Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful

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By Julie BortMar 18, 2025, 11:00 am226 pts
Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who also co-founded…

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