Maisa

Valencia-based Maisa, founded in 2024 by David Villalón, Manuel Romero, and Guillermo Blasco, is an artificial intelligence company addressing the critical issues of reliability and transparency in enterprise AI. The founders' journey began after experiencing firsthand the limitations and unreliability of existing AI models for large-scale business automation, which often led to hallucinations and untraceable results. This frustration fueled the creation of Maisa, which aims to provide AI solutions that are both powerful and accountable.

The company operates in the Agentic Process Automation (APA) market, offering a platform that automates complex, knowledge-intensive business processes with complete traceability and reliability. Maisa's core technology, the Vinci Knowledge Processing Unit (KPU), uses a proprietary 'Chain-of-Work' approach. This system doesn't just provide an answer; it details the step-by-step process used to arrive at that answer, making the AI's reasoning transparent and auditable. This approach is designed to eliminate the 'black box' problem and prevent AI hallucinations, which are significant concerns for enterprises.

Maisa targets industries with high-stakes, mission-critical operations that demand compliance, risk management, and accuracy, such as financial services, automotive, energy, and cybersecurity. Clients include a global car manufacturer using the platform to improve supply chain resilience, a consumer credit institution optimizing loan approvals, and an oil and gas firm managing compliance. The platform provides 'digital workers,' or accountable AI agents, that can be integrated into existing workflows to handle tasks like fraud detection, IT security monitoring, and invoice processing. Revenue is generated by providing this enterprise-grade automation platform to businesses, enabling them to deploy AI workers in days rather than months.

Shortly after its inception, Maisa secured a significant $5 million (€4.7 million) pre-seed funding round in late 2024, led by NFX and Village Global, a fund backed by tech luminaries like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. This was followed by a Series A round in mid-2025, bringing total funding to over $30 million. The company, with offices in Valencia and San Francisco, has gained notable recognition, being named by Gartner in its 2025 Hype Cycle reports for AI and the Future of Work alongside giants like Google and Amazon.

Keywords: Agentic Process Automation, accountable AI, transparent AI, digital workers, Vinci KPU, Chain-of-Work, enterprise AI, AI reliability, AI traceability, knowledge processing, business process automation, AI governance, hallucination-free AI, David Villalón, Manuel Romero, NFX, Village Global, compliance automation, supply chain AI, financial services AI