dodoAI raises ¥280M seed for enterprise AI governance platform

Tokyo-based dodoAI has closed a ¥280 million seed round led by Genesia Ventures.

The company, founded in May 2022 as 58 Inc., changed its name to dodoAI on June 1, 2026, to align with its flagship product.

The round included participation from two insurance-linked investors — Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital — alongside Quantum Leap Ventures and Speee CEO Hideki Otsuka.

dodoAI offers what it calls a “Sovereign Agentic OS,” a governance layer for AI agents performing corporate work. The platform monitors, verifies, and audits AI-generated outputs while requiring human approval before final actions are taken. It is model-agnostic, supporting OpenAI, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google Gemini, and can be deployed in public cloud, on-premises, or air-gapped environments. The company is targeting regulated industries including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, and energy.

The company disclosed one insurance use case: a pilot project with a large property and casualty insurer in which dodoAI applied AI-driven development to a single subsystem within a core platform consisting of roughly 300 subsystems. According to the company, the project reduced labor requirements by between 35% and 98% in the targeted areas while maintaining quality standards.

The new funding will be used for product development, engineering hires, and enterprise deployments. dodoAI employs 34 people across offices in Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh City, and Hanoi.