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI ## Latest in AI ### [Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/naive-raises-28-5m-to-automate-the-grunt-work-of-setting-up-and-running-a-company/) **Image Credits:** Omilia [Fundraising](https://techcrunch.com/category/fundraising/) [Share on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fomilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform%2F)[Share on X](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fomilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform%2F&text=Omilia+raises+%2467M+to+scale+its+customer+support+platform&via=techcrunch)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fomilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform%2F&title=Omilia+raises+%2467M+to+scale+its+customer+support+platform&summary=The+Series+B+is+the+company%27s+second+fundraise+since+it+last+raised+capital+in+2020.+In+that+time%2C+it+has+increased+its+ARR+by+10x+to+%2460+million.&mini=1&source=TechCrunch)[Share on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fomilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform%2F&title=Omilia+raises+%2467M+to+scale+its+customer+support+platform)[Share over Email](mailto:?subject=Omilia+raises+%2467M+to+scale+its+customer+support+platform&body=Article%3A+https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fomilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform%2F)[Copy Share Link](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/omilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform/)
# Freehand Secures $75M to Scale AI Teams Managing Supply Chain Spend for Fortune 500 Companies - Freehand, whose AI agents manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises, announced $75 million in funding co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from Penny Pritzker’s PSP Growth, Nexus Venture Partners and others. PRESS RELEASE — [Freehand](https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=4Db68Q-wTbL_nGI_9uJgBfMQOHozVdSxSDG0IyJLqJsurdFanMZ5gCt2sRUjptSmMhoE6vdkF4O-zSOavfvm6A==), whose AI agents manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises, has announced $75 million in funding co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from former U.S. This financing round follows Freehand’s recent emergence from stealth with global deployments at Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Dunkin’ and Cardinal Health, as tariffs, taxes and immigration policies put increasing strain on the outsourcing model that has historically run global supply chains. Across early deployments, customers have recovered 5–10% of spend in complex categories, completed workflows 5–7x faster, and reduced procure-to-pay cycles by more than 70%. “Unlike co-pilots that simply answer questions, Freehand’s Agents have enterprise context, make decisions, and take actions — this agency unlocks millions in savings for enterprises.” Freehand builds autonomous AI agents that run supply-chain spend for the world’s largest enterprises — taking on procurement, supplier management, invoice and payment operations across complex categories such as logistics, direct materials and MRO. Headquartered in San Francisco, Freehand is backed by Battery Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, NewRoad Capital Partners and others.
# A startup that places ads for brands like Best Buy and Target in AI platforms raised $30.5 million Gravity offers a full-stack ad platform: a demand-side platform that helps advertisers place ads within [AI chatbots and to agents](https://www.businessinsider.com/ads-ai-agents-marketing-industry-debate-2026-8), a supply-side platform that helps developers of AI applications monetize through ads, and an exchange that connects the two. Gravity is also testing an "agent-to-agent" ad product that human users don't see. "Every time the agent is looking for shoes, it's given a list of all the different advertisers we have that are selling shoes," Oldham said. Down the road, Gravity plans to integrate direct payment solutions so an agent can make a purchase once the user gives the go-ahead.
Asset intelligence is becoming the context layer for securing AI agents, says Axonius co-founder Dean Sysman at Black Hat USA.
The new Agent Wallet lets AI agents execute on-chain trades within user-defined limits as MetaMask expands its push into AI-powered crypto trading.
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# Berlin Startup Raises $15M to Scale Enterprise AI Customer Agents 6 August 2026 Share [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.cryptonomist.ch%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fenterprise-ai-customer-agents%2F) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Berlin+Startup+Raises+%2415M+to+Scale+Enterprise+AI+Customer+Agents&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.cryptonomist.ch%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fenterprise-ai-customer-agents%2F&via=The+Cryptonomist) [Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/08/06/enterprise-ai-customer-agents/&media=https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/enterprise-ai-customer-agents.jpeg&description=Enterprise%20AI%20customer%20agents%20automate%20multi-channel%20interactions,%20boosting%20efficiency%20and%20supporting%20human%20teams%20in%20large%20enterprises.) [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Berlin+Startup+Raises+%2415M+to+Scale+Enterprise+AI+Customer+Agents%20%0A%0A%20https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/08/06/enterprise-ai-customer-agents/) [More](https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/08/06/enterprise-ai-customer-agents/#) [](https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/enterprise-ai-customer-agents.jpeg) Enterprise AI Customer Agents Transform Customer Support A Berlin-based startup just landed **$15 million** to prove that businesses don’t need to reinvent artificial intelligence from scratch to fix one of their oldest headaches: customer service that actually scales. telli, founded in 2024, has raised the seed round to expand its platform of **enterprise AI customer agents** that [handle voice calls](https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/08/06/institutional-real-estate-tokenization-saudi/), WhatsApp messages, live chat, and email on behalf of companies that would otherwise need armies of support staff. ## Key takeaways - telli raised **$15 mill
# Spotify Vets’ eCommerce-Focused AI Startup Raises $10 Million ## Get the Full Story The release also cites projections from McKinsey projects that [AI agents](https://www.pymnts.com/tag/ai-agents/) could orchestrate up to $1 trillion of U.S. retail by 2030, which makes understanding shopper behavior more valuable. “Consumers are also looking ahead: 64% expect to use [AI shopping agents](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/ai-voice-agents-take-over-the-retail-sales-floor/) within two years, especially for tasks such as comparing products, managing loyalty programs and handling returns,” PYMNTS wrote. #### Featured News [Item-Level Data Gives AI Agents Smarter Buying Power](https://www.pymnts.com/opinion/2026/item-level-data-gives-ai-agents-smarter-buying-power/)
Sapiom Raises $35 Million Series A To Scale AI Agent Infrastructure Sapiom has raised $35 million in Series A funding to expand its infrastructure platform for deploying, operating and scaling artificial intelligence agents. Dragonfly led the round, with participation from Accel, Gradient, Coinbase Ventures, Operator Collective, Formus Capital and VanEck Ventures. Existing investors Okta Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Anthropic and Array Ventures also participated. The financing follows Sapiom’s $15 million seed round completed six months earlier and brings the company’s total funding to $50 million less than a year after its founding. Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly, will join Sapiom’s board of directors as part of the financing. _“Agents are becoming employees with no manager and no budget, and increasingly, the CTO is the one acting as CFO, allocating real money with no visibility into where it goes.”_
Hark's Handoff browser agent claims a top Online-Mind2Web score, beating Anthropic and OpenAI, while pricing under a tenth of GPT-5.5's token cost.
# Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company So I wasn’t very surprised to hear that [Naïve](https://usenaive.ai/), which offers infrastructure that lets AI agents take on the bulk of the work involved in running a business, had signed up over 30,000 developer customers within months of its launch. Taking vibe coding a step further, the startup claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business — provided you supply the AI agents and the required token budget, of course. The rest of the set up can be done by your AI agents, including setting up email inboxes, virtual cards, phone numbers, databases, computing resources and connections to services such as Stripe and QuickBooks. The company also provides templates for businesses, such as AI SEO, full-stack SaaS apps, recruiting, accounting, customer support, and even a mobile emulator with which agents can operate smartphone apps on emulated devices. [AI](https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/), [AI agents](https://techcrunch.com/tag/ai-agents/), [AI infranstructure](https://techcrunch.com/tag/ai-infranstructure/), [Fundraising](https://techcrunch.com/category/fundraising/), [Startups](https://techcrunch.com/category/startups/)
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