Namespace has raised $23 million in Seed and Series A funding to build what it calls the compute layer for code. The round was led by NEA with participation from Susa Ventures and burst.vc. The company argues that software development has become bottlenecked by workflows that are slow, expensive to scale, and increasingly strained by AI coding agents.

Traditional CI/CD pipelines already struggle with human-authored code, but bursty, parallel workloads from agents are pushing these systems to their limits. Namespace is building infrastructure from first principles to handle the unique demands of code execution: bursty but latency-sensitive, incremental yet highly parallel, with strict requirements for reproducibility, security, and efficiency.

The platform serves both human developers and AI agents, with companies like fal.ai, LiveKit, Framer, Vanta, Verkada, and Zed already depending on it. Buildkite uses Namespace for Hosted Agents, and Warp.dev builds Background Agents on the same multi-tenant platform. The company started with CI/CD as a clear bottleneck but sees this as just the beginning.