Ascerta raises $18M to measure enterprise AI ROI

Ascerta, formerly Pay-i, raised an $18 million Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital, taking total funding to $22.9 million for its enterprise AI management platform. In the announcement, the company says it connects model calls and agent usage to business outcomes and reports 47% ROI improvement and 86% lower wasted AI spend across customers—claims that are not independently audited. Operators should file the round as evidence that AI FinOps is broadening into value attribution, then test causal links before treating dashboards as budget authority; the archive’s token-routing analysis covers the cost layer.