Rafael Quintanilla

Co-founder @arrakistech; previously @Accel

[Rafael Quintanilla @RafaelFQL]

@zhalyn2001 @paid_ai @arrakistech Let’s gooo!

[Rafael Quintanilla @RafaelFQL]

Arrakis Technologies (@arrakistech) comes out of stealth with $38M in funding from leading investors including @blossomcap and @Accel.

Sovereign AI deployment in the physical economy is one of the most important missions anyone could work on. Western reshoring and economic prosperity rest in the balance.

That's why we're building Arrakis.

We are an AI deployment company that partners with ambitious enterprises to transform their operations into software. We encode operational know-how into agents that execute complex processes semi-autonomously and learn under human supervision.

Six months in, here's where we are:

1. Partnered with the most mission-driven team I could have asked for. My co-founders Haroun Beltaifa, @Romain_Fd and @MichaelGalkov, and a founding team from Palantir, Revolut, ElevenLabs, Datadog, DeliveryHero, ASML, KKR and Blackstone. We are now forward deployed at the edge across the US, Europe and APAC, encoding and redesigning industrial processes from first principles.

2.⁠ Signed NYSE-listed customers after our agents delivered significant P&L improvements through 60-90% cycle time compression at 99%+ accuracy on complex workflows. These companies now experience the future of self-driving industrial operations, where work no longer waits for constant input but moves forward proactively with humans overseeing every critical decision. In weeks, their most skeptical operators became our most vocal champions, and direct CEO referrals are now our main source of growth.

3. Raised $38M from @blossomcap, @Accel, @Global_Founders, @mainobjectvc, and leading angels including @oliviergodement, Head of Business Products @OpenAI, Junaid Hussain, founder @Cambridge_Aero, @oliveur, founder @datadoghq and more.

The future of industrial AI is Arrakis Technologies.

[Rafael Quintanilla @RafaelFQL]

@ericsles @201vc_ Congrats Eric!!

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@felixjmartinez_ @seedcamp @UiPath Looking forward to hearing your main takeaways

Cc @saullevin

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@Kieranleehill @FinnMurphy12 🔥🔥

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@victornavgar Insane!!

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@saullevin @felixjmartinez_ @seedcamp Pls keep us posted @felixjmartinez_

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@saullevin @felixjmartinez_ Great content @felixjmartinez_, looking forward to seeing you more often on TikTok!

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@ArielRenous Well, BeReal just crossed the >1m WAUs threshold so you might need to check your data ;)

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@axeliaklein 🙌🏼 and here’s a book we always recommend to b2b founders to set up the right sales machine (also very useful for VCs ;))

https://t.co/edRBBzod6V

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@AudreyHandem @RyanZauk @dhaber @AkashBajwa96 @mspiro3 Haha too kind @AudreyHandem

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@zivreichert 🎉🎉

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@pinverrr - working backwards
- window of opportunity closing down
- build on on top
- vertically integrated and horizontally distributed

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@jmj @ab_mueller

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@fdestin @ab_mueller

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@thrasio @karenmpd @pymnts @joaojonk

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@2lr Vraiment pas ouf, ça correspond pas du tout à ce pourquoi l’on utilise Twitter. 100% d’accord avec toi que la rapidité est au cœur de l’USP

[Rafael Quintanilla @RafaelFQL]

@HarryStebbings @samir_vasavada And of course/unfortunately the name of the airline... no politician wants a national “fleuron” to go bankrupt.. helping out a “British Airways” in a worst case scenario is a better PR exercise than helping a “flybe”

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@HarryStebbings @samir_vasavada Ownership structures (is the respective national government a shareholder) and relationships with airports are key metrics here I think (eg british airways bargaining power vis-a-vis heathrow to lower grounding costs)

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@samir_vasavada Sabre is a good one. Or at least was... nearly 2x since April