Boxd raises $2M to build cloud infrastructure for AI coding agents
Tech.eu Tamara Djurickovic
Boxd raised $2M to build cloud machines for AI coding agents. It says those agents need persistent, safer environments, not throwaway sandboxes.
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Dutch startup Boxd has pulled in $2 million in pre-seed funding to build cloud infrastructure for developers and AI coding agents. BlueYard Capital led the round, with OVNI Capital, Antler, S20 and Script Capital also backing it, plus business angels from General Intuition and other tech companies.
The company was founded by Michiel Voortman, Laurentiu Ciobanu and Hidde Kehrer. Its pitch is simple: give developers and autonomous agents virtual machines they can use to run code, test software and keep development work moving without having to stitch together a fresh environment every time.
That matters because AI coding agents don’t behave like one developer on one laptop. They can run in parallel, stay alive for long stretches and need environments that don’t vanish the moment a process ends. Boxd says the usual container route gets messy when multiple agents are operating at once, and it also raises security concerns when agents are left unsupervised.
So Boxd is building around persistent, hardware-isolated virtual machines with snapshotting and live-forking. The company says a machine can be copied, including memory and active connections, in under 100 milliseconds. It also keeps the virtualisation stack narrow, focusing on CPU, RAM, storage and networking instead of emulating extra hardware like webcams or USB ports, which Boxd says cuts the attack surface.
The new money will go into hiring and into Boxd’s custom virtualisation engine. That’s the real bet here: not just that AI agents need more compute, but that they need a very specific kind of compute, one that can be duplicated quickly without turning into a security headache.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right direction. AI coding agents are multiplying faster than the industry’s appetite for clean, isolated environments, and the container-and-pray era is starting to look pretty tired. The interesting bit isn’t the hype around agents; it’s the boring infrastructure layer that decides whether they’re useful or just expensive chaos.
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