Snaplii raises $15M to give AI agents a capped wallet
What's the deal? SnapliiDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised $15 million to build a prepaid wallet that lets AI agents spend on a user's behalf, chief executive officer Spencer Xu told AxiosDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → Pro. Hat-Trick Capital is among the investors backing the round.
What's the endgame? Snaplii's wallet is capped and pre-funded, keeping an agent away from a user's main card details. It already runs a shopping app that reportedly has 350,000 users and more than $100 million in annual transaction volume.
Why now? AI-agent payments are shifting from experiment toward a contest over who controls checkout. Stripe's Link has been integrated into agents including Meta's MuseDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Instinct, while Shopify has enabled Shop Pay in Muse.
What could go wrong? Agent-led commerce is still early, and big platforms and payment providers already hold the distribution and checkout infrastructure. Snaplii is betting a separate safety-and-spending layer can carve out its own space.
The signal: The raise reads as a bet on a specialized layer that keeps spending capped and card details private — not yet proof of a large standalone market. As agents start to buy on their own, the fight over who holds the wallet is only beginning.
Read more: Axios
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