Mintive raises $11M to govern enterprise AI agents

Mintive, founded by TensorFlow co-creator Vijay Vasudevan and former Google Brain engineer Jiquan Ngiam, has raised $11 million total, including a $7 million seed led by Cowboy Ventures. Its platform handles agent identities, permissions and cost controls via MCP and LLM gateways, and has already signed 50 enterprise customers.

• The $7M seed was led by Cowboy Ventures, bringing total funding to $11M
• Investors include Coatue, Hustle Fund and angels Jeff Dean and Andrej Karpathy
• Platform offers an MCP gateway, an LLM gateway with cost caps and agent monitoring
• 50 enterprise customers since February, including Coursera and Stability AI