Making AI accountable: Maisa raises pre-seed round

With the support of NFX and Village Global, along with local angel investors, Sequoia Scout, and DeepMind Product Manager Lukas Haas, we have successfully raised $5 million in pre-seed funding to drive our mission forward.

Escrito por: Maisa Publicado: 25/12/2024

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Back in March, we introduced the first version of the KPU, setting new benchmarks that surpassed leading models. Since then, our technology has advanced with the launch of the Vinci KPU, our team has grown, and we’ve welcomed our first customers.

Yet, the core challenge in the AI market remains unchanged: a persistent lack of accountability, reliability and transparency in AI systems.

 

Maisa AI founders. Manuel Romero and David Villalón

Manu Romero & David Villalón

 

The trust problem in AI

Generative AI lacks accountability. Techniques like Chain-of-Thought reasoning, RAGs, and multiagent systems aim to address more sophisticated challenges but still rely on probabilistic predictions, not deterministic computations.

AI is unlocking opportunities across countless domains, but the complex world of business demands greater accountability. Mission-critical tasks require not only answers but traceable, evidence-based processes to reach them. Without these, we risk hallucinations—fabricated outputs that render AI results unreliable. This lack of trustworthiness is why fewer than 6% of corporations use AI for anything beyond basic tasks like question-and-answer bots.

What we are building

We believe the solution isn’t in refining existing approaches but in creating a new kind of computing system—one that combines AI’s creative problem-solving with the determinism of traditional computational systems.

With Maisa, you can create bulletproof AI Agents. These are a new generation of Digital Workers that follow natural language instructions to achieve specific outcomes and goals, making intelligent and reliable automation a reality.

With the best behind us

We are fortunate to be backed by visionary investors committed to advancing our mission.

Our pre-seed round brought in $5 million, led by NFX and joined by Village Global, the venture fund backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos. This funding was further supported by Sequoia Scout, DeepMind Product Manager Lukas Haas, and other angel investors.

This funding enables us to continue developing our product and expanding our research initiatives.

We’re also genuinely grateful for the recognition our work has received, including a recent feature in Forbes that highlights this important milestone for us.

Maisa is going to be a major player in Agentic Process Automation (APA) helping businesses across the world transform their core, business-critical functions through AI. It will allow them to work faster, more efficiently and achieve new and radical ways of operating.

Ana Piñol, NFX

David and the Maisa team are building a transformative technology to turn AI agents into actual workers that are capable of reasoning through complex workflows. We’re super thrilled to be a part of their journey and are very excited to see the new benchmarks and enterprise traction

Max Kilber, Village Global

Come join us

If you are interested in joining our mission of making AI accountable, visit our careers page