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.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Fortune
Why it matters
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.

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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