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Market IntelligenceOctober 18, 20262 min read

Tether and HIVEN Back Enterprise AI Agent Network AIsa in $9M+ Seed Extension

Strategic investment embeds stablecoin settlement into autonomous enterprise AI agent workflows alongside Alibaba and Sumitomo.

Tether and HIVEN Join AIsa Seed Extension, Pushing Total Funding Past $9 Million

Stablecoin issuer Tether and AI infrastructure company HIVEN have joined enterprise AI agent infrastructure startup AIsa as strategic investors in a seed extension round, bringing AIsa's total funding above $9 million alongside existing backers Alibaba, Sumitomo Corporation, Tribe Capital, Draper Associates, and Saison Capital.

Founded by CEO Jordan Liu, AIsa builds the "Trusted Resource and Transaction Network for Enterprise AI Agents," unifying fragmented vendor integrations, API access, and usage-based billing under enterprise permission controls and spending caps.

Convergence of Autonomous AI Agents and On-Chain Settlement

Tether's investment aligns with CEO Paolo Ardoino's strategy to embed stablecoin settlement directly into autonomous AI agent workflows. At GaiaEx, our AI Trading Wallet for Web3 & DeFi brings position-aware AI intelligence directly to self-custodial perpetual and spot traders.