dodoAI Secures Seed Funding Led by Genesia Ventures for its Sovereign Agentic OS for Enterprises

Genesia Ventures announced that it has made a lead investment from its Genesia Venture Fund No. 4 in dodoAI Inc., a company that develops and provides 'dodoAI,' a Sovereign Agentic OS for the safe and continuous operation of AI agents under organizational governance.

Other investors in the round include QuantumLeap Ventures, Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Marine Capital Co., Ltd., and individual investors.

Background of the Investment With the evolution of AI, AI agents are transforming from mere support tools for information retrieval and text generation into execution entities that handle parts of corporate activities such as design, research, development, and customer support. However, many corporate governance structures are still designed on the premise that humans perform tasks, make judgments, and keep records. When AI agents become involved in decision-making and execution, there is a lack of structure to explain 'who judged what, why, how it was executed, and how it was verified.' This issue is particularly prominent in the field of AI-driven development. The challenge for companies is how to control, verify, audit, and continuously improve business operations performed by AI agents. dodoAI is being developed as a Sovereign Agentic OS to address this challenge by enabling the operation of AI agents under corporate governance.

Business Description 'dodoAI' is an AI governance and operations platform for enterprises, targeting all areas where AI agents work as part of an organization, starting with the initial use case of AI-driven development. It supports corporate accountability, audit trails, and continuous improvement cycles through a 'semantic digital twin,' which connects each process stage as semantic information.

The system features an 'Agent-neutral' design, not dependent on specific LLMs or AI agents, allowing companies to sovereignly govern model selection, deployment environments, and execution policies. It supports deployment on major public clouds as well as on-premise and air-gapped environments. Its multi-LLM/Agent-neutral configuration enables flexible operation according to each organization's requirements.

The company has conducted trials of 'dodoAI' in collaboration with major enterprises in the automotive, finance, telecommunications, and energy sectors. In a trial with a major non-life insurance company, it achieved a significant reduction in man-hours (35-98% in specific areas) while meeting quality standards in AI-driven development for a portion of a core system.

Use of Funds and Future Outlook The newly raised capital will be allocated to three key areas: - Accelerating product development: Enhancing 'dodoAI' features and strengthening availability, security, and audit support for highly regulated industries like finance, manufacturing, and energy. - Strengthening engineering talent acquisition: Expanding the development teams in Tokyo and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, focusing on AI agent architecture, distributed systems, and security. - Expanding enterprise business development: Building an implementation and operational support system and accelerating deployment in highly regulated sectors.

The company aims to build a new enterprise governance platform for the AI agent era, focusing on industries requiring high accountability and auditability.

About the Investment Soichi Tajima, CEO/General Partner, and Naoki Kurosaki, Investment Manager at Genesia Ventures, stated that the 'Control Plane' for enterprises to safely and horizontally use AI agents will become the most critical area. They praised dodoAI's approach for tackling the structural difficulties companies face in promoting AI transformation (AX). They highlighted CEO Murakami's deep understanding of the challenges in enterprise IT/AI, expressing their belief that 'Team dodoAI will present a new way for enterprise IT in the next 10 years.'