Unicity Labs Secures $3M Seed Funding to Power the Autonomous Agentic Internet

Building the Rails for Machine Commerce

Unicity Labs, a protocol development firm based in Zug, Switzerland, has successfully closed a $3 million Seed funding round. Blockchange Ventures led the investment, with participation from Outlier Ventures and the Middle Eastern super-app Tawasal. The company plans to use the capital to expand its operations and accelerate the development of its core infrastructure for autonomous systems. The primary focus of Unicity Labs is the creation of the Agentic Internet, an ecosystem where autonomous AI agents serve as the primary economic participants. Unlike traditional software, these agents are designed to discover services, negotiate terms, and settle transactions without human intervention. This vision requires a fundamental rethink of how digital value is transferred across the web at machine speed.

A Shift from Shared Ledgers

To achieve this, the team is developing the Unicity Protocol, which replaces traditional shared ledgers with peer-to-peer cryptographic objects. Current blockchains often face scalability issues because every transaction must be validated by a global network. By treating assets as individual objects that travel directly between agents, the protocol allows for settlement at machine-scale volume and speed.

Merchants will sell to agents, not people.

This statement from Eric Leandri, CEO of Tawasal, highlights the strategic importance of this technology. The involvement of Tawasal suggests that the protocol may soon see real-world application within their mobile ecosystem. This partnership provides a unique testing ground for agents to handle purchasing and service discovery for millions of active users.

Technical Leadership and Pedigree

The project is led by CEO Mike Gault, the founder and former head of the cybersecurity firm Guardtime. The founding team includes PhD researchers specializing in distributed systems and machine learning who previously worked on high-level integrity infrastructure. This deep technical background provides a foundation of formal verification and cryptographic security for the new protocol. As the market for agentic AI continues to expand, Unicity Labs positions itself as the underlying rails for this new economy. By prioritizing a neutral, Swiss-based foundation for governance, the project aims to become a global standard for machine-to-machine commerce. This approach moves the industry closer to a reality where digital intent is delegated entirely to autonomous software actors.