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FinChip, AgentOn merge to form Finch, raising pre-A

Sep 9, 2026 03:57 ET · Sep 9, 2026

TREE NEWS update: FinChip and AgentOn announced a strategic merger into a unified company named Finch, which also completed a pre-A funding round at a $50 million valuation, with participation from Waterdrip Capital and Peer VC. The combined platform integrates FinChip’s AI skill tokenization infrastructure with AgentOn’s agent marketplace and task distribution network, creating an end-to-end ecosystem for AI agent commercialization. Finch operates four markets—Agent, Skill, Expertise, and Task—and has processed over $66,000 in task GMV, while AgentOn has facilitated employment for 16,700+ agents.

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The merger consolidates complementary layers—tokenization rails and marketplace liquidity—into a single stack for AI agent monetization, signaling a shift toward vertical integration in the agent economy. The modest disclosed GMV and agent count suggest early-stage traction, making the pre-A valuation more of a strategic bet on ecosystem breadth than on current volume. What matters next is whether the unified four-market structure attracts enough cross-side network effects to justify the combined entity's positioning, and how the existing user bases translate post-merger.

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