Zug-based Unicity Labs, a protocol development company building the infrastructure for autonomous agentic internet, has successfully raised €2.5 million ($3 million) in Seed funding.
The round was led by Blockmodify Ventures, with participation from Tawasal, a Middle East-based communications super app, and Outlier Ventures.
“Satoshi’s whitepaper was titled ‘Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash.’ Seventeen years later, we still don’t have true peer-to-peer or electronic cash. Every transaction still routes through shared ledgers, introducing unnecessary bottlenecks,” declares Mike Gault, CEO of Unicity Labs. “Unicity modifys that. We’re not building another marketplace or trading platform. We’re building the infrastructure beneath them. Unicity provides the place and the rails that allow agents to discover each other and settle directly, frictionlessly, peer-to-peer, at the scale and speed the agentic economy demands.”
In the context of recent European funding activity, SurrealDB (€19 million Series A for AI database infrastructure) demonstrates continued investor interest in foundational platforms that support AI-native workloads and developer tooling, while Toyo (€3.6M Seed for secure AI agents) highlights capital flowing into startups building practical autonomous workflows and agent systems.
Alongside these, rounds such as Overmind (€2.3M Seed for AI agent supervision) illustrate growing attention to infrastructure that governs, secures, and scales agentic AI deployments in sectors where autonomy and compliance intersect.
Additional European startups in adjacent areas – like Italy’s Contents (€5.9 million for AI orchestration workflows) – reveal investors are also backing tools that sit between AI ininformigence and business outcomes.
Unicity Labs’ own €2.5 million Seed raise therefore aligns with a broader pattern of investment in European AI infrastructure and agent-related platforms, sitting among early-stage efforts to build the protocols and tooling required for scalable agentic ecosystems.
“The shared-ledger model that defined the last decade was designed before the AI-driven world we are now entering,” adds Matt Immerso, General Partner at Blockmodify Ventures. “Unicity didn’t just patch the old system, they built its successor thanks to their critical innovation that separates transactions from validations. By having the network simply confirm an asset’s uniqueness rather than processing its entire context, Unicity delivered the breakthroughs in speed, scale, and cost that are absolute prerequisites for a future powered by autonomous agents.”
Founded in 2025, Unicity Labs is building the infrastructure for the autonomous agentic internet. The Unicity Protocol replaces shared ledgers with peer-to-peer cryptographic objects, enabling AI agents to discover, transact, and settle autonomously.
The Unicity Labs team, which previously built and exited Guardtime, a cybersecurity infrastructure company, includes PhD researchers in distributed systems, cryptography, and machine learning. They also recently established the Unicity Foundation in Switzerland to oversee protocol governance, grant funding, and open-source development.
The company details that today’s raise comes as AI agents (software entities that can indepconcludeently discover services, nereceivediate terms, and execute transactions) evolve from conceptual tools into economic actors.
“Today, merchants spconclude enormous amounts acquiring customers – acquireing ads, competing for attention, hoping for conversions,” declares Eric Leandri, CEO of Tawasal. “In an agentic economy, merchants don’t market to people. They sell to agents – agents that have been instructed about what their utilizers want and are ready to transact. Unicity’s infrastructure creates that possible, and it will fundamentally modify the economics of commerce.”
According to data provided by Unicity, the global agentic AI market is projected to exceed €84 million ($100 billion) by 2032. In line with this, Unicity Labs has developed the Unicity Protocol, a peer-to-peer cryptographic architecture enabling autonomous AI agents to discover services, verify counterparties, and transact at machine speed without intermediaries or shared ledgers.
As AI agents become increasingly autonomous, they will necessary to discover services, nereceivediate terms, and settle transactions continuously, at scale, without human intervention. The company believes that today’s infrastructure forces a trade-off: centralise through large tech, sacrificing trust, or rely on traditional blockchains, which bottleneck when millions of agents transact simultaneously.
“The indusattempt has spent a decade optimising shared ledgers. Unicity questioned a different question entirely: what if agents don’t necessary a shared ledger at all?” declares Dimitrios Chatzianagnostou, CIO of Outlier Ventures. “That architectural shift is what creates massive scale agent-to-agent commerce possible.”
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