Paid, the company building critical infrastructure to grow the AI agent economy, today announced an oversubscribed £16m seed round. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from new investor FUSE and existing investor EQT Ventures. This brings total funding raised to £25m and the fresh capital will accelerate Paid's mission to help AI agent builders, from entrepreneurs to scaled SaaS companies, scale their businesses rapidly by monetising AI agent activities.
By 2030, autonomous AI agents will contribute £15.2trn to the global economy, fundamentally reshaping how work gets done. AI agents are already replacing entire departments, automating complex workflows, and delivering outcomes that once required teams of humans. The per-seat pricing model for enterprise software wasn't designed for the agentic AI era, and companies using this model can't effectively price, track, or monetise these digital workers. Without proper economic infrastructure, the AI agent revolution will stall.
Paid has built a business system designed specifically for AI agent work, providing the economic rails for companies moving from SaaS to agent-based models. Its platform makes AI-driven outcomes visible through customer portals, enables per-customer pricing aligned to value, supports outcome-based and hybrid revenue models, and provides real-time tracking of agent costs and margins. Companies also gain dashboards and scenario planning tools to manage profitability and growth in an agent-first world.
Early Paid customers, including IFS and Artisan, are already seeing significant revenue increases, higher retention, and faster sales cycles after adopting AI agent monetisation through the platform.
Paid's system is available now, free for developers, and integrates with Vercel, ElevenLabs, Retell, and leading agent frameworks including AI SDK, n8n, LangChain, and LlamaIndex.
