List of Startups Fundraising #July

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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:
✅  158 startup applications.
✅  Stages: 10% idea-stage, 50% Pre-seed, 35% Seed, 5% Series A.
✅  Geographies: 78% Spain, 22% RoW. Last batch: 31-69%.
✅  100+ investor requests.

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I have chosen 2 pre-seed investment opportunities, which I have personally analyzed:

📍 HQ: Barcelona, Spain.
🏭 Industry: Enterprise AI.
☘ Stage: Pre-seed.
🚨 Problem: Companies are investing heavily in generative AI, but without robust user analytics and cybersecurity measures, they face challenges in deploying it safely and integrating it into their products and services. The main issues include lack of visibility into AI interactions, risk of sensitive data leakage, reputational damage from AI hallucinations, potential revenue fines for non-compliance, etc.
🔛 Solution: NeuralTrust has created a tool to analyze and secure everything companies do with Generative AI. A holistic platform to make LLMs secure and reliable, by offering insights and control from a business perspective, focusing on understanding how customers interact with the AI system, ensuring the responsible development and use of the AI system, and including real-time monitoring for data breaches, potential manipulation, and misuse.
📱 Product:

🫰 Business model: SaaS Fee, with an expected ACV of €50-100k.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Large enterprises.
📊 Traction: Pre-revenue, but has closed 6+ pilots with big corporates in the Financial, Travel and Media sectors.
🏚 Market: Generative AI is the biggest platform shift since cloud and mobile. Market grows at 42% CAGR and will reach $1.3T by 2032, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
👥 Joan Vendrell (CEO) - B.Sc in Computer Science and MBA from London Business School. Executive with over 15 years of experience in a broad range of digital, data, growth, IT, and e-commerce leadership positions. Former Chief Data Officer at Mango and Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.
👥 Victor García (CTO) - B.Sc in Computer Science. Former Head of Data Platform at Mango and Technical Consultant at Telefónica.
💰 Round: €2 million round.

📍 HQ: London, UK.
🏭 Industry: SaaS
☘ Stage: Pre-seed
🚨 Problem: Customer retention is a growing problem for digital companies. An average strategy requires a large, experienced team, complex data, multiple tools and a high cost. Hyper-personalization at scale is unattainable.
🔛 Solution: Melow is a team of AI Agents that centralize and analyze customer data, creating actionable insights, hyper personalized recommendations and executing complex tasks to boost customer retention.  Their first agent is called Mila, an AI-Powered Data Science & Customer Retention employee that helps companies maximize their data and increase revenue from existing customers. 
📱 Product:

🫰 Business model: SaaS fee based on the number of contacts/profiles analyzed.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Digitally native companies, mainly B2C and B2B2C, with 100k+ customer base.
📊 Traction (pre-revenue): Secured 5 pilots with large-to-mid size fintech / payments companies with +200k users.
🏚 Market: The global data enrichment and ML solutions market is estimated at +$28Bn, and expected to grow at 17% CAGR to 2030.
👥 Pepe del Castaño (co-CEO): Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Exeter University. 4 years as Investor at GBL, an investment holding company owned by two families with a portfolio value of over €17bn. Developed, and operated 4 marketing AI SaaS tools with his co-founder Alex.
👥 Alex Gabriel (co-CEO): Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Exeter University. Investment and fund manager for a Paris-based fund that managed €1.2bn of invested capital.
👥 Mauricio Valdivia (CTO): Industrial engineer with a focus on software development. Software Developer at Codexa and previous Founder at Wallstate.
💰 Round: $500K pre-seed round.

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