Arcade.dev recently announced that it had successfully received a seed round of financing of US$12 million. This round of financing was led by Laude Ventures, and well-known investment institutions such as Flybridge Ventures, Hanabi Capital, and Neotribe also participated in the investment. Arcade.dev's core mission is to provide AI agents with a secure authentication and integration platform to solve security issues for AI when interacting with the real world.
Despite significant progress in large language models in recent years, many businesses still face many challenges in transforming AI technology into real business value. One of the main problems is that AI systems cannot safely interact with important systems and commonly used consumer applications in the enterprise. For example, an AI agent cannot securely access applications such as Gmail on behalf of the user. Arcade solves this fundamental bottleneck by providing the necessary authorization and integration infrastructure to help AI agents operate safely across a variety of enterprise and consumer applications.
"The real challenge of AI is not only to improve the intelligence of the model, but to enable AI agents to perform operations securely," said Alex Sarahsal, CEO and co-founder of Arcade. He noted that many organizations face a dilemma when using AI, either giving agents superusers permissions or restricting them from accessing only public data. Arcade solves this problem by providing a security framework, allowing AI to perform authentication actions in enterprise systems, transforming AI from a mere conversational tool to a practical automation assistant.
Arcade's platform provides developers and organizations with hundreds of pre-built "agent tools", namely integration tools with commonly used enterprise and consumer applications such as Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Salesforce, etc. In addition, Arcade also provides a comprehensive set of software development toolkits (SDKs) that enable engineers to create and test their own custom security tools in minutes and integrate their agents into any API, data, logic, or system.
Peter Thorensini, founding partner of Laude Ventures, said that with the rise of proxy AI, companies face new problems, and emerging AI companies often lack the ability to solve these problems. He stressed that “It is very important that Arcade’s tool call platform enables AI agents to perform tasks online in a secure and seamless way.”
Arcade’s team members have extensive experience building enterprise-level certification systems at Okta and talent in AI from Redis, with the expertise needed to address the security certification and perform operations in today’s systems. Currently, Arcade’s platform has helped engineers build production-level AI agents in multiple industries, performing tasks including managing support tickets, scheduling meetings, sending emails, updating customer relationship management records, and coordinating cross-system workflows.
Key points:
- Arcade.dev received a $12 million financing to provide a secure operating environment for AI agents.
- The company launches hundreds of pre-built proxy tools to help AI integrate securely with mainstream applications.
- The founding team combines expertise in certification systems and AI to promote the practical application of AI agents.