Autentic AI closes €1.5 million pre-seed round for AI-run market research interviews

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Autentic AI, a Spanish start-up whose software interviews hundreds of consumers and experts at once, has closed a €1.5 million pre-seed round. Masia VC, Acurio Ventures, Lanai Ventures and Baobab Ventures supplied it; Dani Diestre, Aniol Carreras and Jacob Bamio are the founders.

The premise is that a study taking three months tends to arrive after the question has changed. "We want research to be something companies can do every week," said co-CEO Diestre.

It runs about 1,000 interviews a day. The money goes into more automation and its own pool of verified participants, relying less on outside panels.