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

In February, we achieved outstanding figures:

✅  196 startup applications.
✅  Stages: 5% Stealth | 55% Pre-seed | 33% Seed | 6% Series A | 1% Series B & C.
✅  Geographies: 40% US | 9% UK | 5% Spain | 46% Rest of the world.
🤯 326 Total submissions since Jan 2025

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I have selected 2 early-stage opportunities, both based in Spain but with founders of various EU nationalities, and provided a brief analysis.

📍 HQ: Barcelona, Spain
🏭 Industry: Enterprise AI, RegTech, FinTech
☘ Stage: Pre-seed
🚨 Problem: Companies are swamped by hundreds of fast changing laws and regulations, spending millions on lawyers and consultants and still can't keep up.
🔛 Solution: We find all the laws that apply to you, tell you what part of them matter for your products and organisation, scan your document base and fix all the non compliant bits.
📱 Product:

🫰 Business model: Annual subscription with flexible pricing model matching how big and how far you operate. No per-seat, everything included.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Regulated FinTech and other financial services providers in the European Union, with coverage for more regulated sectors soon.
📊 Traction: Working with innovative FinTech operating in Spain, Italy, and France.
🏚 Market: The compliance automation market is growing at a CAGR of 16%. It’s estimated to be worth USD 2.9Bn in 2024.
👥 Pierre Ferran (CEO) - ex Managing Legal Counsel at Klarna Engineering, and Legal Counsel at Philips. Master of Laws - LLM, Science & Technology at Stanford
👥 Virginia Debernardi (COO) - ex General Counsel at Productsup
👥 Gabriel Markfjärd (CTO) - ex Senior Engineer at Klarna Generative AI, and Engineer at Ericsson.
💰 Round: Undisclosed pre-seed, already backed by top French, American and Spanish funds.

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📍 HQ: Barcelona, Spain
🏭 Industry: AI, Identity
☘ Stage: Seed
🚨 Problem: In the AI era, proving identity is harder than ever. Current KYC solutions are costly, and lack user-centric features like reusable KYC and user control over identity data.
🔛 Solution: Didit offers free, privacy-preserving KYC and AML services, enabling reusable identity verification. A network of verified identities and identity verification solutions for businesses.
📱 Product:

🫰 Business model: Free KYC. We generate revenue by providing other verification solutions to businesses.
🎯 Ideal Customer Profile: Fintech or any company that need to verify users due to regulations or fraud prevention.
📊 Traction: 500+ B2B customers, 40k+ DAU on the Didit Identity Wallet.
🏚 Market: The current Identity Verification market is $11.65 billion, with a projected CAGR of 15%.
👥 Alberto Rosas (CEO) - Mathematician and engineer, with expertise in identity, web3 technology, and AI.
👥 Alejandro Rosas (CTO) - Mathematician and engineer. Former Data Scientist at Oracle.
💰 Round: $3M

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