Spanish entrepreneur who started his first company at 17 (collaborative writing platform Walnov), backed by Plug and Play. Studied computer engineering at UPM. Co-founded MAISA in January 2024 with Manu Romero after working on foundational models at Clibrain. Raised $30M in 20 months from NFX, Village Global, and others. Built KPU (Knowledge Processing Unit) technology that enables auditable AI reasoning.
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MAISA built a reasoning engine at model level that was 8 months ahead of OpenAI's O1 preview, capable of more complex reasoning tasks.
Model-layer companies like OpenAI will become the most generalist companies ever seen and will consume all software that works, using proprietary models to build competing products on top of their own infrastructure.
NFX partnered with Village Global to lead a $5M pre-seed after David Villalón flew to SF and convinced partners in 24 hours by demonstrating breakthrough reasoning technology 8 months before OpenAI's o1 preview.