Herdr raises $6M to put a team behind its solo agent runtime

Bessemer led the seed round as founder Can Celik turns Herdr's open-source runtime for persistent coding agents into a developer-tools company.

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Why it matters

Long-running coding agents need persistence, status tracking and remote control outside any single model vendor's interface. Herdr's round backs that runtime layer while testing whether open-source adoption can support a durable developer-tools business.

An illuminated, holographic terminal displays a dynamic open agent runtime with many small, glowing software agents interacting within a sophisticated digital system.

Can Celik (@cancelik) has raised a $6 million seed round for Herdr, the open-source runtime he built to keep fleets of AI coding agents running after engineers close their laptops or lose an SSH connection.

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