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Sean Dorje

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Sean Dorje
CEO & Co-Founder of
Naïve (2025)
About

Sean Dorje is the Co-Founder and CEO of Naïve, a Palo Alto-based AI lab building the foundational infrastructure for autonomous companies, enabling AI agents to set up and run entire businesses through a single unified API.

Before founding

Sean dropped out of UC Berkeley at 20 and has been building software alongside co-founder Dennis Zax since they were 14 years old, demonstrating an early and relentless drive for entrepreneurship.

Founder Insights

Sean believes agent spend is set to scale into the trillions as companies run entirely on autonomous agents, and his mission is to make each AI token do more so autonomous companies become a cost-efficient reality.

Experience

Before Naïve, Sean co-founded and sold computer vision and machine learning startup ezML as a teenager, then entered Y Combinator where Naïve was born in Spring 2025.

Scale & Impact

Naïve has attracted over 30,000 developer customers, scaled annual run-rate revenue 10x to low double-digit millions in six months, and raised a total of $32M including a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners.

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Sean Dorje

Naïve
Co-Founder & CEO
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Sean Dorje

Company(s)

Naïve

Industry

SaaS

Year Founded

2025

Stage/Funding

Series A • $32M

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About

Sean Dorje is the Co-Founder and CEO of Naïve, a Palo Alto-based AI lab building the foundational infrastructure for autonomous companies, enabling AI agents to set up and run entire businesses through a single unified API.

Before founding

Sean dropped out of UC Berkeley at 20 and has been building software alongside co-founder Dennis Zax since they were 14 years old, demonstrating an early and relentless drive for entrepreneurship.

Founder Insights

Sean believes agent spend is set to scale into the trillions as companies run entirely on autonomous agents, and his mission is to make each AI token do more so autonomous companies become a cost-efficient reality.

Experience

Before Naïve, Sean co-founded and sold computer vision and machine learning startup ezML as a teenager, then entered Y Combinator where Naïve was born in Spring 2025.

Scale & Impact

Naïve has attracted over 30,000 developer customers, scaled annual run-rate revenue 10x to low double-digit millions in six months, and raised a total of $32M including a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners.

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