SapiomLaunch orchestrated by The Launch Video Company (TLVC)

Building the platform for autonomous software @Sapiom. x-@Shopify payments Director (Shop Pay, Shop Cash). Founded & exited Earny. SF.

Sapiom is a San Francisco company building a platform for developers to create, deploy, and operate AI agents in production, with an early focus on making the unit economics work. Today's launch introduces three products: a Router that sits in front of an existing agent (two lines of code, a base URL and an API key) and directs each request to the cheapest model that can handle it reliably while keeping high-stakes cases like security incidents or at-risk high-value customers on frontier models, an Agent Studio that plans an agent step by step and surfaces the projected cost per run before anything executes, and a Runtime that hosts deployed agents and exposes per-run and per-customer economics through a dashboard. The pitch to builders is that most agents never reach production, and the ones that do often route every query, even trivial ones like "where do I see my invoice," through expensive frontier models. Sapiom claims the Router holds the same quality bar for roughly 70 percent less by matching each ticket to a smaller model when the task allows. Studio bundles model access, infrastructure, and tool calls so a described outcome can move from spec to a running endpoint in minutes rather than weeks, which is the "cost-first" wedge behind the launch. Founder Ilan Zerbib is based in San Francisco and, per his own bio, previously led Shop Pay and Shop Cash as payments director at Shopify and earlier founded and exited Earny. Accel's own note describes him as a co-founder of Earny, one of the earliest AI shopping assistants, before leading payments engineering at Shopify. The company had previously raised a $15 million seed round led by Accel with participation from Okta Ventures, Gradient Ventures, Array Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Anthropic, and Coinbase Ventures , and earlier coverage framed Sapiom as a financial infrastructure layer letting AI agents securely purchase software, APIs, data, and compute . Today's $35M Series A, per the launch tweet, brings in Dragonfly alongside Accel and Anthropic and expands the product surface from payments plumbing to the full build, run, and observe loop for agents.

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