Published on
April 23, 2026
AI agents are moving from prototypes to production systems inside the enterprise. What began as isolated copilots is rapidly becoming coordinated networks of agents operating across engineering, security, operations, and business workflows. As that shift accelerates, a critical infrastructure gap is emerging.
The Numbers Behind the Shift
Agent adoption is not a future event. It is happening right now, at scale, across enterprise functions. The gap between where the market is headed and the current infrastructure's ability to support it is exactly where Band operates.
The blind spot: enterprises are building agents fast, but almost no one has solved for how they talk to each other. Every framework, from LangChain to CrewAI to Salesforce Agentforce, was built to run a single agent or a single pipeline. None were designed for a world where dozens of agents, built by different teams on different frameworks, must coordinate in real time across organizational boundaries.
That coordination gap is the next enterprise infrastructure problem. Band is building the solution.
Why No One Owns This Yet
The agent infrastructure landscape has four distinct clusters, and none of them address the coordination problem Band is targeting.
Band is not competing with frameworks or protocols. It sits above them, enabling the agents built by all of those tools to discover each other, delegate tasks, and operate with shared context and governance. This is the same architectural role that SMTP played for email, or REST played for web services. The category needs a backbone, and no one has built it yet at runtime.
Before Band and After Band
The architecture problem is easier to understand visually. Today's enterprise agent deployments are islands. After Band, they become a coordinated system.
The Enterprise Blindspot
Before investing, we spent time with engineering and security leaders across our network of Fortune 2000 CXOs, and the pattern was consistent.
Teams running one or two agents in production do not feel this pain. Teams running swarms do, and they are solving it with brittle in-house glue: custom message buses, hand-rolled handoff logic, ad-hoc identity and security layers.
This is the inflection point Band is built for. Distributed computing needed a networking stack before it could scale. Web services needed REST before they could federate. In each case, the coordination layer arrived just after the proliferation moment, when teams had accumulated enough fragmented deployments to feel the pain acutely. Enterprise AI is at that exact moment.
The Team That Can Build This
Band is led by Arick Goomanovsky and Vlad Luzin.
Arick previously co-founded Sygnia (acquired by Temasek) and Ermetic (acquired by Tenable), and brings deep experience selling technical infrastructure into the enterprise. Vlad led multi-agent systems research at Samsung and brings deep distributed systems experience from senior engineering and architecture roles in financial and enterprise environments.
Infrastructure categories require new founders who have built enterprise-grade systems from zero, navigated complex stakeholder environments, and delivered exits. Arick and Vlad are not learning the enterprise while building Band. They have been in those rooms, navigated those procurement cycles, and shipped at the scale Band needs to reach.
Why We Wrote The Check
At SIERRA, we have built our firm around helping early-stage founders land their first Fortune 2000 customers and design partners. For an infrastructure company defining a new category, that distribution matters as much as the technology. Band is exactly the kind of company we built our network for: a technical team solving a real problem at the right layer of the stack, at the moment, enterprise buyers are starting to ask for it.
We are partnering with Hetz Ventures and Team8 on this round, and are excited to back Arick, Vlad, and the team as they build the coordination backbone for enterprise AI.