Seltz Lands $12.5 Million to Build Search Infrastructure for AI Agents

Antonio Mallia, an Amazon and Pinecone veteran, is betting agents need their own crawler, index, retrieval models, and ranking stack.

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Primary source: Fortune

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Search is becoming agent infrastructure, not just a consumer interface. Seltz's seed round shows investors are still willing to fund costly, full-stack web indexes if they can reduce AI labs' dependence on Google, Bing, and wrapper APIs.

Illustration of Seltz's search stack components - crawler, index, retrieval and ranking - arranged around a depiction of founder Antonio Mallia.

Antonio Mallia's Seltz raised $12.5 million in seed funding to build web search infrastructure for AI agents, Fortune reported Wednesday.…

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