Catena

Catena provides a governance and banking platform for AI agents. It offers verifiable identities for each agent, deterministic policies that control agent financial activity, and audit trails of agent actions. Agents can hold accounts, send and receive payments by card, ACH, wire and stablecoin, and earn yield on idle assets. Agents use an MCP server, skills, an API and a CLI, while people set policies and approvals through a personal agent or a web console.

The stated use cases include paying global contractors, buying data, settling vendor invoices, managing treasury cash and running procurement. The company is pursuing a national trust bank charter from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and operates through regulated partners until it is chartered. Its founders are Sean Neville (CEO) and Matt Venables (CTO); the team has experience co-founding Circle.

Catena has raised a Series A round and lists open roles for remote positions in the United States and for a New York location, including forward deployed engineering, senior software engineering, compliance program management and BSA operations.

Product: Governance and banking platform for AI agents, with agent identity, deterministic policies, audit trails, accounts, payments and treasury services, accessed through an API, MCP server and CLI.