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Skyfire

San Francisco, US · 42 employees on LinkedIn · 24 known investors

Skyfire provides financial infrastructure that enables AI agents to transact autonomously—making and receiving payments, managing accounts, and accessing services globally without traditional financial intermediaries. The platform targets developers and enterprises building autonomous AI systems.

Also known as Skyfire Systems, Inc.

Founders & leadership

ASAmir Sarhangi
Amir SarhangiinCEO and Founder

Investors · 24

Also in the syndicate · 9

ARCACircleDRWEveryRealmFBGGeminiHarvard Business School Alumni AngelsRedBeard VenturesSfermion

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$11M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2024–2026

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Skyfire (legal name Skyfire Systems, Inc.) is a San Francisco-based company building what it calls an "agent trust stack" for AI agents: identity verification, access, and payments. Its central product is KYA (Know Your Agent), an identity token intended to be portable across websites, applications, and agent protocols such as MCP, UCP and A2A. KYA tokens bind the identities of the operating platform, the agent, and the human principal, together with user mandates, so agents can gain programmatic access to and log in to third-party sites. The company states its KYA token is accepted across more than 60% of the web via infrastructure partners [0][1].

The second pillar is an agentic commerce wallet that allows agents to enroll a user's credit cards, hold stablecoins (USDC), collect user mandates, and complete checkouts. Skyfire says it works with major card networks (Visa, Mastercard, Discover) for tokenized card transactions, and describes a "Buy for Me" flow in which an agent completes a purchase on a user's behalf using existing referral links, without requiring technical work from the merchant [0][1]. Earlier product materials describe a developer platform and payments network where agents receive digital wallets, can pay on demand for LLMs, datasets, website access, API services and other agents, and where service providers can monetize APIs, datasets and models to agent demand. Accounts can be funded via debit and credit cards, ACH, international wires, or USDC, and per-agent spending limits, transaction monitoring, API key management and dashboards are provided [2][3][7].

The company frames its mission as enabling an "AI economy" in which agents are verified, financially empowered, governed by enterprise budget rules, and able to discover and hire resources without human intervention [3]. Coverage at launch described the ambition as becoming the "Visa for AI" [7].

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Open job postingsJan 20263 roles
Web coverage claimed for KYA acceptanceJan 2026More than 60% of the web

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Competitors · 5

by search overlap

Companies competing with Skyfire for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Timeline · 3

launches, deals, and filings
Aug 2024
Early customers reported, including Denso Corp

Press coverage at launch reported that Skyfire had attracted an early customer base including Denso Corp.

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Aug 2024
Skyfire raises $8.5M seed round

Skyfire announced $8.5 million in seed funding to accelerate development and expansion of its payment network for AI agents; investors included Ripple, Circle, Gemini, Draper Associates, Neuberger Berman, Brevan Howard Digital, DRW and others.

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Jul 2024
Skyfire platform available in beta to developers

A company blog post detailed onboarding for the Skyfire beta: developers request access from the sales team, create an API key, and receive pre-funded beta accounts to let agents pay for services such as LLMs.

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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

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Skyfire do?
Skyfire builds identity and payment infrastructure that lets AI agents access websites and complete purchases autonomously.
Who founded Skyfire?
Skyfire was founded by Amir Sarhangi.
Who are Skyfire's investors?
Skyfire's investors include Arrington Capital, Blitzscaling Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, DCVC (Data Collective), Draper Associates, Evolution Equity Partners, Fermion, Inception Capital (ex OP Crypto) and 7 more.
How much funding has Skyfire raised?
Skyfire has disclosed $11M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
Where is Skyfire headquartered?
Skyfire is headquartered in San Francisco, US.