Robutler raises first funding for an agentic software marketplace
Robutler raised $400,000 in its first institutional round to build a software marketplace where applications and AI agents can interact.
The agent economy may need its own discovery and trust infrastructure, just as the web needed search, identity and payments.
What happened
Robutler raised $400,000 from ZAS Ventures, its first institutional investment. The company is building a platform where developers can publish and remix applications while agents discover, authenticate and communicate with other software.
Why it matters
If agents increasingly invoke other agents and tools autonomously, developers need standard ways to handle discovery, permissions, identity and messaging.
The bigger picture
A new developer infrastructure layer is emerging around agent interoperability. The market is early, but protocols that help software agents safely find and use one another could become strategically important.