AI Trading Agent Startup Catalyst Raises $30M Seed Led by Sequoia

The notable signal is the cap table: a venture heavyweight, a proprietary trading firm and a major exchange all backing the same retail-facing AI agent, which suggests conviction that execution quality and distribution — not just model quality — will decide this category. The pilot volume claim is self-reported and unaudited, so the meaningful test is whether that activity survives contact with a public waitlist and real market conditions. Also worth watching is how human-confirmation execution is framed as the product matures; that safeguard is doing a lot of regulatory and liability work.