Mafer AI Raises €2M To Build AI Platform For R&D Teams In Formulation Industries

The round was backed by Kfund, 4Founders Capital, Masia, and Lavanda Ventures, the investment arm of the Puig family.

The company also attracted support from several prominent angel investors, including Adrián Mato, Manuel Roca, Dídac Lee, Fernando Castiñeiras, and Juanjo Mostazo, alongside professionals from organisations such as MIT, Google, Bain, BCG, Samaipata, Shakers, and Happy Robot.

Mafer AI is building an AI-powered platform designed to support research and development teams working in industries such as cosmetics, fragrances and other formulation-based sectors, helping streamline innovation and product development processes.

Founded in Barcelona in late 2025 by Fernando Oliver Jané and Marc Montalbo Burges, Mafer AI is developing MaferOS, an AI-native operating system for R&D teams in formulation-based industries such as food, cosmetics, fragrances, chemicals, and nutraceuticals.

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The company aims to solve a major challenge faced by these industries: decades of valuable research, formulas, regulatory data, and technical expertise are often scattered across disconnected systems, spreadsheets, PDFs, laboratory tools, and individual experts’ knowledge.

According to Mafer AI, this fragmented infrastructure slows innovation cycles, delays product launches and creates operational inefficiencies. The company also highlights the growing risk of losing institutional knowledge when experienced professionals retire or leave.

MaferOS uses artificial intelligence and proprietary customer-specific architectures to organise and analyse historical R&D data while keeping information secure and isolated.

The platform includes specialised modules designed to automate tasks such as laboratory analysis, data structuring, regulatory compliance, and formula recommendations, helping companies accelerate product development and streamline technical decision-making.

Fernando Oliver Jané, CEO and co-founder of Mafer AI, said, “Formulation industries have spent decades accumulating a silent asset, their technical R&D history, without having any way to exploit it at scale. The current generation of AI changes that equation completely: today, using the data of a single customer, we can train proprietary models that radically accelerate the pace at which that company brings formulas to market.

“We are building a new category from Europe, during a window that will remain open for the next three years, and that we believe will not reopen again. With €2 million, an extraordinary team and the support of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre behind us, we intend to build it ourselves.”

About Mafer AI

Mafer AI is building an AI-powered technology stack for formulation and chemical industries. Its platform captures, organises, and structures complex technical and laboratory data into model-ready intelligence, helping R&D teams automate workflows, improve decision-making, accelerate innovation and preserve valuable institutional knowledge across formulation-driven businesses.