Agentic infrastructure startup Seltz raises $12.5M to help AI agents search the web for answers
Agentic search startup Seltz Inc. 5 million in seed funding to build a more optimal infrastructure so that artificial intelligence agents can find their way around the web. The round was led by Speedinvest and B Capital.
Key Takeaways
- SiliconANGLE UPDATED 21:22 EDT / JUNE 24 2026 AI Agentic infrastructure startup Seltz raises $12.
5M to help AI agents search the web for answers by Mike Wheatley Agentic search startup Seltz Inc.
- He explained that the most useful information needed by AI agents often sits beyond where traditional search engines such as Google can reach.
For instance, it might be inside the main body of text, or it might be embedded in tables, images, snippets or other page-level material that human-focused search engines cannot easily dig up.
- In a blog post in April, Mallia wrote that he realized the need for a specialized agentic search platform while working at Amazon as part of the team that developed Alexa's question answering engine.
It was then that it struck him that the consumer of search was no longer a human, but a machine using what it surfaces to inform its own answers.
- The company has also created its own Dynamic News Search benchmark, which reveals that it delivers 89% accuracy and returns its results in less than 250 milliseconds.
It should be noted that those numbers are not an independent assessment, but Fortune said Seltz can crawl "hundreds of millions of pages a day," and generally returns its results in under 200 milliseconds.
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Stats & Key Facts
- #5 million in seed funding to build a more optimal infrastructure so that artificial intelligence agents can find their way around the web.
- #5 million in seed funding to build a more optimal infrastructure so that artificial intelligence agents can find their way around the web.
- #Also participating were Italian Founders Fund, Future Back Ventures, futurepresent, Arc Investors, Vento Ventures, Mango Capital, 2100 Ventures and United Ventures, plus angel investors from Google LLC, Hugging Face Inc.
- #The company has also created its own Dynamic News Search benchmark, which reveals that it delivers 89% accuracy and returns its results in less than 250 milliseconds.
SiliconANGLE UPDATED 21:22 EDT / JUNE 24 2026 AI Agentic infrastructure startup Seltz raises $12. 5M to help AI agents search the web for answers by Mike Wheatley Agentic search startup Seltz Inc. 5 million in seed funding to build a more optimal infrastructure so that artificial intelligence agents can find their way around the web.
The round was led by Speedinvest and B Capital. Also participating were Italian Founders Fund, Future Back Ventures, futurepresent, Arc Investors, Vento Ventures, Mango Capital, 2100 Ventures and United Ventures, plus angel investors from Google LLC, Hugging Face Inc. The startup was founded by Chief Executive Officer Antonio Mallia, who told Fortune that he's not just trying to build another AI answer engine like Perplexity.
Rather, he's looking lower down the stack, building search infrastructure that's optimized for AI algorithms that generate long and detailed queries and run them in parallel to surface structured evidence, rather than a list of links. "The old search methods don't work because they were architected for humans," Mallia told Fortune. He explained that the most useful information needed by AI agents often sits beyond where traditional search engines such as Google can reach.
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