Boxd raises $2M to build cloud infrastructure for AI coding agents

Dutch startup Boxd has closed a $2 million pre-seed round to build cloud infrastructure for developers and AI coding agents. BlueYard Capital led the deal, with OVNI Capital, Antler, S20 and Script Capital also in the mix, plus angels from General Intuition and other tech companies.

The company was founded by Michiel Voortman, Laurentiu Ciobanu and Hidde Kehrer. Its pitch is simple enough: AI coding agents need real computers to work on, not disposable sandboxes that vanish the moment a process ends. Boxd is building virtual machines that let those agents execute code, run tests and handle development workflows without having to rebuild their environment every time.

That matters because these agents increasingly run in parallel, and traditional setups can get messy fast. Boxd says one machine per agent, or a pile of containers, becomes hard to manage once multiple systems are working at once. Letting them run unsupervised also raises security concerns, which is where Boxd is trying to position itself.

The platform lets teams spin up as many cloud machines as they need, then snapshot and live-fork them. Boxd says a running machine can be copied, memory and active connections included, in under 100 milliseconds. That is meant to help developers and agents try different approaches at the same time without spending all day configuring separate environments.

Instead of emulating a long list of hardware features, Boxd keeps the virtualization layer focused on CPU, RAM, storage and networking. The company argues that narrower setup reduces the attack surface and helps with the risks that come with autonomous agents. It plans to use the money to grow the team and keep building its custom virtualization engine.