Alpic is a technology company.
Alpic offers open-source tools for building, and an all-in-one cloud platform to ship and scale MCP apps, focusing on deployment, management, and scaling of ChatGPT applications.
Alpic has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round.
Alpic has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Alpic has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Alpic's investors include Hanabi Capital, Insight Partners, LGF, Motier Ventures, Next47, Partech Ventures, Mandeep Singh, Mike Krieger, Vinay Hiremath.
Alpic is a Paris-based technology startup founded in 2025 that builds the first MCP-native cloud platform, enabling businesses to deploy, manage, monitor, and scale MCP servers for AI agents.[1][2][3] It serves developers and companies exposing services to AI agents, solving the problem of unreliable, costly workarounds like web scraping by providing safe, simple infrastructure with built-in security, analytics, developer tooling, authentication, and serverless scaling.[1][2][3] Alpic raised $6 million (€5 million) in pre-seed funding from Partech and others, has deployed dozens of MCP servers for early customers, and launched public beta after summer 2025 pilots, positioning it for rapid growth in agent-first computing.[1][2][4]
The platform supports official MCP SDKs (Python, TypeScript), one-click CI/CD, OAuth/API key auth, transport abstraction (stdio to SSE/WebSockets/HTTP), MCP-specific monitoring (sessions, tokens, latency), and global scaling without ops overhead, making it framework-agnostic and production-ready.[3]
Alpic was founded in 2025 by a repeat founder team from Streamroot, a video delivery startup acquired by Lumen Technologies, which helped media companies transition from broadcast TV to streaming for millions of viewers.[2] Led by Co-founder and CEO Pierre-Louis Theron, the team leveraged deep infrastructure expertise to address AI agents' need for native interaction protocols amid the rise of agentic systems handling tasks like travel booking or enterprise workflows.[1][2] The idea emerged from recognizing that AI models' action limitations—relying on clunky UIs—require ground-up infrastructure like MCP (Model Context Protocol), an open standard akin to HTTP for the agent era; early traction came from deploying dozens of MCP servers for customers in summer 2025, leading to the $6M raise and public beta.[1][2][6]
Alpic rides the AI agent trend, where agents act autonomously on tasks, reshaping the internet from human UIs to agent-accessible protocols like MCP, potentially as foundational as HTTP.[1][2] Timing is ideal post-2025 funding amid surging agent adoption, with market forces like unreliable scraping's high costs favoring direct, protocol-based access for online services.[1][2] It influences the ecosystem by enabling SaaS/B2C apps to integrate with LLMs/productivity tools, driving retention via agent workflows and pioneering "agent-first computing" infrastructure.[2][3][4]
Alpic's public beta and early deployments signal strong momentum toward dominating MCP infrastructure, with scalability and tooling positioning it to capture the shift to agent-accessible services.[1][3] Upcoming trends like widespread MCP adoption and evolving transport standards will amplify its edge, potentially expanding to new protocols as AI agents proliferate in enterprise and consumer apps.[1][2][3] Its influence could evolve into shaping the "new internet" backbone, much like early cloud pioneers, tying back to its mission of safe, reliable agent exposure that unlocks AI's full potential.[1][2]
Alpic has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $6.0M Seed in September 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2025 | $6.0M Seed | Hanabi Capital, Insight Partners, LGF, Motier Ventures, Next47, Partech Ventures, Mandeep Singh, Mike Krieger, Vinay Hiremath |