London-based Assisterr today announced it has raised €2.4 million in funding to empower users to create and monetise their own AI agents “without writing a single line of code” – bringing the total value of the company at €66 million.
The funding round included participation from Google for Startups, Outlier Ventures, Web3.com, Echo.xyz, Moonhill Capital, and others.
Nick Havryliak, CEO and Co-founder at Assisterr, commented, “From the start, our mission has been to provide AI for all, not just for Big Tech. The current AI landscape is incredibly centralised, expensive, and, frankly, out of reach for most individuals and smaller businesses. We’re changing that by making AI creation as easy as building a website, giving power, ownership, and monetisation back to the creators.”
Founded in 2023, Assisterr is a Solana-native platform that empowers users to create, deploy, and monetise their own specialised AI agents without writing a single line of code – contributing to development of a decentralised AI economy (DeAI).
Assisterr’s core innovation lies in its focus on Small Language Models (SLMs) rather than the general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) favoured by industry giants. SLMs, according to the company, are cheaper to run, easier to customise, and can be fine-tuned for highly specific tasks, making them more efficient and effective for a multitude of real-world application – from DeFi builders needing specialised analytical tools to NFT artists creating unique generative experiences.
The platform tackles several problems plaguing the current AI industry.
Firstly, it “shatters the high barrier to entry“. While LLMs remain complex and resource-intensive, Assisterr’s no-code tools and SLM architecture allow anyone to build and deploy AI agents.
Secondly, it addresses the lack of clear monetisation pathways for AI creators and data contributors. According to Assisterr, the current centralised model offers little compensation for those whose data and insights fuel AI development.
Assisterr introduces a DeAI economy built around its upcoming $ASRR token. This system is designed to reward every contribution to the ecosystem, from peer-reviewed model building and collaborative data validation to the deployment of successful AI agents. This on-chain, token-based economy aims to incentivises participation and allows creators to earn directly from their agents, fostering a self-sustaining ecosystem where users, not just large corporations, benefit financially.
“Decentralised AI isn’t just about running models on-chain – it’s about shifting control,” stated Dima Dimenko, COO and Co-founder of Assisterr. “Traditional AI platforms keep developers locked into centralised APIs, pricing models, and infrastructure. In contrast, decentralisation empowers anyone to create and own autonomous AI agents that are composable, monetisable, and not reliant on a single provider. Our model opens the door to a new creator economy, where individuals – not tech giants – define how AI is built, shared, and monetised. It’s a shift from AI-as-a-service to AI-as-an-asset — embedded directly into the fabric of Web3.”
Notable crypto companies – including Metis, Jupiter, Morph, Particle, 0g Labs, Sui, Wormhole, and NeonEVM – are using Assisterr to build and deploy AI agents for their operations.
The platform has attracted 4.7 million users in less than nine months, with over 24,000 live AI agents deployed by its community. Early monetisation tests have yielded $160,000 in revenue within the first weeks of tests with monetisation streams, and the company reports that the Assisterr-powered agent economy has already seen a few tokenised agents reach a combined Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV) of over €70.4 million.
The company believes it is on a path to becoming a Web3 x AI unicorn, tapping into an AI market projected to contribute €13.8 trillion to the global economy by 2030.
Assisterr’s pitch is compelling: a shift from a centralised, corporate-controlled AI landscape to an open, creator-owned infrastructure.
