When AI Agents Need a Wallet

AI agents can already browse the web, book flights, and negotiate deals. But when it's time to pay, they hit a wall — traditional payment infrastructure wasn't built for autonomous systems. SolvaPay is building the world's first payment layer designed specifically for the agentic economy, where AI agents autonomously find, negotiate, and pay for digital services on behalf of users and businesses.

The €2.4M pre-seed was led by Redstone, with participation from MS&AD Ventures, Antler, and Greens Ventures. The three co-founders — CEO Viggo Stenseth (ex-Spotify, Handelsbanken), Ingemar Svensson (ex-Bank of America, FIS), and Tommy Berglind — bring over 50 years of combined experience across payments, banking, and technology.

Guardrails Built In

Rather than retrofitting traditional payment rails for autonomous systems, SolvaPay is building from scratch with safety baked in: spend limits, merchant allow-lists, and real-time policy controls so AI agents can transact without human intervention on every step. Their platform provides payment APIs and an MCP server that let developers embed financial transactions directly into AI agent workflows — turning autonomous agents from browsers into buyers.