Ascerta Raises $18M Led by Dell Technologies Capital to Prove Which AI Spend Pays Off
Gartner expects worldwide spending on AI to reach $2.67 trillion this year and $3.64 trillion in 2027, yet when IBM surveyed 2,000 chief executives it found that only a quarter of their AI initiatives had delivered the return they expected over the previous three years. That gap between how fast the money is moving and how little of it can be tied to results has become the defining question of enterprise AI in 2026, because the next round of budgets depends on knowing which projects deserve more investment and which should quietly stop.
Ascerta, the Bellevue company previously known as Pay-i, has raised an $18 million Series A to answer that question for large organisations. Its platform tracks what AI costs down to the individual user, team and use case, including sub-token charges, hidden fees and enterprise discounts that most tools never see, before connecting that spending to...
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