Plurai Raises $13M in Seed Funding Led by Team8

Plurai, an NYC-based simulation infrastructure for AI agents, has raised $13 million in a seed funding round.

The round was led by Team8 with participation from U&I, Velocity and Mercer, and backing from angel investors including Udi Mokady.

The company will use the funding to expand its operations and business reach. Plurai helps enterprises test, improve and monitor AI agents before and after they are deployed to customers.

What is Plurai?

Plurai develops a platform that helps businesses identify and fix problems in AI agents before they reach real users. Its technology also helps keep agents accurate, reliable and cost-efficient once they are in production.

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The platform creates a digital replica of an AI agent and its working environment using a company's knowledge base, tools and policies. It then simulates thousands of realistic and challenging user interactions in a controlled environment to identify issues such as incorrect responses, hallucinations, policy violations, failed tasks, broken tool calls and data leaks.

After identifying these problems, Plurai generates fixes and uses simulation data to train small language models (SLMs) tailored to each agent.

These smaller models can run AI agents at lower costs than larger frontier models. They also act as continuous evaluators and safeguards, checking agent actions and helping enforce company policies. Problems identified in production can be added back into simulations to improve the agents over time.

How Much Funding Has Plurai Raised?

Plurai has raised $13 million in its seed funding round. The company has not disclosed its total funding raised or details of any previous investment rounds.

Who Invested in Plurai’s Seed Round?

The $13 million seed round was led by Team8.

Other participating investors include:

• U&I
• Velocity
• Mercer
• Angel investors, including Udi Mokady

Why the Funding Matters

Plurai plans to use the funding to expand its operations and reach more businesses and AI developers.

The investment will support the company's work on simulation, agent testing and model optimisation. These capabilities address a key challenge for enterprises: AI agents may pass internal testing but still fail when exposed to real customer interactions.

Plurai aims to help businesses identify these problems before deployment and reduce the cost of operating reliable AI systems.

Who founded Plurai?

Plurai was founded in 2025 by Ilan Kadar and Elad Levi. The company is headquartered in New York City.

Market and Business Growth

Plurai reports that it has reduced agent development cycles for its design partners from months to hours. The company also says its platform has reduced failures reaching real users by 82% and lowered the cost of running reliable agents by 97%.

In joint work with NVIDIA and Nebius, Plurai said models it post-trained for a global enterprise customer achieved better accuracy than OpenAI and Anthropic frontier models, at 40 times and 44 times lower costs, respectively.

The company has now opened its platform to all agent developers, including a free tier. Developers can use it with their existing coding tools, while enterprise teams can test agents built on platforms such as Salesforce Agentforce.

What Happens Next?

Plurai plans to expand its operations and make its simulation platform available to more businesses and developers.

The company will continue developing its technology for testing, improving and monitoring AI agents. Its broader goal is to help enterprises deploy agents that become more reliable and less expensive to operate through continuous simulation and model training.

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