SolvaPay,
a Stockholm-based AI payments platform, has raised €2.4 million in pre-seed
funding to develop payment infrastructure for the emerging era of agentic
commerce. The round was led by European fintech venture capital firm Redstone
and Silicon Valley-based MS&AD Ventures, with additional participation from
Antler and Greens Ventures.
As
digital services continue to evolve, existing payment systems remain largely
confined to closed ecosystems, limiting interoperability and preventing AI
agents from freely interacting and transacting across platforms. SolvaPay
addresses this challenge by enabling AI agents to discover, access, and pay for
digital services seamlessly, supporting autonomous economic activity across the
emerging agentic economy.
The
company’s infrastructure is designed to integrate directly into workflows,
APIs, and applications, allowing payments to occur seamlessly within the user
experience. Through a single integration, SaaS providers, API developers, and
digital service companies can make their products discoverable, consumable, and
payable across AI ecosystems such as Claude and ChatGPT, as well as future
agent-based environments.
ViggoStenseth, CEO and co-founder of SolvaPay, commented:
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.
SolvaPay’s
founding team brings more than five decades of combined experience across
financial services and technology companies, including Spotify, FIS, Bank of
America, Lehman Brothers, and Handelsbanken.
The
newly secured funding will be used to accelerate the development of SolvaPay’s
machine-native payment rails and agentic revenue infrastructure, expand the
engineering team, and support early adoption among businesses seeking to
participate in the emerging agentic economy.