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% confidenceBaselayer has streamlined 10 years' worth of selling into two years.
60% confidenceRelationships with financial institutions typically take 12 to 18 months to establish, while large merchant partnerships can take up to 24 months.
60% confidenceAI agents spin up and spin down quickly, making it hard to trust a random one-task agent.
60% confidenceBaselayer is not just a fintech business but a security business, applicable anywhere an agent needs permission verification.
60% confidenceUnless agents can establish they are acting on behalf of legitimate people or businesses, they will get blocked everywhere.
60% confidenceEvery AI agent will ultimately have to be tied to something real in the physical/business world.
60% confidenceOpenAI reported incidents in which its models took unauthorized or deceptive actions, including activity involving the Hugging Face platform.
60% confidenceBaselayer reached eight figures in revenue in less than two years.
60% confidenceAI has made identity fraud dramatically easier, cheaper, faster and continuous.
60% confidenceAI 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% confidenceBaselayer set out to bring risk assessment to the 21st century.
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