Stockholm-based startup SolvaPay has raised 2.4 million euros in pre-seed funding and is launching a payment infrastructure built for an economy where AI agents buy and sell autonomously. Agent-driven commerce is estimated to reach 3–5 trillion dollars by 2030.
"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 have reached that same point in the agent economy," says Viggo Stenseth, CEO and co-founder of SolvaPay.
The founding team behind SolvaPay, from left Ingemar Svensson, Viggo Stenseth, Tommy Berglind, brings more than fifty years of combined experience from companies including Spotify, FIS, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers and Handelsbanken.
The problem SolvaPay addresses is structural: today, closed payment ecosystems prevent AI agents from interacting, negotiating and transacting across platforms. SolvaPay aims to remove this barrier with infrastructure that integrates directly into workflows, APIs and applications. This allows agents to execute payments at the point where the purchasing decision is made, seamlessly and without friction between decision and transaction. With a single integration, SolvaPay will make products and services discoverable and payable across AI platforms such as Claude and ChatGPT.
The funding round was led by European fintech investor Redstone and Silicon Valley-based MS&AD Ventures, with participation from Antler and Greens Ventures – both investors in Lovable. The proceeds will be used to accelerate development of the payment infrastructure, expand the engineering team and support early adoption among businesses looking to position themselves in the agent economy.
"When AI agents start executing transactions autonomously, trust and reliability become just as important as speed and capacity. SolvaPay's solution sits at the heart of the purchase and payment flow, providing a unique position as new forms of digital risk emerge. We see this as a critical building block for the next generation of the digital economy" – Jon Soberg, Managing Partner, MS&AD.
