The Next WebSandra Hinshelwood
Ascerta raises $18M from Dell’s venture arm to show which AI pays off
Enterprise AI has moved from experimentation to a material line item. Companies can count tokens, licenses, agent runs and lines of AI-generated code. Yet many still cannot answer the question that determines what happens next: which AI initiatives are actually worth scaling.
Ascerta was built to give them that answer.
The company formerly known as Pay-i has announced its new name alongside an $18 million Series A. Dell Technologies Capital led the round, with participation from Hitachi Ventures, BGV, Wipro Ventures and earlier investors. The round brings total funding to $22.9 million.
It will help Ascerta scale what it calls Enterprise AI Management. That gives companies a single view of AI cost, adoption and business value across the organization.
Ascerta was founded in 2024 by Microsoft veterans David Tepper, Doron Holan and Erik Winters.
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