While the AI community debates whether agents are overhyped, a quieter story is unfolding in enterprise infrastructure. E2B, a company providing sandboxed cloud environments for AI agents, just raised $21 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners. More telling than the funding amount is this statistic: 88% of Fortune 100 companies are already using E2B’s platform.

This isn’t another AI agent demo or research breakthrough. It’s evidence that the real challenge in agent deployment has shifted from “can agents work?” to “how do we safely run them at scale?”

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Vellum raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Leaders Fund to address the fundamental infrastructure bottleneck preventing enterprise AI teams from moving beyond prototypes to production-ready systems.

The New York-based platform has worked with over 150 companies across industries, from bleeding-edge startups to household names including Swisscom, Redfin, Drata, and Headspace. The funding validates what engineering teams consistently experience: building AI demos is straightforward, but deploying reliable, mission-critical AI systems requires specialized development infrastructure that doesn’t exist in traditional software engineering.

RevRag.AI’s acquisition of GenStaq.ai signals a critical shift in the enterprise AI agent market: companies are no longer content to rely solely on third-party infrastructure for production deployments.

The December 2024 acquisition addresses a fundamental bottleneck preventing enterprise AI agent adoption—the lack of integrated control across the entire infrastructure stack. While most AI agent platforms focus exclusively on application-layer capabilities, RevRag.AI now controls everything from LLMOps orchestration to production deployment.