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Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful

Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful

TechCrunch Startup News · TechCrunch

March 20, 20254m 6s

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Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who also co-founded Databricks. This isn’t the only check Laude has cut.

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