Naïve (YC X25) — Autonomous company infrastructure
Naïve is an AI research lab building autonomous companies. We develop the systems, environments, and agent infrastructure required for AI to operate real businesses end-to-end, then release increasingly capable autonomous companies into the world.
Naïve is a Y Combinator company in the Spring 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Autonomous Company Infrastructure. The founders listed are Sean Dorje (Founder/CEO), Dennis Zax (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 16, 2025).
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Naïve is an AI research lab building autonomous companies.
We develop the systems, environments, and agent infrastructure required for AI to operate real businesses end-to-end, then release increasingly capable autonomous companies into the world.
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Infrastructure that lets agents autonomously operate businesses. Pick a company template, deploy it, and watch an agent team run it.
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Sean Dorje
Founder/CEO
CEO & Co-founder @ Naïve
Dennis Zax
Founder/CTO
Co-Founder & CTO of Naïve
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