Why we Invested in Stuveo
Redefining how students choose their future with structured, data-driven guidance.
What to study? This is probably one of the most important decisions a high school student has to make. However, it is often made in a surprisingly uninformed way.
Despite trillions invested globally in education, students continue to navigate a fragmented ecosystem of university websites, rankings, PDFs, forums, word-of-mouth advice, and increasingly, generic AI-based searches. Meanwhile, schools lack accessible digital infrastructure to guide students effectively, and universities depend on costly, low-conversion marketing to attract the right candidates.
As a result, education systems worldwide (particularly academic orientation and student recruitment) remain under-digitised and structurally misaligned. We believe this global inefficiency creates a unique opportunity for a category-defining platform for academic orientation.
Too Many Choices, Not Enough Clarity
In high school, students must decide what and where to study. They face this choice at a time when the educational landscape is more complex than ever. In Spain alone, universities have added 1,760 new degrees in the last decade (+44%), vocational programs have grown by 36% in six years, and thousands of short, modular programs have entered the market, creating more than 10,000 possible career pathways. Across Europe, participation in higher education continues to rise, supported by flexible and modular formats.
More options should be good news, and in many ways, they are. Higher education is more accessible and customizable than ever. The problem, however, is not the abundance of opportunity but the difficulty of navigating it. Students are confronted with thousands of program options presented inconsistently, often shaped more by marketing than by clear, comparable information, as traditional portals tend to prioritise lead generation over transparency.
Schools and counsellors are also trying to provide personalised guidance, but they lack scalable infrastructure to manage this growing complexity. The result is a mismatch between expectations and reality: students switch degrees, drop out, or graduate from paths that do not align with their strengths or labour market demand. The broader consequence is persistent underemployment and lost potential, weakening both individual careers and Europe’s future workforce.
Stuveo enables real academic orientation
Stuveo is the first platform capable of structuring and centralising an entire education system. Spain serves as its first proof point, where it has already integrated 100% of the country’s university and vocational offerings into a guided, end-to-end decision journey. Through Stuveo, students, schools and universities operate within a shared environment to make life-defining educational choices, aligning incentives across the ecosystem.
For students, Stuveo provides a centralised search engine with standardised, accurate information on admission requirements, cut-off grades, course curricula, professional outcomes, and access pathways. Students can filter, compare, shortlist programs, simulate admission scenarios, and receive AI-powered recommendations based on their academic profile, interests, and behaviour. The result is not just more information, but greater clarity, confidence and accessibility.
For schools, Stuveo offers real-time visibility into student progress and preferences through dashboards and individual tracking tools. Counsellors can identify patterns, detect indecision early, and deliver more personalised guidance, replacing manual processes with structured, data-driven insights. Additionally, universities use Stuveo as a trusted, high-intent discovery and engagement channel. Through verified, standardised profiles, institutions can publish up-to-date program information while accessing real-time analytics on student interest, searches, and saved programs. This enables them to proactively engage students, improve lead quality, and optimise recruitment efforts with greater transparency.
On a broader level, Stuveo has the potential to address a structural misallocation of human talent. By introducing transparency, structure, and intelligence into a fragmented ecosystem, it enables a far more efficient match between individual capabilities and the full spectrum of educational and professional pathways. Over time, this translates into better-informed academic decisions, stronger alignment with labour-market demand, reduced dropout and underemployment, and, ultimately, a more competitive and productive economy.
AI at the application layer in education
At Abac Nest Ventures, we believe the next wave of AI-driven value will be created at the application layer, through vertical, AI-native companies that redesign core workflows in traditional industries.
The academic education space (both formal and non-formal) has seen significant growth over the past decade. However, much of that growth has been built around a lead-generation model, where platforms primarily monetise attention rather than truly improving decision quality for students. With the emergence of AI, this model is being fundamentally disrupted.
AI enables personalisation at scale and the aggregation of rich student-level data, making it possible to build contextual recommendation systems that create meaningful value for the end user, something that traditional portals, focused on traffic and conversion, have struggled to deliver.
Within this context, we believe the most defensible companies in this new paradigm will be those that own structured, proprietary data and are deeply embedded in institutional workflows. This is because although horizontal AI tools can provide generic answers, they cannot replace vertically integrated systems built on verified data and integrated into real decision-making processes.
Stuveo is building that missing AI layer in education, combining structured data, user-level behavioural insights and workflow integration to improve how academic decisions are made.
Ambition Backed by Execution
Stuveo was founded by Gonzalo Corria and Albert Ferraté, two complementary profiles with a shared ambition to modernise and improve academic guidance.
Gonzalo (CEO and Co-founder), with a background in Business Administration from ESADE and experience in consulting at PwC, brings strategic clarity and strong commercial execution. Albert (CTO and Co-founder) is a Telecommunications Engineer from UPC and a Software Engineer at Stripe, adding deep technical expertise and strong product vision.
In just 12 months, they have onboarded +700 schools, with almost 1 out of 8 secondary schools in Spain already using Stuveo, all without a dedicated marketing or commercial team. This level of adoption strongly validates the need within the Spanish education system and positions the company to replicate its proven playbook globally.
This is exactly what we look for at Abac Nest Ventures: founders who ship product quickly, generate early traction, validate real use cases, and grow in a capital-efficient way.
“We want to ensure that no student ever makes an academic decision blindly again. Guidance cannot depend on chance or social pressure; it must be based on data, context, and real support.” – Gonzalo Corria (CEO and Co-founder at Stuveo)
Our Conviction to Lead Stuveo’s Pre-seed round
What drove our decision to lead Stuveo’s pre-seed round was not only the clear blue-ocean opportunity in Spain but also the team’s ability to achieve so much with so little. Their speed, focus, and real early momentum stood out to us from day one.
This round will enable Stuveo to scale internationally, leveraging its success in Spain to grow in more complex and fragmented markets. At the same time, the company will expand its academic offering with non-formal education programs while deepening its product capabilities to deliver more comprehensive, personalised, and data-driven guidance.
We’re proud to partner with Gonzalo and Albert in their journey to become the reference platform for academic orientation and reshape how students choose their future worldwide.
To learn more about Stuveo’s mission and technology, visit their website at https://www.stuveo.com/
Abac Nest Ventures Team