Skyfire
Stablecoins · Payment Processing & Gateways
$9.5Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
3open roles
$8.5Mlatest round · Venture round · Aug 2024 · 2 yr ago
4backers · Plug and Play, Arrington Capital
Overview
Skyfire is an infrastructure company for agentic commerce that gives AI agents verified identity and payment credentials. It uses stablecoins and blockchain technology so that AI systems can pay for APIs, data and services with instant micropayments. The company is based in the United States.
How Skyfire hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Skyfire scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$9.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$8.5M
Venture round · Aug 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
open roles
Backers
4
Plug and Play, Arrington Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
26 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 31, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $8.5M
Nov 10, 2010
Raised a round Venture round $1M · TechCrunch
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.56%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 1 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Aug 2024 | $8.5M | — | startuphub.ai |
| Venture round | Nov 2010 | $1M | — | TechCrunch |
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Jobs
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Equity · In office · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · San Francisco
AI Agents
Apply
Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~19 hours
11/09/2026
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
DevOps
33% ▼
Sales
33% ▼
Solutions
33% ▼
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Skyfire over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
14
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
82/100
Languages
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node JS
Python
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
AWS
Kubernetes
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Full Skyfire tech stack
14 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
List
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Shared investors
ellipsis VentureVia a fund
Evolution Equity PartnersVia a fund
Arrington CapitalVia a fund
Plug and PlayVia a fund
2741 portfolio companies
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News
Your Next Customer Is Going to Be an Agent: Skyfire at Groceryshop 2026
Groceryshop 2026 brought more than 4,000 senior leaders to Las Vegas, including teams from over 1,300 retailers and consumer brands., The conversations were about growth, changing customer behavior, and a question every merchant eventually has to answer:
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Best AI Agent Authentication & Authorization Platforms: Internal Tool Delegation vs. External Payment Auth
Comparison page positioning Skyfire against the Arcade.dev-led "agent auth" category. Draws a hard line between internal tool-delegation auth (Arcade, Composio, AWS AgentCore) - which lets an agent call enterprise APIs on behalf of a logged-in user - and
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Agent Access Gateway vs LLM Gateway: What's the Difference?
TL;DR LLM gateways route model API calls between your app and providers like OpenAI or Anthropic. They handle cost control, fallback, rate limiting, and token-level observability. Agent access gateways verify an agent's identity and authorize its payments
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Best Agent Access Gateway Platforms in 2026: A Comparison
TL;DR An agent access gateway sits between AI agents and the models, tools, and MCP servers they call, handling authentication, routing, and observability for that traffic. The five platforms below solve different slices of the problem. TrueFoundry - best
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AI Agent Authorization Flows: How to Choose the Right Authentication Provider
TL;DR AI agent authorization involves two separate problems. Identity auth proves who an agent is, and payment auth proves an agent can spend money. WorkOS, Auth0, Stytch, and Okta solve identity through OAuth, OIDC, and SSO, but none of them handle trans
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MFA and Identity Verification for AI Agents: Why Traditional Authentication Falls Short
TL;DR Push notifications, TOTP codes, and biometric prompts all wait for a person to tap, type, or scan. An autonomous agent has no one to answer, so it stalls at the authentication wall. Every enterprise fix from Okta, Auth0, Duo, and Ping still assumes
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Best Tools for AI Agent Authentication and Authorization in 2026
TL;DR Skyfire KYA is the top pick. It binds platform, agent, and human identity in one token and authorizes payment at checkout, making it the only purpose-built option for agentic commerce. Auth0 for AI Agents and WorkOS are the strongest runner-ups for
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Skyfire Nabs $8.5M to Enable $46B in Commerce for A…
A new Agentic AI startup, Skyfire, recently emerged from stealth with $8.5 million in seed funding to enable AI Agents to autonomously spend and manage.
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Skyfire lets your AI agent spend your money. We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck the startup used to raise $8.5 million.
Skyfire Systems lets AI agents complete purchases autonomously, transforming the payment network landscape and enhancing transaction security.
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Skyfire lets AI agents spend your money
There's a lot of hype about the promise of AI agents today, but payments are a huge limiting factor. Today, an AI agent might be able to plan a vacation
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales