List of Startups Fundraising #October
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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:
✅ 241 startup applications, 34 of which came in October.
✅ Stages: 9% Stealth, 53% Pre-seed, 33% Seed, 4% Series A.
✅ Geographies: 73% Spain, 27% RoW. Last batch: 70-30%.
✅ 250+ investor requests.
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I have chosen 2 seed investment opportunities, and provided a brief analysis:
📍 HQ: Barcelona, Spain
🏭 Industry: AI B2B
☘ Stage: Pre-Seed
🚨 Problem: Businesses of all sizes, from startups to established corporations, recognize the value of executive and virtual assistants in enhancing productivity and streamlining operations, although this comes at a high cost.
🔛 Solution: Anything is a human concierge and executive assistant service that’s affordable and knowledgeable. By leveraging their expertise in AI and collaboration technology, the company aims new way of delivering services to busy professionals.
📱 Product: The platform acts as a trusted assistant, providing account management services.
🫰 Business model: The company charges a value-based pricing model, where the fee is calculated based on the time saved for the client.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: SME management, corporate middle management and prosumers.
📊 Traction: €1000 MRR with 20 live users using the platform by word of mouth.
🏚 Market: The global virtual assistant market is expanding rapidly, with projections indicating substantial growth in the coming years. By 2025, the market size is projected to reach $25 billion.
👥 Pau Minoves (CEO) - Executive with over 20 years of experience in tech and 10 of those in leadership positions. Former CTO of Typeform.
💰 Round: Seed round. Details undisclosed.
📍 HQ: Barcelona, Spain
🏭 Industry: EdTech / HRTech
☘ Stage: Seed
🚨 Problem: Fragmented corporate well-being programs lead to high turnover and low productivity, failing to meet employee expectations and costing companies €2.5-€3.5k per employee annually.
🔛 Solution: Emocional.com reduces employee turnover and costs by enhancing mental well-being, developing key skills, and strengthening financial health through a gamified, socially engaging platform powered by affective AI.
📱 Product: Gamified, AI-powered platform for professional development.
🫰 Business model: SaaS subscription-based, with pricing from €2 to €15 per employee per month based on features and company size.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Companies with over 100 employees in Spain and LATAM.
📊 Traction: 2,500 current users. Pipeline includes 100+ companies across Spain and Mexico.
🏚 Market: Globally valued at €80 billion and growing at a CAGR of 7%.
👥 Pedro J. Espinosa (CEO/CPO): Psychologist, UX designer and founder of 2 companies. Invested €100k in Emocional.
👥 David Iruzubieta (CTO): Computer engineer, with over 20 years of programming experience.
👥 Sebastian Sherif (CRO): Swiss entrepreneur, founder of 2 scale-ups.
👥 Aniol Hervás (COO): Process engineer, leading customer success and operations.
💰 Round: €500k, aimed at reaching €2M in ARR.
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Interested
Super interested in the list!!! :)