Deelan AI closes seed round to help sales teams train faster and perform better
Two former Talkwalker executives — Panos Meintanis, who led sales and enablement, and Michel Conrad, who built and led the engineering organisation as CTO — have secured a seed round led by Expon Capital to accelerate their AI-powered sales training platform across Europe and the US.
01/06/2026
Every sales team has a training programme. Almost none of them change how anyone actually sells. New hires take months to ramp up, managers end up filling the gaps, and by the time someone is productive, the cost — in time, deals, and missed targets — is already significant.
Deelan AI was built to fix that. The platform generates role-specific training from existing company materials — call recordings, playbooks, documents — and adapts continuously to each person’s performance. New hires ramp faster. Managers focus on what matters.
Traction across the US, France, Germany and the Netherlands
Early customers are already seeing the impact: a 30% or greater reduction in ramp time and an 80% faster training creation process — without needing a dedicated L&D team or months of implementation.
With a product in market and traction across the US, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and beyond, Panos Meintanis and Michel Conrad — both alumni of Talkwalker, one of Luxembourg’s most recognised scale-ups — have closed a seed round to accelerate. The round is led by Expon Capital, with participation from a group of European entrepreneurs and angels. Investment goes into the product, the tech infrastructure, and commercial expansion across the US and Central Europe.
Panos Meintanis, CEO & Co-Founder, Deelan AI, says: “Sales teams don’t underperform because they lack talent — they underperform because the systems built to develop them haven’t kept up. Deelan turns a company’s existing knowledge into training that actually sticks and adapts to each rep.”
Most training platforms are content libraries with a quiz at the end. Deelan is different — it’s an engine that reads how your team actually sells, identifies the gaps, and builds training around them.” Michel Conrad, CTO & Co-Founder, Deelan AI
He adds: “The result is learning that’s specific, timely, and measurable in a way static content never can be.”
Expon Capital concludes: “Deelan is rethinking how revenue teams are trained by making learning effective, scalable, and dramatically more cost-efficient through AI. We’ve been particularly impressed by the founders’ dedication and execution. Deelan applies AI where it truly matters: solving real operational challenges and creating tangible business impact.”
