List of Startups Fundraising #April 25💰
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In this post you will find a list of entrepreneurs and startups in the midst of their fundraising endeavours.
In April, we achieved the following figures:
✅ 69 startup applications.
✅ Stages: 9% Stealth | 54% Pre-seed | 30% Seed | 7% Series A & B
✅ Geographies: 41% US | 12% UK | 12% Spain | 35% Rest of the world.
🤯 500 total submissions since Jan 2025.
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I have selected 2 early-stage opportunities, differing in stage, location, and sector, and provided a brief analysis.
📍 HQ: Chicago, USA
🏭 Industry: Proptech, AI
☘ Stage: Pre-series A
🚨 Problem: The U.S. real estate market is broken — dominated by 6% fees, manual processes, and outdated software that drags transactions out for 90 days with zero transparency or meaningful insights.
🔛 Solution: Unreal Estate is reinventing home transactions with a fully digital, AI-driven platform that brings speed, transparency, and massive savings. By cutting commissions to just 0.5% and reducing time on market from 90 to 45 days, it replaces outdated, manual processes with a seamless, automated experience — all wrapped in a beautiful, modern interface.
📱 Product:
🫰 Business model: Unreal Estate earns revenue across listings, referrals, title services, rentals, and premium SaaS — averaging $2,000+ per transaction.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Home sellers and buyers seeking speed, transparency, and control. On the B2B side, it targets high-volume partners like PE, single-family rental (SFR), mortgage lenders, brokerages, and rental platforms looking to streamline transactions and unlock new revenue streams.
📊 Traction: 38,000 completed listings, $11B in GMV, and operations across 40 U.S. states.
🏚 Market: Focused on the US Market with a TAM = $40BN. The market is projected to grow 20%+ once historically high interest rates are cut.
👥 Kyle Stoner (CEO) - Multi-time founder with a fintech positive exit. Co-Founder of Pangea Money Transfer. Background in engineering & finance (MBA at Columbia Business School).
💰 Round: $2M, +50% committed.
📍 HQ: London, UK
🏭 Industry: Fintech
☘ Stage: Pre-seed
🚨 Problem: Finance teams are held back by fragmented systems and manual processes. This causes delayed reconciliations, complex close cycles, and slow, error-prone vendor payouts — exposing businesses to compliance risks and operational inefficiencies.
🔛 Solution: Empower companies with AI-powered financial infrastructure that automates reconciliation, accelerates financial close cycles, and streamlines vendor payouts with real-time visibility and control.
📱 Product:
🫰 Business model: Subscription fees per seat, transaction fees, and generate revenue from card interchange and currency exchange.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Fintechs, marketplaces, and platforms that manage complex financial operations across multiple vendors, partners, and payment systems. They need smarter, automated solutions for reconciliation, financial close, vendor payouts, and real-time financial visibility to scale efficiently and stay compliant.
📊 Traction: 2 beta customers on the waitlist and more than 84 thousand potential leads through founders’ network.
🏚 Market: +$115Bn in the UK and EU markets.
👥 (CEO) - Fintech enthusiast and product leader. Successfully launched several products in the payments and fintech space. Also runs the
💰 Round: $500K pre-seed round.
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would love to see the list - thanks!
would love to see the list; thanks