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Agent Infrastructure
Runtime, orchestration, observability, browser automation, workflow agents, and developer infrastructure for agentic systems.
Why this category matters
Agent infrastructure becomes valuable when teams can reliably deploy, test, govern, and improve agents in production workflows.
Startups to know in Agent Infrastructure
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Agents that orchestrate enterprise workflows
Emergence AI's 'Agents Creating Agents' framework chains and deploys swarms of autonomous agents that spin up new agents on the fly to orchestrate complex enterprise workflows.
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Product catalog infrastructure for agentic commerce
Channel3 is building a database of every product on the internet, giving developers and AI agents API access to a unified, semantically-matched product catalog.
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Chat-driven enterprise app creation
Empromptu helps enterprises build AI apps via a chatbot interface; users describe what they want (e.g., a new HTML or JavaScript app) and the platform builds it. Raised a $2M pre-seed in late 2025 to expand its enterprise AI app builder; NYC-based.
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Document context layer for enterprise agents
Kay.ai accelerates data extraction workflows for enterprises using high-quality embeddings and fine-tuned LLMs, providing the context and retrieval layer that AI agents need to operate over enterprise documents. Founded by ex-Microsoft, Twitter, and Amazon ML engineers; backed by Wing VC.
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Supply chain agents for operational planning
Vortexify AI is a platform for building fully operational AI workflows tailored to supply chain operations, deploying specialized AI bots that analyze millions of data rows and orchestrate complex, long-horizon processes.
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Composable infrastructure for enterprise AI workflows
Thread AI helps enterprises build and manage composable AI workflows.
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Cloud sandboxes for AI coding agents
A software factory: sandboxed AI coding agents in the cloud accessible via web UI, CLI, Slack, or API.
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