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Baselayer Raises $35 Million for its Agentic Identity Technology

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Baselayer, an identity and risk infrastructure provider used by one in five US financial institutions, raised a $35 million Series A led by M13 with participation from Torch Capital, Picus Ventures, Afore Capital and Matt Thompson of Socure. Alongside the round Baselayer announced the launch of its Agentic Identity Suite, a product positioned to verify autonomous software (AI agents) before it transacts. The company is framed as a business identity network and fraud intelligence platform addressing agentic risks for financial services.

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Investor interest is clustering around agentic AI risk solutions as banks and lenders race to secure and verify autonomous software before fraud emerges.

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If everyone is shouting about agentic AI agents, the real money may be in verifying them, not building them, Baselayer just raised $35M to prove that point.

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