Investors are betting big on Maisa, as the Valencia- and San Francisco-based startup secured $25M Seed funding to expand hallucination-resistant AI digital workers that enable enterprise automation, ensure compliance, and accelerate AI adoption.

The startup raised a Seed round led by Creandum, with Forgepoint Capital, a joint venture between Banco Santander, and repeat backers NFX and Village Global participating. Maisa will use the investment to expand across Europe and North America while hiring in AI R&D, engineering, sales, and customer success.

Maisa, founded in 2024 by CEO David Villalón and CSO Manuel Romero, has created auditable digital workers that enterprises can deploy with complete transparency and confidence. Their system is model-agnostic, converting general-purpose LLMs into specialized, hallucination-resistant AI agents that operate reliably in regulated industries.

David Villalón, Co-founder and CEO of Maisa, said, “This investment is validation that AI in business must be built on trust. Our platform empowers teams to utilize AI workers that not only perform with incredible accuracy and intelligence but also explain and justify their logic, documenting every step in the work process. It means users can scale AI at pace, do so safely and without the need for an entire development team to support.”

The Chain-of-Work Approach

At the heart of Maisa’s platform lies its proprietary Knowledge Processing Unit (KPU). Unlike probabilistic LLMs, Maisa’s digital workers perform tasks through logical, step-by-step computation. Each action forms part of a transparent “Chain-of-Work,” an auditable record that shows businesses how to reach a particular outcome. This approach dramatically reduces hallucinations and helps maintain compliance across industries.

Alongside the funding, Maisa launched Maisa Studio. This automation platform allows non-technical experts to train digital workers through natural language. The platform requires no datasets or developers. Instead, users write simple commands, and digital workers learn by doing through “HALP” (human-augmented LLM processing).

Global banks, financial firms, and manufacturers are already piloting Maisa Studio. One investment bank automated media screening, producing audit-ready summaries within minutes, while a financial services firm utilized the system to enhance transaction reconciliation, reducing false positives by 99 percent and increasing productivity tenfold.

Tackling AI Adoption Challenges

Industry data highlights the urgency of Maisa’s solution. MIT’s NANDA initiative recently found that 95 percent of generative AI pilots fail to impact the profit and loss (P&L) statement. According to IDC, 88 percent of pilots never reach production. At the same time, BCG reports that only 22 percent of companies move beyond the proof-of-concept stage. Furthermore, i4cp revealed 70 percent of firms struggle to equip their workforce with AI skills, and Bain reported 44 percent of executives cite a lack of expertise as a barrier to adoption.

By offering digital workers that are transparent, reliable, and easy to onboard, Maisa directly addresses these barriers to AI adoption. With this $25M Seed funding, the company is positioning itself to redefine enterprise automation.

Alberto Yepez, from Forgepoint Capital International, said, “Maisa’s platform is purpose-built for compliance-conscious industries like finance, where decisions must be traceable and outcomes consistent. The company’s early success demonstrates there’s real market pull for AI done the right way, and Studio, launched today, will make it easy for anyone in an organisation to use digital workers quickly and effectively.”

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