Primer's $100M Series C: London Payments Infra Bets the US Wants Autonomous AI Checkout
Primer raised $100M Series C from Sofina and Peak XV to scale AI-native payments — US ARR doubling YoY as autonomous finance ops go mainstream.
AI Infrastructure Venture Capital & Funding Trends
AI infrastructure has become one of the largest categories in venture capital, spanning compute, model serving, agent frameworks, and enterprise deployment layers. Our coverage tracks where investors are placing bets and which companies are defining the next layer of the AI stack.
AI Infrastructure Investment Themes
- Inference & serving: Model deployment, latency optimization, and cost efficiency
- Agent platforms: Orchestration, tooling, and enterprise workflow automation
- Data & observability: Training data, evaluation, and production monitoring
- Hardware adjacencies: Chips, edge compute, and specialized accelerators
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