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

In July, we achieved the following figures:

✅  98 startup applications.
✅  Stages: 8% Stealth | 51% Pre-seed | 37% Seed | 4% Series A & B
✅  Geographies: 45% US | 8% UK | 6% Spain | 41% Rest of the world.
🤯 720 total submissions since Jan 2025.

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I will provide an analysis of an early-stage startup based in Barcelona.

📍 HQ: Barcelona, Spain
🏭 Industry: HR Tech, Payroll Automation
☘ Stage: Seed.
🚨 Problem: High-turnover businesses struggle to manage compliant, scalable payroll operations — leading to errors, churn, and inefficiency.
🔛 Solution: A modern payroll platform built specifically for high-churn environments: automated, compliant, API-first.
📱 Product: End-to-end SaaS for contracts, onboarding, payroll processing, and compliance — tailored for high-turnover sectors.

🫰 Business model: SaaS + managed services. Pricing based on active headcount (€7–10/employee/month)
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Mid-size businesses (50–2000+ employees) with >100% annual turnover — e.g. hospitality, logistics, retail, contact centers.
📊 Traction: €300k live ARR, €500k signed ARR, 20 customers live, 3000+ employees processed monthly.
🏚 Market: 15M+ frontline workers in Spain; with high-churn challenges 9M accross 9 industries; €1B+ TAM
👥 Pau Laporte (CEO): ex-Uber & Getir. +10 in Food tech industry. Scaled sales & Operations until +1.5m of revenue.
👥 Carlos Saiz (COO): ex-Cabify; 10+ years building digital products, B2B SaaS, and automation platforms.
👥 Sergio Morales (CTO): 10+ years in engineering leadership, backend scalability, and system design
💰 Round: €1.5M, mostly committed.

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