Payman
Durango, US · Founded 2024 · 16 employees on LinkedIn · 5 known investors
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Payman provides an orchestration layer that lets AI agents move money while meeting the security, compliance, and control standards used by banks and financial institutions. It is aimed at developers building AI applications that need safe connections to financial systems.
Also known as Payman AI · Payman AI, Inc
Founders & leadership
Payman was founded in 2024 by Tyllen Bicakcic.
Board
Investors · 5
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$10.8M disclosed across 2 rounds · 2024
▶$9.6MraisedNov 2024 · 8 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Tyllen BicakcicExecutive Officer
- Prashanth PillareddyDirector
- Offering amount
- $10M
- Amount sold
- $9.6M
- Minimum investment
- $10K
- Proceeds to insiders
- $240K
- First sale
- Oct 2024
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2024
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$1.2MraisedJun 2024 · 3 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Prashanth PillareddyDirector
- Tyllen BicakcicExecutive Officer
- Offering amount
- $3M
- Amount sold
- $1.2M
- Minimum investment
- $5K
- Proceeds to insiders
- $240K
- First sale
- May 2024
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2024
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Payman AI, Inc. is a Delaware corporation that markets "agentic AI that does the banking" — AI agents intended to carry out banking work while remaining under the operator's control. Its website organizes offerings and content around an "Agentic Banking" product area plus a resources section covering a blog, events, press, reports and guides, an "AI Banking Safety" topic, and media, with a "Schedule Demo" call to action as the primary conversion path [0][1].
Earlier third-party descriptions characterize Payman differently, as a platform for AI-to-human payments: giving AI agents access to capital so they can assign tasks to people, pay them, and collect human feedback, with a marketplace connecting AI systems to humans for work requiring human intelligence [5][6]. One directory entry also states the platform supported multiple payment methods including fiat and cryptocurrency [4]. Together with the current site positioning, these suggest the public description of the product has shifted from AI-to-human task payments toward banking-focused agentic software; the sources available do not date or explain that change.
The company also maintains a public GitHub organization under the Payman AI name, whose single listed repository, "sigilum," is an Apache-2.0 licensed Go project described as "Auditable Identity for AI Agents," last updated in February 2026 [2].
Business model
Payman AI provides a software service accessed through its website, applications and APIs, with registration and an onboarding process required for certain features. API access is governed by a separate API License Agreement. The terms grant users a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the service for the term of the agreement [3].
Traction
Third-party directories list Payman AI in the 1-10 employee range and rank it second among Durango, Colorado startups as of August 2026 on a composite score based on investment, employee count and website traffic [6]. No customer counts, revenue or usage figures appear in the available sources.
Latest developments
The company's Terms of Use were last updated 2026-08-20 [3], and its public GitHub repository sigilum was last updated 2026-02-27 [2]. A VC-backed startup directory lists a May 2026 non-equity assistance entry for Payman AI, Inc., without an amount [5].
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, risks & controversies
Market position
Sources place Payman AI in the payments and artificial intelligence categories [4][5][6]. No competitive comparisons or market share data are available in the sources.
Technology
The service is delivered as a website, applications and APIs. Stripe, Inc. is the company's payments service provider, handling payment processing and funds and accounts created in connection with the service, and users must accept Stripe's terms to use Payman's service. Account creation can be done via Google sign-in [3]. The company's open-source work includes sigilum, a Go project for auditable identity for AI agents [2].
Go-to-market
The website's primary conversion action is scheduling a demo, supported by a content and events program (blog, events, press, reports and guides, and AI banking safety material) [0][1].
Website positioning is aimed at banking institutions and bankers, with featured content such as an event titled "A Banker's Journey with AI: From Skepticism to 'I Have a New Friend'" [0][1]. Third-party directory descriptions frame the users as AI agents and their operators who need to pay humans for specialized task work [5][6].
Geography
Listed among startups based in Durango, Colorado, United States, in two regional startup directories [5][6]. Payman AI, Inc. is incorporated in Delaware [3].
Risks & controversies
Public descriptions of Payman's product differ materially between its own site (agentic banking software) and third-party directories (AI-to-human task payments marketplace), which complicates verification [0][1][4][5][6]. Funding figures reported by third parties are inconsistent: one directory cites $3.8M total funding [6] while a crypto fundraising tracker cites a $3M pre-seed [4]; tracker-derived fundraising tables are not treated as primary sources here. The terms of service include a binding arbitration agreement and a class-action waiver [3].
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsPayman AI maintains a public GitHub organization whose sole listed repository, 'sigilum', is described as 'Auditable Identity for AI Agents'. It is written in Go, Apache-2.0 licensed, and was last updated 2026-02-27.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Paymanpaymanai.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Payman do?
- Payman AI is a Delaware-incorporated company building agentic AI software that performs banking operations under human control.
- Who founded Payman?
- Payman was founded by Tyllen Bicakcic in 2024.
- Who are Payman's investors?
- Payman's investors include Ambush Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Loup Ventures, Mirana Ventures, Boost VC.
- How much funding has Payman raised?
- Payman has disclosed $10.8M raised across 2 rounds.
- Where is Payman headquartered?
- Payman is headquartered in Durango, US.