MiniTales

minitales.app ↗ ·Madrid ·Pre-seed

MiniTales is a consumer app that uses generative AI to create personalized children's stories, audio stories and illustrations in about 30 seconds, tailored to a child's name, age, interests and the values or emotional situations parents want to address. Founded in 2024 by serial entrepreneur David Pena (previously Peoople and 21Buttons) with Irene Núñez, it launched its first version in autumn 2024 and closed a €500K pre-seed round led by First Drop VC, backed by international business angels and an ENISA grant. It has been part of Google for Startups Campus Madrid and the Villaverde accelerator, and runs a social-impact program placing personalized stories in Spanish public hospitals (Madrid, SESCAM).

Founded

2024

Founders

Total funds raised

€500K

SectorsEdtech, AI & Data, Consumer, Kids & Parenting, Generative AI Start-up MapConsumer › Social & entertainment apps

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Founders

David Pena del Río

CEO & Co-founder

Irene Núñez

COO & Co-founder

Global models 5

Epic

United States · www.getepic.com ↗

Subscription digital children's reading and audiobook library that parents and schools pay for, selling personalised story time to families the way MiniTales does.

$100MComparable

Yoto

United Kingdom · www.yotoplay.com ↗

Sells children's audio stories straight to parents through a content library, the same parent-paid audio-story model as MiniTales but delivered through its own player.

$100MComparable

Moshi

United Kingdom · www.moshikids.com ↗

Consumer subscription app of bedtime audio stories for children, paid for by parents, closely matching MiniTales' audio-story offer.

$30MComparable

Wonderbly

United Kingdom · www.wonderbly.com ↗

Sells children's stories personalised with the child's name and details straight to parents, the same personalisation hook as MiniTales but in printed books.

$20MComparable