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 shopper name and dealing on his laptop computer sitting in a bathroom cubicle at college.
The viral photograph that modified Liam Fuller’s world and led to a $2.1m increase
Fuller was a visitor on Startup Every day’s Startup 360 in April, sharing his story, which incorporates his earlier startup, a Shopify plug-in referred to as CartShare, constructed constructed 12 months in the past throughout 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 prepare 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 guide the pre-Seed spherical, supported TEN13, former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Eucalyptus co-founder Charlie Gearside, and different angel buyers, together with Brendan Hill, who, having beforehand invested in one other 17-year-old referred to as Liam (the founding father of On the spot), launched the cola-sipping Fuller to different buyers at 361 Angels Membership.
Fuller already had round $355,000 in commitments when he contacted this author, who invited him to look on Startup 360. That dialog helped flip his concept into certainly one of 2025’s hottest raises.
“After I went on Startup 360, it was a little bit of a whirlwind, to be trustworthy. I knew getting publicity to the ecosystem could be helpful for the spherical, however the attain was shocking,” Fuller remembers.
“I had about 20 DMs after happening the podcast, and I knew earlier than I went on the present I used to be going into an funding committee assembly with Sq. Peg a day or so later, with issues completely exploding from there. I used to be extraordinarily grateful to not solely have a few of the greatest buyers in Australia enthusiastic about my spherical, however to have my spherical oversubscribed inside every week or two after the pod – it was fairly nuts.”
Fuller says the Sq. Peg funding committee assembly “was in all probability probably the most nerve-wrecking factor I’ve ever completed in my life” and he had no concept the way it went, however 20 minutes later, had a name from Bassat wanting to guide 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 prospects, present gamers out there, and angel buyers.
“I met many Stripe alums, fairly a number of of whom ended up investing in Supply, together with the ex-CEO of Stripe, David Singleton, and Xtripe Syndicate,” he mentioned.
“Even throughout my brief time in SF, it was a transparent sign to me simply how a lot alternative there may be in the meanwhile with AI, and the way ignored conventional companies and issues like procurement are by the AI analysis labs constructing this new know-how.”
The teenager entrepreneur went international from day one when he returned house 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 promote and distribute into the US as rapidly as bodily potential and we’re seeing nice early indicators of traction with US-based pilots and intend to relocate to San Francisco earlier than the tip of the 12 months,” Fuller mentioned.
The increase will even assist the develop the engineering staff and fund US pilots.
Supply is the results of buyer complaints that ordering inventory remained a painfully handbook course of.
“I used to be shocked to seek out that almost all companies, particularly retailers, are nonetheless depending on e-mail and Excel sheets to purchase a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} price of inventory each single week,” Fuller mentioned.
“Supply is a straightforward interface permitting retail consumers to know what they need to purchase and when by integrating into Excel, e-mail and ERPs. Supply scans stock and previous gross sales knowledge to generate forecasts and recommend buy orders utilizing AI that people can edit and approve, permitting for seamless shopping for from suppliers with a single click on.”
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.