Silicon Valley startups are about to hand corporate credit cards to AI agents

The typical early-stage startup team used to comprise a pair of founders and a handful of software engineers. Now that founding team is just as likely to include AI agents as it is human employees—and the companies that serve startups are racing to adapt.  For Mercury, a popular Silicon Valley banking solution, that shift in team composition has prompted the development of a new feature: AI agent cards, or virtual credit cards that businesses can use to delegate and automate purchasing…