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.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Herdr
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.
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.