Beltic raises $7.3M seed to police what AI agents can do
What's the deal? BelticDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a San Francisco startup that lets businesses decide what AI agents can do on their websites and systems, is emerging from stealth with $7.3 million in seed funding led by Norwest. Restive VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Oxford Seed FundDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Collide CapitalDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → also participated, alongside angels from Coinbase, Legora, and Ramp. The round brings total funding to about $8.8 million since the company's 2025 founding.
What's the endgame? Beltic tackles a problem its founders say existing fraud tools were not built for: software acting on a customer's behalf. Before allowing an agent to, say, book and pay for a flight, a business needs to know who sent it, what it can do, and whether its actions match the customer's intent.
How it works: Beltic's software identifies visits from agents, verifies who is behind them, and checks their actions against a business's rules. It can allow an action, block it, or require confirmation. The company calls this approach "know your agent," a variation on the "know your customer" checks used by financial institutions.
Why now? Co-founders Isha Bhatnagar, a Coinbase alum, and Mike Allan, who founded Brazilian banking-as-a-service provider AtarDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, started Beltic in early 2025 as AI agents began acting for customers. The pair argue that existing checks — device fingerprints, selfies, typing speed — assume a human at the keyboard.
"This doesn't work when you look at agentic traffic," Allan said. Even an authorised agent could misunderstand an instruction or exceed its authority, the founders say.
What could go wrong? "Identity is not enough," Bhatnagar said. A customer might authorise an agent to compare flights but not buy one, and an agent that drifts from that intent can make mistakes that are hard to undo. Beltic says it can flag such behaviour and require the agent to reconfirm.
The signal: At $7.3 million, Beltic's seed round sits in the top 4% of all-time seed rounds in the legal sector, a sign of investor appetite for tools that govern autonomous software. As agents move from browsing to transacting, the checks built for humans are being rebuilt for machines.
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