Carles Reina launches €12.9 million solo GP fund Baobab Ventures to back early-stage AI and robotics startups

Carles Reina, the angel financier on the aid of Revolut and ElevenLabs, has actually revealed a EUR12.9 million ($ 15 million) solo general practitioner fund mostly based totally totally in London, Baobab Ventures, to aid pre-Seed and Seed phase creators throughout AI, robotics, and protection.

The brand-new fund, which made use of to be oversubscribed and elevated in a solitary closed, is backed by Cendana Resources, Isomer Resources, RSJ Investments, Development Ventures, and Cyber Fund. Furthermore it’s a methods signed up with by driver LPs consisting of Friends from early-stage funds Concept Ventures, Creed Ventures and Lucca & Stella Norton’s Family members Boom of work, as wisely as angel LPs consisting of industrial angel & informed football individual Mario Goetze, program business owner Carles Cuní, and financier Dr Fatima Godall.

EU-Startups has actually formerly included Carles Reina in a podcast episode discovering his financing approach and GTM operate at ElevenLabs, and has additionally covered Baobab Ventures thru its engagement in Omnia’s €3.5 million pre-seed round

Carles Reina remarks: “ Creating start-ups has actually considerably altered within the earlier couple of years. Sales cycles are quicker, there are numerous challengers within months, and AI has actually eliminated cold outreach conversion fees. Creators need to blend extremely fleet whilst constructing a sales and development movement suit for the AI age. To obtain that, they require drivers on their cap table that can make use of associated frontline capabilities from the AI capabilities and that’re hands-on with their eliminate. This AI-informed driver capabilities is a clear void within the European landscape and it’s one I consider Baobab can have“

In 2025, a number of European funds and robotics/AI start-ups revealed brand-new increases in adjacent domain names, giving a valuable background for Baobab Ventures’ brand-new fund.

Paris-primarily based totally totally C4 Ventures released an all new lorry concentrated on AI, robotics and DeepTech with a €100 million fund, while Explorations released its 2d fund with over €100 million committed for cybersecurity, AI, quantum and protection innovations.

On the business facet, Swiss start-up resemble safeguarded a €13.8 million Seed round to get to dexterous physical-AI programs; Slovenia’s Daybreak Robotics elevated €7.3 million for simulation-trained commercial robotics; Germany’s Power Robotics shut an €11.5 million Sequence A to broaden its AI-powered examination tool; and Italy’s Adaptronics safeguarded €3.15 million to create flexible robot grippers.

With each other, these increases total up to approximately EUR235 million throughout funds and robotics/AI companies, highlighting specific -although focused– funding float right into European DeepTech areas.

Inside this context, Baobab Ventures’ brand-new fund rests on the early-stage cessation of the range, well-known by its heart of interest on pre-Seed and Seed rounds in AI, robotics and protection, and by its solo-GP, operator-led design, which contrasts with greater, generalist lorries energetic within the similar 365 days.

“ Creating companies has actually considerably altered over the last 3 years. What formerly struggled is never ever any type of longer handy. Start-ups can close venture presents in