Manufact

Luigi Pederzani and Pietro Zullo looked at the AI agent revolution and realized something nobody was paying attention to: all these agents need infrastructure too. Not the flashy AI models everyone zigs about—but the boring, essential tools that let agents actually do work. So they built Manufact, a three-person startup building the open-source stack for the AI agent era. They just raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by Peak XV, with participation from Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Ritual Capital, Pioneer Fund, and an angel who happens to be the co-founder and COO of Supabase. That's not a small vote of confidence.

Here's the thing about AI agents—they need to interact with software differently than humans do. They can't click buttons or read UI. Manufact is building the tools that let agents actually talk to your databases, your APIs, your entire stack. Think of it as the connective tissue that makes agents functional in production. They're based in both San Francisco and Zurich, which is an interesting bet on capturing both the Silicon Valley AI brain and European engineering talent.

They're three people. They raised $6.3M. And they're going after infrastructure that every single AI agent company will need. The gold rush is in AI apps, but someone has to build the picks and shovels—and Manufact just loaded up.