SolvaPay, an AI payments platform based in Stockholm, this week announced $2.8 million in pre-seed funding to build out its new payment infrastructure platform. The funding was led by European Fintech VC Redstone and Silicon Valley-based MS&AD Ventures, with participation from Antler and Greens Ventures, investors in Lovable.
Today’s digital services enable seamless transactions, but often 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-plus years of 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,” said SolvaPay co-founder and CEO Viggo Stenseth. “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 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,” added Oscar Westergard, partner at Antler.
“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,” said Dan McCormick, partner at 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.
