Mintive, an agent-management startup co-founded by CEO Jiquan Ngiam and CTO Vijay Vasudevan, a TensorFlow co-creator, has raised $11 million in total, including a newly announced $7 million seed round led by Cowboy Ventures. Other investors include Coatue, Operator Collective, Hustle Fund, and angels such as Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest, Jeff Dean, and Andrej Karpathy. Its platform includes an MCP gateway that controls which cloud services agents can access and what actions they can take, an LLM gateway that routes across models and can cap costs, agent identity management, and an agent monitor, and the company says setup takes just a few button clicks. The article notes the field is crowded, with Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and 40+ startups from Y Combinator alone working on agent management.
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