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Catena Raises $30.0

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As AI agents increasingly take on financial tasks, Catena is building the infrastructure to keep them in check, and investors are taking notice. The company has secured $30.0M in Series A funding, with Acrew Capital and a16z crypto leading the round.

Catena's platform offers a banking and governance solution, providing AI agents with programmable financial infrastructure. For the humans and businesses deploying these agents, it acts as a crucial control plane, ensuring that when AI uses money, it does so safely and responsibly. The capital infusion signals strong belief in the necessity of such guardrails in an autonomous future.

Sean Neville, who cofounded the stablecoin giant Circle, has raised another stash of capital from top-flight venture capitalists.

His startup Catena Labs, which builds tools to allow AI agents to safely conduct financial transactions, announced Wednesday that it’s secured $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Acrew Capital and the crypto arm of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto). “The majority, if not all initial transactions, will be executed by agents,” Neville predicted in an interview with Fortune. Read more:

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