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Agent identity startup Mintive lands Cowboy Ventures, Coatue, angels Jeff Dean, Andrej Karpathytechcrunch.com/2026/10/29/agent-identity-startup-mintive-lands-cowboy-ventures-coatue-angels-jeff-dean-andrej-karpathy/
Mintive, an agent-management startup, secures $7M seed funding led by Cowboy Ventures, with additional backing from Coatue, Operator Collective, and angels including Jeff Dean and Andrej Karpathy. The company’s platform provides enterprise AI agents with identity governance, access control, and cost management via tools like an MCP gateway, LLM gateway, and agent monitor. Founded by Jiquan Ngiam (ex-Coursera, Google Brain) and Vijay Vasudevan (co-creator of TensorFlow), Mintive serves 50+ enterprises, including Ro, Modern Treasury, and Stability AI, emphasizing ease of deployment and hidden complexity management. Investor Aileen Lee praises the founders’ disciplined approach, contrasting Mintive’s $11M raise with oversized rounds in the competitive agentic infrastructure space.
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Operator Collective: A venture fund uniting 200+ top tech executives to invest in next-gen enterprise tech.

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