Dedalus Labs is Building the Infrastructure Layer for Developers to Ship AI Agents

Dedalus Labs, building an infrastructure layer for shipping AI agents at a rocket-fast speed, led by Catherine Di and Windsor Nguyen, has raised $11 million in seed funding co-led by Kindred Ventures and Saga Ventures, with participation from E14 Fund, Emergence Capital, Sunshine Lake, Transpose Platform, Liquid 2 Ventures, FPV Ventures, Twenty Two Ventures, Telescope Foundation, Spot VC, Operator Partners, and Y Combinator. Dedalus Labs is also backed by a group of angels, including Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face Co-Founder/CSO), Cal Henderson (Slack Co-Founder/CTO), Ant Wilson (Supabase Co-Founder / CTO), Thomas Dohmke (former GitHub CEO), Tri Dao (FlashAttention; Together AI Chief Scientist), and Elad Hazan (AdaGrad; Google DeepMind & Princeton University).

Agentic workflows are orchestrations of models and tools, where agents use the right capabilities and safeguards to execute complex processes without hard-coded logic. Traditional workflows, by contrast, lack flexibility and scalability, often relying on rigid interfaces or single-provider lock-ins, with few being production-ready.

The right abstraction isn’t another editor or framework; it’s a developer-native layer that makes building non-linear, tool-equipped agents as simple as one function call. Dedalus removes deployment friction, cutting MCP setup from days to clicks. With the Dedalus SDK, agents can chain tools, handle model handoffs, and stream across providers in just a few lines of code, making agent development effortless.

Building agents once meant days of custom API stitching, until Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP standardizes how AI models communicate with external tools, creating a universal, predictable interface. As adoption grows, exposing services as MCP servers transforms them into agent-accessible platforms, unlocking a powerful new distribution channel. Dedalus is building the infrastructure to enable this shift.

Open source remains core to Dedalus’ mission. The company is launching the first industry-grade MCP Authorization Server, a production-ready system for secure token management and policy delegation.

Dedalus is shaping the future of agentic infrastructure while building a community around tool use and post-training. It’s becoming the backbone for how companies build, ship, and scale agents.

This December, Dedalus will debut Break In, a 3-week hacker house with The Residency to help top founders break into Silicon Valley.