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Seed Round · 2026
Pay once. Access anything.
HTTP 402 Micropayments Non-custodial AI Agent Billing
Behkish Nassirzadeh, PhD · Founder & CEO · Kshathra Technologies Inc.
The Problem

The web is broken for
creators and developers

12+
Avg. subscriptions per person
3%+
Stripe minimum fee
40K
Creators deplatformed in 2023
$0.50
Minimum viable payment

71% of people report subscription fatigue. They pay monthly for things they use once. Payments under $1 are economically impossible — until now.

Competitive Landscape

Every payment processor
is wrong for this use case

Feature Stripe PayPal Patreon Vlexivo
Minimum payment$0.50$0.01*$1/mo$0.001
Fee structure2.9% + $0.303.49% + $0.498–12%15% (no fixed)
ChargebacksYesYesYesNever
Censorship riskYesYesYesNone
AI agent billingNoNoNoNative

The last three rows are protocol-level problems — Vlexivo eliminates them at the foundation.

The Solution

HTTP 402 was invented
for this. We built the layer.

# HTTP/1.1 402 Payment Required # The status code sitting unused since 1991. # That future is now.
1

Publisher sets price

$0.01 per API call, $0.005 per article, any amount, any resource

2

Browser pays on-chain

Instant settlement, sub-cent fees, non-custodial, no account required

3

JWT entitlement issued. Access granted.

Cryptographically verified. No subscription. No lock-in.

How It Works

One SDK. Any content.
Any API.

Publisher
Sets price via SDK
→
Browser
Pays on-chain
→
Vlexivo
Verifies & grants
→
Access
JWT entitlement
app.use('/api/data', vlexivo.protect({ apiKey: 'pub_live_k9x...', price: 0.005 // SOL per request })); // That's it. 402 handling is automatic.
AI Agents: Native M2M billing Zero friction for end users
Market Opportunity

Three massive markets.
One payment layer.

$12B
API Market
40% CAGR. "Every API will be pay-per-call."
$500B
Creator Economy
Digital content. "Every article, video, song."
$50B+
AI Agent Spend
Projected 2026. "Machines that pay machines."
Total Addressable: $562B
We're building the toll booth.
Business Model

Simple, scalable take rate

Free Tier

15%
No monthly fee · Forever free
  • Full SDK access
  • All platform integrations
  • Real-time dashboard
  • Standard support

Pro Tier RECOMMENDED

8% + $29/mo
Break-even at $393/mo volume
  • Priority routing
  • Advanced analytics
  • Custom webhooks
  • Dedicated support

Unit Economics: At $100K monthly volume → Free = $15,000 · Pro = $8,029. No fixed fees. No chargebacks. No fraud. 100% margin on take rate.

Team

Built by people who
understand protocols

Behkish Nassirzadeh, PhD

Founder & CEO

Published research on cryptographic payment systems. Blockchain protocols specialist. Founded Vlexivo to implement HTTP 402 — a standard that has been waiting 35 years.

Engineering

Payment Infrastructure

8 years building payment APIs. Ex-Stripe infrastructure team. Understands the exact limitations of legacy payment rails that Vlexivo is designed to replace.

Partnerships

Developer Relations

Former devrel lead. Deep roots in the API economy. Responsible for Ghost partnership and Stripe marketplace submission. Building the integration flywheel.

Kshathra Technologies Inc. legal@vlexivo.online
The Ask

Raising $2M to become
the HTTP 402 standard

$2,000,000
Seed Round
40% Engineering$800,000
30% BD & Partnerships$600,000
20% Marketing$400,000
10% Operations$200,000
18-Month Milestones: 500 active publishers · $1M monthly payment volume · Series A ready by Q1 2027

"Building the payment infrastructure for the post-subscription web."
legal@vlexivo.online · Kshathra Technologies Inc.