Manufact, the infrastructure platform for AI agents built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), has raised $6.3 million in seed funding to accelerate its development and expand its team amid rising global developer demand. The round was led by Peak XV, with participation from Liquid 2 Ventures, Ritual Capital, Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator, and several angel investors, including the co-founder and COO of Supabase.
Founded in 2025 by Pietro Zullo and Luigi Pederzani, and later joined by CTO Enrico Toniato, a former IBM Research tech lead specializing in AI reasoning, Manufact was previously known as mcp-use. The company positions itself as the easiest way for developers to build AI agents and applications using MCP, Anthropic’s open standard for connecting AI systems with external tools and data sources.
MCP has rapidly gained adoption by standardizing how developers integrate AI models with third-party systems. Rather than building custom integrations for every service, developers can rely on a single protocol. The protocol has seen millions of monthly downloads and has become a de facto industry standard, particularly following its integration into OpenAI’s ChatGPT App Store.
Despite MCP’s growing footprint, operational challenges remain. While the protocol standardizes connectivity, it does not address the complexities of building, deploying, running, and maintaining AI agents in production environments. Manufact aims to fill that gap by providing end-to-end infrastructure for teams moving from prototype to production.
Originally launched as an open-source project, Manufact’s SDKs allow developers to experiment with models, tools, and integrations using minimal code. As projects mature, the company’s hosted platform manages deployment, scaling, security, and orchestration of multiple MCP servers. The company says its tools are now used by thousands of developer teams, including enterprises and regulated organizations, and claims adoption among 20 percent of US 500 companies.
The company reports crossing 5 million SDK downloads and surpassing six figures in ARR within six weeks, driven by developers initially adopting its open-source tools before expanding into enterprise deployments.
Manufact compares its role in the AI agent ecosystem to how React standardized web development and how AWS and Stripe abstracted complexity in cloud computing and payments, respectively. By focusing on infrastructure and operational reliability, the platform aims to enable developers to ship AI-powered applications more quickly while meeting enterprise-grade requirements.
The newly raised capital will be used to expand Manufact’s infrastructure capabilities, grow its engineering and go-to-market teams, and support increasing enterprise demand for MCP-based AI systems.
KEY QUOTES
“As software becomes more agentic, the hard part isn’t the model anymore, it’s everything around it. We started Manufact because developers were spending too much time on plumbing instead of building and shipping their products. Our goal is to make mpc-use the go-to infrastructure layer for the future of AI builders by taking on the operational and connectivity heavy lifting so teams can focus on what actually matters, from internal agents to external apps for ChatGPT. We’re delighted to have the support of our investors to make this possible.”
Pietro Zullo, Co-Founder of Manufact
“Both Pietro and I experienced trying to embed AI into real products before MCP existed and it was painful. MCP goes a long way to fixing this, but only if the infrastructure is there to support it. That’s what we’re building with Manufact – tools that feel simple to use, but are robust enough for serious production systems.”
Luigi Pederzani, Co-Founder of Manufact
“MCP has the potential to become foundational to how AI systems interact and Manufact is emerging as the leading platform for developers. We are excited to partner with them.”
Arnav Sahu, Partner at Peak XV
