Pay-i更名为Ascerta并融资1800万美元,帮助企业追踪AI业务价值

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Pay-i更名为Ascerta并融资1800万美元,帮助企业追踪AI业务价值

内容来源:https://www.geekwire.com/2026/pay-i-rebrands-as-ascerta-and-raises-18m-to-help-enterprises-track-ai-business-value/

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总部位于华盛顿州贝尔维尤的初创公司Pay-i正式更名为Ascerta,并完成1800万美元新一轮融资,用于将平台从AI成本追踪拓展至整体业务投资回报率的衡量。

本轮A轮融资由戴尔科技资本领投,日立创投、BGV、Wipro Ventures及现有投资方跟投。至此,这家成立于2025年5月的初创公司累计融资额达2290万美元,此前曾完成490万美元种子轮融资。

Ascerta由微软资深人士大卫·泰珀、多隆·霍兰和埃里克·温特斯于2024年创立。首席执行官泰珀曾在微软工作19年,负责Azure内部生成式AI战略;霍兰则在微软任职27年,主导构建了日均处理数千亿请求的超大规模限流基础设施。

该公司去年以Pay-i之名从隐身模式亮相时,专注于AI成本管理。随着企业AI应用加速普及,创始人发现企业难以判断哪些工具和智能体真正带来了业务成果,由此推动品牌更名,并转向Ascerta所称的“企业AI管理”。

泰珀在给GeekWire的邮件中表示:“Pay-i体现了我们在AI成本管理方面的起点,但客户越来越多地使用该平台来了解采用情况、衡量业务成果,并决定哪些AI项目值得扩大规模。Ascerta反映了我们在帮助企业管理者整体AI投资(包括相关人员)方面所扮演的更广泛角色。”

泰珀指出,企业AI工具往往在子token用量或智能体异常运行中隐藏着意外成本。他举例称,某客户运行的一个AI智能体平均每次执行成本为0.40美元,却出现了每次高达70美元的异常情况,且每天发生数百次。

“他们立刻定位并解决了该问题,节省了大量开支,”泰珀说。

另据其介绍,一家全球保险运营商利用该平台优化了与超大规模云服务商的AI容量承诺。通过将多个智能体整合到共享容量预留而非各自独立预留,该保险公司在最初几个月内节省了约300万美元。

Ascerta的平台可连接现有系统及主流企业AI工具——包括微软Copilot、亚马逊Bedrock AgentCore、Salesforce Agentforce,以及GitHub Copilot和Claude Code等编程助手——按人员、团队和工具追踪采用情况。目前其客户包括Atos、Wipro及多家全球金融机构。

Ascerta目前拥有15名员工,计划到2027年底将员工规模扩大近三倍至约40人。

该公司将利用新资金拓展平台能力、壮大市场推广和工程团队,并扩展集成以支持所有主流企业AI工具。

中文翻译:

总部位于华盛顿州贝尔维尤的初创公司Pay-i正式更名为Ascerta,并完成1800万美元新融资,用于将其平台从AI成本追踪拓展至整体业务投资回报率的衡量。
本轮A轮融资由戴尔科技资本领投,日立创投、BGV、Wipro Ventures及现有投资方跟投。至此,这家初创公司的累计融资额达到2290万美元。该公司于2025年5月以490万美元种子轮正式亮相。
Ascerta由微软资深人士大卫·泰珀、多隆·霍兰和埃里克·温特斯于2024年创立。首席执行官泰珀在微软工作了19年,负责领导Azure内部生成式AI战略;霍兰则在微软度过了27年,主导构建了每日处理数千亿请求的超大规模限流基础设施架构。
该公司去年以Pay-i之名从隐身模式走出时,专注于AI成本管理。随着企业采用加速,创始人意识到企业在辨别哪些工具和智能体真正驱动业务成果方面举步维艰——这促使了品牌更名以及向Ascerta所称“企业AI管理”方向的转型。
泰珀在给GeekWire的邮件中表示:“Pay-i反映了我们在AI成本管理方面的起点,但客户越来越多地使用该平台来了解采用情况、衡量业务成果,并决定哪些AI项目值得扩大规模。Ascerta体现了我们在帮助企业管理者管理其全部AI投资——包括相关人员——方面所扮演的更广泛角色。”
泰珀指出,企业AI工具往往在子令牌用量或失控的智能体运行中隐藏着意想不到的成本。在一个案例中,Ascerta的一位客户运行的AI智能体平均每次执行成本为0.40美元,却发现异常值飙升至每次运行70美元,且每天出现数百次。
泰珀指出:“他们立刻就能定位该问题,并节省了大量成本。”
在另一个案例中,一家全球保险公司利用该平台调整了其与超大规模云服务商的AI容量承诺。通过将多个智能体整合到共享容量预留中,而非各自独立预留,该保险公司在最初几个月内就节省了约300万美元。
Ascerta的平台可连接现有系统和主要企业AI工具——包括微软Copilot、亚马逊Bedrock AgentCore、Salesforce Agentforce,以及GitHub Copilot和Claude Code等编程助手——以按个人、团队和工具追踪采用情况。该初创公司目前的客户包括源讯、Wipro以及多家全球金融机构。
Ascerta目前拥有15名员工,计划到2027年底将员工人数扩大近两倍,达到约40人。
该初创公司将利用新资金扩展平台能力、壮大市场推广和工程团队,并拓展集成以支持所有主流企业AI工具。

英文来源:

Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Pay-i is rebranding as Ascerta and raising $18 million in new funding to expand its platform beyond AI cost tracking into measuring overall business ROI.
The Series A round was led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from Hitachi Ventures, BGV, Wipro Ventures, and existing backers. The fresh capital brings total funding to $22.9 million for the startup, which launched in May 2025 with a $4.9 million seed round.
Ascerta was founded in 2024 by Microsoft veterans David Tepper, Doron Holan, and Erik Winters. Tepper, the CEO, spent 19 years at Microsoft leading generative AI strategy for internal use across Azure, while Holan spent 27 years architecting hyperscale throttling infrastructure handling hundreds of billions of requests daily.
The company initially emerged from stealth as Pay-i last year with a focus purely on AI cost management. As enterprise adoption accelerated, the founders realized companies were struggling to figure out which tools and agents were actually driving business results — prompting the rebrand and shift toward what Ascerta calls enterprise AI management.
“Pay-i reflected our starting point in AI cost management, but customers increasingly use the platform to understand adoption, measure business outcomes and decide which AI initiatives to scale,” Tepper told GeekWire via email. “Ascerta reflects that broader role in helping enterprises manage their entire AI investment, including its people.”
Enterprise AI tools often hide unexpected costs in sub-token usage or rogue agent runs, Tepper said. In one case, an Ascerta customer running an AI agent with an average cost of $0.40 per execution discovered outliers spiking to $70 per run occurring hundreds of times a day.
“They were immediately able to isolate that issue and save tremendously,” Tepper noted.
In another instance, a global insurance carrier used the platform to right-size its AI capacity commitments with a hyperscale cloud provider. By consolidating multiple agents onto shared capacity reservations rather than reserving them independently, the insurer saved approximately $3 million within its first few months.
Ascerta’s platform connects to existing systems and major enterprise AI tools — including Microsoft Copilot, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Salesforce Agentforce, and coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code — to track adoption by person, team, and tool. The startup currently counts Atos, Wipro, and several global financial institutions among its customers.
Ascerta currently employs 15 people and plans to nearly triple its headcount to roughly 40 by the end of 2027.
The startup will use the new capital to expand its platform capabilities, grow its go-to-market and engineering teams, and extend integrations to support every major enterprise AI tool.

Geekwire

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