An Irish-Australian teenager’s second startup in simply 12 months has raised US$1.4 million (A$2.15m) in pre-Seed funding throughout a vacation Down Beneath to go to his grandparents.
Liam Fuller, now 18, wasn’t sufficiently old to drink beer when secured the increase for QuickFind AI, an agentic AI ordering system for retail procurement, after cold-calling native VCs.
He got here to Australia after being suspended from highschool in Eire, then dropping out, for photograph that went viral on LinkedIn of the teenager entrepreneur taking a consumer name and dealing on his laptop computer sitting in a rest room cubicle in school.
The viral photograph that modified Liam Fuller’s world and led to a $2.1m increase
Fuller was a visitor on Startup Day by day’s Startup 360 in April, sharing his story, which incorporates his earlier startup, a Shopify plug-in known as CartShare, constructed constructed 12 months in the past in the course of the Stripe × OpenAI-backed Patch youth accelerator. It led to his cofounder getting a job at Shopify.
He headed to Australia, the birthplace of his equally entrepreneurial dad, Shane, and contacted Sq. Peg’s Paul Bassat for recommendation, taking a three-hour practice journey to Sydney for a 20-minute assembly.
His preliminary pitch to Bassat to spend money on Supply, because it’s identified within the US, was declined, earlier than Sq. Peg went on to steer the pre-Seed spherical, supported TEN13, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Eucalyptus co-founder Charlie Gearside, and different angel traders, together with Brendan Hill, who, having beforehand invested in one other 17-year-old known as Liam (the founding father of Instantaneous), launched the cola-sipping Fuller to different traders at 361 Angels Membership.
Fuller already had round $355,000 in commitments when he contacted this author, who invited him to seem on Startup 360. That dialog helped flip his concept into one in all 2025’s hottest raises.
“After I went on Startup 360, it was a bit of a whirlwind, to be honest. I knew getting exposure to the ecosystem would be beneficial for the round, but the reach was surprising,” Fuller remembers.
“I had about 20 DMs after going on the podcast, and I knew before I went on the show I was going into an investment committee meeting with Square Peg a day or so later, with things absolutely exploding from there. I was extremely grateful to not only have some of the best investors in Australia interested in my round, but to have my round oversubscribed within a week or two after the pod – it was pretty nuts.”
Fuller says the Sq. Peg funding committee assembly “was probably the most nerve-wrecking thing I’ve ever done in my life” and he had no concept the way it went, however 20 minutes later, had a name from Bassat wanting to steer the spherical. He’s the youngest founder the VC has backed.
With that funding secured Fuller, nonetheless 17, headed to San Francisco, to go to potential clients, current gamers available in the market, and angel traders.
“I met many Stripe alums, quite a few of whom ended up investing in Source, including the ex-CEO of Stripe, David Singleton, and Xtripe Syndicate,” he stated.
“Even during my short time in SF, it was a clear signal to me just how much opportunity there is at the moment with AI, and how overlooked traditional businesses and problems like procurement are by the AI research labs building this new technology.”
The teenager entrepreneur went international from day one when he returned dwelling to Dublin to construct Supply’s MVP, earlier than relocating to Paris, to affix his cofounder, Yoan Gabison, 25, as they put together to hit the US market, having already registed QuickFind AI as a Delaware firm, with a product launch imminent.
“Our sole focus is to sell and distribute into the US as quickly as physically possible and we’re seeing great early signals of traction with US-based pilots and intend to relocate to San Francisco before the end of the year,” Fuller stated.
The increase may even assist the develop the engineering crew and fund US pilots.
Supply is the results of buyer complaints that ordering inventory remained a painfully handbook course of.
“I was shocked to find that most businesses, especially retailers, are still dependent on email and Excel sheets to buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock every single week,” Fuller stated.
“Source is a simple interface allowing retail buyers to understand what they should buy and when by integrating into Excel, email and ERPs. Source scans inventory and past sales data to generate forecasts and suggest purchase orders using AI that humans can edit and approve, allowing for seamless buying from suppliers with a single click.”
And now Fuller’s drive has secured the funding to make it occur.
Right here’s Liam recounting his suspension from college on Startup 360.
