Symphony Launches the First Agentic AI Layer for Global Financial Markets

After three years of development, Symphony announced the launch of the first agentic layer for global financial markets, empowering AI agents to securely and autonomously execute financial transactions at scale. This marks the breakout moment for financial agents to move beyond generating insights into financial operators accessible to everyone.

Symphony first launched its own consumer application to showcase the capabilities of its agentic execution infrastructure. Within months, it became the fastest-growing financial agent terminal by volume, surpassing $140 million in transactions. Today, Symphony collaborates with over 15 leading financial institutions and powers the largest agentic finance ecosystem, with more than 300 agents developing autonomous trading and yield strategies.

“We’ve seen three massive trends converging over the past year,” said Vik Chawla, Co-Founder & CEO of Symphony. “Large language models have commoditized financial insights, there’s a cultural shift where people are letting AI steer real aspects of their lives, and leading AI research labs are now turning their focus toward financial systems. What used to take 10 quants at hedge funds now takes 10 minutes with an LLM, and they’re only getting smarter. We see Symphony as the infrastructure layer where the next generation of financial markets will be built.”

By combining AI, automation, and financial primitives into a unified orchestration layer, Symphony’s infrastructure enables non-custodial agentic transactions, zero execution hallucination risk, and seamless composability across systems. This key innovation equips anyone, even without technical expertise, the ability to create and deploy intelligent financial agents.

“Less than 1% of the global population can code and probably even less can manage their finances effectively,” said James Berry, Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer of Symphony. “Our mission is to empower the remaining 99% to easily use, build, and launch production-grade autonomous agents that help developers, enterprises, and everyday users to achieve their financial goals.”

Co-founded by industry veterans from Blackstone, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, Kraken Digital Exchange, Axelar, ConsenSys, Northrop Grumman, and Hermeus, Symphony brings together deep expertise across AI, autonomous aerospace systems, blockchain, and data science to deliver institutional-grade reliability and speed for autonomous finance.

“The infrastructure we created gives AI agents access to global liquidity immediately at deployment with HFT-level performance and production-grade, audited security,” said Benjamin Scherr, Co-Founder & CTO of Symphony. “Our infrastructure lets LLMs do what they’re best at – insight and analysis – while Symphony provides agents the rails to securely execute financial transactions on behalf of consumers.”

Far from a simple iteration, Symphony represents an inflection point for finance. After years of heads-down, focused engineering, the team has delivered the critical innovation that makes agentic finance real: a high-performance execution layer that allows AI agents to transact, coordinate, and evolve across the full spectrum of global markets.

“One of the key factors required for powering agentic execution is speed and interoperability,” said Dean Amiel, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Symphony. “Agents require low latency and high finality of transactions. We’ve achieved this through breakthroughs in our technical stack, including the ability to parallelize financial transactions across multiple platforms and a modular architecture that seamlessly integrates with third-party systems.”

Following their previous raise in early 2024, Symphony is now in active discussions for its upcoming round as it scales toward the next phase of growth.