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Pricing Culture Announces Strategic Partnership with Skyfire to Enable On-Demand, AI-Powered Access to Machine-Generated Content Pricing Culture is pleased to announce its partnership with Skyfire, an AI payments network. By integrating Pricing Culture’s platform for machine generated content with Skyfire’s instant and secure global payment infrastructure, AI Agents can access the content they need on demand without human intervention or a traditional subscription. Skyfire empowers AI Agents to make and receive payments globally without requiring credit cards or bank accounts. Through this partnership, AI Agents can purchase specific reports or summaries produced by Pricing Culture without having to pay for full subscriptions. “We are excited about our partnership with Skyfire as it enables the insights units in our data-driven content feeds to be more widely available to AI Agents looking to complete research and other workflows,” said Bhargav Shivarthy, Co-founder of Pricing Culture. “Oftentimes an AI agent is looking for one document to complete a task, for example a summary of a specific SEC filing for Tesla. Now, with Skyfire the agent can make an autonomous micro payment to receive just that summary without a human in the loop.” said Craig DeWitt, Co-founder of Skyfire. This partnership signals a new frontier for autonomous AI commerce, bringing together two innovative visions: Pricing Culture’s machine-readable content, and Skyfire’s pioneering payment technology. By jointly removing barriers to accessing data insights, we’re setting the stage for a new era of AI-driven transactions and revenue opportunities for enterprises, developers, and AI Agents worldwide. Both firms are backed by leading venture capital firms; Pricing Culture raised institutional capital from Social Leverage and Skyfire is backed by Coinbase Ventures, Inception Capital, Intersection Growth Partners, Arrington Capital, Sfermion, Crossbeam Venture Partners among others.

Exabel & BattleFin released their Alternative Data Buy-side Insights & Trends 2025. This chart caught my eye! Consumer Spending and Geolocation being the only two categories with over 50% of respondents looking to "Increase Dramatically" their spend! Social Sentiment & Web Scraping are closely behind. Obviously a positive for Social Leverage portfolio company Stocktwits given their data feed offering. Web scraping isn't surprising given the non stop demand for web intelligence data especially in this AI hungry world. I have seen some great offerings in that category from Pricing Culture which we are investors in as well as Neustreet which quietly pivoted to offering web scraping data over the last 18 months. The one surprise to me is the lack of interest in employment data. Maybe thats because everyone is already satisfied with the offerings from Revelio Labs, Linkup & the numerous other startups in the space. In the end, it's hard to tell if these surveys will turn out to be accurate or to be more specific, if the buyers actually spend increase their spending!

Excited to announce that all Pricing Culture data end-points covering prices in the secondary markets for Cultural Assets are now available for access by AI Agents on an on-demand basis through our partnership with Skyfire If you are building AI Agents that need access to prices from the secondary markets for luxury watches, handbags, cars and more to complete their workflows, check out the demo below and get your keys at Skyfire to empower your agents to acquire our data on-demand with micro payments! https://lnkd.in/g636Wnw7