a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents

AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round, which values Runta at more than $100 million, The Information reported.

‘Parenting’ AI agents

Runta’s founder, Guanlan Dai, is a father of two, and he sees AI agents a little like precocious children. Parents childproof the house and keep the credit card out of reach. Developers, he argues, must limit which files an agent can touch and how much it can spend at once.

His company helps businesses “parent” their agents. It wraps them in isolated environments and guardrails, so a rogue agent cannot run up a bill or wreck a system.

A computer for every agent

Runta is trying to rebuild the layer where agents actually...

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