Anon is building the authentication and automation infrastructure that AI agents need to actually do things on the internet. Most useful work lives behind logins and lacks clean APIs, so for agents to book, buy, retrieve, or update on a user's behalf, they must authenticate and operate like a permitted human. Anon provides this missing layer: a permissioned identity and access platform that securely connects agents to web services.
Founded in San Francisco, Anon handles the hard, unglamorous parts of web automation, secure credential collection, two-factor authentication, CAPTCHA solving, and IP proxying, so developers building agents don't have to. The result is reliable integrations with services that don't expose APIs, dramatically expanding what agents can accomplish across the long tail of consumer and business apps. Crucially, Anon's model is user-permissioned: agents act only with delegated access granted by the user.
Anon raised about $6.5M across early tranches and a seed round, with Union Square Ventures and Abstract Ventures leading the seed and earlier backing from Impatient Ventures and ex/ante. The cap table includes prominent operator-angels such as Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover, early Google and Square leader Gokul Rajaram, Behance founder and Adobe CPO Scott Belsky, and Replit co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad, signaling strong belief that agent connectivity is a foundational problem.
Anon's positioning sits at the infrastructure layer of the agent economy, adjacent to browser-automation and agent-runtime companies but specifically focused on the identity and access challenge. As agents proliferate in 2025 and 2026, secure tool access and authentication are repeatedly cited as among the strongest startup openings, and Anon targets exactly that need.
By abstracting authentication and connectivity into a developer platform, Anon lets agent builders focus on their core product while relying on Anon to handle login flows, anti-bot defenses, and secure credential management. Its bet is that as billions of agent actions move across the web, a trusted authentication backbone becomes indispensable plumbing.