Mafer AI

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Location Barcelona, Spain
Founded 2025
Latest Stage Pre-Seed
Total Raised €2M
Website https://www.mafer.ai/
Sector
ai vertical-saas chemistry formulation specialty-chemicals r-and-d enterprise-software

Founders

Fernando Oliver Jané Co-Founder & CEO
Marc Montalbo Burges Co-Founder & CTO

About

Mafer AI is a Barcelona-based AI startup founded in late 2025 by CEO Fernando Oliver Jané and CTO Marc Montalbo Burges, building MaferOS — an AI-native operating system for R&D teams in formulation industries spanning specialty chemicals, food, beverages, cosmetics, personal care, fragrances, flavours, pharma, and nutraceuticals 1234. Six months after launch the company reports close to €300K in committed ARR with three production clients in fragrance and flavours, has structured 50,000+ technical documents, and was selected by the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre for its AI Factory programme (batches 1 and 2) with 50,000+ GPU-hours on NVIDIA H100 / MareNostrum V infrastructure 12. The €2M pre-seed announced May 29, 2026 was led by Kfund with participation from 4Founders Capital, Masia, Lavanda Ventures (Puig family), and angel investors including Adrián Mato (a16z scout), Manuel Roca (Atrápalo founder), Dídac Lee, Fernando Castiñeiras (Athos Capital managing partner), Juanjo Mostazo, and professionals from MIT, Google, Samaipata, Bain, BCG, Shakers, and Happy Robot 1234.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2026-05-29 Pre-Seed €2M Kfund 4Founders Capital, Masia, Lavanda Ventures, Adrián Mato, Manuel Roca, Dídac Lee, Fernando Castiñeiras, Juanjo Mostazo 1234

What Investors Say

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What Founders Say

“Formulation industries have spent decades accumulating an incredibly valuable asset: their technical R&D history. Until now, there has been no effective way to leverage that knowledge at scale. Today, AI allows companies to transform their historical data into proprietary intelligence that can dramatically accelerate innovation and product development.”

— Fernando Oliver Jané, Co-Founder & CEO, Mafer AI 4

Sources

  1. BeBeez International, “Barcelona’s Mafer AI raises €2 million to build an AI operating system for R&D teams in formulation industries,” May 29, 2026. Accessed May 2026. https://bebeez.eu/2026/05/29/barcelonas-mafer-ai-raises-e2-million-to-build-an-ai-operating-system-for-rd-teams-in-formulation-industries/↩↩↩↩

  2. EU-Startups, “Barcelona’s Mafer AI raises €2 million to build an AI operating system for R&D teams in formulation industries,” May 29, 2026. Accessed May 2026. https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/barcelonas-mafer-ai-raises-e2-million-to-build-an-ai-operating-system-for-rd-teams-in-formulation-industries/↩↩↩↩

  3. The SaaS News, “Mafer AI Raises €2M Pre-seed,” May 29, 2026. Accessed June 2026. https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/mafer-ai-raises-2m-pre-seed/↩↩↩

  4. FoundersToday, “Mafer AI raises €2M to build the AI Operating System for Formulation R&D,” May 29, 2026. Accessed June 2026. https://www.founderstoday.news/mafer-ai-raises-2m-in-funding/↩↩↩↩