ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Airrived Emerges From Stealth With $6.1 Million in Funding The startup aims to unify SOC, GRC, IAM, vulnerability management, IT, and business operations through its Agentic OS platform. By Ionut Arghire | February 6, 2026 (4:40 AM ET) Flipboard Reddit Whatsapp Email Startup Airrived this week announced emerging from stealth mode with $6.1 million in seed funding to help organizations unify cybersecurity, IT, and business operations through agentic AI. Founded in 2024, the Dublin, California-based firm has built an Agentic operating system (Agentic OS) meant to unify fragmented AI tools across large enterprises’ ecosystems. According to Airrived, its platform was designed to provide agentic intelligence as an OS, not a feature, unifying enterprise domains such as IAM, IT, GRC, SOC, vulnerability management, and business operations. Airrived’s Agentic OS enables organizations to fine-tune LLMs, build deep-reasoning agents, and orchestrate intelligence across assets. The solution, it says, is built for production, governance, and scale. It removes dependence on scarce AI specialists and delivers AI that reasons, decides, and acts autonomously. Airrived says its Agentic OS is already used by large enterprises, including a Fortune 150 company in the insurance sector, a restaurant chain, a global bank, and a telecommunications firm. ADVERTISEMENT. SCROLL TO CONTINUE READING. The startup’s seed funding round was led by Cannage Capital, with additional support from Inner Loop Capital, Plug and Play Ventures, Rebellion Ventures, and angel investors. “Airrived stood out because of its agentic-first architecture. This isn’t automation or scripted playbooks—it’s a composable agentic platform designed to scale across use cases,” Cannage Capital founder and managing partner Shelley Zhuang said. 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