Catena is a governance and banking platform for AI agents, founded by Sean Neville (co-founder of Circle and inventor of USDC) and Matt Venables. The company is building financial infrastructure that allows AI agents to handle money safely within deterministic, human-defined policies, offering services including custody, payments, and treasury management. Catena is pursuing a national trust bank charter from the OCC to provide direct, regulated banking for agents. The firm operates Catena Ventures, which has raised at least three funds (Frontier Fund 3 being the most recent). The team brings experience from Circle, Brex, Affirm, Adobe, Meta, PayPal, Block, Airbnb, and Airwallex. In its Series A, Catena raised $30 million to build what Fortune described as an "AI-native bank."

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