Manufact, an infrastructure platform for AI agents built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by Peak XV to accelerate development and expand its team.

Founders emphasize reducing operational complexity for developers and delivering robust, production-grade tooling for MCP-powered products.

MCP has become a widely adopted standard for integrating AI models with third-party tools and data sources, with millions of monthly downloads and usage in OpenAI’s ChatGPT App Store.

Manufact positions itself as an end-to-end solution to move MCP-based projects from prototype to production, addressing deployment, management, and orchestration gaps beyond mere connectivity.

The company reports over 5 million SDK downloads and six-figure ARR within six weeks, with early developers expanding into enterprise deployments.

Open-source SDKs enable quick experimentation while the hosted platform handles deployment, scaling, security, and orchestration for MCP servers across teams, with adoption spanning enterprises and regulated organizations and claimed use in about 20% of US Fortune 500 companies.

Manufact compares its mission to React for web development and AWS/Stripe for abstracting cloud and payments, aiming to provide reliable infrastructure to accelerate shipping AI-powered apps.

Manufact was founded in 2025 by Pietro Zullo and Luigi Pederzani, with CTO Enrico Toniato, a former IBM Research AI reasoning lead; formerly known as mcp-use.

The funding round included participation from Liquid 2 Ventures, Ritual Capital, Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator, and angels including the co-founder and COO of Supabase.

Arnav Sahu, Partner at Peak XV, believes MCP could become foundational for AI systems, with Manufact emerging as a leading developer platform.

The new funding will expand infrastructure, grow engineering and go-to-market teams, and support rising enterprise demand for MCP-based AI systems.