Updated on Nov 11, 2023
1. The opportunity that does not give up: Crisp, the supermarket with fast delivery that strikes again 🫵🏼.
For now it is an announcement and it is not yet launched, but they aim for the end of this month of November. The GPT Store will be an app store with custom chatbots 🤖, trained by users without the need for programming knowledge 🤷🏻.
The goal is that it will be the users who train 🏋🏼♂️ and launch their own GPTs (as they call these chats created by the community) so they can be used by the community.
This opening step comes from the growing need of OpenAI to generate extra income, as the expansion and growing popularity is generating exorbitant costs that they must face 🤑. To give us an idea, with the current situation of expenses and income, OpenAI would not reach 2025 if it maintains this level of costs 🫗 without generating new business avenues.
Although they have not yet revealed how creators will be compensated, they do claim that there will be a sharing between users and the company. Involving non-technical profiles who can generate new proposals with the knowledge or creativity 🤔 that each one has, represents an interesting new revenue stream to explore.
Some of the examples of GPTs that could be in this new Store (the new trendy spot on the internet) are:
🧑🏼💻 Tech Advisor: works as a bot trained to help us solve technology, computing, etc. issues.
🧙🏻♂️🗒️ Sticker Whiz: will behave like a magical bot that turns your most ambitious dreams into stickers and sends them to you.
📝 Writing Coach: a bot ready to read your writings and give you advice to improve.
🧺 Laundry Buddy: this one helps you with stains, sorting, and everything related to laundry and washing machines. Let’s see if now we call moms for more pleasant things 👩🏼.
👉🏻 You can go to chat.openai.com/create to create your own GPT. You will need, however, to have ChatGPT Plus or the Enterprise version.
👉🏻 Here to read the full article on Xataka and here is the news article on Wired, which is more complete.
2. Ailin, the at-home blood test kit with results explained for dummies 🩸📊.
Conceived and founded during the pandemic by Isabel Caruana, the CEO of Ailin says that during that time she needed to get lab tests, but the lockdown 😷 turned blood extraction into an odyssey. Her sisters, residents in the USA 🇺🇸, told her about the option of doing it from home (something very established there) and since then this has been her focus.
Her value proposition is based on the fact that blood tests no longer need to start with a visit to the doctor, who prescribes a test, a trip for the extraction, and results that are not understandable for the average person. This same process, simplified and with the guarantee of a laboratory 🧪 that analyzes and a medical team 🧑🏼⚕️ that supervises the interpretation of results.
Ailin simplifies and makes more accessible the prevention and control of certain aspects of health. The tests are purchased according to our concerns (this is one of the most interesting approaches on a product level) and the kit 📦 we receive at home makes the extraction and the subsequent reception of results 📊 very easy.
During this time, the young startup has received awards and recognitions 🏆, has the backing of the laboratory of Clínica Universidad de Navarra and focuses on specific products to understand the impact of stress 😫, sexual and reproductive health, vitamin deficiencies, or food intolerances 🦀, among others.
👉🏻 Here you can read the news about Ailin and learn how they are approaching 2024 for partnerships with third parties for growth and expansion 🙌🏼.
👉🏻 Click here to get to know them (if you're not an Oscar candidate 😵💫 when you see blood 🩸 like some around here) choose a test and check how everything is going inside.
👉🏻 If you have been thinking about launching that business idea that has been on your mind for a while 🚀, we can help you with the optimal business model 👌🏼 and the most reliable technology. Schedule an appointment with us here 📅 and one of our experts 📲 will call you to talk about your project.
3. How are we buying the basics? Mass consumption grows online more than in traditional 🛒
The total expenditure on mass consumption purchases online has reached in Spain a turnover of 5,268M€ as of September 2023. Excluding the fresh category, the rest of mass consumption purchases online has grown 🔝 23.6%, double that of the traditional channel which also grows, but with a mere 12.1% growth.
Who is leading this change? As expected, Millennials 👩🏻 (38% market share), but above them, Generation X 🙎🏻♂️ (with 40% market share). The Generation Z 👩🏼🦳 is also present, but mainly reigning in the realm of QuickCommerce ⏱️, meaning ultra-fast deliveries, although it is expected that their prominence will grow as their purchasing power increases.
In general, users seek good prices, service, and ease in everything that is comparable and storable, hence events like inflation, the rapid rise in prices of certain products like sugar 🧁 or olive oil 🫒, lead us to explore new options for comparison and purchase.
Other variables such as lack of free time, new types of families 👨👧👦, and lack of planning in grocery and personal care purchases lead to the use of ecommerce or quick commerce to automate the task or make purchases outside of business hours 🥱.
👉🏻 You can read here this short news about Mass Consumption purchases as of September 2023.
4. Luna.ai raises 2.3M€ for its AI-powered sales assistant 🤖💼.
A couple of weeks ago we talked about PiperIA, a sales assistant capable of integrating into CRM to facilitate and automate tasks of sales teams thanks to AI.
Today we have the news of Luna.ai 🌚, a sales software powered by AI. What they highlight as strength (and what catches our attention the most) is its ability to impact one of the most complex aspects of B2B sales: prospecting ⚒️.
According to them, Luna.ai is capable of identifying ideal customer profiles 🎯, gathering relevant online information about them and their company, and generating attractive sales emails 📩 with a high conversion potential.
This proposal is music to the ears of any company that has rapid, sustainable, and predictable growth on its horizon 🆙. In this line, Luna.ai not only offers prospecting and assistance during the sale, but also helps sales leaders to build their teams with human profiles (people) and AI-driven profiles 🤖👨🏻 to form the dream sales team 💫 according to the business moment.
To solidify their product and for expansion, they have secured a 2.3M€ investment that not only provides financial support, but also brings in investors who have been on the front lines in sales and deeply understand the operations of a sales department.
👉🏻 Here you can read the news about the 2.3M€ funding round and their upcoming milestones.
👉🏻 Here you can take a look at Luna.ai's website with powerful promises like Luna.ai Makes Prospecting Child's Play or download their app.
5. Nomad Homes, online housing purchase platform, raises 19M€ for expansion 🏠.
The Proptech market 🏢 in Spain continues to grow, in this case, with the startup Nomad Homes setting its sights on our territory 🥘 for an upcoming expansion.
The platform aims to be a real estate marketplace where owners, real estate agents, companies, entities, and buyers have a unified space to carry out real estate transactions 🏡🪧.
With presence and operations in Paris and Lisbon, in Spain they have offices in Madrid and Barcelona, operating agreements with mortgage partners 💰.
With a total of 44M€ raised since its founding in 2020, this new boost of 19M€ will partly focus on enhancing their activity in Spain, specifically giving more prominence to their matching
🧑🤝🧑 services and seeking collaborations with other established players in the real estate landscape.
Their founders now have the goals of completing their technological roadmap 📲 and continuing to build that platform that brings together users and necessary processes 🤝🏼 to make buying and selling homes an increasingly optimized process 👏🏼.
👉🏻 Read here the news about the 19M€ round and the planned actions of Nomad in the national market 🇪🇸.
👉🏻 Here is an article about the concentration of PropTechs in Spain, 11% of companies across European territory 🇪🇺.
