Alpic raises $6 million in pre-seed funding to build the first MCP-native cloud platform

The startup aims to help businesses connect their products and services to AI agents easily and securely. Funding will accelerate development of Alpicʼs platform for deploying and monitoring MCP servers, with one-click setup, AI-specific analytics, and production-grade security and tooling.

Paris, San Francisco, September 4, 2025 - As AI reshapes how we use the internet, a new user persona is emerging: the agent. These AI systems act on behalf of users, from booking travel and paying bills to automating enterprise processes and managing SaaS tools.

Until now, AI models have excelled at producing text and ideas, but when it comes to taking action, theyʼve relied on inefficient workarounds: scraping websites, navigating human-oriented UIs, or using manually built plugins. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) – an open standard published by Anthropic and now adopted by all major AI players – changes that by offering a secure and structured way for agents to connect to external services.

MCP unlocks a new way of interacting with the digital world. Instead of perusing a list of flights on a website, you can state where you want to go and an agent finds the best options and books it. Rather than logging into a CRM dashboard, an agent can update a client record and invoice them on your behalf. Human-facing UI is giving way to interfaces for agents.

Alpic, the first cloud platform built specifically for MCP, announced today it has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate this shift.

As adoption of AI agents grows, companies will need infrastructure for a new frontend, made not of pixels but of tools. Alpic provides that layer, enabling developers to deploy and manage MCP servers in minutes, with built-in security, analytics, and tooling. The platform greatly reduces operational complexity and streamlines the path to production for agent-accessible services.

Alpic was started by the team of repeat founders behind Streamroot, a video delivery startup acquired by Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN), which helped media companies adapt to the millions of viewers shifting from broadcast TV to streaming. Just as that shift required a new delivery model, todayʼs move toward AI agents demands a new foundation.

“The real potential of agents lies in their ability to interact with the digital world around them,ˮ said Pierre-Louis Theron, Cofounder and CEO of Alpic. “For that we need infrastructure built from the ground up for agents, not retrofitted for them.ˮ

Alpic sees that current approaches, where AI navigates human-designed interfaces, are unreliable and costly at scale. The company believes that the majority of online services will be directly accessible to agents via a dedicated protocol.

“Authentication, user experience, payments, and developer workflows look completely different when the user is an AI agent. Weʼre only beginning to understand how much the internet will change,ˮ added Theron. “Alpicʼs mission is to provide the infrastructure to make those connections seamless.ˮ

The round was led by Partech, which also backed the teamʼs previous venture. Other participants include K5 Global, Irregular Expression, Yellow, Drysdale, Kima Ventures and Galion.exe, as well as prominent founders in the AI and dev tool space from companies like Mistral, Datadog, and Dataiku. Together they bring expertise in developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software.

“Weʼre thrilled to back this experienced founding team as they build the infrastructure for the new internet,ˮ said Boris Golden, General Partner at Partech. “Agent-first protocols like MCP could be as foundational to AI as HTTP was two decades ago to the internet. Alpic has the deep infrastructure experience and timing to shape how they will be adopted.ˮ

Having deployed dozens of MCP servers with early customers this summer, Alpic is now opening its platform in public beta. Developers can get started at https://app.alpic.ai.

About Alpic

Alpic is the first all-in-one cloud platform for deploying, managing, monitoring, and scaling MCP servers in production. Its mission is to help businesses expose services to AI agents safely, easily, and reliably. The platform offers a developer-centric toolkit for rapid deployment, fine-grained authentication, versioning, and observability, without framework lock-in. Founded in Paris and San Francisco in 2025, Alpic combines deep MCP expertise with a proven track record in core internet infrastructure. Learn more at https://alpic.ai.

About Partech

Partech is a global tech investment firm headquartered in Paris, with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, and San Francisco. We are a team made up of independent thinkers. We are unconstrained by hype, trend or fixed ways of working. We believe in the power of alliance in action, working together and side-by-side with the founders we back, in the shared pursuit of success. We bring together capital, operational experience and strategic support for the entrepreneurs we back from seed through to growth stage. Born in San Francisco 40 years ago, today we manage €2.7B AUM and our current portfolio of 220 companies in 40 countries, across 4 continents.

Press contacts

Alpic: Erica Beavers, Cofounder, erica@alpic.ai

Pierre-Louis Theron, Cofounder & CEO, pierre-louis@alpic.ai

Partech: Isabelle Tresson, 33 7 86 08 85 85, itresson@partechpartners.com