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

In November, we achieved the following figures:

✅  99 startup applications.
✅  Stages: 3% Stealth | 63% Pre-seed | 28% Seed | 6% Series A & B
✅  Geographies: 32% US | 12% UK | 10% Spain | 46% Rest of the world.
🤯 1137 total submissions since Jan 2025.

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I will provide an analysis of 2 early-stage startups building global solutions.

📍 HQ: Barcelona, Spain
🏭 Industry: Gaming / Consumer AI
☘ Stage: Pre-Seed.
🚨 Problem: Gaming is the largest entertainment category on earth: 3.3B people, 10x more than runners - yet there is no unified gamer identity, no verified activity graph, and no post-game social network.
🔛 Solution: We turn every session into a workout-style activity: auto-logged, highlighted, analysed, and social.
📱 Product: Automatic gaming session detection → activity post → data + performance analytics → AI auto-highlights → social feed → segments/teams/challenges.

🫰 Business model: Freemium subscription (Pro analytics + highlights) + hyper-personalised ads.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Gamers aged 15–35 across PC/Console, plus creators, streamers, esports teams, and community groups.
📊 Traction: 3 weeks MVP with >70% Day-1 retention, >45% Week-1, K-factor 2.5, and 120k+ activities logged. Seven platforms integrated, two games live; expanding rapidly.
🏚 Market: 3.3Bn gamers globally. A TAM 10x Strava’s.
👥 Founder 1 - (stealth): former Counter-Strike champion, Ex-F1 engineer, IPO’ed, Exec MBA, repeat founder.
👥 Founder 2 - (stealth): 10+ years as CPO at the fastest growing green energy company (0→IPO), Exec MBA, lifelong gamer.
💰 Round: Raising €3M.
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📍 HQ: Barcelona, Spain
🏭 Industry: Retail, Sustainability
☘ Stage: Pre-seed
🚨 Problem: Retailers lose margin, data, and customer recurrence because they don’t control the full product cycle or recommerce.
🔛 Solution: Drelife centralizes resale and reuse for retailers with an intelligent, integrated, end-to-end operational model.
📱 Product:

🫰 Business model: A solution for retailers (SaaS model + operational and recommerce fees).
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Retailers with high stock volume and recommerce needs (fashion, sports, jewelry, home, etc.).
📊 Traction: €8K MRR, with €20K MRR signed + variable fees.
🏚 Market: Global recommerce and retail circularity market.
👥 Alberto Miralles (CEO): Passionate Sportsman, industrial engineer, and serial entrepreneur. Former CEO at Mequedouno and co-founder of Dawa.
👥 Samuel Patiño (CTO): 12+ years of experience as software developer
💰 Round: €500k Pre-seed round

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