Paid.ai Secures $21M to Power SaaS Transition to AI Agent Economy

Paid.ai Secures $21M to Power SaaS Transition to AI Agent Economy
In a significant development poised to reshape the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) landscape, Paid, an innovator in financial infrastructure for the AI economy, has successfully secured $21 million in a seed funding round. This substantial investment is earmarked for advancing the company's ambitious mission: empowering SaaS enterprises to strategically pivot towards a new paradigm centered on selling and monetizing artificial intelligence (AI) agents. This strategic move extends Paid's foundational objective of furnishing builders with the necessary tools to effectively capitalize on their AI agent creations. The Impending Shift: From Seats to Agents in SaaS The traditional "per seat" licensing model, long the bedrock of the SaaS industry, is currently facing unprecedented challenges. Publicly traded SaaS companies are grappling with decelerated growth trajectories and a fundamental disruption of their established business frameworks. This disruption is primarily driven …