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sundae_bar aims to be the go-to platform that links AI agent developers with businesses and users. By bringing together autonomous software systems (AI agents that can understand their surroundings, make decisions, and perform tasks better than humans) with end users, sundae_bar is at the heart of a huge market opportunity.
The global AI agents market is on a rapid rise, estimated at USD 5.40 billion in 2024 and expected to grow at a CAGR of 45.8% from 2025 to 2030³. Meanwhile, the overall artificial intelligence market is set to expand from USD 150.2 billion in 2023 to USD 1.35 trillion by 2030⁴. Industry leaders highlight this potential; Nvidia’s CEO predicts 2025 will be the year of AI Agents⁵, Salesforce’s co-founder and CEO predicts 1 billion AI agents will be in service by end of 2026.⁶
Despite this wave of change, there hasn't been a unified marketplace for AI agents, until now. sundae_bar helps developers create, grow, and profit from AI agents. It also gives businesses a reliable place to find and use solutions (think Shopify for AI agents). With subscription fees, transaction fees, and advertising income, Sundae_bar’s diverse monetization approach follows successful SaaS models.
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sundae_bar aims to be the go-to platform that links AI agent developers with businesses and users. By bringing together autonomous software systems (AI agents that can understand their surroundings, make decisions, and perform tasks better than humans) with end users, sundae_bar is at the heart of a huge market opportunity.
The global AI agents market is on a rapid rise, estimated at USD 5.40 billion in 2024 and expected to grow at a CAGR of 45.8% from 2025 to 2030³. Meanwhile, the overall artificial intelligence market is set to expand from USD 150.2 billion in 2023 to USD 1.35 trillion by 2030⁴. Industry leaders highlight this potential; Nvidia’s CEO predicts 2025 will be the year of AI Agents⁵, Salesforce’s co-founder and CEO predicts 1 billion AI agents will be in service by end of 2026.⁶
Despite this wave of change, there hasn't been a unified marketplace for AI agents, until now. sundae_bar helps developers create, grow, and profit from AI agents. It also gives businesses a reliable place to find and use solutions (think Shopify for AI agents). With subscription fees, transaction fees, and advertising income, Sundae_bar’s diverse monetization approach follows successful SaaS models.
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Shopify has evolved from a simple toolkit to a complete commerce ecosystem. It handles hosting, payments, inventory, and logistics while also creating a lively app marketplace. This evolution serves as a clear model for sundae_bar.
sundae_bar will provide easy-to-use SDKs, low-code deployment pipelines, built-in compliance, and monetization tools. This will help developers concentrate on innovation. It will also encourage a self-reinforcing network of creators and businesses.
These milestones show how simplifying complexity, matching fees with user success, and using network effects can transform a niche developer tool into a trillion-dollar platform. By following this approach, sundae_bar could make AI agent creation easier, generate recurring revenue through subscriptions and usage fees, and create a two-sided marketplace where developers and enterprises support each other's growth.
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Below, we’ll examine three established platforms. RapidAPI, Algorithmia, and Hugging Face to draw insights from their approaches to unifying developer tools, scaling network effects, and driving monetisation in large‑scale marketplaces.
Founded in 2014, RapidAPI created the largest API marketplace in the world. It brings together over 35,000 public and private APIs and supports 4 million developers.¹⁰ They have a single portal for discovery, testing, billing, and collaboration. The platform provides real-time analytics, usage-based plans, and easy onboarding. This enables API providers to earn money through subscriptions and pay-per-call fees. A $150 million Series D round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 in March 2022 valued RapidAPI at USD 1 billion.¹¹This confirms the marketplace model that sundae_bar wants to replicate for AI agents.
Launched in 2013 as an “app store for algorithms,” Algorithmia has evolved into a full Machine Learning platform. It serves over 90,000 engineers and data scientists. The platform offers scalable inference, model versioning, reproducible pipelines, and edge deployment. All services are supported by usage-based billing and enterprise SLAs. Its $25 million Series B round in May 2019, led by Norwest Partners, highlighted the strong enterprise demand for centralized AI deployment tools.¹² This aligns with sundae_bar's goal to streamline the entire AI agent lifecycle, from discovery to monetisation.
Originally a chatbot startup, Hugging Face transformed into the top hub for open-source AI models. Its “Model Hub” now features over 500,000 pre-trained models and 250,000 datasets.¹³ It includes versioning, evaluation metrics, and community spaces. With the Inference API and AutoTrain tools, developers can quickly deploy and fine-tune models, paying through usage fees or enterprise subscriptions. A $235 million Series D round in August 2023, led by Salesforce Ventures, valued the company at USD 4.5 billion.¹⁴ This shows the demand for developer-centric marketplaces, similar to sundae_bar's plan to offer agent hosting, compliance, and monetisation features.
(Prices correct as of 21/04/25. Not all companies achieve valuations of this magnitude.)
Below, we’ll examine three established platforms. RapidAPI, Algorithmia, and Hugging Face to draw insights from their approaches to unifying developer tools, scaling network effects, and driving monetisation in large‑scale marketplaces.
Founded in 2014, RapidAPI created the largest API marketplace in the world. It brings together over 35,000 public and private APIs and supports 4 million developers.¹⁰ They have a single portal for discovery, testing, billing, and collaboration. The platform provides real-time analytics, usage-based plans, and easy onboarding. This enables API providers to earn money through subscriptions and pay-per-call fees. A $150 million Series D round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 in March 2022 valued RapidAPI at USD 1 billion.¹¹This confirms the marketplace model that sundae_bar wants to replicate for AI agents.
Launched in 2013 as an “app store for algorithms,” Algorithmia has evolved into a full Machine Learning platform. It serves over 90,000 engineers and data scientists. The platform offers scalable inference, model versioning, reproducible pipelines, and edge deployment. All services are supported by usage-based billing and enterprise SLAs. Its $25 million Series B round in May 2019, led by Norwest Partners, highlighted the strong enterprise demand for centralized AI deployment tools.¹² This aligns with sundae_bar's goal to streamline the entire AI agent lifecycle, from discovery to monetisation.
Originally a chatbot startup, Hugging Face transformed into the top hub for open-source AI models. Its “Model Hub” now features over 500,000 pre-trained models and 250,000 datasets.¹³ It includes versioning, evaluation metrics, and community spaces. With the Inference API and AutoTrain tools, developers can quickly deploy and fine-tune models, paying through usage fees or enterprise subscriptions. A $235 million Series D round in August 2023, led by Salesforce Ventures, valued the company at USD 4.5 billion.¹⁴ This shows the demand for developer-centric marketplaces, similar to sundae_bar's plan to offer agent hosting, compliance, and monetisation features.
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"The pace of change in AI continues on an exponential growth path. sundae_Bar has correctly identified there is not currently a dedicated marketplace for agent AI developers and users to find each other and monetise without there being a proprietary bias. They are looking to be a model agnostic platform in a market looking for some standardisation of security without stifling open development. User growth is key and the Kondor side already had 60,000 users who should now benefit from Ora’s enterprise grade infrastructure and payment systems. Agent.Ai recently showed a ten-fold user increase in six months for its credit based platform and demonstrates the pent up demand for matching services. SaaS has a history of mega growth marketplaces such as GitHub and HubSpot but we are in the age of disruption. Shopify is a useful metaphor. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella even believes that software per se will become database plus an agent ai user interface…that provides for mega demand for agent ai solutions. The potential for exponential growth just in transaction fees is huge if sundae_Bar can own that dedicated marketplace label."
30+ years of experience in financial markets analysing Bonds, Equities, Derivatives, Macro Strategy and Technical Analysis
"The pace of change in AI continues on an exponential growth path. sundae_Bar has correctly identified there is not currently a dedicated marketplace for agent AI developers and users to find each other and monetise without there being a proprietary bias. They are looking to be a model agnostic platform in a market looking for some standardisation of security without stifling open development. User growth is key and the Kondor side already had 60,000 users who should now benefit from Ora’s enterprise grade infrastructure and payment systems. Agent.Ai recently showed a ten-fold user increase in six months for its credit based platform and demonstrates the pent up demand for matching services. SaaS has a history of mega growth marketplaces such as GitHub and HubSpot but we are in the age of disruption. Shopify is a useful metaphor. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella even believes that software per se will become database plus an agent ai user interface…that provides for mega demand for agent ai solutions. The potential for exponential growth just in transaction fees is huge if sundae_Bar can own that dedicated marketplace label."
References
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2. https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/market-news/schedule-1-sundae-bar-plc/17030817
3. https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/ai-agents-market-report
6. https://www.atera.com/blog/agentic-ai-predictions/
7. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SHOP/shopify/market-cap
8. https://s27.q4cdn.com/572064924/files/doc_financials/2024/q4/Q4-2024-Press-Release-Final.pdf
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopify
10. https://rapidapi.com/blog/most-popular-api/
12. https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/14/algorithmia-raises-25m-series-b-for-its-ai-automation-platform/
13. https://originality.ai/blog/huggingface-statistics
15. https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/market-news/schedule-1-sundae-bar-plc/17030817
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