Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed

Sales Automation Startup Outreach ($ 1.5 billion evaluation) has been paid by Manny Medina investors with his young startup earlier.

An overscrybod led by the only lightspid given .621.6 million seeds have been closed. Including € 10 million pre-bees round It was raised in MarchLondon -based paid has already collected $ 33.3 million and its series has not yet hit. A source familiar with the deal says startup assessment is over $ 100 million.

Paid offers an interesting contribution to the AI ​​Agent World in March: The company does not offer agents. It provides agent manufacturers a way to charge their customers for algorithms, based on the price that their agents provide. It is a growing theme in AI, sometimes known as “result-based billing”.

Promise to pay for agent manufacturers “Start charging for margins’ points stored by their customers,” described Medina.

This is a new way to charge the software for the AI ​​age. It is instead of unlimited use, per-uster fees or unlimited use of the Sa’as era, the purchase of client/server era-and-instal-IT fees.

Reporter fees do not work because agent manufacturers pay the users as well as cloud suppliers use fees. Unlimited use can drive them in red. (Vib Coding Startup World suffer from this problem))

Instead of agents suppliers, “the agent will show the price that is provided to your customers, because the agents are on the background of most parts,” Medina told TechCrunch. If agents act as advertisements, they will be allocated more growing more as their growing work pressure is not visible.

“If you are a quiet agent you will not be paid,” says Medina. “You need an infrastructure that allow the agent to charge for the extra work that the agent is doing,”

However, it is also risky for agents-makers to charge a monthly fee for a limited number of credits following model manufacturers and siblings. Because companies do not want to pay for AI OP alu, which still produces most AIs. After spending billions on AI pilots, about 95% of the enterprise project has no value, only 5% was produced, according to A recent study from MITThe

Companies do not want to pay for agents to create more emails that no one falls.

For example, one of the primary customers of startup is the craftsman, Viral Sale Automation StartupThe (However, you can hear the artisan’s CEO Jasper Carmichael-Jack talking about Disrupted TechCrunch Next month.)

However, the money paid SAS companies have begun to see the success by looking at agents for their next big growth. Startup has just just landed on the ERP seller IFS as the new customer, it says.

LightShid’s Alexander Smritt says that the initiative agency “has invested over $ 2.5 billion” in AI infrastructure and application level agencies in the last three years and most AI pilots have failed.

“The main point of this problem is that agents can really attach the price to what is doing today,” said Smrit.

Smith thinks that paying is unique to his approach so far, “This is something we haven’t seen to make anyone else.” There is no doubt that there will be more competition for agent result-based billing if it really helps agents to enter the workforce.

The new investor fuse and existing investor EQUT Ventures also participated in the round.