Arcade.dev, which is the first company to help AI agents securely take real-world actions on behalf of a user, announced a $12 million seed funding round for its agent auth and integration platform. The round was led by Laude Ventures (Pete Sonsini – Databricks, Perplexity) with participation from Flybridge Ventures (Chip Hazard – MongoDB, Firebase), Hanabi Capital (Mike Volpi – Cohere, Scale AI), Neotribe (Kittu Kolluri – Fortanix, Robinhood), and Andy Rachleff (Wealthfront, Databricks).
Despite the advances in large language models (LLMs), organizations struggle to extract meaningful business value from AI. This is because these systems can’t securely interact with essential business systems and popular consumer apps, like an AI agent accessing Gmail on behalf of a user. Arcade solves this fundamental bottleneck by providing the authorization and integration infrastructure that enables AI agents to securely act on behalf of users across enterprise and consumer applications.
Arcade’s platform addresses this by providing developers and organizations hundreds of pre-built agent tools, an industry term for integrations, for services like Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Salesforce, and dozens of other commonly used enterprise and consumer applications. Arcade also offers a comprehensive SDK that enables engineers to create and test their custom, secure tools in minutes and integrate their agents into any API, data, logic, or system.
Arcade was created by a team that combines technical leadership experience at Okta, building enterprise-grade authentication systems with AI-native talent from Redis. And Arcade possesses the rare expertise needed to solve challenges for AI to securely authenticate and take actions in the systems we use today.
Arcade’s platform already helps engineers build production-ready AI agents that perform tasks such as managing support tickets, scheduling meetings, sending emails, updating CRM records, and coordinating cross-system workflows for organizations in the financial services, healthcare, and technology sectors.
KEY QUOTES:
“The real challenge in AI isn’t just about making models smarter – it’s about enabling AI agents to actually do things securely. Organizations are forced to choose between dangerous super-user access or limiting AI to public data. We’ve solved this problem by providing a secure framework for AI to take authenticated actions across enterprise systems, transforming AI from conversational novelty into practical automation.”
– Alex Salazar, CEO and co-founder of Arcade
“The rise of agentic AI has created an entirely new class of problems for businesses that new AI upstarts aren’t focused on solving, nor do they have the expertise to solve. It doesn’t matter how exciting a shiny new solution is if it can’t work within existing systems. Arcade’s tool-calling platform makes it possible for AI agents to take action online in a secure, seamless way and they’ve assembled an incredible team with unmatched understanding of the auth space to solve this problem.”
– Laude Ventures Founder and General Partner Pete Sonsini, who led Arcade’s recent fundraise
