Exclusive: Can You Trust That AI Agent? Baselayer Raises $35M To Help Companies Decide
$35M. Baselayer just raised a Series A to solve the problem nobody expected: verifying that AI agents are who they say they are.
Why it matters
As enterprises deploy autonomous agents into production, trust and verification become infrastructure problems. Baselayer is positioning identity/fraud-assessment tech as the guardrail layer for agent-to-agent and agent-to-human transactions—a new market category emerging from the agentic era.
The key facts
10 to knowBaselayer raised $35M Series A led by M13
Company pivoting from financial institution identity verification to AI agent verification
Agent trust/verification framed as expansion of existing identity technology
Timing: agents moving into production at enterprises; verification becomes a bottleneck
Use case: helping companies decide whether to trust an AI agent—new category of infrastructure
Baselayer raises $35M Series A led by M13
Founded to help financial institutions verify businesses and assess fraud risk
Now expanding identity technology specifically to AI agents
Published September 22, 2026
Agent trust/compliance emerging as distinct business problem
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Publisher excerpt: Baselayer, an AI-powered startup that helps financial institutions verify businesses and assess fraud risk, has raised a $35 million M13-led Series A to expand its identity technology to AI agents.