In August 2026, Vanneck Capital invested $1.5M in Skalor. The project team agreed to the announcement. This post explains what Skalor is building and why we think the problem is worth backing.
What Skalor builds
Skalor is building clearing infrastructure for the agent economy. As AI agents start to pay for services and act on behalf of people and companies, someone has to answer a simple question before each action: is this agent allowed to do this? Skalor's approach is programmable mandates. A mandate sets what an agent may do and spend, and the checks run before a transaction settles. The team ships this as a TypeScript SDK. This description comes from the team's own materials.
Why it matters to us
An agent with a wallet and no limits is a liability for whoever deploys it. Companies will not hand real budgets to agents without controls, and controls that live inside each agent's own code are hard to audit. A shared layer that enforces the rules, and keeps a record of them, is the kind of infrastructure that has to exist before agent payments can scale. We think that is a real problem and an early one.
It is also early. Skalor is at an early stage of product and adoption, and the outcome depends on whether developers and businesses use it. This is our view as an investor, not a forecast.
How we work with portfolio teams
Our model is the same in every deal. The investment is the cornerstone, and the operational support around it comes with the check at no extra cost. We do not sell services separately. Giving, not selling.
For founders building agent infrastructure
If you are building in this area and raising, apply at vanneck.xyz.
This article is not investment advice.