SolvaPay has raised €2.4 million in a pre-seed round to build what it positions as the first payment infrastructure layer for the emerging agentic economy, where AI agents can independently transact across digital services. The round was led by European fintech VC Redstone and Silicon Valley–based MS&AD Ventures, with participation from Antler and Greens Ventures. Founded in Stockholm, SolvaPay is building machine-native payment rails designed to let AI agents discover, negotiate, and pay for services seamlessly across platforms like APIs, SaaS tools, and emerging AI ecosystems. The new funding will be used to scale its payment infrastructure platform, accelerate product development, and expand integrations that embed payments directly into agent workflows—positioning the company to capture a share of what is projected to become a multi-trillion-dollar agent-driven commerce market by 2030.
Today’s digital services enable seamless transactions, but only within closed ecosystems. This fragmentation prevents AI agents from freely interacting, negotiating, and transacting across platforms. SolvaPay removes these barriers, enabling agents to spend autonomously and allowing digital services to be discovered, accessed, and paid for across the emerging agentic economy.
With this investment, SolvaPay will accelerate the development of its machine-native payment rails and agentic revenue infrastructure. As agent-driven commerce, projected to reach $3-5 trillion by 2030, moves from potential to reality, SolvaPay is building the foundation that makes it possible.
“Every major technological shift has needed a financial layer. before it could become a real economy. The internet needed it. E-commerce needed it. Now, we’ve reached the same point with the agentic economy, but naturally the transaction types, the speeds, and the compliance required for this are impossible within the existing infrastructure. We’ve built what was missing. The timing is not early, it is exactly right,” said Viggo Stenseth, CEO and Co-founder, SolvaPay.
SolvaPay’s founding team brings combined 50+ years of experience across Spotify, FIS, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, and Handelsbanken.
“Agentic payments aren’t an incremental step for fintech. SolvaPay is building in a new category.” – Mickaël Bellaïche, Partner, Redstone VC.
SolvaPay’s payment infrastructure is built to be compatible with how agents actually work, integrating natively into workflows, APIs, and applications to remove friction between decision and transaction, with payments occurring seamlessly inside the experience.
“SolvaPay is solving the critical ‘transaction gap’ in the agentic economy. As AI agents move from simple assistants to autonomous economic actors, machine-native payment infrastructure is vital. SolvaPay’s founding team has the technical skills and domain experience to build the infrastructure that will define how value is exchanged in an AI-driven world.” – Oscar Westergard, Partner at Antler.
For SaaS companies, API providers, developers, and digital services worldwide, a single integration makes any product or service discoverable, consumable, and payable across Claude, ChatGPT, and every AI ecosystem that comes online. As every new agent becomes a potential buyer, early adoption gives businesses a significant advantage in the rapidly growing agentic economy.
“This massive opportunity is in rapid flux. It’s critical to be in the weeds every day and ship what’s needed tomorrow pragmatically, while at the same time architecting for a disruptor’s path as things unfold. SolvaPay’s founders have the breadth and depth of experience to navigate this journey!” – Dan McCormick, Partner Greens Ventures.
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