Sycamore has raised $65 million in a seed funding round to build a trusted operating system for autonomous enterprise AI, positioning itself to address growing demand for infrastructure that enables organizations to deploy AI agents securely and at scale.
The round was led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Abstract Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, 8VC, Fellows Fund, E14 Fund, and a group of angel investors. The funding will be used to expand engineering and applied AI teams, deepen enterprise deployments, and advance research in trust architectures, memory systems, and multi-agent coordination.
Sycamore is focused on building what it calls an “agent operating system” that allows enterprises to manage the full lifecycle of AI agents, from discovery and development to deployment and continuous improvement. The platform is designed to ensure that AI agents operate with governance, auditability, and security, addressing one of the biggest barriers to enterprise adoption.
The company emphasizes a trust-first approach, where agents gradually gain autonomy based on demonstrated reliability. Its system enables organizations to generate production-ready applications and workflows from natural language inputs, while continuously learning from outcomes and capturing institutional knowledge across deployments. Sycamore also aims to enable coordinated, multi-agent systems that can leverage organizational data and expertise.
Founded by Sri Viswanath, the company draws on his experience building enterprise platforms at scale, including leadership roles at Sun Microsystems, VMware, Groupon, and Atlassian, where he served as CTO and led its cloud transformation. His experience as an investor at Coatue also informed the company’s focus on governance and operational infrastructure for AI.
Sycamore is already working with Fortune 500 companies and has assembled a team that includes researchers from Stanford and Cornell, along with engineers from companies such as Meta, Google, and Atlassian.
The company is positioning itself at the intersection of enterprise AI adoption and the need for secure, scalable agent infrastructure, as businesses increasingly look to deploy autonomous systems that can reason, act, and continuously improve.
KEY QUOTES
“Sri is one of the few founders who has built enterprise platforms at true global scale. Sycamore sits at the intersection of two major shifts: AI adoption and agent security. We believe this team is uniquely positioned to define the category. Every boardroom conversation today includes AI agents, but the platform to support them isn’t there yet. Enterprises need a trust and governance layer before autonomy can scale. We call this a BFI (Big F Idea) at Coatue: a market that expands the entire category. We see Sycamore as that foundational platform.”
Raviraj Jain, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners; Thomas Laffont, Co-founder of Coatue
“Every enterprise system today is built for humans doing the work. The next generation of enterprise software will be autonomous, continuously learning, and adaptive. Sycamore is building the operating system for that future, with a foundation of trust, security, and control.”
Sri Viswanath, Founder and CEO of Sycamore
