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▶ 4:58 · $SPEEDINVEST · $BIG-CAPITAL · Speedinvest leads Seltz seed, betting on AI-native search infrastructure
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Antonio Mallia, CEO at Seltz: BREAKING: Seltz raised $12.5M seed

2026-06-24 · 3 company · 2 thematic
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antonio mallia

Founder and CEO of Seltz, building web search infrastructure for AI models; background in information retrieval research and academia.

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“I think they were really passionate already about so like the space. Uh first of all which is what caught their attention. And when I say they were passionate about the space I mean, you know, they probably knew how complex it is to um pre…”
—antonio mallia
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