Company: BAND
Co-Founders: Arick Goomanovsky, Vlad Luzin
Website: https://www.band.ai/
About BAND
BAND (legal entity: Thenvoi AI Ltd.) was founded in mid-2025 by Arick Goomanovsky (CEO) and Vlad Luzin (CTO), and emerged from stealth in April 2026 with a $17 million seed round led by Sierra Ventures, with participation from Hetz Ventures and Team8. The company is building the coordination and communication layer for multi-agent AI systems, an infrastructure category that Gartner now refers to as the universal orchestrator, and Forrester as the agent control plane. By 2029, Gartner predicts that 90 percent of enterprises deploying multiple agents will require this layer.
The founders have been preparing for this problem for decades. Arick, a graduate of Unit 8200 and Hebrew University, is a serial entrepreneur with two exits behind him: Sygnia, which sold to Temasek for $250 million, and Ermetic, which was acquired by Tenable for roughly $300 million, after which he joined Tenable as VP of Product Innovation. Vlad, a graduate of the Israeli Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D) and Hebrew University, has more than 20 years of experience in distributed systems and AI. In the early 2000s he led the multi-agent systems team in the office of the CTO at Samsung, well before the current agentic wave. He also held senior engineering roles at Verint and CME Group.
BAND has confronted two main challenges since launch. The first is technical. Existing multi-agent frameworks such as LangChain and CrewAI were designed for prototyping rather than production, and most rely on a language model to make routing decisions at runtime, which is brittle, costly, and difficult to audit. BAND took a different approach. Routing on the platform is fully deterministic and does not depend on an LLM in the critical path, and the underlying technology is proprietary and patent-pending. The team also built a full-duplex, multi-peer communication protocol that lets agents collaborate continuously in real time, alongside a credential-traversal mechanism that ensures delegated agents only access data the original user is permitted to see. The result is a framework-agnostic, cloud-agnostic system that enterprises can deploy with the predictability, observability, and governance their production environments demand.
The second challenge is commercial. BAND is creating a category that did not have a name when the company started. Closing a $17 million seed led by Tim Guleri of Sierra Ventures, onboarding design partners that include leading North American telcos and European digital payment companies, and shipping a tiered commercial product within months of stealth required a clear, technically credible point of view, and a team able to defend it in enterprise rooms.
The impact on the AI industry is already taking shape. BAND sits above the agent frameworks and below business applications, providing the layer that makes multi-agent AI deployable in production. The platform lets agents discover one another, share context, delegate tasks, and operate under enforced policy, both inside the enterprise and across SaaS and partner systems. By standardising how agents communicate, BAND is laying the groundwork for what many in the industry now call the internet of agents.
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