Enterprise artificial intelligence spending is rising, but most businesses lack ways to measure financial returns. Startup Ascerta Inc. launched out of stealth with $18 million in an early-stage funding round to solve this visibility gap.
Today's Series A round was led by Dell Technologies Capital. Hitachi Ventures, BGV, and Wipro Ventures also participated, bringing the startup's total funding to $22.9 million.
Traditional tools fail to measure AI outcomes
Companies easily track token consumption and lines of generated code. However, answering which artificial intelligence projects make money remains difficult. Traditional financial operations tools track cloud infrastructure spending but cannot measure real business outcomes from artificial intelligence agents or coding assistants.
Ascerta co-founder and Chief Executive David Tepper stated that businesses mostly see meaningless vanity metrics. The startup aims to cut through that noise and provide specific business insights.
The platform tracks economics down to individual users
Ascerta offers a single system revealing AI usage patterns and whether tools generate revenue or savings. The platform connects to popular enterprise AI tools including Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic Claude, Amazon Web Services Bedrock, and Salesforce Agentforce.
The system tracks economics down to individual users, teams, and applications. It unmasks hidden fees, enterprise discounts, and sub-token costs.
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The platform features three specific components. Atlas measures adoption, value, and return on investment. Forge provides insights into engineering team productivity with coding agents. Convoy tracks computing resource usage so companies can consolidate workloads.
Ascerta has already helped companies like Atos SE and Wipro Ltd. improve their return on investment by an average of 47%. The platform also reduced AI agent launch times by 24% and cut wasted resource spending by 86%. Atos Group Chief AI Officer Florin Ratar called the platform instrumental for scaling the Sovereign Agentic Studios initiative.
Ramana Khanna, managing director of Dell Technologies Capital, noted that enterprises are moving beyond broad AI experimentation toward measurable business value. Ascerta provides leaders with visibility and rigor to optimize spending.
