Strengths
- Public unicorn and financing evidence supports the $1B status screen.
- Public sources support at least partial active product/platform positioning.
- Public sources show partner, customer or ecosystem signals but not revenue quality.
Andalusia Labs Startup Diligence Report
Proceed only if the company can substantiate active product ownership, domain/control posture, protocol/customer revenue and regulatory readiness beyond public unicorn-list evidence.
Andalusia Labs Startup Diligence Report
Andalusia Labs appears eligible as an uncovered private unicorn based on CB Insights and corroborating public evidence. Public evidence supports status screening and product/market activity, but investment-grade underwriting remains unresolved because financials, customer quality, contracts, legal/regulatory posture, cap table and personnel data are private. Several full article pages or product pages were inaccessible or rate-limited during this public-source run; search-result excerpts and CB Insights were used only where direct fetches failed.
Active domain checks returned unrelated content and several product pages were inaccessible, limiting verification beyond financing snippets.
Diligence request: Request product roadmap, security/domain/IP evidence and customer adoption data.
Risk-infrastructure demand depends on crypto protocol activity, token markets and evolving global regulation.
Diligence request: Request regulatory/legal review, contracts, customer references and concentration schedules.
Revenue, retention, customer concentration, runway and cap table are not publicly verifiable.
Diligence request: Request audited financials, KPI pack, cap table, cash/debt schedule and revenue cohort data.
Andalusia Labs has public valuation and financing evidence ($1B; $48M Series A), but audited financials, cash/debt, cap table and unit economics remain private.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Detailed financial statements, projections, tax, accounting policies, cap table, debt and off-balance-sheet liabilities are not publicly verifiable.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Detailed financial statements, projections, tax, accounting policies, cap table, debt and off-balance-sheet liabilities are not publicly verifiable.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Detailed financial statements, projections, tax, accounting policies, cap table, debt and off-balance-sheet liabilities are not publicly verifiable.
| signal | public evidence | diligence caveat | verification |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicorn valuation | $1B listed by CB Insights | Does not prove current fair value or liquidation preferences | verified |
| Revenue / ARR / gross margin | not disclosed in reviewed sources | Request audited financials and KPI pack | not_publicly_verifiable |
| Cap table / options / debt | investors named, ownership terms not public | Request fully diluted cap table and financing docs | not_publicly_verifiable |
partially verified confidence: medium
$48M Series A and $1B valuation are publicly supported; full financing history and terms remain private.
| date | round | amount | lead or participants | post money or valuation | verification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-13 | Series A | $48M | Lightspeed Venture Partners; Mubadala Capital, Pantera Capital, Framework Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Digital Currency Group and others per public snippets | $1B | verified_or_partially_verified_from_public_sources |
| current | Other debt/equity/warrants | not_publicly_verifiable | not_publicly_verifiable | not_publicly_verifiable | requires financing documents |
Andalusia Labs has public product-positioning evidence: Public funding snippets describe risk management infrastructure for digital assets. Product-level claims for Karak, Subsea or Watchtower require direct company confirmation because accessible product pages were blocked or unrelated during this run. Pricing, roadmap and product-level margin data require company confirmation.
partially verified confidence: medium
Public funding snippets describe risk management infrastructure for digital assets. Product-level claims for Karak, Subsea or Watchtower require direct company confirmation because accessible product pages were blocked or unrelated during this run. Product roadmap, usage, pricing and cost structure remain diligence gaps.
| product | audience | public evidence | verification |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital-asset risk infrastructure | Institutions and crypto protocols | Risk-management infrastructure for digital assets | partially_verified |
| Karak / restaking ecosystem references | Protocol developers and validators | Referenced in public discovery, but product pages were inaccessible in this run | inconclusive |
| Subsea / Watchtower references | Risk, security and monitoring users | Not directly verified from accessible company-owned content | not_publicly_verifiable |
| item | public signal | gap or request | verification |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public pricing page | No public pricing located in fetched sources; private contract pricing and protocol economics required. | Request actual price book, discounts, renewal uplift and revenue share terms | not_publicly_verifiable |
| Unit economics | No cost-to-serve or margin data in public sources | Request gross margin by product and hosting/infrastructure cost model | not_publicly_verifiable |
Andalusia Labs has public customer/partner/ecosystem signals, but top-customer revenue, retention, concentration and severed relationships are not public.
partially verified confidence: medium
Public relationship signals exist, but revenue by customer, concentration, supplier spend and severed relationships are not public.
| name | use case | public evidence | verification |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institutional crypto ecosystem | Application not disclosed | Funding source positions company in digital-asset risk infrastructure; named customer revenue unavailable | not_publicly_verifiable |
| Mubadala Capital / Lightspeed investor ecosystem | Financing and ecosystem signal | Named investors provide financing signal, not customer validation | partially_verified |
| Protocol or validator customers | Potential risk-infrastructure buyers | Specific paying customers not public in fetched sources | not_publicly_verifiable |
partially verified confidence: medium
Public relationship signals exist, but revenue by customer, concentration, supplier spend and severed relationships are not public.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Public relationship signals exist, but revenue by customer, concentration, supplier spend and severed relationships are not public.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Public relationship signals exist, but revenue by customer, concentration, supplier spend and severed relationships are not public.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Public relationship signals exist, but revenue by customer, concentration, supplier spend and severed relationships are not public.
| dependency | role | public evidence | risk note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blockchain protocols and domain/product web infrastructure | Distribution or technical dependency | Product pages/domain control could not be cleanly verified | Request supplier contracts, uptime, security and concentration schedules |
| Top suppliers / cloud spend | Infrastructure cost and resilience | not disclosed | Request vendor spend and resilience evidence |
Andalusia Labs competes in Digital-asset risk infrastructure / blockchain security; public sources do not disclose win/loss, market share or pricing pressure.
partially verified confidence: medium
Comparable competitors include Chaos Labs, Gauntlet, OpenZeppelin / Trail of Bits, EigenLayer ecosystem vendors; market share and win/loss are not public.
| competitor | segment | product overlap | differentiator to test |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chaos Labs | On-chain risk and economic security | Overlap in digital-asset risk analytics | Request win/loss, pricing and churn-by-competitor evidence |
| Gauntlet | Protocol risk management | Competes for DeFi risk mandates | Request win/loss, pricing and churn-by-competitor evidence |
| OpenZeppelin / Trail of Bits | Blockchain security assurance | Adjacent security diligence provider | Request win/loss, pricing and churn-by-competitor evidence |
| EigenLayer ecosystem vendors | Restaking / shared security | Adjacent if Karak/restaking product claims are confirmed | Request win/loss, pricing and churn-by-competitor evidence |
| axis | public position | private validation needed |
|---|---|---|
| Product breadth | Public funding snippets describe risk management infrastructure for digital assets. Product-level claims for Karak, Subsea or Watchtower require direct company confirmation because accessible product pages were blocked or unrelated during this run. | Roadmap, active usage and product-level revenue |
| Price and switching costs | Not publicly disclosed | Pricing, discounting, renewals and migration costs |
| Market proof | Public partner/investor/customer signals, not full retention evidence | Customer references, churn, cohort and NPS data |
Public GTM evidence shows channels such as Investor-led ecosystem selling, Protocol/community announcements, Enterprise or institutional direct sales likely but not public, but pipeline conversion and sales productivity are private.
partially verified confidence: medium
Public channels include Investor-led ecosystem selling, Protocol/community announcements, Enterprise or institutional direct sales likely but not public; CAC, conversion, quota and budget capacity are not public.
| channel | public evidence | gap |
|---|---|---|
| Investor-led ecosystem selling | visible or inferable from public pages/sources | Request pipeline, conversion and CAC/payback data |
| Protocol/community announcements | visible or inferable from public pages/sources | Request pipeline, conversion and CAC/payback data |
| Enterprise or institutional direct sales likely but not public | visible or inferable from public pages/sources | Request pipeline, conversion and CAC/payback data |
partially verified confidence: medium
Public channels include Investor-led ecosystem selling, Protocol/community announcements, Enterprise or institutional direct sales likely but not public; CAC, conversion, quota and budget capacity are not public.
partially verified confidence: medium
Public channels include Investor-led ecosystem selling, Protocol/community announcements, Enterprise or institutional direct sales likely but not public; CAC, conversion, quota and budget capacity are not public.
| signal | evidence | risk or gap |
|---|---|---|
| Funding / investor brand | Lightspeed Venture Partners | Financing momentum is not proof of efficient GTM |
| Product/website surface | Public funding and market-database snippets describe Andalusia Labs as formerly RiskHarbor and active in digital-asset risk infrastructure; the domain andalusia.ai returned unrelated SHIOMIMPI gambling/spam content during this run. | Need traffic, demo conversion and qualified pipeline data |
| Customers/partners | Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mubadala Capital, Pantera Capital, Framework Ventures | Need revenue contribution and renewal evidence |
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Public channels include Investor-led ecosystem selling, Protocol/community announcements, Enterprise or institutional direct sales likely but not public; CAC, conversion, quota and budget capacity are not public.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Public channels include Investor-led ecosystem selling, Protocol/community announcements, Enterprise or institutional direct sales likely but not public; CAC, conversion, quota and budget capacity are not public.
Public evidence indicates active product/R&D work, but technical architecture, roadmap cost, benchmarks and staffing detail require data-room review.
partially verified confidence: medium
Public sources show product and technical signals, but R&D organization, roadmap costs and critical technology dependencies require internal artifacts.
| name or role | function | public evidence | verification |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drew Patel | Co-founder | Named in Tracxn search-result profile snippet; full biography not fetched | partially_verified |
| Raouf Ben-Har | Co-founder | Named in Tracxn search-result profile snippet; full biography not fetched | partially_verified |
| Engineering / research team | Risk infrastructure | Headcount and reporting lines not publicly verified | not_publicly_verifiable |
partially verified confidence: medium
Public sources show product and technical signals, but R&D organization, roadmap costs and critical technology dependencies require internal artifacts.
| project | status | expected timing | verification |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital-asset risk infrastructure | Risk-management infrastructure for digital assets | not_publicly_verifiable | partially_verified |
| Karak / restaking ecosystem references | Referenced in public discovery, but product pages were inaccessible in this run | not_publicly_verifiable | inconclusive |
| Subsea / Watchtower references | Not directly verified from accessible company-owned content | not_publicly_verifiable | not_publicly_verifiable |
Public management and hiring evidence is incomplete; org chart, compensation, turnover and projected headcount require HR records.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Leadership/personnel evidence is partial; complete org chart, compensation, stock plans, employee issues and turnover require HR records.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Leadership/personnel evidence is partial; complete org chart, compensation, stock plans, employee issues and turnover require HR records.
| period | headcount anchor | evidence | gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 founding | 2 | Founder-level public signal only | Request HRIS export, function/location breakdown and attrition |
| 2023 Series A | not_publicly_verifiable | Hiring capacity implied by financing but not a headcount disclosure | Request HRIS export, function/location breakdown and attrition |
| 2026 public research date | not_publicly_verifiable | Current headcount not public in fetched sources | Request HRIS export, function/location breakdown and attrition |
partially verified confidence: medium
Leadership/personnel evidence is partial; complete org chart, compensation, stock plans, employee issues and turnover require HR records.
| name | role | tenure or background | source status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drew Patel | Co-founder | Named in Tracxn search-result profile snippet; full biography not fetched | partially_verified |
| Raouf Ben-Har | Co-founder | Named in Tracxn search-result profile snippet; full biography not fetched | partially_verified |
| Engineering / research team | Risk infrastructure | Headcount and reporting lines not publicly verified | not_publicly_verifiable |
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Leadership/personnel evidence is partial; complete org chart, compensation, stock plans, employee issues and turnover require HR records.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Leadership/personnel evidence is partial; complete org chart, compensation, stock plans, employee issues and turnover require HR records.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Leadership/personnel evidence is partial; complete org chart, compensation, stock plans, employee issues and turnover require HR records.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
Leadership/personnel evidence is partial; complete org chart, compensation, stock plans, employee issues and turnover require HR records.
Public legal/regulatory/IP evidence is not diligence-ready; litigation, IP ownership, regulatory correspondence, insurance and material contracts require counsel review.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
No diligence-ready public legal schedule was found; counsel should provide litigation, regulatory, IP, insurance and material contract records.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
No diligence-ready public legal schedule was found; counsel should provide litigation, regulatory, IP, insurance and material contract records.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
No diligence-ready public legal schedule was found; counsel should provide litigation, regulatory, IP, insurance and material contract records.
partially verified confidence: medium
No diligence-ready public legal schedule was found; counsel should provide litigation, regulatory, IP, insurance and material contract records.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
No diligence-ready public legal schedule was found; counsel should provide litigation, regulatory, IP, insurance and material contract records.
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
No diligence-ready public legal schedule was found; counsel should provide litigation, regulatory, IP, insurance and material contract records.
| area | public evidence | why it matters | priority |
|---|---|---|---|
| Material contracts | not_publicly_verifiable | Revenue quality, exclusivity, platform or IP obligations | high |
| Insurance coverage | not_publicly_verifiable | Cyber, E&O, D&O and product liability coverage | high |
| Compliance / safety | not_publicly_verifiable | Privacy, consumer, crypto/regulatory or digital identity compliance depending on company | high |
not publicly verifiable confidence: low
No diligence-ready public legal schedule was found; counsel should provide litigation, regulatory, IP, insurance and material contract records.
| matter | public signal | status | diligence request |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pending lawsuits against company | No litigation docket was verified in fetched sources | unverified | Counsel litigation schedule and docket search |
| Company-initiated lawsuits | No company-initiated litigation verified in fetched sources | unverified | Counsel litigation schedule |
| IP / trademarks / copyrights | Brand/domain signals conflicted; IP schedule not public | not_publicly_verifiable | IP register, assignments, open-source and license schedule |
| Regulatory / agency actions | No regulatory action schedule in fetched sources | unverified | Regulatory correspondence, privacy/security reviews and enforcement searches |
| ID | Claim | Status | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| EC-001 | Andalusia Labs appears on the fetched CB Insights unicorn tracker at $1B. | verified high | SRC-001 |
| EC-002 | Andalusia Labs has public financing evidence for $48M Series A financing. | verified medium | SRC-002 |
| EC-003 | Andalusia Labs has public product-positioning evidence. | partially verified low | SRC-002SRC-003 |
| EC-004 | Andalusia Labs has public partner, customer or ecosystem signals, but revenue contribution is not public. | partially verified medium | SRC-002 |
| EC-005 | Andalusia Labs public GTM evidence supports active market-facing channels but not conversion economics. | partially verified medium | SRC-002 |
| EC-006 | Andalusia Labs financial statements, ARR, gross margin, burn, runway and customer concentration are not public. | not publicly verifiable low | SRC-001 |
| EC-007 | Andalusia Labs personnel and management evidence is incomplete in public sources. | partially verified low | SRC-004 |
| EC-008 | Andalusia Labs legal, regulatory, IP, insurance and material contract schedules are not publicly diligence-ready. | not publicly verifiable low | SRC-002 |
| EC-009 | Andalusia Labs faces established and adjacent competitors in its public product category. | partially verified medium | SRC-002 |
| EC-010 | Public evidence depth and domain-integrity risk | partially verified medium | SRC-003SRC-002 |
| ID | Publisher | Title | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| SRC-001 | CB Insights | CB Insights Complete List of Unicorn Companies | 2026-06-06 |
| SRC-002 | DuckDuckGo search results indexing Financial Post/Business Wire, Silicon Valley Journals, MyStartupWorld and Tracxn | DuckDuckGo result page for Andalusia Labs $48M Series A and $1B valuation | 2026-06-06 |
| SRC-003 | andalusia.ai | Andalusia.ai fetched page returned unrelated SHIOMIMPI content | 2026-06-06 |
| SRC-004 | Tracxn | Tracxn Andalusia Labs profile snippet in search results | 2026-06-06 |
This report is a public-evidence diligence snapshot, not investment advice. Important financial, legal, technical, and contractual facts remain non-public and should be verified directly with management and primary documents before any investment decision.