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105 startup applications.
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Stages: 4% Stealth | 58% Pre-seed | 30% Seed | 8% Series A & B
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Geographies: 43% US | 14% UK | 8% Spain | 35% Rest of the world.
π€― 431 Total submissions since Jan 2025
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π HQ: Barcelona, Spain
π Industry: AI, Deep-tech, Enterprise
β Stage: Pre-seed
π¨ Problem: Enterprises struggle with fragmented, generic, unreliable AI solutions. Most tools look impressive in demos but fail in real-world applications.
π Solution: Timbal is the end-to-end ecosystem to build, run, manage and use enterprise-ready AI applications. Our product has 2 main parts: An open-source Python framework that helps developers build AI solutions 10 times faster, and a platform that allows you to run, train, manage, and use these AI solutions.
π± Product:
π«° Business model: Pay per use and subscription model depending on the number of apps, knowledge bases, seats and features.
π― Ideal Customer Profile: Companies with a technical team (external or internal) capable of using the timbal framework by themselves.
π Traction: In just 4 months, they've generated over β¬100K in revenue and secured 9 clients, each with revenues exceeding β¬50M, who are actively utilizing our technology.
π Market: The enterprise AI software market is estimated to be $58B in 2025, and is expected to reach $474B by 2030
π₯ Marti Norberto (CEO) - Background in computer engineering and a growth hacking mindset.
π₯ Isaac Grau (COO) - Telecommunications engineer and former founder of Moments/Vibras, a social app that attracted millions of users.
π₯ David BergΓ©s (CTO) - Data scientist and engineer, former founder of Moments/Vibras, a social app that attracted millions of users.
π° Round: β¬500K at β¬3M pre-money valuation.
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π HQ: Barcelona, Spain
π Industry: Fintech, Blockchain
β Stage: Seed
π¨ Problem: European retail investors struggle to access attractive fixed-income returns. Their options are largely limited to low-yield government bonds and money market funds, leaving them excluded from the higher-yield opportunities available in private credit markets.
π Solution: A simple, user-friendly platform that provides access to institutional-grade, overcollateralized private credit yields backed by digital assets.
π± Product:
π«° Business model: We monetize through a spread on total assets under management (AUM), capturing a share of the yield generated.
π― Ideal Customer Profile: Retail investors (B2C) in the EU with an average investment ticket above β¬3,000.
π Traction: Over β¬22 million in AUM and 15,000 active users. Growing at 3x annually in AUM.
π Market: The European retail investment market exceeds β¬10 trillion in assets, with increasing demand for yield-driven products amid persistent low interest rates and inflation.
π₯ Pol Martin (CEO) - Founded Rand at 19. Forbes 30 Under 30 Spain.
π₯ Oriol Segundo (COO) - Serial entrepreneur and former founder of World Mastery, bringing deep operational experience and a track record of scaling digital platforms.
π° Round: β¬2M, soft commitments received.
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π HQ: Barcelona, Spain
π Industry: Fintech, data
β Stage: Series A
π¨ Problem: Document and data collection and processing for financial services' core flows is still lengthy, manual and inefficient. 63% avg drop-off in "missing documentation" and 20% of the margin goes to operational costs related to documentation and data collection.
π Solution: Permission-based technology to collect and process docs and data in real-time by directly connecting with private area of public authorities and other relevant sources.
π± Product:
π«° Business model: plans (SaaS) + usage + add-ons
π― Ideal Customer Profile: Financial Institutions (mid market + enterprise) such as banks, brokers, lending companies, etc.
π Traction: 4x in revenue in 2024, Monthly NRR of 104% in avg.
π Market: Targeting a β¬337B market in open finance, starting in Spain, Portugal and France.
π₯ Alvaro Mancilla (CEO) - Head of product at imagin (CaixaBank), CPO at Goin and founder at Workkola.
π₯ Honorio Marin (CPO) - Product lead at Goin.
π₯ Gabriel Esteban (CTO) - COO at Goin and full-stack developer at different companies.
π° Round: β¬5M
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