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

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arcade.dev, the first company to help AI agents securely take real-world actions on behalf of a user, today announced $12M in seed funding for its agent auth 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).

Despite rapid advances in large language models, organizations struggle to extract meaningful business value from AI. This is because these systems can't securely interact with essential business systems and popular consumer apps, such as an AI agent accessing Gmail on behalf of a user. Arcade solves this fundamental bottleneck by providing the authorization and integration infrastructure that enables AI agents to securely act on behalf of users across enterprise and consumer applications.

"The real challenge in AI isn't just about making models smarter – it's about enabling AI agents to actually do things securely," said Alex Salazar, CEO and co-founder of Arcade. "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."

Arcade's platform solves this by providing developers and organizations hundreds of pre-built “agent tools”, an industry term for integrations, for services like Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Salesforce, and dozens of other commonly used enterprise and consumer applications. Arcade also offers a comprehensive SDK that enables engineers to create and test their own custom, secure tools in minutes and integrate their agents to any API, data, logic, or system.

"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," said Laude Ventures Founder and General Partner Pete Sonsini, who led Arcade's recent fundraise. "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."

Arcade was founded by a team that combines technical leadership experience at Okta building enterprise-grade authentication systems with AI-native talent from Redis. Arcade possesses the rare expertise needed to solve challenges for AI to securely authenticate and take actions in the systems we use today.

Arcade’s platform is already helping engineers build production-ready AI agents that perform tasks including managing support tickets, scheduling meetings, sending emails, updating CRM records, and coordinating cross-system workflows for organizations across financial services, healthcare, and technology sectors.

About Arcade

Arcade is the industry's first authenticated tool-calling platform enabling AI to take secure, real-world actions. Arcade's platform transforms AI applications from conversational interfaces into trusted automation tools by solving the fundamental challenges of authentication and integration. Arcade provides best-in-class security and developer-friendly infrastructure to deploy AI that can act on behalf of users. Learn more and try it for free at www.arcade.dev.