TLDR: Paris-based Alpic, founded in 2025, has successfully raised €5.1 million in pre-seed funding. The investment, led by Partech, will fuel the development of its AI Agent Cloud Platform, designed to enable AI agents to seamlessly and securely interact with the digital world through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This platform aims to streamline the deployment and management of agent-accessible services, addressing current inefficiencies in how AI models take action.
Alpic, a pioneering French startup, has announced the successful closure of a €5.1 million pre-seed funding round. This significant capital injection is earmarked for the development of its innovative AI Agent Cloud Platform, a crucial infrastructure designed to facilitate seamless interaction between AI agents and the digital world. The funding round was spearheaded by leading venture capital firm Partech, with notable participation from a consortium of investors including K5 Global, Irregular Expression, Yellow, Drysdale, Kima Ventures, and Galion.exe. The round also saw contributions from prominent founders associated with AI and developer tool giants such as Mistral, Datadog, and Dataiku.
Founded in 2025 and based in Paris, Alpic is building the industry’s first all-in-one cloud platform specifically tailored for Model Context Protocol (MCP) server management. The company’s core mission is to empower businesses to expose their services to AI agents in a safe, reliable, and efficient manner.
The current landscape for AI models taking action is often fraught with inefficiencies, relying on methods like website scraping or navigating complex human-oriented user interfaces. Alpic’s platform directly addresses this challenge by leveraging the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard published by Anthropic. This protocol offers a secure and structured pathway for AI agents to connect with external services, fundamentally changing how these intelligent systems operate.
Alpic’s platform provides a comprehensive, developer-centric toolkit that supports rapid deployment, fine-grained authentication, robust version control, and advanced observability features. This approach aims to reduce the operational complexities typically associated with making services accessible to AI agents.
Commenting on the investment, Pierre-Louis Theron, Co-founder and CEO of Alpic, stated, “The real potential of agents lies in their ability to interact with the digital world around them. For that we need infrastructure built from the ground up for agents, not retrofitted for them.”
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This venture marks a return for Alpic’s founders, who previously built Streamroot, a successful video delivery startup that was later acquired by Lumen Technologies. Their latest endeavor focuses on the emerging user persona of AI agents, which are increasingly automating tasks for users, from travel bookings to managing SaaS applications. The company has already opened its platform in public beta, having deployed MCP servers with early customers, and anticipates that most online services will eventually become directly accessible to agents via dedicated protocols.
