SolvaPay, an AI payments platform based in Stockholm, today announces €2.4 million ($2.8M) in pre-seed funding to build out its new payment infrastructure platform, built to power the emerging era of agentic commerce.
The funding was led by European FinTech VC Redstone and Silicon Valley-based MS&AD Ventures, with participation from Antler and Greens Ventures, both investors in Lovable.
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.
SolvaPay’s founding team brings combined 50+ years experience across Spotify, FIS, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers, and Handelsbanken
“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.
“As AI agents begin to transact autonomously, trust and reliability become just as important as speed and capability. SolvaPay sits directly in the flow of those transactions, which makes it a uniquely strategic position as new forms of digital risk emerge. We see this as an important building block for the next generation of the digital economy.” – Jon Soberg, Managing Partner, MS&AD.
“Agentic payments aren’t an incremental step for fintech. SolvaPay is building in a new category.” – Mickaël Bellaïche, Partner, Redstone VC.
“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.
“This massive opportunity is in rapid flux. It’s critical to be in the weeds every day and shipping what’s needed tomorrow pragmatically while, at the same time, and, architecting for a disruptor’s path as things pan out. SolvaPay’s founders have the breadth and depth of experience to navigate this journey!” – Dan McCormick, Partner Greens Ventures.
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.
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.
Read the orginal article: https://ffnews.com/newsarticle/funding/solvapay-raises-e2-4m-and-launches-the-worlds-first-payment-layer-built-for-the-agentic-economy/
