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In this post you will find a list of entrepreneurs and startups in the midst of their fundraising endeavours.

In August, we achieved the following figures:

✅  47 startup applications.
✅  Stages: 7% Stealth | 50% Pre-seed | 39% Seed | 4% Series A & B
✅  Geographies: 37% US | 13% Spain | 4% UK | 46% Rest of the world.
🤯 767 total submissions since Jan 2025.

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📍 HQ: Barcelona, Spain.
🏭 Industry: Customer Research / AI.
☘ Stage: Post MVP.
🚨 Problem: Traditional customer research is expensive, slow, and doesn't scale. Gathering qualitative insights takes weeks of human interviews and manual report analysis.
🔛 Solution: Autentic is an AI Customer Research Agent that runs AI-moderated interviews at scale and instantly analyzes results into actionable reports.
📱 Product:

🫰 Business model: SaaS subscription with usage-based tiers.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Tech, Retail, Media & Entertainment companies. Product Managers / Designers, UX Researchers, and Marketing Strategy teams.
📊 Traction: POC with a $1B+ entertainment company - tested by 40K+ end users.
🏚 Market: $55B+ TAM.
👥 Dani Diestre (CEO): Creator of the largest Spanish Product Community, Ex Head of Product at Cafler and Finletic.
👥 Alejandro Gorina (CTO): Ex-Backend Engineer at Jobandtalent ($1.9B) and Perx.
💰 Round: €800K Pre-Seed Round.

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📍 HQ: Santiago, Chile.
🏭 Industry: Energy, AI.
☘ Stage: Pre-Seed.
🚨 Problem: Battery storage owners miss out on more than 100% in potential revenues due to poor forecasting and suboptimal dispatch curves—pushing many projects toward insolvency.
🔛 Solution: We help battery owners double their revenues with AI-powered forecasting and dispatch optimization.
📱 Product: We tell the battery what to do (charge/discharge), when (at what time) and how (depth of discharge) to maximize the value of the asset.

🫰 Business model: We take a % of the revenue uplift we generate. No saas fees for clients, just more revenues.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Small to medium size battery owner trading in the spot market.
📊 Traction: 1 user onboarded and 5 more installing batteries that will be onboarded.
🏚 Market: Latam countries with high adoption of renewable energies. We start in Chile, and expand to Mexico, Brazil and Colombia.
👥 Diego Siguelnitzky (CEO): Former VC focused on energy and mobility; invested in 47+ startups across LatAm and Europe.
👥 Nicolas Nuñez (CDO): Stanford & Berkeley alumni with 10+ years building AI systems for YC-backed startups.
👥 Francisco Furey (CTO): NASA-awarded geospatial engineer with deep expertise in ML models.
💰 Round: Raising $500K to onboard the first 100 MW of batteries and reach a $500K run-rate.

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