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Agent identity startup Mintive lands Cowboy Ventures, Coatue, angels Jeff Dean, Andrej Karpathy

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In short

Mintive's platform includes an MCP gateway for authorizing cloud access, an LLM gateway to control expenses, and monitoring systems for long-running autonomous tasks. Since launching its software in February, the company has attracted more than 50 enterprise customers, including Stability AI and Modern Treasury. The new capital will support Mintive as it competes with tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft to govern enterprise AI agents.

Key points

  • Mintive was established by Coursera founding engineer Jiquan Ngiam and TensorFlow co-crea…: Mintive was established by Coursera founding engineer Jiquan Ngiam and TensorFlow co-creator Vijay Vasudevan.
  • The company has already deployed its agent-management tools across more than 50 enterpris…: The company has already deployed its agent-management tools across more than 50 enterprise customers since February.
  • Leadership is intentionally pursuing a disciplined capital strategy rather than chasing t…: Leadership is intentionally pursuing a disciplined capital strategy rather than chasing the inflated valuations common among AI competitors.

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Here’s another early-stage, agent-management startup to watch because of the backgrounds of the founders and the sheer number of big names it has already attracted as investors: Mintive.

Mintive has raised $11 million total, including a newly announced $7 million seed led by Cowboy Ventures. Additional investors include Coatue, Operator Collective, Hustle Fund, and angels include Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest, Discovery Loop co-founder and former Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, and OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, among others.

Mintive was founded by Jiquan Ngiam (pictured above, far right) and Vijay Vasudevan (pictured above far left). Ngiam, Mintive’s CEO, was the founding engineer of Coursera (employee No. 1, hired by Andrew Ng). Ngiam later worked on neural networks at Google Brain. Vasudevan, the company’s CTO, is best known as one of the co-creators of TensorFlow while he was at Google Brain. That was the OG AI training platform that predated PyTorch.

Mintive is joining a crowded field of products that promise to govern, provision, and offer identity management to enterprise AI agents. Its platform includes an MCP gateway that allows IT professionals…

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