SolvaPayONE AI payments The Stockholm-based platform this week announced $2.8 million in pre-seed funding to build its new payments infrastructure platform. The funding was led by European Fintech VC Redstone and Silicon Valley-based MS&AD Ventures, with participation from Lovable investors Antler and Greens Ventures.
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, allowing agents to spend autonomously and discover, access and pay for digital services in the evolving agency economy.
With this investment, SolvaPay will accelerate the development of machine-specific payment rails and agency revenue infrastructure. As agent-driven commerce moves from potential to reality, predicted to reach $3-5 trillion by 2030, SolvaPay is the foundation that makes this possible.
SolvaPay’s founding team brings together over 50 years of experience at Spotify, FIS, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers and Handelsbanken.
“Every major technological change has needed a financial layer before it can become a real economy.” said SolvaPay co-founder and CEO Viggo Stenseth. “The internet needed this, e-commerce needed this too.
“We have now reached the same point with the representative economy, but naturally the transaction types, speeds and compatibility required for this are impossible within the current infrastructure. We have completed what was missing. The timing is not premature, it is just right.”
“SolvaPay is solving the critical ‘transaction gap’ in the agent economy. As AI agents evolve from simple assistants to autonomous economic actors, machine-native payment infrastructure will be 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 WestergardAntler’s partner.
“This massive opportunity is changing rapidly. It’s critical to be mindful every day and pragmatically ship what’s needed tomorrow, while also designing the disruptor’s path as things arise. SolvaPay’s founders have the breadth and depth of experience to navigate this journey.” in question Dan McCormickPartner at Greens Ventures.
SolvaPay’s payment infrastructure is built to be compatible with how agents actually work; It integrates natively into workflows, APIs, and applications, eliminating friction between decision and transaction, and payments occur seamlessly within the experience.
A single integration for SaaS companies, API providers, developers, and digital services worldwide makes any product or service discoverable, consumable, and payable across Claude, ChatGPT, and every AI ecosystem online. Early adoption gives businesses a significant advantage in the rapidly growing agency economy, as every new agent becomes a potential buyer.
