AI agents now operate independently, purchasing API services, using computing resources, and paying for tools. Current systems are not built for this. These agents need to move money quickly across platforms, comply with different rules, and do it all without human sign-off.
SolvaPay, founded in 2022 by Ingemar Svensson, Viggo Stenseth, and Tommy Berglind, fills this gap with machine-designed payment rails. Its system connects directly to APIs, workflows, and AI apps.
SaaS providers, API businesses, and developer tools can use a single integration with SolvaPay to make their products discoverable and purchasable on platforms like Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI ecosystems. This opens up a new customer base: AI agents.
“We’re building financial infrastructure from the ground up to support that behaviour, starting with a transaction layer that already enables agent-to-service payments and scaling towards fully regulated rails underneath,” explains Stenseth to Tech Funding News.
Today, the Stockholm-based startup announced €2.4 million in pre-seed funding. The goal is to build payment infrastructure for the growing agentic economy, where AI agents can find, negotiate, and pay for digital services on behalf of users and businesses.
Redstone, a fintech VC from Berlin, led the round, along with MS&AD Ventures from Silicon Valley, which is part of MS&AD Insurance Group, one of the world’s largest insurance companies. Antler and Greens Ventures also joined in.
SolvaPay is not alone in this space. Stripe has been outspoken about the opportunity in agent payments and launched agent-compatible payment tools in 2025. Coinbase and several stablecoin startups, like BVNK, are promoting programmable stablecoin rails as the primary means of settling agent transactions. Visa and Mastercard have also announced programs for agent payments.
SolvaPay aims to be a neutral layer that connects all these systems. It wants to make any payment method available to any agent. “Our architecture is built around API-driven, LLM-ready surfaces that allow agents to pay other agents and services without requiring a conversational or intent-driven UX designed for people,” adds Stenseth.
The new funding will speed up work on SolvaPay’s machine-native payment rails. It will also help the company start building a customer base among early SaaS companies and API providers, who will be its first source of revenue.
“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,” says Jon Soberg, Managing Partner, MS&AD Ventures
