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Caudals wins University of Valladolid stage of the Santander X Spain Awards 2026
Caudals won the local stage of the Santander X Spain Awards | University Entrepreneurial Projects 2026, organised by the University of Valladolid and Fundación UVa with six finalist initiatives.
At a glance
- Date
- 24 June 2026
- Place
- Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid
- Organiser
- University of Valladolid and Fundación UVa, in collaboration with Banco Santander
- Prize
- 2,000 euros for project development and the option to represent the university in the final round
- Team
- Mario Medrano and Alonso Sandoval, Master's students in Telecommunications Engineering
Founders representing six entrepreneurial projects affiliated with the University of Valladolid delivered pitches to the jury of the local round, which selected Caudals as the overall winner. The 2,000-euro prize provides development funding for the project, and Caudals earned eligibility to represent the University of Valladolid in the final round of the Santander X Spain Awards University 2026.
The judging panel comprised Santiago Álvarez of Banco Santander, Teresa León from the Directorate-General for Universities of the Regional Government of Castilla y León, Carmen Verdejo of ICECYL, Socorro Hernández representing Valladolid City Council, Adelaida Ortega from CEOE Valladolid, Lourdes Rodríguez of Fundación UVa, and María Molinos, Vice-Rector for Research and Transfer. The other participating finalists were Inspira, Hereditas, Recaut, Observador Invisible and MONICA.
At the time of the award, Fundación UVa described Caudals as a platform connecting organisations holding large volumes of data with companies seeking datasets to train artificial intelligence models securely and in compliance with European regulations. Today, Caudals specialises in evaluating enterprise AI assistants and agents, generating bespoke data from each assessment to rectify system failures.
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La iniciativa Caudals, elegida como el mejor proyecto de emprendedores universitarios para representar a la UVa en la fase final del Santander X Spain Awards
Caudals today
Caudals is an artificial intelligence data company based in Valladolid, Spain. The company evaluates corporate AI assistants, chatbots and agents using test questions drawn from each organisation's own documentation and answers validated by sector experts, delivering a scored, evidence-backed report detailing what fails, why it fails, and how to resolve it.