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Agent identity startup Mintive lands Cowboy Ventures, Coatue, angels Jeff Dean, Andrej Karpathy

TechCrunch·Oct 29, 2026 · 10:00 AM CT
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Mintive has raised $11 million in total, including a newly announced $7 million seed round led by Cowboy Ventures. Coatue, Operator Collective and Hustle Fund also invested, along with angels such as Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest, Jeff Dean and Andrej Karpathy.

CEO Jiquan Ngiam was Coursera's first employee and later worked on neural networks at Google Brain. CTO Vijay Vasudevan co-created TensorFlow at Google Brain.

Mintive joins a crowded field governing and provisioning enterprise AI agents. Its platform includes an MCP gateway that lets IT teams control which cloud services agents can reach and what they can do there.

Key points

  • $7M seed led by Cowboy Ventures; $11M total
  • Founders from Coursera and Google Brain/TensorFlow

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