Paygentic will use the investment to grow the team, and accelerate product development, supporting ever more innovative agentic billing patterns, and reinforce their payments infrastructure to serve their growing customer base.

The company was founded by Susan O’Neill and Samuel Alarco Cantos and has been backed by several VC firms, including MiddleGame Ventures, which has led the round, with support from Anamcara Capital, Aperture, Alan Morgan (Chairman at Adfisco), and Angel Invest among others.

Paygentic has been set up to address a major problem faced by AI-native companies. AI-native companies face variable computation costs, but owing to limitations in payments and billing systems typically charge fixed monthly SaaS fees. This does not allow them to benefit from upside risks in their business, but also leaves them exposed to downside risks. Paygentic provides tooling and infrastructure to address this issue and enables AI-native businesses to monetize their platforms using hybrid, subscriptions, usage-based and outcome-based models. AI-native businesses are a growing market, with data illustrating that ‘AI Native’ startups recently passed $15 billion in annualised revenue.

Susan O’Neill, Co-Founder and CEO, Paygentic said: “We built Paygentic because we saw first-hand that traditional billing solutions break the moment things get complex. AI founders lack the flexible infrastructure needed to price and monetize their products effectively. Getting pricing right is critical for customer success in this extremely competitive market - and that’s exactly what Paygentic delivers. Our platform solves this by enabling AI companies to charge for what actually matters and scale as fast as they innovate.”

Kanishk Walia, Partner at lead investor, MiddleGame Ventures adds: “AI-native products are redefining how value is created and delivered, yet legacy billing and payments systems can’t keep up with this complexity. Paygentic has built an agent first stack that makes it possible to monetise usage, outcomes, and hybrid models at scale – exactly what this new generation of businesses requires. At MiddleGame Ventures, we see Paygentic as foundational infrastructure for the agentic AI economy and are thrilled to support their growth.”

Built to meet the speed and complexity of the AI era, Paygentic makes it simple to turn agent actions into revenue, from prompts to outcomes and usage events. The platform combines billing, payments, and pricing support into one agent-first stack that’s fast to launch, easy to scale, and built for how AI products actually work.

Paygentic has been in stealth mode since its foundation earlier this year, working with a select group of early adopters.

Ed Gibbins, Co-founder of ChaseLabs, a Paygentic client which provides companies with AI-powered Sales Development Representative, commented: “Our business depends on outcome-based pricing. We get paid if our AI SDR is able to generate a lead for a client. Traditional billing systems just couldn’t handle that, but Paygentic understood exactly what we needed. Their platform gave us the flexibility to monetise in a way that reflects how our AI agent really works. Just as important, the team worked with us every step of the way. It feels like having partners who are as committed to our success as we are.”

Paygentic is now available to any team building AI-native products, from development tools to LLM infrastructure and agent frameworks.

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