Innovative AI start-up LaunchLemonade has successfully oversubscribed during their pre-seed investment round with one of Europe’s biggest angel syndicates amongst those investing $480,000 into the London-based no-code AI platform.
LaunchLemonade was created to democratise AI agent creation, allowing users to build, deploy and monetise intelligent solutions that automate workflows, generate content and make smarter decisions. Unifying over 21 AI models, LaunchLemonade’s interface formulates specialised agents that complete tasks from content creation to report analysis and research, trained from users’ unique data.
Founded in 2024, LaunchLemonade has grown rapidly through bootstrapping, with its user base surpassing 6,000. Following strong inbound interest from users and industry connections – many of whom were keen to invest after experiencing the product – founder and CEO Cien Solon opened the company’s first external funding round to accelerate growth and meet rising demand.
With investment parties already interested, LaunchLemonade set a target of $400,000 for this pre-seed investment round, and appetite was fierce, with investment becoming oversubscribed and reaching $480,000. Main partners include Spring Syndicate and Ventures Together – five investors were even customers who loved the LaunchLemonade product and invested.
Spring Syndicate is an angel investor collective of former operators and founders backing the next generation of high-potential startups. Ventures Together is one of Europe’s biggest angel syndicates, investing and supporting a diverse portfolio of the most ambitious founders and companies, including asset management company Climate X, AI governance and security business Harmonic Security and customer ops AI agent company Gradient Labs.
Community played a pivotal role in the fundraising process. As a Filipino woman living in the UK, Solon has had to overcome the disparities women face in the tech industry: only 2.8% of total investment value goes to female-founded startups, while female-founded AI start-ups raise on average 6 times less capital per deal than those found by male entrepreneurs. Support from female and diverse founder groups, such as Female Founders Rise, Diversity X and BAE HQ, helped amplify LaunchLemonade and its mission to democratise AI literacy.
“Community has always been at the heart of LaunchLemonade,” said Cien Solon. “During this pre-seed cycle, that community compounded trust and carried our story and helped us show what LaunchLemonade can offer in the AI space.”
The new funding will be used to develop LaunchLemonade’s built-in marketplace, enabling their growing user base to build and then sell AI agents they produce, allowing them to participate more fully in the AI economy. By unlocking marketplace functionality, LaunchLemonade aims to build a cohesive, transactional, autonomous and collaborative ecosystem for AI creation and deployment.
Cien concludes: “I am extremely grateful for the support and the belief in LaunchLemonade’s vision from our new partners and investors. With this investment, LaunchLemonade can expand further in democratising AI production and help businesses build simple, human-first and accessible AI agents on their own terms.”
