List of Startups Fundraising #January 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 January, we got impressive numbers:
✅ 130 startup applications.
✅ Stages: 5% Stealth | 58% Pre-seed | 33% Seed | 3% Series A | 1% Series B.
✅ Geographies: 28% US | 15% Spain | 12% UK | 45% Rest of the world.
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I have selected 3 investment opportunities, all founded by Spanish entrepreneurs but based in different locations—London, New York, and Madrid—and provided a brief analysis.
📍 HQ: London, UK
🏭 Industry: Enterprise AI
☘ Stage: Seed
🚨 Problem: Capably is tackling the challenges companies face in automating work effectively.
🔛 Solution: AI-powered platform transforming workflows across organizations through autonomous, intelligent, and adaptable solutions.
📱 Product: Platform for creating and managing autonomous workflows.
🫰 Business model: Subscription-based revenue model with pricing tiers designed to scale with the complexity of the AI workflows ($399-$8,999 month).
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Mid-sized and enterprise companies across industries (100+ employees).
🏚 Market: The global robotic process automation market size was estimated at $3.79 billion in 2024 and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 43.9% from 2025 to 2030.
👥 Rafa Pulido (CEO) - Computer Science degree and an MBA from ESADE. 10+ years in scale-ups as a C-level executive (COO), specializing in scaling products, GTM, and people operations. Participated in 2 exits.
👥 Nicolas Trésegnie (CTO) - Computer Science degree and an MBA from Imperial College. 10+ years of experience in scale-ups, specialized in building and scaling tech teams as a Chief Architect and CTO.
💰 Round: Seed round, round closing.
📍 HQ: New York, USA & Barcelona, Spain
🏭 Industry: Fintech, AI
☘ Stage: Pre-seed
🚨 Problem: Asset managers dedicate over 55% of their resources to manual information processing for investment research, creating a bottleneck that limits scalability and slows decision-making.
🔛 Solution: AI agents that supercharge financial analysts. Able to gather, process, and contrast all available financial data, handle repetitive research tasks, and automate the creation and maintenance of valuation models.
📱 Product: SaaS platform that connects a firm’s internal knowledge with a vast library of 200,000+ processed regulatory filings and IR documents.
🫰 Business model: Subscription-based model with per-seat pricing.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Fundamentals-driven public market asset managers.
📊 Traction: Secured trial agreements with global asset managers, collectively managing over $180 billion in AUM
🏚 Market: Today, asset managers spend over $45 billion in financial data and more than $190 billion in infrastructure and human labor to help make sense of it.
👥 Miquel Trafí (CEO) - Former Head of Strategy at Rand (FinTech), BSc Industrial Engineering and Economics.
👥 Maurits Brinkman (CTO) - Former ML Researcher at ASML, MSc Mathematics (specialization in Machine Learning and Computational Finance).
💰 Round: Pre-seed round, undisclosed
📍 HQ: Madrid, Spain
🏭 Industry: Fintech, Consumer Tech
☘ Stage: Seed
🚨 Problem: While cashback and coupons are mainstream in most parts of the world, 300M people in Latin America don't have a centralized, trustworthy way to save on their online purchases.
🔛 Solution: Qoala is a free cashback browser extension and app that rewards users for their online purchases. Qoala centralizes all offers, coupons and cashback offers and allows online shoppers to keep control of their savings and find the best deals.
📱 Product:
🫰 Business model: Qoala is completely free for users, as it charges a commission for every purchase they generate for the store, to whom they are adding value by generating sales.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Heavy online shoppers, mostly from the ages of 25-45 in Latin America.
📊 Traction: 80k users in Mexico in their first 6 months and 12k in Colombia in their first month. In Spain, Qoala is a top player with over 120k users, 4.500 partner stores, 9M€ in GMV and 200k transactions generated in 2024.
🏚 Market: Focused on the spanish speaking world, the fastest growing ecommerce market in the world (12% average, Mexico 25% YoY), already worth $300bn and serving 300M customers.
👥 Rafael Rubio (Co-CEO) - 3rd time founder with 1 successful exit.
👥 Federico Sujoluzky (Co-CEO) - 2nd time founder, ex-consultant and first employee at a top Israeli startup.
💰 Round: 2.5M€ Seed Round
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I'm not an entrepreneur yet, but I appreciate your work on this, Luis and Ruben!
Great post. I would love to have a copy.