Valencia-based Maisa, a startup growing a novel 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 International—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 important within the growth 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 growth and leaders of among the largest corporations on the earth, 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 novel CoW method to make sure traceable, auditable, and deterministic outputs.
Not like conventional AI methods, which depend on probabilistic ‘next-word’ prediction and infrequently perform as opaque ‘black bins’, the Vinci KPU executes reasoning step-by-step utilizing attributable information sources. This innovation eliminates hallucinations and introduces transparency, making AI viable for advanced business-critical functions.
Maisa’s system is designed to autonomously pursue objectives, make selections, and adapt to dynamic environments whereas conserving people in management.
Early adopters of the Vinci KPU embrace a worldwide automotive producer bettering provide chain resilience, a world oil and fuel agency managing evolving compliance necessities, and a European shopper credit score establishment optimising its mortgage approval processes beneath strict regulatory scrutiny.
In accordance with 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 massive language fashions in coding (HumanEval), procedural adherence (ProcBench), and mathematical downside fixing.
Maisa’s skill to offer full auditability is shaping it to be an economical and scalable answer 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 internationally remodel their core, business-critical features by way of AI. It should permit them to work sooner, extra effectively and obtain new and radical methods of working. This launch will probably be seen as a pivotal second in AI growth this yr and as AI’s coming of age in sensible, business-enhancing use.”
Max Kilberg, investor at Village International, added: “David and the Maisa staff are constructing a transformative expertise to show AI brokers into precise employees which might be able to reasoning by way of 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 will probably be used to boost the Vinci KPU’s capabilities and strengthen its go-to-market technique, focusing on sectors like monetary companies, provide chain, and analysis.
