LaunchLemonade has raised $480,000 in an oversubscribed pre-seed round for its London-based no-code AI platform.
The company said it set a $400,000 target for the round and exceeded it after attracting investors including Spring Syndicate and Ventures Together, which it described as one of Europe's biggest angel syndicates.
LaunchLemonade positions its product as a no-code platform for creating AI agents. It said users can build, deploy and monetise tools that automate workflows, generate content and support decision-making.
Product focus
The company said its platform unifies more than 21 AI models and uses an interface that creates specialised agents for tasks including content creation, report analysis and research. It also said those agents can be trained using users' own data.
LaunchLemonade was founded in 2024 and has grown through bootstrapping, according to the company. It said its user base has surpassed 6,000.
The company said founder and CEO Cien Solon opened the first external funding round after inbound interest from users and industry contacts. It said some investors wanted to invest after using the product.
LaunchLemonade said five investors in the round were existing customers.
Investor group
Spring Syndicate is an angel investor collective of former operators and founders, according to LaunchLemonade. Ventures Together is an angel syndicate that invests in early-stage companies, it said. The company also cited examples in Ventures Together's portfolio, including Climate X, Harmonic Security and Gradient Labs.
LaunchLemonade said community played a central role in its fundraising. It also highlighted wider funding disparities faced by women founders in technology and AI.
The company cited figures that only 2.8% of total investment value goes to female-founded start-ups. It also said female-founded AI start-ups raise on average six times less capital per deal than those founded by male entrepreneurs.
LaunchLemonade said support came from groups including Female Founders Rise, Diversity X and BAE HQ.
"Community has always been at the heart of LaunchLemonade," said Cien Solon, Founder and CEO, LaunchLemonade. "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."
Marketplace plans
The company said it will use the funding on development of a built-in marketplace. It said the marketplace will allow users to build and then sell AI agents they create.
LaunchLemonade described the planned marketplace as a way for users to participate in what it called the AI economy. It also said the product direction aims at a transactional ecosystem for AI creation and deployment.
"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," said Solon.