/dev/agents is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2024 to build an operating system purpose-built for the era of AI agents. Its founding team is unusually senior: CEO David Singleton, formerly CTO of Stripe and an Android leader at Google; Chief Product Officer Hugo Barra, former VP of Android product and head of Meta's Oculus division; CTO Ficus Kirkpatrick, an early Android engineer and former Meta AR/VR VP; and designer Nicholas Jitkoff, a principal Chrome designer with senior roles at Dropbox and Figma.
The company's core thesis is that the current software stack was designed for humans navigating apps, not for autonomous AI agents executing tasks on a user's behalf. /dev/agents intends to provide the foundational runtime, developer interfaces, and user-facing layer on which agent-powered applications can be built and run, analogous to how mobile operating systems enabled the app economy.
A key part of the model is commerce. When agents complete transactions such as booking flights or purchasing products, /dev/agents plans to monetize through a combination of subscriptions and transaction fees on that agent-driven commerce, betting that agents will increasingly transact autonomously.
The company raised a $56 million seed round in November 2024 at a reported $500 million post-money valuation, co-led by Index Ventures and CapitalG, with angel investment from prominent AI figures including Alexandr Wang and Andrej Karpathy. The size and valuation of the seed reflect investor conviction in both the team and the agent-OS thesis.
The company operates under the website sdsa.ai and remains relatively early and stealthy, with a small team scaling from a handful of employees at founding. It competes conceptually with other agent-infrastructure efforts but differentiates through an ambitious full operating-system approach and a founding team with deep platform-building credentials.