Obot AI

About Obot AI

Obot AI is a software company that provides an open-source platform to help enterprises manage the adoption of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, the company was established by the team that previously created Rancher Labs and Cloud.com. The CEO is Sheng Liang. In September 2025, Obot AI announced it had raised $35 million in a seed funding round co-led by Mayfield Fund and Nexus Venture Partners.

The company’s core product is the Obot MCP Gateway, launched in August 2025. The gateway functions as a centralized control plane for enterprise IT teams to manage and secure the growing use of MCP servers, which act as the connection between AI models and a company's internal applications, APIs, and data. The platform addresses issues of fragmentation and a lack of governance in AI adoption by allowing IT teams to onboard and manage MCP servers, define security and access policies, monitor usage, and provide a discoverable catalog of approved MCPs for employees. The gateway's main components include an administrative control plane, an MCP hosting and proxying service, and a user-facing catalog for discovering and connecting to MCP servers.

The Obot MCP Gateway is designed for IT administrators, developers, and business users. It supports connections to a variety of AI clients and business tools like Office365, Jira, and GitHub. The business model is based on software subscriptions. Obot AI offers a free, open-source version of its gateway, while a premium Enterprise Edition provides additional features and support for larger organizations.