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Startup BAND raises 17 million to stop AI agents from becoming a fragmented mess

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Published on 24 April 2026
Startup BAND raises 17 million to stop AI agents from becoming a fragmented mess

Routing doesn’t rely on LLM guesswork, by design

After 18 months of “agent building,” BAND (Thenvoi AI Ltd.) targets the tougher next step: letting AI agents built on different frameworks actually collaborate. Exiting stealth with $17 million, it offers a deterministic “Slack for agents” interaction layer with multi-peer comms, identity-based permissions, and an enterprise control plane for auditability—positioned as infrastructure for a universal orchestrator.

  • BAND creates interaction infrastructure so agents from different stacks can collaborate
  • It uses deterministic routing instead of LLM-based message direction
  • A control plane adds governance, audit trails, and permission-safe credential transfer
  • Seed funding supports a design-partner ecosystem and framework agnostic middleware
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