Elsa

holaelsa.es ↗ ·Madrid ·Pre-seed

Elsa is a Madrid-based start-up, operated by Kuikads Group SL, that offers an AI assistant working entirely through WhatsApp: it turns voice notes into budget quotes and organises photographed receipts for accounting, and is sold to small businesses and self-employed professionals as a €19-a-month subscription. The company was founded in 2022 as Kuikads, later renamed Kuik (kuik.io). Under that name it built an API for personalised video, used by e-commerce and enterprise brands to send automatically generated videos over WhatsApp, RCS and email for use cases such as abandoned-cart recovery and customer reactivation. Kuik generated hundreds of thousands of personalised videos and won Best Digital & Tech Solution at South Summit 2025, before the team closed the product in 2026 to focus on Elsa. In July 2025 the company raised a €1M pre-seed round led by Abac Nest Ventures, with Draper B1, Bluvoyager Ventures, Flins y Pinículas and business angels including Juanjo Mostazo (Homa Games) and Juan Pablo Tejela (Metricool); it has also received CDTI support.

Founded
2022
Founders
3
Total funds raised
€1M
Rounds
1
Investors
8
Last round
Jul 2025
SectorsAI & Data, Enterprise Software, Marketing Technology, Personalised Video Start-up MapEnterprise Software › Back-office & business services

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Founders

Jack Stevens
Co-founder & CTO
Jaime Zaballa
Co-founder & CRO
Tom Stevens
Co-founder & CEO

Global models 4

Jobber
Sells small trade and home-service businesses a monthly subscription for producing quotes and invoices and running admin, the same back-office job Elsa does for self-employed professionals.
$191MComparable
Housecall Pro
United States · www.housecallpro.com ↗
Sells small service businesses and sole tradespeople a self-serve monthly subscription for estimates, invoicing and paperwork, which is Elsa's quoting use case.
$175MComparable
Dext
United Kingdom · dext.com ↗
Formerly Receipt Bank, it sells small businesses a subscription that turns photographed receipts and invoices into organised accounting data, which matches Elsa's receipt-capture feature.
$135MComparable
Zapia
Uruguay · zapia.com ↗
An AI assistant that works entirely inside WhatsApp, transcribing voice notes and handling everyday tasks, which is the same messaging-first delivery model as Elsa.
$12MComparable

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Investors 8

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Abac Nest
abacnest.abaccapital.com
Led Pre-seed 2025 Spain
Draper B1
draperb1.vc
Pre-seed 2025 Spain
Bluvoyager Ventures
Pre-seed 2025 Spain
Flins y Pinículas
Pre-seed 2025 Spain
José Berlanga
Pre-seed 2025 Spain
Juan Pablo Tejela
Pre-seed 2025 Spain Private investor
Juanjo Mostazo
Pre-seed 2025 Spain Private investor
Salvador Montagut
Pre-seed 2025 Spain

Funding rounds 1

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