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April 23, 2025

Exclusive: Kindred Capital backs AI agents startup Cakewalk in $7.5m seed round

Cakewalk helps companies manage employee access to internal software with its army of AI agents

AI agents startup Cakewalk has raised a $7.5m seed round led by Kindred Capital and San Francisco-based VC firm Vertex Ventures. 

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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