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Tether has joined AIsa’s seed extension round as a strategic investor, alongside HIVEN, the company said on Sunday, bringing AIsa’s total funding to more than $9 million. The San Francisco-based firm builds infrastructure for enterprise AI agents, Cointelegraph reported.
The two newcomers join a backer list that already includes Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Draper Associates and Saison Capital, among others. AIsa announced the close of the round in a Friday statement.
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Key facts
- AIsa completed its seed extension round with Tether and HIVEN joining as strategic investors.
- The round lifts AIsa’s total funding to more than $9 million.
- Earlier backers include Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Draper Associates and Saison Capital.
- AIsa’s network connects enterprise agents to data, AI search, models, APIs, software tools and industry services.
- The announcement came in a Friday statement from the San Francisco-based company.
What AIsa is selling
AIsa describes its offering as a Trusted Resource and Transaction Network for Enterprise AI Agents. The idea is to give companies a single governed system instead of stitching together separate vendors, integrations and billing arrangements.
That consolidation matters because fragmented providers, integrations and billing systems make it hard for enterprise AI agents to run in production and scale, according to the statement. AIsa’s network combines governed access to outside resources with usage metering, billing and settlement, the company said.
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Jordan Liu, founder and CEO of AIsa, framed the goal as moving customers past the assistant stage. In the Friday statement, Liu said enterprises need trusted information, useful tools and a governed way to transact, and that the company’s aim is infrastructure letting agents find, access and pay for resources globally while the business keeps control of permissions, spending and transactions. He described the new capital as support for accelerating the shift toward autonomous, production-ready agents.
Tether’s financial backdrop
Tether’s investment lands after another strong quarter for the stablecoin issuer. On July 31, CoinPulseHQ reported that Tether posted $1.5 billion in net operating profit for the second quarter, driven mainly by interest on its US Treasury holdings and repurchase agreements.
The stake gives the issuer of the largest stablecoin an early position in infrastructure aimed at agent-driven payments, a usage pattern that would run on programmable money rather than traditional card rails.
Why it matters
Enterprise software vendors have spent the past two years moving AI features from demos into production, and payment and permission controls have become the sticking point. A round of this size will not decide the market, but Tether’s name lends credibility to the idea that AI agents should transact through governed, metered rails.
For buyers, the pitch is fewer contracts and clearer spending controls. For Tether, it is a foothold in a category where stablecoins could become the default settlement layer if agent-to-service payments scale.
What to watch
How AIsa converts the new capital into production deployments is the next test: named enterprise customers, usage volumes and how settlement on its network is priced and executed. Tether’s next quarterly results will also show whether treasury income continues to fund its investment programme.
Reported by cointelegraph.com.
Source: Cointelegraph