Dublin-based AI startup Airrived launched from stealth on February 3 with $6.1 million USD in seed funding for its agentic AI solution, designed to automate workflows across enterprise cybersecurity, IT, and business operations.
Cannage Capital led the funding round with participation from Plug and Play Ventures, Rebellion Ventures, and Inner Loop Capital.
Airrived’s flagship product is Agentic OS, a platform used for creating and managing AI agents. This approach entails that agentic intelligence is not bolted onto legacy products; rather, it is part of a standalone operating layer.
With Agentic OS, organizations can fine-tune LLMs, compose deep-reasoning agents, and orchestrate intelligence across systems, all without the need for technical expertise.
The funding round reflects the value of AI agents to the enterprise, providing a solution that can automate workflows at scale without human intervention. However, given reports that 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail, it appears many companies are struggling to roll out agents in real world scenarios.
Operating at scale
As of 2026, many companies are full steam ahead on their journey toward automation, with more than half of companies already having deployed AI agents at their organizations, and another 35% planning to deploy within the next two years.
The catch, however, is that it can be difficult to roll out AI agents without a unified platform to deploy them across various workflows.
“Most AI agents today are built on fragmented tools, shallow bolt-on AI, and scarce expertise. They can summarise information, but they can’t reason across systems or operate reliably in production,” Anurag Gurtu, co-founder and CEO of Airrived, told 150sec.
“As complexity grows, automation breaks, and humans are left stitching everything together.”
Airrived aims to address these failures by providing an end-to-end system for deploying agents across multiple departments, such as security and IT. Automating these workflows at scale has the potential to be a force multiplier, as processes can theoretically be continuously improved and streamlined over time.
Gurtu says that the Agentic OS can automate any workflow that requires context decisions and action, from SOC processes to GRC procedures, identity and access management (IAM), vulnerability prioritisation, IT operations, and cross-functional business workflows.
“Agentic intelligence goes beyond generating answers; it reasons over context, decides what to do next, and takes action across systems. Instead of humans coordinating tools and workflows, agents operate end-to-end with governance and oversight built in,” the CEO explained.
The AI agents presented by Airrived could offer significant value to security teams, with the ability to manage processes across the SOC, plus GRC, IAM, and vulnerability management.
With almost 60% of security teams having fewer than 10 people, automating workflows with AI agents has the potential to help security professionals keep up with fast-moving modern threats.
The agentic AI market
As enterprises turn to automation and AI, the global enterprise agentic AI market continues to grow, with Grand View Research estimating the market at a value of $2.58 billion USD in 2024 – and projected to reach $24.50 billion by 2030.
Now, Arrived has achieved moderate success in the agentic AI market, receiving recognition as a Gartner Tech Innovator in Agentic AI, and a Security Today Cybersecured Award winner. The company claims to have been adopted by a number of large companies including a Fortune 150 insurance company, a large restaurant chain, a global bank, and a major telecom infrastructure company.
One of the company’s key differentiators, contrasting companies like IBM – which have bolted on AI agent management with solutions like WatsonX Orchestrate – is it takes a different approach by tackling agentic intelligence as an operating system, providing a single layer for developing and deploying AI agents that is not tethered to a larger product ecosystem.
“Airrived stood out because of its agentic-first architecture,” said Shelley Jhuang, founder and managing partner at Cannage Capital in the announcement press release.
“This isn’t automation or scripted playbooks — it’s a composable agentic platform designed to scale across use cases. We are honoured to back the mission-driven Airrived founders as they enable enterprises to build intelligent automation across security and IT.”
Featured image: Via Arrived
