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Leaders inAgent NativeDevelopment
Recognizing engineering leaders spearheading the shift to agent-native development and transforming the way software gets built within organizations.
Organized by Matan Grinberg (CEO, Factory) and Lauren Reeder (Partner, Sequoia).
Industry-Leading Companies
Representing the world's most innovative enterprises
Software development is changing. Not driven by the technologies alone, but by leaders who understand how to harness agent-native systems with intent. As machines begin to reason alongside humans, the advantage shifts from access to tools toward the ability to orchestrate them, embedding intelligence directly into how engineering organizations operate.
The Agent Native 40 recognizes the leaders guiding this transition. They are introducing new operating models for software development and setting the standards by which agent-native systems are evaluated and trusted.
The change is visible in how teams work. Shipping speed improves, iteration becomes tighter, and AI moves from experiment to expectation. These forty leaders are setting the foundation for how modern engineering organizations build and scale agent native development.
The Agent Native 40
Pioneering leaders transforming enterprise software development with AI
How we identify the leaders transforming software.
Novel integration of agents across development workflows. Implementation that meaningfully changes how teams build, deploy, and iterate in production environments.
Broad and durable adoption of agent-driven development across teams and organizations. AI embedded into standard engineering workflows, not confined to pilots or isolated use cases.
Quantifiable improvements in velocity, quality, and engineering efficiency. Measured gains in delivery speed, iteration cycles, and operational performance that reflect real-world impact.
Speed paired with discipline. Rapid movement from exploration to production, supported by strong internal frameworks for evaluation, reliability, security, and governance.
Leadership that extends beyond a single organization. Peer recognition and contributions through talks, publications, and open source that help advance agent-native development across the broader ecosystem.
The Factory Team and Lauren Reeder from Sequoia created the Agent Native 40 because both believe the way software is built is undergoing a fundamental shift.
Factory is building a frontier software development agent and has deep visibility into how top engineering teams are adopting AI across their workflows. Sequoia invests in the most ambitious founders and has a unique vantage point on the leaders defining generational changes. This list brings together those perspectives to recognize the people building the future.
Building Droid, the frontier software development agent. Available to anyone, with any model, in any IDE/terminal.
factory.aiPartnering with daring founders to build legendary companies. Backing the outliers who shape the future.
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