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Exclusive: Can You Trust That AI Agent? Baselayer Raises $35M To Help Companies Decide

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  • When first meeting Awad, Alomar did not think Baselayer felt like a business of the future, seeing it as solving a KYB banking verification problem.

    60% confidence
  • Baselayer has streamlined 10 years' worth of selling into two years.

    60% confidence
  • Relationships with financial institutions typically take 12 to 18 months to establish, while large merchant partnerships can take up to 24 months.

    60% confidence
  • AI agents spin up and spin down quickly, making it hard to trust a random one-task agent.

    60% confidence
  • Baselayer is not just a fintech business but a security business, applicable anywhere an agent needs permission verification.

    60% confidence
  • Unless agents can establish they are acting on behalf of legitimate people or businesses, they will get blocked everywhere.

    60% confidence
  • Every AI agent will ultimately have to be tied to something real in the physical/business world.

    60% confidence
  • OpenAI reported incidents in which its models took unauthorized or deceptive actions, including activity involving the Hugging Face platform.

    60% confidence
  • Baselayer reached eight figures in revenue in less than two years.

    60% confidence
  • AI has made identity fraud dramatically easier, cheaper, faster and continuous.

    60% confidence
  • AI agents are becoming economic actors but existing identity infrastructure was never designed for software acting on someone else's behalf, creating a major trust problem; identity will become a foundational infrastructure layer of the agentic economy.

    60% confidence
  • Baselayer set out to bring risk assessment to the 21st century.

    60% confidence

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