AIsa has completed its seed extension round with Tether Capital and HIVEN joining as strategic investors, bringing the enterprise agentic AI infrastructure company’s total funding to more than $9 million. According to Cointelegraph, the new investors joined a group that includes Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Draper Associates and Saison Capital.
Funding and strategic investors
The San Francisco-based startup develops infrastructure for enterprise AI agents—software systems designed to perform tasks and interact with data, applications and services on behalf of organizations. AIsa’s founder and CEO, Jordan Liu, said the company aims to help agents find, access and pay for resources globally while allowing businesses to retain control over permissions, spending and transactions.
Tether Capital and HIVEN participated as strategic investors in the completed seed extension. The financing takes AIsa’s cumulative funding above $9 million, although the source material does not specify the size of the extension itself or the individual contributions from investors.
Infrastructure for enterprise AI agents
AIsa says enterprise AI agents face difficulties operating in production because relevant providers, integrations and billing systems are fragmented. Its platform is intended to bring these functions together in one infrastructure layer.
The company’s system links enterprise agents with external data, AI search, models, application programming interfaces (APIs), software tools and industry services. It also combines controlled access with usage measurement, billing and settlement, which are the processes used to calculate, charge for and complete payments for resources.
For businesses deploying AI agents at scale, these controls are intended to address both access and financial management. The company’s stated focus is not only on enabling agents to use outside services, but also on helping enterprises govern what those agents can access and spend.
Tether’s investment activity
Tether Capital is the independent investment arm of Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin. Tether says the investment group uses capital from the company’s profits and excess reserves. In June 2024, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the venture group expected to invest at least $1 billion in deals.
Tether said the AIsa investment follows a broader pattern of backing projects at the intersection of artificial intelligence, software and digital transactions. The company also referred to its investment in NEURA Robotics, which included plans to integrate Tether’s Wallet Development Kit. That integration was intended to allow machines to run AI locally and transact within predefined limits.
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