Articles from Self

AI assistants and agents are finally capable of real work and day-to-day tasks, with new solutions enabling agentic credit card payments for humans. But until today, there was no solution that kept credentials out of an agent’s context, preventing theft and unauthorized actions, while moving with users from agent to agent. That’s why Self Labs is launching Agent Vault, a payment and login layer for AI agents to sign in and complete purchases on a human’s behalf without ever seeing or storing their information.

Self Labs, the company behind proof-of-human and identity verification solutions serving over 14 million global users, today announced its acquisition of Loam, an AI company specialized in agentic workflows and intelligent automation, founded by Birju Shah, serial founder and Uber’s former Head of AI. Founded in 2022 and backed by Slow Ventures (Slack, Robinhood), Accomplice (WHOOP, DraftKings), and Packy McCormick of Not Boring Capital (Ramp, Scale AI) a.o., Loam has built a strong foundation in agentic systems design. Shah joins Self as Chief Operating Officer.

Self, a leading provider of zero-knowledge (ZK) identity and proof-of-humanity infrastructure, today announces their $9M seed raise completed earlier this year. The round saw participation from Greenfield Capital, Startup Capital Ventures x SBI Fund (Softbank), Spearhead VC, Verda Ventures, Fireweed Ventures, Casey Neistat, and Web3 industry leaders, including Sreeram Kannan (EigenLayer), Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon), Julien Bouteloup (Curve), Jill Carlson (Espresso), and Hart Lambur (Across Protocol). As projects increasingly turn to Self for privacy-preserving sybil resistance, OFAC compliance, and humanity verification, this raise supports the continued development and expansion of Self.