{
  "id": 17230561,
  "title": "Madrid’s Talky raises €1.5 million to teach AI the unwritten rules of accounting",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/madrids-talky-raises-1-5-million-to-teach-ai-the-unwritten-rules-of",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-30T12:50:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "EU-Startups",
    "slug": "eu-startups",
    "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/10/madrids-talky-raises-e1-5-million-to-teach-ai-the-unwritten-rules-of-accounting/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Madrid-based startup Talky Labs has secured €1.5 million in pre-Seed funding to bolster its team and enhance its AI-powered accounting technology. The investment, finalized in September 2026, was led by venture capital firms HelloWorld, Silence VC, Motive Force, and Aera Capital, alongside angel investors including Paul Golbaum, Javier Morenés, and several others.\n\nFounded in 2025 by co-founders Jorge Beamonte and Maximilian Letón, Talky aims to automate financial operations traditionally reliant on accountants' expertise and internal company practices. With a current team of nine employees, the company has already processed over 1.8 million documents and managed more than €2 billion in client expenditure.\n\nTalky's platform leverages AI to learn from a company's historical accounting records and the knowledge of its financial teams, rather than relying solely on predefined rules. This enables the technology to identify patterns in previous transactions, extract relevant accounting criteria, and apply this knowledge to new financial operations. In cases where the system encounters unfamiliar situations or lacks sufficient information, it identifies the appropriate employee to consult for guidance.\n\nThe startup's AI-powered platform can read invoices, suggest accounting entries, review tax information, and reconcile bank transactions before updating the client's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Talky claims its technology can process between 86% and 93% of accounting documents without human intervention. As the company looks to expand among large enterprises and financial services providers, its founders prioritize recruitment to grow the team while continuing platform development for existing customers.",
  "summary": "Talky Labs, a Spanish startup developing AI-powered technology to automate accounting and financial operations, has raised €1.5 million in a pre-Seed funding round to support team expansion, further product development and improvements to the company’s technical infrastructure. The investment, closed in September 2026, saw participation from venture capital firms HelloWorld, Silence VC, Motive…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}