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Uvi says its context layer cuts agent cost from $0.75–$1.41 to 10–16 cents per answer

Uvi says its context layer cuts agent cost from $0.75–$1.41 to 10–16 cents per answer — Newsmesis editorial illustration
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What happened

Uvi, an Israeli-founded agent-infrastructure startup formally named Naboo Research Ltd., raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by CT Innovations, with Cardumen, Mana VC and 91 Ventures participating. The company says AI agents that run without its "context reasoning layer" cost $0.75 to $1.41 per response, and that routing through Uvi lowers that to an average of 10 to 16 cents. Those figures come from Uvi's own benchmarks, not an independent test. Separately, New York-based Evos announced a $9 million pre-seed round for agents that perform operational work at small and mid-sized industrial firms.

What we know

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  • Uvi raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by CT Innovations, with Cardumen, Mana VC and 91 Ventures participating, per SiliconANGLE.
  • Uvi's own benchmarks put the cost of agents without its layer at $0.75 to $1.41 per response, sometimes above $2, versus an average of 10 to 16 cents with it, CEO Gilad Salinger told SiliconANGLE.
  • On open-ended questions, where agents can loop through repeated searches, Uvi says its agents cost 46 times less and answer twice as fast, per SiliconANGLE.
  • Uvi names Monday.com, Lemonade and Melio as customers, per SiliconANGLE.
  • Evos, founded in 2026 and based in New York, announced $9 million in pre-seed funding co-led by Uncork Capital and Field Ventures, per a contributed article on The Next Web that the outlet says its newsroom did not produce.

What we don't know yet

  • Whether Uvi's cost figures hold outside its own benchmark setup. No independent test was cited, and the "eight times" headline figure refers to internally built agents on average.
  • Which customers use the product in production and at what scale. Only Monday.com was described in any detail.
  • Whether Evos's reported results, such as a freight brokerage's roughly 3,500 invoice-audit decisions at 97% accuracy, reflect typical performance. The figures come from the company and a customer quoted in a company-supplied piece.
  • How much of the cost gap is due to agent design rather than missing shared context, and how competing retrieval or memory approaches compare.

Why it matters

Enterprises running internally built agents are starting to count per-answer token cost as well as accuracy, and a claimed 5x to 8x gap, if it holds, would change the build-versus-buy math for those teams. Investors are also funding agent infrastructure that stores company context for reuse, which targets a cost that grows with every new deployment.

Claims

  • ConfirmedUvi raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by CT Innovations.
  • ConfirmedUvi's own benchmarks put agent cost without its layer at $0.75 to $1.41 per response.
  • UnconfirmedAgents routed through Uvi cost an average of 10 to 16 cents per answer.
  • UnconfirmedUvi's agents cost 46 times less than non-Uvi agents on open-ended questions.
  • ConfirmedEvos announced $9 million in pre-seed funding co-led by Uncork Capital and Field Ventures.
  • UnconfirmedAn Evos operator at a freight brokerage made nearly 3,500 audit decisions at 97% accuracy in two months.

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