Huesca AI company The Mindkind joins CDL San Sebastián while raising €5M

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The Mindkind, based in Castejón de Sos in Huesca, has been picked for the 2026/27 cohort of Creative Destruction Lab's San Sebastián site, in its Artificial Intelligence stream. The programme runs from autumn 2026 to mid-2027, with mentor sessions every eight weeks, and companies that stop making progress are asked to leave. It is a fairly direct form of grading.

The company builds ETR, short for Emotional Theory of Rationality: a cognitive architecture made of small adaptive units that share a knowledge graph, so each decision leaves a record anyone can inspect. Its target is industrial work such as quality inspection and predictive maintenance, where the EU AI Act begins requiring traceability from high-risk systems on 2 December 2027.

It arrives with one paying customer, three industrial pilots, €1.4M in public funding and Step 2 of the EIC Accelerator. It is raising a €5M round, and SETT, Spain's state deep-tech investment vehicle, has committed 49% of it. The goals set for the cohort are releasing ETR 0.6, getting at least three pilots onto yearly licences and closing that round. CEO Mario Garcés said CDL offered "no lectures, just objectives".