Certiv, a Seattle-based provider of AI agent adoption solutions, announced its launch from stealth with $4.2 million in pre-seed funding from investors like Aviso Ventures, Founders Co-op and Fortson.
The company works to help enterprises manage the work of AI agents across employee endpoints. Its platform intercepts, observes and governs agent actions across Windows, Mac and Linux before they reach production systems. Certiv’s goal is to secure agents across development, operations and knowledge workflows, enabling companies to adopt AI agents safely.
“Traditional security tools were built for human-driven software,” Jason Needham, Certiv CEO and co-founder, said in a statement. “Certiv sits in front of agent execution, understands why decisions are made and governs what agents are allowed to do. It is a new security layer purpose-built for AI agents like OpenClaw and Claude Code.”
Certiv’s new capital will fuel engineering growth and early enterprise deployments.
