For the past eighteen months, the corporate world has been obsessed with the “builder” phase of the generative AI revolution. Enterprises have raced to deploy autonomous agents to handle everything from customer support to complex codebase refactoring. However, as these digital workers proliferate, a new, more structural problem has emerged: fragmentation. Agents built on LangChain cannot easily hand off tasks to those built on CrewAI; a Salesforce-embedded agent has no native way to coordinate with a custom-built Python script running on a private cloud. Today, a new startup, BAND (also known as Thenvoi AI Ltd.) exited stealth with $17 million in Seed funding to provide the “interaction infrastructure” necessary to turn these isolated tools into a unified, collaborative workforce. “In order for agents to become real players in the global economy, they need ways to communicate, just like humans do,” said co-founder and CEO Arick Goomanovsky in an interview with VentureBeat, continuing, “the communication solutions we have today for systems don’t work for agents, because agents are non-deterministic creatures. It’s not just about API integrations.”By introducing a deterministic communication layer that functions as a “Slack for agents,” BAND aims to move the industry from a collection of fragile experiments to a scalable, “agentic economy”.Introducing the ‘agentic mesh’At the core of BAND’s thesis is that simply creating and plugging AI agents into human communication tools like Slack causes them to lose context or require constant “rehydration” if they fail and re-enter a conversation.“You can’t take a bunch of agents and put them into Slack and expect it to miraculously work,” Goomanovsky said.BAND solves this through a …
