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Sapiom launched infrastructure to power the 'agentic economy' and announced a…

Brief

Sapiom launched a unified infrastructure on 2026-08-05 to power the 'agentic economy' and closed a $35M Series A from Dragonfly, Accel, Anthropic, Coinbase Ventures, and Okta Ventures. Built by Ilan Zerbib (ex-Shopify payments engineer), Sapiom issues a single API key, pays upstream providers, and enforces a hard spending cap so agents can access models, SMS, and voice without multiple provider accounts.

Why it matters

Sapiom launched infrastructure to power the 'agentic economy' and announced a $35M Series A on 2026-08-05, backed by Dragonfly, Accel, Anthropic, Coinbase Ventures, and Okta Ventures.

Key details

  • Sapiom abstracts multiple provider integrations into a single API key so 'Sapiom pays the providers for you'; users set a hard spending cap and 'agents can’t go past it'—solving signup friction where agents typically require OpenRouter, Twilio, and ElevenLabs accounts (3 keys, 3 credit cards).
  • Product built by Ilan Zerbib (@i_zerbib), who ran payments engineering at Shopify and shipped Shop Pay; Sapiom launched three new products aimed at reducing cost and access barriers to scale toward the 'next trillion agents.'
Cleaned source text

JUST IN @sapiom just launched the infrastructure powering the agentic economy.

They also announced a massive $35M Series A backed by Dragonfly, Accel, Anthropic, Coinbase Ventures, and Okta Ventures to unlock the next trillion agents.

Their first target?

Cost and access.

eg if you want your agent to call a model, send a text, and generate voice, you usually need an OpenRouter, Twilio, and ElevenLabs account.

That's 3 keys, 3 credit cards on file.

Sapiom fixes this by abstracting it all into one key:

> Sapiom pays the providers for you

> you set a hard spending cap

> agents can’t go past it

Built by @i_zerbib (who ran payments engineering at Shopify and shipped Shop Pay), IMO this is the exact infrastructure AI needs to operate autonomously at scale.

Check it out here 👀↓

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Ilan Zerbib (@i_zerbib)

@sapiom just raised a $35 million Series A from @dragonfly_xyz , @Accel , @AnthropicAI and others to help unlock the next trillion agents.

The first thing we’re tackling is cost.

To make that happen, we are launching three new products today at Sapiom.ai

— https://nitter.net/i_zerbib/status/2085064722060398872#m