BAND launches with $17 million seed funding to coordinate enterprise AI agents

9 articles · Updated · Pulse 2.0 · Apr 24

BAND emerges from stealth with backing from Sierra Ventures, Hetz Ventures, and Team8, aiming to expand its engineering team and accelerate product development.
The company’s platform enables real-time communication, collaboration, and workflow coordination among AI agents across frameworks, clouds, and enterprises, addressing a major bottleneck in large-scale automation.
BAND positions itself as foundational infrastructure for an 'internet of agents,' offering governance, interoperability, and human oversight to support secure, scalable enterprise automation and early adoption in software development and R&D.

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