Lua, an operating system for human and agent collaboration, has raised £4.2 million in funding led by Norrsken22, with participation from Flourish Ventures, 20VC, P1 Ventures, Phosphor Capital and Y Combinator along with angels Henri Stern, Kaz Nejatian and Med Benmansour. It enables teams to build, own, and manage their own agent workforce and will use the funding to continue to build out its developer community and the Lua Implementation Network.
The platform allows teams, regardless of technical depth, to build and deploy agents using either a command line interface or a natural language interface. Lua handles infrastructure, model orchestration, data, integrations, and monitoring, so businesses only need to define business logic and integrations. Both technical and non-technical users can work on the same agents, enabling teams to create and run coordinated agent workflows alongside human workers within existing systems.
Founded by Lorcan O'Cathain and Stefan Kruger, Lua builds on the founders’ experience scaling a fintech business in East Africa, where O'Cathain was COO and Kruger was CTO. Prior to Lua, O'Cathain was managing director of Zephyr Management's Africa business, while Kruger was VP of Engineering at Paystack, joining before its acquisition by Stripe. Since launching its agent developer platform in October 2025, Lua has grown revenue close to 30% week-on-week, and in February 2026 more agents were built on the platform than in the entire cumulative period since launch.
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. Most agent platforms compound this with black box tooling and per-outcome pricing: the more your agents succeed, the more you pay, with no pathway to improving your agent economics. Lua is built on the opposite principle: teams own their agents, own their outcomes, and build compounding efficiency over time.
We are thrilled to support Lua. The founders fundamentally understand how agent and human workforces need to collaborate to get work done. Additionally, they are a global company that has deployed in Africa, Asia, the U.S. and Europe with deep experience, a volume of data, and a pricing intuition that's difficult to replicate. We’re excited to help them build out this operating system for human and agent workforces.
