List of Startups Fundraising #August

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In this post you will find a list of entrepreneurs and startups in the midst of their fundraising endeavours💰. Some of them have not yet obtained private funding and are at the outset of their journey.

Since April, we got:
✅  166 startup applications.
✅  Stages: 9% idea-stage, 52% Pre-seed, 35% Seed, 4% Series A.
✅  Geographies: 80% Spain, 20% RoW. Last batch: 75-25%.
✅  150+ investor requests.

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I have chosen 2 investment opportunities and provided a brief analysis to give them more visibility:

📍 HQ: Madrid, Spain.
🏭 Industry: Enterprise.
☘ Stage: Pre-seed.
🚨 Problem: Scalar tackles the problem of diminishing returns from traditional outbound sales methods, which overwhelm buyers and lower engagement.
🔛 Solution: Scalar is a network-led growth platform designed to map and leverage your company network for B2B sales with different playbooks, such as past buyers or ex-colleagues. Unlike other outbound automation tools and AI SDRs who are increasing buyer saturation, Scalar aims to increase engagement rate by only using existing relationships and networks. 
📱 Product:

🫰 Business model: SaaS with flat fee based on network size.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Scale-ups and large corporates.
📊 Traction: Working with design partners, and targeting 5-10K MRR by year-end.
🏚 Market: The market opportunity for Scalar is substantial, valued at over $100 billion, excluding CRM systems. This expansive market, though highly competitive, offers significant potential for Scalar's unique approach to lead generation.
👥 Roberto Gomez (CEO) - Consultant at McKinsey, Investor at K Fund and former COO at Cobee (acquired by Pluxee Group in 2024).
👥 Daniel Olea (CTO) - Held various backend and full-stack positions in companies like Lastminute, Clickwise and Finn Ventures. Co-founder and CTO at Cobee (acquired by Pluxee Group in 2024).
💰 Round: €600K pre-seed round, with €150K already committed.

📍 HQ: Barcelona, Spain
🏭 Industry: SaaS B2B
☘ Stage: Seed
🚨 Problem: Public procurement is a bureaucratic maze for both buyers (public orgs.) and sellers (bidders). Preparing tenders is slow and costly. Finding tenders and preparing bids is time-consuming and has a very uncertain ROI.
🔛 Solution: Tendios provides an AI-native platform that eases the end-to-end tender process - from tender creation to bidding, bids evaluation and the contracting phase.
📱 Product:

🫰 Business model: Monthly subscription and success fees.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Mid- & Big-size companies who frequently sell to the public sector and public companies who need to follow public procurement regulation.
📊 Traction: +150 customers like Acciona, Telefonica or SEAT. Growing 20% MoM.
🏚 Market: The global public procurement market stands for €13T GMV. Tendios aims to embrace global tenders, not only local tenders in Spain.
👥 Albert Riera (co-CEO) and Xavi Creus (CTO) are engineers who worked for big corporations (Johnson & Johnson, Adidas, JLR, etc.) in Spain and abroad and felt the pain of bidding to public contracts. They both had entrepreneurial experiences, code and sell on a daily basis.
💰 Round: €3 million seed round

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