Arcade.dev Scores $12M to Solve Biggest Security Problem with AI Agents

Arcade.dev Scores $12M to Solve Biggest Security Problem with AI Agents

Arcade.dev, the first company to enable AI agents to securely take real-world actions on behalf of users, has raised $12 million in seed funding to advance its agent authentication and integration platform. The round was led by Laude Ventures (Pete Sonsini – Databricks, Perplexity), with participation from Flybridge Ventures (Chip Hazard – MongoDB, Firebase), Hanabi Capital (Mike Volpi – Cohere, Scale AI), Neotribe (Kittu Kolluri – Fortanix, Robinhood), and Andy Rachleff (Wealthfront, Databricks).

Solving AI’s Biggest Roadblock: Secure Action-Taking

Despite rapid advancements in large language models, organizations struggle to unlock real business value from AI. A core limitation is that AI systems lack the ability to securely interact with critical business applications. For example, an AI agent accessing Gmail on behalf of a user presents major security and authentication challenges.

Arcade solves this by providing the authorization and integration infrastructure that enables AI agents to securely take action across enterprise and consumer applications.

Alex Salazar, CEO and co-founder of Arcade:

“The real challenge in AI isn’t just about making models smarter – it’s about enabling AI agents to actually do things securely. Organizations are forced to choose between dangerous super-user access or limiting AI to public data. We’ve solved this problem by providing a secure framework for AI to take authenticated actions across enterprise systems, transforming AI from conversational novelty into practical automation.”

Pre-Built Integrations & Developer-Friendly SDK

Arcade’s platform provides developers with hundreds of pre-built agent tools—a term for integrations—supporting services such as Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Salesforce, and other widely used enterprise and consumer applications.

Additionally, Arcade offers a powerful SDK that allows developers to create and test custom, secure tools in minutes, integrating their AI agents with any API, data, logic, or system.

Pete Sonsini, Founder and General Partner at Laude Ventures:

“The rise of agentic AI has created an entirely new class of problems for businesses that new AI upstarts aren’t focused on solving, nor do they have the expertise to solve. It doesn’t matter how exciting a shiny new solution is if it can’t work within existing systems. Arcade’s tool-calling platform makes it possible for AI agents to take action online in a secure, seamless way, and they’ve assembled an incredible team with unmatched understanding of the auth space to solve this problem.”

Deep Expertise in Authentication & AI

Arcade was founded by a team that blends enterprise-grade authentication expertise from Okta with AI-native talent from Redis. This rare combination equips Arcade with the deep technical knowledge required to enable AI agents to securely authenticate and take actions within today’s enterprise systems.

Enabling Production-Ready AI Agents

Arcade’s platform is already helping engineers build production-ready AI agents capable of handling tasks such as:

  • Managing support tickets
  • Scheduling meetings
  • Sending emails
  • Updating CRM records
  • Coordinating cross-system workflows

Organizations across financial services, healthcare, and technology sectors are leveraging Arcade to bridge the gap between AI intelligence and secure real-world action.

With its latest funding, Arcade is poised to redefine how AI agents interact with enterprise applications, making AI-driven automation both practical and secure.