Paygentic, a fintech start-up co-founded by Susan O’Neill and Samuel Alarco Cantos, has successfully raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round. Based in San Francisco, the company aims to expand its workforce and accelerate the development of its products. O’Neill, with a strong background in finance and experience founding a payment infrastructure provider, and Alarco, a former Google engineer, have attracted investment from several venture capital firms, including MiddleGame Ventures, Anamcara Capital, Aperture, and Angel Invest. Paygentic provides billing and payment solutions tailored for AI-native and agentic-driven products, offering flexible infrastructure for pricing and monetisation through hybrid, subscription, usage-based, and outcome-based models. The company has been collaborating with early adopters and aims to address the limitations of traditional billing systems in the evolving AI market. MiddleGame Ventures considers Paygentic as essential infrastructure for the agentic AI economy and supports its growth trajectory.

