Artiso, a Barcelona company building AI software for fashion design teams, has raised more than €3m (at least $3.3m) in a pre-seed round led by Criteria Venture Tech. It announced the round on 28 October 2026.
Swanlaab Venture Factory and Bynd Venture Capital joined, along with two angel investors: David Tomás, co-founder of the marketing agency Cyberclick, and Nicolaj Reffstrup, founder and former chief executive of the Danish fashion brand GANNI, who invested through Look Up Ventures. The round was raised entirely as equity. The exact amount and the valuation were not disclosed.
Artiso describes it as an unusually large pre-seed round for fashion technology. It is the company's first announced funding.
“Taste is what makes a brand distinctive. AI can't replace it, but it can give talented creative teams extraordinary leverage. ARTISO is building the infrastructure for that, from inside fashion.”Nicolaj Reffstrup, founder and former CEO, GANNI
What Artiso does
Fashion brands typically spread their creative work across separate tools: product lifecycle management systems, design software, image generators, shared drives, spreadsheets and email. Artiso argues that each season, some of what a brand has learned is lost along the way, such as which shapes sold and which colours worked.
Its software uses AI agents to take a collection from moodboards and inspiration through design, flat sketches and product development to pre-production documents such as tech packs, the technical specifications sent to factories. It also produces virtual models, on-model images, product shots and campaign content.
Underneath sits what the company calls a brand memory, which records each brand's archive, bestsellers, seasonal direction and visual codes so that outputs match its style. Artiso says a complete tech pack takes about four minutes with its software, compared with two to six hours by hand.
Founders and customers
Artiso was founded in Barcelona in 2025 by chief executive Sarah Iglesias Hiller, chief product officer Lucas Pastur Romay and chief technology officer Matthias Brenninkmeijer. All three are former Mango executives who have worked together since 2022. FashionUnited reported that they were part of the team behind Mango's first AI-generated campaign, and that Iglesias Hiller previously worked at Inditex and Brenninkmeijer at C&A.
The company came out of stealth in July 2025. It works with mid-sized and large fashion brands, luxury houses and the retailers and manufacturers that supply them, with customers in Europe, North America and Asia. It names the US as a key market but did not name any customers.
What the money is for
Artiso will use the funding to develop its software, hire across fashion and technology roles and support customers rolling it out across large teams. Its staff already includes specialists in garment technology, pattern making, design, art direction, motion graphics and data science.
Roma Jelinskaite, managing director at Criteria Venture Tech, said the firm was drawn to founders who had lived the problem first-hand and to demand on both sides of the Atlantic.
Company website: artiso.ai