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JUAN SIMONClaros Schultze
- 01Co-founder & CEO, MantAI
- 02Sales · Growth · Finance · Legal · Hardware
- 03Stanford · CODE University
- 04Switzerland · United States
Worked on the hardware, found the pilots, wrote the contracts and built the machine that brings them in. Then I spend the weekend taking a motorcycle down to the frame.
MantAI, Inc. · Co-founded 09/2025 with CTO Santiago Garcia Sapeta
Brakes, bearings and belts change their sound weeks before they fail.
Acoustic AI flags brake, bearing and belt failures up to 4 weeks before breakdown, plus real-time alerts on dangerous driving.
FIG. 04 · MANTAI UNIT · SCHEMATIC
Step 1 / 4Built the device with my cofounder.
Step 2 / 4I owned electronics integration and ruggedization.
Step 3 / 4Self-powered. ~13-month battery. No OBD connection. Installs in under 15 minutes.
Step 4 / 4Ran the 21-unit pilot build with the contract manufacturer.
MantAI · in numbers
21
pilot devices built
20
vehicles under signed pilots from Nov 2026 with US rental operators, more in signing in the US, Germany and Switzerland
848
mechanical fault detections across 18 fault classes
$45K
angel SAFE closed. Now running the seed round.
Growth
I close deals and build the machine that brings them in.
First pilot signed in 2 weeks. 20 vehicles under signed pilots.
- enriched leads · US, Germany, UK, Spain
- 5,000enriched leads · US, Germany, UK, Spain
- sending domains
- 8sending domains
- inboxes
- 24inboxes
- cold emails a day, plus follow-ups
- 120cold emails a day, plus follow-ups
Finance & legal
I also run the numbers and write the contracts.
Finance
- Built MantAI's P&L and per-vehicle unit economics.
- Wrote the fundraising plan behind our $2M raise: 5,000 vehicles in year one, 20,000 by year three.
- Closed a $45K angel SAFE. Running the seed round.
Legal
- Pilot agreements, including a bilingual German/English version.
- The manufacturing agreement for the 21-unit build.
- The privacy and consent framework we use with US rental customers.
Sales, growth, finance and legal all sit with me.
Experience · 2024 to now
MantAI, Inc.
09/2025 to presentCo-founder & CEO
Beglaubigt.deYC F24
12/2025 to 01/2026Founder's Associate
Jamie AI
05/2025 to 10/2025Customer Support & Sales Operations Manager
RevisionDojoYC F24
12/2024 to 06/2025Growth & Sales, core team
Education
Stanford University
International Honors Program · Summer 2026 · GPA 3.3
Technology Entrepreneurship (ENGR 145S) · Minds and Machines (SYMSYS 1)
CODE University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
B.A. Product Management · in progress
Zürich International School
AP Diploma · 9 APs and 1 IB class · 06/2024
Young Founders Network
Berlin Chapter member · 10/2025 to present
English Native · German C2 · Spanish C2 · Portuguese B1 · Polish A1, learning
Credits
Directed by
Juan Simon Claros Schultze
juan@mantai.iojuan.claros@stanford.edu · Switzerland · United States