Valencia-based Maisa, a startup growing a singular agentic AI system that gives a ‘Chain-of-Work’ (CoW) to hint and confirm its outputs, has raised €4.7 million in a pre-seed funding spherical.
Led by NFX, the spherical noticed participation from Village World—backed by tech giants Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos—in addition to Sequoia scout and DeepMind PM Lukas Haas.
David Villalón, CEO and Co-founder of Maisa, emphasised the importance of their innovation: “Our launch of the Vinci KPU is critical within the improvement of agentic AI for companies and for builders of AI functions and automation options. That is the primary time agentic AI turns into clear and auditable, as an alternative of the present ‘black field’ that obscures its outcomes and represents an enormous threat for companies. We’re delighted to have gained the backing of such legends in world tech improvement and leaders of a few of the largest companies on this planet, not least for the popularity that their funding provides to the importance of what we’re constructing.”
Based in 2024 by David Villalón and Manuel Romero, Maisa has developed the Vinci Information Processing Unit (KPU), “world’s first agentic AI system“. The Vinci KPU makes use of a singular CoW method to make sure traceable, auditable, and deterministic outputs.
In contrast to conventional AI methods, which depend on probabilistic ‘next-word’ prediction and infrequently operate as opaque ‘black bins’, the Vinci KPU executes reasoning step-by-step utilizing attributable knowledge sources. This innovation eliminates hallucinations and introduces transparency, making AI viable for advanced business-critical functions.
Maisa’s system is designed to autonomously pursue targets, make choices, and adapt to dynamic environments whereas preserving people in management.
Early adopters of the Vinci KPU embrace a world automobile producer enhancing provide chain resilience, a world oil and gasoline agency managing evolving compliance necessities, and a European shopper credit score establishment optimising its mortgage approval processes underneath strict regulatory scrutiny.
In response to Maisa, the expertise has confirmed itself in opposition to trade benchmarks, rating alongside OpenAI’s o1 mannequin in graduate-level reasoning (GPQA) whereas outperforming main giant language fashions in coding (HumanEval), procedural adherence (ProcBench), and mathematical drawback fixing.
Maisa’s capability to supply full auditability is shaping it to be a cheap and scalable resolution for automation.
Anna Piñol, investor at NFX, commented on Maisa’s transformative potential: “Maisa goes to be a significant participant in RPA 2.0 serving to companies the world over remodel their core, business-critical capabilities by AI. It would enable them to work quicker, extra effectively and obtain new and radical methods of working. This launch shall be seen as a pivotal second in AI improvement this yr and as AI’s coming of age in sensible, business-enhancing use.”
Max Kilberg, investor at Village World, added: “David and the Maisa group are constructing a transformative expertise to show AI brokers into precise employees which can be able to reasoning by advanced workflows. We’re tremendous thrilled to be part of their journey and are very excited to see the brand new benchmarks and enterprise traction.”
With workplaces in Valencia and San Francisco, Maisa is positioning itself as a rising title in agentic AI. The funding shall be used to boost the Vinci KPU’s capabilities and strengthen its go-to-market technique, concentrating on sectors like monetary providers, provide chain, and analysis.
