Lua, an Irish co-founded and London-based agentic workforce AI start-up, has raised $5.8 million (€5.3 million) in funding led by Norrsken22 to expand its AI agent developer platform, according to Silicon Republic.

The company has built a platform enabling customers to build AI agents through collaboration, regardless of technical depth or skill. The funding will support continued development of Lua's developer community and the Lua Implementation Network, a growing community of independent partners deploying Lua agentic workforces in their own markets globally.

Other investors included Flourish Ventures, 20VC, P1 Ventures, Phosphor Capital and Y Combinator, alongside angels including Henri Stern, CEO at Privy; Kaz Nejatian, CEO at Opendoor; and Med Benmansour, CEO at Nuitee.

Lorcan O'Cathain, CEO and co-founder at Lua, said: "The companies that will win over the next few years are the ones that build their agent workforce with the same intentionality they bring to their human workforce. Most businesses are either blocked by technical complexity or locked into rigid tools that don't reflect how their teams actually work. Lua is built on the opposite principle: teams own their agents, own their outcomes and build compounding efficiency over time."

The service offers a full-stack agent platform suitable for technical and non-technical users, running inside existing systems while coordinating handoffs between agents and humans. Lua reported agent numbers on its platform grew tenfold during Q1.

Founded in 2024 by O'Cathain and CTO Stefan Kruger, Lua has been deployed across emerging markets in Africa and Asia alongside customers in the US and Europe. The company proposes solutions for customers in healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing and real estate sectors.

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