About BrowserAnvil

Picks and shovels for the agent gold rush.

AI can read and write the web. Running that capability reliably — with isolation, secrets, evidence, and scale — is an infrastructure problem. We solve it so you don't have to.

Mission

A browser every AI agent can trust.

Every team building an agent eventually hits the same wall: the browser is shared mutable state in someone else's datacenter, and it fights back. We want to turn that wall into a paved road.

We believe the companies that win the agent era will be the ones with the most boring, most reliable infrastructure. No magic. No demos. Just runtime.

2024
Founded
31
People
$27M
Raised to date
4
Offices
Principles

How we build.

Reliability is the feature

A demo that works once is a toy. Agents only matter when they run the 10,000th time exactly like the first.

Security is non-negotiable

Credentials, replays, and customer data are the hard parts. We treat them that way — from day one, not day 200.

Boring infrastructure wins

We borrow from the best: Firecracker, OpenTelemetry, BoringSSL. The fun parts are what you build on top.

Docs are a product

If the docs lie, the product lies. We treat doc bugs at the same severity as runtime bugs.

No surprise bills

Usage-based pricing only works if customers can predict it. We cap, alert, and explain.

Customers, then press

We'd rather ship for a Fortune 500 customer than be on a conference stage. The customer is the case study.

Story

From a broken headless Chrome pool to a platform.

2023

The problem

Our founders were running an agent startup. 80% of the roadmap was browser infrastructure, not the agent.

Q1 2024

Pivot

Sold the agent business. Started writing the runtime we wished we had.

Q3 2024

First customer

A Series B fintech moved their KYC agent over in a weekend. Never looked back.

Q1 2025

Series A

$22M led by a top-tier infra fund. The thesis: every agent needs a browser, and building it is not the agent team's job.

Q3 2025

SOC 2 + HIPAA

Our Fortune 500 customers asked. We delivered in one audit cycle.

2026

Where we are

180+ production customers. 2.4M sessions a month. Still hiring.

Team

Who's building it.

Dara Okafor

Co-founder, CEO

Prev: eng lead on an agent platform (acq'd). 10 years shipping browser automation that didn't break.

Mikael Brun

Co-founder, CTO

Prev: Cloudflare edge team. Knows more about TLS fingerprinting than anyone should.

Priya Raman

Head of Product

Prev: Stripe, then an RPA company. Knows what "enterprise-ready" really means.

Thomas Lang

Head of Security

Prev: Google security eng. Wrote chapters of the standards we implement.

Hana Weiss

Head of DevRel

Prev: Vercel. Believes docs are UX.

Juno Park

Head of GTM

Prev: Datadog early sales. Sells to engineers, in their language.

Olu Idowu

Head of Operations

Prev: AWS. Keeps the microVM fleet honest.

Anya Petrov

Head of Design

Prev: Linear. Builds the dashboard you actually want to live in.

Built on

The shoulders of giants.

Firecracker Firecracker
Chromium Chromium
Playwright Playwright
OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry
Rust Rust
Linux Linux/KVM

Plus every engineer and researcher who made agent infrastructure possible.

Offices

Where we work.

San Francisco

Headquarters. Product, engineering, and go-to-market.

New York

Enterprise sales and financial-services solutions.

London

EU data-residency region and EMEA support.

Remote

About 40% of the team. North America and EU timezones.

Careers

We're hiring.

Engineering

Staff Runtime Engineer

Firecracker, Chromium, low-level networking. SF or remote.

Engineering

Senior Platform Engineer

Control plane, multi-region, compliance surface. SF or remote.

Security

Security Engineer

Vault, isolation model, audit tooling. Remote.

DevRel

Developer Advocate

Own the agent-framework integrations. Remote.

Sales

Enterprise AE

Fortune 500 accounts, East Coast. NYC or remote.

Design

Product Designer

Dashboard, replay, vault. SF or remote.

See all roles
Press

In the news.

TechCrunch

"BrowserAnvil raises $22M to be the Stripe for agent browsers"

March 2025

The Information

"The quiet infrastructure layer powering the AI agent boom"

June 2025

Latent Space

"How agent teams think about reliability"

Podcast, September 2025

Stratechery

"Picks and shovels, revisited"

November 2025

IEEE Spectrum

"The browser is the new operating system for agents"

February 2026

Hacker News

"Show HN: We open-sourced our agent replay format"

April 2026

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