Namespace (developer infrastructure company)

Namespace was founded in Zurich in 2022 by former Google principal engineer Hugo Santos, who serves as founder and CEO; its legal name is Namespace Labs Inc.⁠[1][2][3]

Explaining why he started the company, Santos said: “At Google, I saw how much great tools & infrastructure changes the way developers work.”⁠[2]

In 2026 Namespace closed a Series A led by NEA, followed seven months later by its Series B.⁠[4][1]

On August 24, 2026, Namespace posted a video on X of unboxing Macs for its new server racks; in November engineer Kirill Nikolaev wrote that the company had deployed hundreds of MacBook Pros in a data center because customers building and testing iOS apps need Macs, and Mac Minis it ordered in January were not delivered until July. Each MacBook is connected to an IP KVM for remote management and an external 10-gigabit Ethernet adapter, and macOS instances run on AppleAppleApple is a public technology company founded in 1976 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Its business includes the iPhone, Mac, iPad, wearables, and services such as digital content, payments, and cloud storage. The company builds its product system through in-house hardware, operating systems, and services.Open the full entry’s Virtualization framework.⁠[5]

On September 2, 2026, Namespace announced a partnership with CursorCursorCursor is the trading name of U.S. AI coding software company Anysphere, Inc. and its namesake coding tool. Founded by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger, it began as an AI-native development environment forked from VS Code and later shifted toward agent-centered coding. Its November 2025 Series D valued the company at $29.3 billion post-money; on August 14, 2026, SpaceX completed an all-stock acquisition at an implied equity value of $60 billion, making Cursor a wholly owned subsidiary.Open the full entry in which Cursor starts and manages cloud agents while the work they do (shell commands, file edits, repository access, builds and tests) runs on Namespace Devboxes, including macOS environments powered by Apple’s M5 chip. Namespace said it also had first-class integrations with Devin and Claude.⁠[6]

On October 5, 2026, Namespace announced a $42 million Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, with NEA, 20VC, Essence, Burst Capital, Susa Ventures and angel investors including Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel participating, bringing total funding to $65 million. The company said its total revenue had grown eightfold over the previous 12 months, that it powered software development for more than 1,000 companies, and that the funds would accelerate product development and expand its data centers, including its Mac fleet.⁠[4][1]

Namespace’s products include Devboxes, development environments for AI coding agents; drop-in replacements for GitHub Actions runners; and acceleration for Docker, Bazel, Turbo and Nix builds, all running on server racks the company designs and deploys itself with its own hypervisor and scheduler.⁠[4]

Namespace: Official website: https://namespace.so/ (opens in a new window).⁠[7]

X: Public account: https://x.com/namespacelabs (opens in a new window).⁠[7]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/company/namespace/ (opens in a new window).⁠[7]