Press release · June 11, 2026 · Hannover, Germany

    As Agents Take Over Digital Commerce, ShopAgentic closes €1.9M pre-seed to build the infrastructure for agentic commerce.

    Every major shift in commerce changed how consumers buy. Agentic commerce is the first to change who buys, and ShopAgentic is building the infrastructure for an agentic-first experience.

    Round
    €1.9M

    Oversubscribed pre-seed, led by May Ventures and Greenfield Capital.

    Market
    25%

    Of global e-commerce sales will be enabled by AI agents by 2030 (Deloitte).

    Founders
    3 waves

    Alexander Ringsdorff & Kai-Thomas Krause have launched at the founding moment of mobile, omnichannel, and now agentic commerce.

    Syndicate
    A-list

    A who's-who of commerce angels backing the founders and the mission.

    Hannover, Germany, June 11, 2026. Every major shift in commerce changed how consumers buy. The move to mobile, the rise of marketplaces, the pivot to omnichannel, each rewired the path to purchase, but a human was always the one deciding and placing the order. Agentic commerce is the first shift that changes who buys. AI assistants are taking over the customer side, completing research, comparison, and purchase on a person's behalf. The problem: today's commerce infrastructure was built for human shoppers, not AI agents. Merchants will have to rebuild for an agentic-first world, and ShopAgentic is the partner for that.

    ShopAgentic is building the native agentic commerce system. Today, it announced the close of a €1.9 million pre-seed round, led by May Ventures and Greenfield Capital, alongside a syndicate of strategic angels drawn from across global commerce. The round closed within weeks of the company's initial angel financing.

    Deloitte reports that by 2030, 25% of global e-commerce sales will be enabled by AI agents, with global impact reaching into the trillions of dollars. Shoppers are already delegating research, comparison, and purchasing to personal agents that find products, weigh options, and transact directly with brands, without ever visiting a storefront.

    "Discovery is moving into millions of personal assistants. Transactions are moving between agents. The entire front door of e-commerce is being rebuilt, and ShopAgentic is the system on the other side of it."
    — Alexander Ringsdorff, CEO and co-founder of ShopAgentic

    Agent-readiness: commerce's next architecture

    For two decades, the winning playbook was a better storefront or a more flexible platform. Shopify democratized online retail; Salesforce wired the enterprise behind it. Both were built on one assumption: that humans operate every lever. That assumption no longer holds.

    AI assistants already shape how hundreds of millions of consumers find and buy products. As they grow more capable and more trusted, they will complete purchases autonomously, negotiating, personalizing, and transacting at a speed and scale no human-operated storefront can match. The winners in this era won't be the brands that bolted AI onto an existing platform. They'll be the ones whose entire operational stack was designed to natively speak the language of AI agents.

    That forces brands to keep two front doors open at once. One is built for agents that read signals: structured product data, transparent pricing, real-time inventory. Those agents judge a brand on clarity, not creativity. The other door is still the one a human chooses to walk through. However, even there demand is increasingly captured inside assistants and agents long before a shopper ever reaches a storefront, which makes agent-readiness an infrastructure question, not just a marketing one. ShopAgentic is built so brands can win at both doors and capture that demand at its new source.

    ShopAgentic is a native agentic commerce system: a coordinated squad of specialized AI agents, each owning one commerce function end-to-end. From catalog management and dynamic pricing to customer service and fulfillment orchestration, every agent has a defined job, a clear scope of ownership, and the autonomy to execute, while the merchant keeps full control over strategy and outcomes.

    ShopAgentic works alongside existing infrastructure or as a standalone solution, with a low entry threshold that lets brands begin within a normal innovation budget, with no enterprise sale and no multi-year implementation. That matters most for the roughly half of global e-commerce running on proprietary, custom-built systems, merchants who can't simply migrate to a standard platform but can no longer afford to sit out agentic commerce.

    The pre-seed capital will accelerate product development, deepen integrations across the commerce ecosystem, and grow the team ahead of a broader market launch.

    May Ventures, which backs foundational AI-native companies, saw ShopAgentic as a defining building block for the new commerce stack.

    "The next generation of commerce software will be built for agents, not just for humans with browsers. ShopAgentic is starting exactly there and building the infrastructure from first principles."
    — Dominik Lohle, Managing Partner at May Ventures

    Greenfield Capital co-led on its conviction in agent-to-agent payments, a new financial architecture at the intersection of AI and crypto, in which agents transact directly with one another, without traditional payment rails.

    "Agents don't shop the way people do, and before long they won't pay the way people do either. Stablecoins are a natural fit for how agents transact: instant settlement, programmable conditions, and no dependence on rails built for humans. ShopAgentic is building the merchant side of exactly that future."
    — Claude Donzé, Principal at Greenfield Capital

    A syndicate that has built and scaled commerce at every level

    The oversubscription reflects the conviction of operators and investors who know the commerce landscape from the inside, spanning from SaaS founders, marketplace operators, media entrepreneurs, and institutional capital.

    • Jochen Krisch
      Founder, Exciting Commerce
    • Sven Rittau
      Founder zooplus / K5
    • Andreas Schenk
      Partner, Alstin Capital
    • Boris Lokschin
      Founder & former CEO, Spryker
    • Andy Lenz
      Founder, t3n Magazine / Heise Ventures
    • Thomas Gottheil
      Founder & former CEO, Frontastic (acq. commercetools)
    • Peter Wolff
      Co-Founder & Managing Partner, EnjoyVenture
    • Peter McCoy
      Technology Investor & Partner, Rockefeller Capital (New York)
    • Tony DiPaolo
      Vice President, SPS Commerce (NASDAQ: SPSC)
    • Stefan Wenzel
      Former CEO, eBay Germany, OTTO, Tom Tailor; author of AGENTIC COMMERCE

    Meet the ShopAgentic team at K5, Europe's leading commerce executive conference, in Berlin.

    Dive deeper

    Greenfield Capital published their full investment thesis on why agentic commerce demands new merchant infrastructure and why they co-led this round.

    Read the backing thesis
    About ShopAgentic

    ShopAgentic is the native agentic commerce system: a coordinated squad of specialized AI agents, each owning one commerce job end-to-end, so brands and retailers can participate in agentic commerce without a replatforming project.

    Alexander Ringsdorff and Kai-Thomas Krause have been present at the founding moment of three consecutive waves of commerce transformation. In 2011, as mobile commerce was emerging, they built CouchCommerce, one of the first companies anywhere to make e-commerce native to touch-screen devices. In 2015, as omnichannel became the defining challenge for global brands, they joined forces with an experienced team to co-found NewStore, which grew into a global SaaS platform for unified retail operations trusted by major international brands. In 2025, as agentic commerce began to take shape, they started again from scratch, deliberately, and with full awareness of what was coming.

    ShopAgentic is headquartered in Hannover, Germany, and was founded in December 2025.

    About May Ventures

    May Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund headquartered in Münster, Germany. It invests at the pre-seed and seed stages in startups focused on artificial intelligence as a key technology and the transformation of companies and industries across Germany, neighboring countries, and the emerging home region. May Ventures integrates AI throughout its own work and positions itself as an AI-native fund. It was founded by Dominik Lohle and Maximilian Derpa, supported by successful founders and experienced venture partners.

    About Greenfield Capital

    Greenfield is a European blockchain venture firm that backs developer teams building toward an open, decentralized, and more robust architecture of tomorrow's web. Founded by Sebastian Blum and Jascha Samadi in 2018, Greenfield provides funding and operational support (e.g., running network and protocol infrastructure in-house). Greenfield's portfolio includes NEAR, 1inch, Arcium, Centrifuge, Gattaca, PEAQ, DRESSX, Self Labs and ShopAgentic, among others.

    Press inquiries

    For interviews, additional information or assets, please contact:

    Vera Vaubel
    Vaubel Medienberatung GmbH
    vera.vaubel@vaubel.de+49 160-8472068
    Alexander Ringsdorff
    CEO & Co-Founder, ShopAgentic
    press@shopagentic.com

    Source: Deloitte Consulting LLP, "Agentic commerce: Redefining retail economics," 2026. Read the report.