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Sycamore

Enterprise trusted AI agent operating system

Overview

Sycamore Labs builds a trusted agent operating system for enterprises, providing the infrastructure to safely build, deploy, manage, and observe large fleets of AI agents at scale within a secure, governed environment. Its product uses a tiered trust model: new agents begin under heavy supervision and progressively gain autonomy as they prove reliability, with human operators guiding tasks through natural language. The platform focuses on governance, security, observability, and multi-agent coordination to prevent uncoordinated digital chaos and to integrate AI agents with legacy systems. What sets Sycamore apart is its explicit emphasis on trust architectures, centralized oversight, and scalable AI governance, aiming to turn isolated demos into controllable, enterprise-wide automation. The company's goal is to unlock a wave of enterprise automation by enabling AI agents to operate safely and autonomously under policy compliance and security constraints.

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Industries

Data & AnalyticsEnterprise SoftwareCybersecurityAI & Machine Learning

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$65M

Headquarters

Palo Alto, CA

Founded

2025

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Total Funding

$65M

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Funded Over

1 Rounds

Seed funding is usually the first official round after pre-seed, when a startup has a prototype or concept. It’s typically used to develop the product, test the market, and start building the team. Investors here are often angel investors or early-stage venture capitalists.
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Yahoo Finance
Nov 3rd, 2026
Sycamore launches platform letting employees build self-improving AI agents without coding

Sycamore Labs, Inc. has launched Sycamore Build, an AI platform that lets employees turn business processes into custom agents and applications without writing code. The Palo Alto, California company made the product generally available on November 3, 2026. Employees describe their workflows, provide context, review plans, and join testing and deployment. The platform then researches, designs, builds, connects, and tests the software, using specialised AI agents. Sycamore says it handles enterprise needs such as security, access control, testing, and deployment. Organisations can set shared standards that carry across projects. "The people who understand a business best should be able to build the software that runs it," said Sri Viswanath, founder and chief executive officer.

SiliconANGLE Media
Oct 12th, 2026
AI governance shifts to runtime as always-on agents spread.

AI governance shifts to runtime as always-on agents spread. As enterprises move from debating artificial intelligence adoption to deploying it, AI governance has become the harder question. Autonomous agents now run around the clock across a sprawl of platforms, and controls built for deterministic software were never designed for them. At Dell Technologies Inc.'s "AI Leadership Symposium," cost and control were recurring themes in enterprise AI discussions. The challenge is rationalizing overlapping controls and confirming that they work in practice, according to Shiv Agarwal (pictured, center), co-founder and chief executive officer of Singulr AI Inc. "Someone needs to really do some rationalization between the enterprise intent and the actual runtime state," he said. "Governance is becoming very important, but it's becoming hard as well in this world, just the pace at which the AI is getting adopted." Agarwal, Sri Viswanath (left), founder and chief executive officer of Sycamore Labs Inc. and Victor Jakubiuk (right), co-founder of MisaLabs Inc., spoke with theCUBE Research's John Furrier at the Dell "AI Leadership Symposium," during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media's livestreaming studio. They discussed runtime AI governance, enterprise data controls and balancing standardization with rapid innovation. (* Disclosure below.) Why AI governance now happens at runtime. Defining what an agent is allowed to do is only part of the governance challenge. Enterprises also need to assess its behavior during execution, Agarwal explained. Singulr has extended its agent governance to local AI tools on employee endpoints. "[It's] as simple as an action where it reaches out to the internet to get some data or sends out an email to a private account or something," he said. "That could be deeply hidden inside an agentic action." Some customers are responding by narrowing where agents can operate. Chief information officers want agents and large language model calls kept within their virtual private clouds, according to Viswanath. "They're also trying to architect in a way that all of the data stays there," he said. "They don't trust sending it outside because then we don't know where it goes." Agarwal called for greater standardization across AI governance frameworks, including the European Union's AI Act. Jakubiuk emphasized the need to keep pace with rapidly evolving AI capabilities. "AI has no limit to the speed of development, speed of progress," Jakubiuk said. "As an enterprise, as that AI lead, you want to be able to take the latest and greatest and stay on top." Here's the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE's and theCUBE's coverage of Dell's "AI Leadership Symposium": (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell's "AI Leadership Symposium." Neither Dell, the sponsor of theCUBE's event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.) Photo: SiliconANGLE. A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE: Support its mission to keep content open and free by engaging with theCUBE community. Join theCUBE's Alumni Trust Network, where technology leaders connect, share intelligence and create opportunities. * 15M+ viewers of theCUBE videos, powering conversations across AI, cloud, cybersecurity and more * 11.4k+ theCUBE alumni - Connect with more than 11,400 tech and business leaders shaping the future through a unique trusted-based network Are you an AWS customer? Support SiliconANGLE financially by buying your AWS services from its Marketplace portal page and links: https://siliconangle.com/aws-marketplace/. About SiliconANGLE Media. SiliconANGLE Media is a recognized leader in digital media innovation, uniting breakthrough technology, strategic insights and real-time audience engagement. As the parent company of SiliconANGLE, theCUBE Network, theCUBE Research, CUBE365, theCUBE AI and theCUBE SuperStudios - with flagship locations in Silicon Valley and the New York Stock Exchange - SiliconANGLE Media operates at the intersection of media, technology and AI. Founded by tech visionaries John Furrier and Dave Vellante, SiliconANGLE Media has built a dynamic ecosystem of industry-leading digital media brands that reach 15+ million elite tech professionals. Its new proprietary theCUBE AI Video Cloud is breaking ground in audience interaction, leveraging theCUBEai.com neural network to help technology companies make data-driven decisions and stay at the forefront of industry conversations.

TechCrunch
Mar 30th, 2026
Former Coatue partner raises huge $65M seed for enterprise AI agent startup  | TechCrunch

A few things turned investors' heads and drew them to participate in such a big round out of the gate.

FYIsoft
Mar 30th, 2026
Former Coatue partner raises massive $65M seed for enterprise AI agent startup.

Former Coatue partner raises massive $65M seed for enterprise AI agent startup. By March 30, 2026 No Comments 3 Mins Read Yet another startup aimed at helping companies build, secure, and tune AI agents has raised a resoundingly large seed round. Sycamore announced a $65 million seed on Monday led by Coatue and Lightspeed and includes a long list of angels including former OpenAI chief scientist Bob McGrew, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, and more. Several things resonated with investors and drew them to participate in such a large round in the first place. First, unlike many startups in this space, Sycamore is not led by a 19-year-old Y Combinator graduate. Its founder is Sri Viswanath, a former Kotu investor with decades of experience. He left his full-time VC job in the fall to start Sycamore, where he serves as CEO. "I spent more than 20 years building world-class enterprise platforms at Sun Microsystems, VMware, and Groupon, and as CTO at Atlassian, leading cloud transformation and growing the engineering organization to over 7,000 people," Viswanath tells TechCrunch. "This round was made possible through a long-standing relationship." Second, rather than building a single-purpose product that solves one narrow problem, he is building an entire agent orchestration layer that handles everything from the coding to the backend infrastructure and intervenes as needed. "Most tools take existing workflows and layer agents on top," he said, adding that his startup's products "start with the problem itself and design and build the right solution from the ground up, including agents, backend systems, frontends, and data integration." He said Sycamore has already attracted attention from some large enterprise customers, but declined to name names. But despite a vote of confidence from a large seed round, Sycamore is entering a field that's competitive in all directions. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that countless small startups are working on this, from very small startups (like Maisa AI) to emerging startups that are raising even larger rounds like OpenAI-backed Isara. (This laboratory is run by two 23-year-old researchers.) tech crunch event San Francisco, California | October 13-15, 2026 Others are in growth mode, like Aeria, which announced a $100 million raise in September, and Port, which announced a $100 million raise in December. Top model makers also want to own enterprise agent platforms, including OpenAI with Frontier and Anthropic with the ever-expanding Cowork. If that's not enough, major AI cloud providers like Microsoft Azure with Foundry and AWS with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore want it too. So this is a big mountain to climb in a huge market that is not yet realized but is widely expected. Other VC firms that participated in Sycamore's funding include Abstract Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, 8VC, Fellows Fund, and E14 Fund. Other notable angels include Frederic Kerrest, co-founder of Okta, Soham Mazumdar, co-founder of Rubrik and Wisdom AI, and Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier and Ndea.

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