# Band Raises $17M Seed to Solve AI Agent Coordination Problem

- slug: band-raises-17m-seed-to-solve-ai-agent-coordination-problem
- date: 2026-04-23
- category: Agentics

Band raised $17M to be the WhatsApp of AI agents. The problem: Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI already gave the answer to the Linux Foundation — free, open, and running on 10,000 servers.

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