Closing 2024

As we close our 3rd year since we started Gilion, it’s worth doing a bit of 2024 retrospective.

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We all see AI everywhere. Entrepreneurs pitch AI, Investors invest in AI, customers use AI. 

Since we started Gilion 3 years ago, we built it AI-first. Growth data and modern AI brings growth intelligence and growth financing back to entrepreneurs. Gilion AI also enables investors, banks and funds to offer money to a segment of entrepreneurs that they previously could not invest in. 

The market is still wobbly, not yet wholly stabilized or recovered fully. There is, however, a much brighter feeling than what we’ve seen in recent years, with a lot of great energy and interesting products in the making. There are also a lot of capital players with money who are really eager to invest in entrepreneurs, if they see their data perform. Thanks to Gilion AI they can do that earlier than ever before.

In general as we see the AI wave going out of hype mode and mature, we start to see entrepreneurs building real value using new technology. As we welcome more and more entrepreneurs onto the Gilion platform we also see the growing solid base of entrepreneurs building the future in a healthy way. 

We started 2024 with a bang

1. A new name Gilion. The OG word for billion which fits us perfectly as we are all about applying AI to billions of datapoints about every company to generate growth intelligence and financing.
2. A new CEO, Oscar Werner, who just came home from the states looking for the next european thing to scale, we are so happy he chose to work with us to take the Gilion platform to all the world’s entrepreneurs.
3. A new funding round of 10MUSD, which brought us new strong investors to join the mission.

We brought several core features to the platform in 2024

1. We have been attracting several hundred new entrepreneurs to the platform to help them understand, optimize and fund their growth
2. We launched Decks - a way to use the platform to share key growth metrics to investors. One customer brought in 13 users to their platform when they fundraised. And more and more investors now ask their portfolio companies about their Gilion scores
3. We rolled out Notifications - a way to help founders and connected investors get automatic notifications if anything is significantly up or down in their growth engine. This has brought month-on-month retention up by 34% throughout the year
4. We launched our next generation forecasting engine. The current base case predicts ARR with more than 90 % accuracy 6 months ahead of time. This allows our founders and capital partners to run “what if” scenarios in our platform and with more advanced tools to continuously understand and help their portfolio. 
5. In April we launched the much awaited Benchmarking feature. The feature helps founders and investors to put growth performance into context by showing it together with the overlay of real time performance insights about other similar companies in the market. 
6. In December we started rolling out our latest growth financing product Investor Matching - the function that lets founders’ use their growth data to match with investors’ investment criteria. Once the match is made we are able to do a warm introduction between the company and these new investors. Since then we have introduced several founders to top tier investors. 

We doubled the number of founders funded by Gilion, meaning  twice as many innovations to grow faster. We are very proud and happy to see solutions such as Recare, who has helped over 400k patients to receive better care, and Tiptapp, who tackles recycling in a low-friction, transformative way over a million times already. 

As we are continuously on the look out for more people who are passionate about our mission, we continued to strengthen our team. With our new colleagues, such as Lidia, Andreas, Alexandre who are bringing decades of financial, technical and product experience from companies like Google, Bridgepoint, Goldman Sachs, Spotify.

We tried our best to share our vision in a record number of small and large events, where we brought together entrepreneurs, investors and techies to spark conversations about how to grow ideas faster. The sharp eyed might also have noticed our new website, which is built to better showcase our passion for data driven growth. Did you know that all the growing art you see is generated by data and maths (thanks to some GLSL shaders too)?

Looking ahead we are very excited about 2025. We will continue on our mission to empower entrepreneurs with unrivaled growth intelligence products and data driven growth financing products. We will work hard to unlock the potential in mixing VC and non-dilutive financing to optimize for growth.

To all entrepreneurs, investors and funds active in 2025 - Let 2025 be the year of growth!

Best regards,
The Gilion team