Seltz raises $12.5 million to build the search layer that agentic AI actually needs

Seltz, a nine-person US/Italy startup, has closed a $12.5 million seed round to provide AI agents with purpose-built web search infrastructure. The company rebuilt its crawler, index, and retrieval models from scratch in Rust, returning queries in under 200ms with structured, ad-free results designed for retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.