Sapiom Raises $35 Million Series A to Power the Next Trillion AI Agents
The startup says its model router cut one customer’s token use tenfold and now serves a few thousand customers from its own infrastructure.
- San Francisco startup Sapiom raised a $35 million Series A led by Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi, bringing total funding to $50 million. The round arrives 11 months after launch, following a $15 million seed from Accel.
- Founder Ilan Zerbib cited unsustainable token costs driving the need for optimization. For customer Polsia, Sapiom reduced monthly spending on Anthropic models from $1.2 million to about $100,000 through targeted evaluations.
- Operating its own infrastructure in a San Jose data center, Sapiom serves open-weight models directly to customers without adding premiums. This differentiates the company from competitors acting purely as middlemen.
- The startup enters a crowded market with 80 active routing competitors, including OpenRouter and integrated tools from Amazon and Microsoft bundled into Bedrock and Azure. Sapiom differentiates through owned infrastructure rather than pure routing features.
- Zerbib anticipates agents will operate in the economy within three years, with 95% of tasks not requiring expensive frontier models. Yet Gartner forecasts companies will cancel 40% of agentic AI projects by end of 2027, citing escalating costs.
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Sapiom raises $35M to cut AI agent running costs
Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel. That takes total funding to $50 million. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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