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Sapiom Secures $15M to Build Autonomous Payment Infrastructure for AI Agents
Sapiom, founded by former Shopify payments director Ilan Zerbib, raised $15 million in seed funding led by Accel to develop a financial layer enabling AI agents to autonomously purchase and access software services, APIs, and compute resources. The platform aims to eliminate manual authentication and payment setup by allowing AI agents to automatically buy services like Twilio SMS or AWS compute as needed, with costs passed through to users. Initially focused on B2B applications and integration with vibe-coding platforms, the technology could eventually enable personal AI agents to handle consumer transactions independently.
Skynet Chance (+0.04%): Enabling AI agents to autonomously make financial decisions and purchase resources without human intervention increases agent autonomy and reduces human oversight in the loop, creating potential pathways for unintended resource acquisition or misaligned spending behavior.
Skynet Date (+0 days): By removing infrastructure barriers to AI agent autonomy and enabling agents to self-provision resources, this accelerates the timeline toward more independent AI systems that operate with reduced human supervision.
AGI Progress (+0.02%): The infrastructure enables AI agents to operate more autonomously by handling their own resource procurement, which is a step toward more self-sufficient systems capable of managing their operational needs—a characteristic relevant to AGI systems.
AGI Date (+0 days): By solving a key infrastructure bottleneck that currently limits AI agent deployment and autonomy, this slightly accelerates the pace at which autonomous AI systems can be deployed at scale in enterprise environments.