Episode Details

Seltz just raised a $12.5m Seed as it launches its first product and looks to build a new generation of web infrastructure for AI.

Antonio Mallia is Founder and CEO at Seltz. The company is building for a world where AI agents become a new type of web user, requiring a completely different way to access information online. Instead of returning a list of links, Seltz is rebuilding the entire search stack so agents can access trustworthy, citable information and run hundreds of queries in parallel to complete tasks independently.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:25 - $12.5m Seed announcement

1:15 - Why AI needs a different type of web search

3:20 - Why Seltz rebuilt the entire stack

5:00 - Why investors backed the company

7:20 - Building a research-heavy team

11:50 - Early traction and customer use cases

15:40 - The next 12 months

16:25 - Rethinking retrieval for AI agents

18:30 - Running hundreds of queries in parallel