Tags: B2B

AgentMail, a San Francisco‑based startup, announced a $6 million seed round led by General Catalyst with participation from Y Combinator and several angel investors. The company offers an API platform that gives AI agents dedicated email inboxes, supporting two‑way conversations, threading, labeling, searching and replying. Since its launch, AgentMail has attracted tens of thousands of human users, hundreds of thousands of AI agents, and more than 500 B2B customers. The service includes safeguards against abuse, such as sending limits and rate‑monitoring, and positions email as an identity layer for autonomous agents. Read more

OpenAI has partnered with Indian fintech firm Pine Labs to embed its application programming interfaces into the company’s payments and commerce platform. The collaboration aims to automate settlement, reconciliation and invoicing workflows, extending AI‑driven efficiencies from Pine Labs’ internal operations to merchants and corporate clients. The move reflects OpenAI’s broader push to deepen its presence in India beyond consumer‑facing tools, while Pine Labs seeks to boost B2B adoption of AI agents for high‑volume financial tasks. The partnership is non‑exclusive, does not involve revenue sharing, and includes new security and compliance measures. Read more

San Francisco startup Sapiom has closed a $15 million seed round led by Accel, with participation from Okta Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Array Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Anthropic, and Coinbase Ventures. The company is building a financial layer that enables AI agents to automatically purchase and access software, APIs, data, and compute services. By handling authentication and micro‑payments behind the scenes, Sapiom aims to remove infrastructure hurdles for non‑technical creators building AI‑driven applications, focusing initially on B2B use cases. Read more

Calgary‑based Cashee Research uses artificial intelligence to design and execute custom market‑research surveys, delivering fresh human data faster and at lower cost. The startup, founded by Addy Graves and Rose Wong, was selected for TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in 2025 and won the Enterprise Stage pitch at TechCrunch Disrupt. By combining AI‑generated survey plans with real‑world respondents, Cashee provides brands—especially small and medium‑size firms—with actionable insights that were previously too expensive or slow to obtain. The company has raised C$1.5 million in pre‑seed funding and is preparing a seed round to expand its U.S. presence and B2B business. Read more