Top 50 Big Data Startup Investors in Spain in December 2024

Investor	Big Data Spain investments
Criteria Venture Tech	6
Startupxplore	5
Inveready	5
JME Ventures	5
Andreas Mihalovits	5
Archipelago Next	4
Sabadell Venture Capital	4
Xesgalicia	3
TheVentureCity	3
Swanlaab Venture Factory	3
ENISA	3
Carlos Blanco	3
Speedinvest	3
Armilar Venture Partners	3
Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)	3
Daniel Seijo	2
Athos Capital	2
Adara Ventures	2
Bullnet Capital	2
Elaia	2
Miguel Arias	2
Nauta Capital	2
Conexo Ventures	2
Zetta Venture Partners	2
Cometa	2
Draper B1	2
Encomenda VC	2
Sociedad Regional de Promocion del Principado de Asturias	2
José Manuel Cifuentes	2
Alma Mundi Ventures	2
Felix Lopez Capel	2
Talis Capital	2
Unirisco Galicia	2
Tiny VC	2
BoxOne Ventures	2
NETACCEDE SCR	2
ESADE BAN	2
TheVentureCity	2
Lanai Partners	2
Tiny VC	2
Telmo Pérez Luaces	2
Amino Collective	2
Fondo Bolsa Social	2
Garbi Capital	1
Milad Alucozai	1
George Anson	1
Cosmin Manea	1
Dux Capital	1
Actyus	1
360 Capital	1

Criteria Venture Tech is the tech VC fund of CriteriaCaixa which invests in B2B SaaS and DeepTech companies in early and growth stages (Pre-Seed to Series C) managing more than €300M of AUM.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Enline — Technology for Power Systems, TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OPERATORS, INDUSTRY AND MINING, ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION, INSURANCE AND CONSULTANCY, UTILITIES & POWER GENERATION, ENLINE MONITORING SYSTEM, ENLINE DYNAMIC LINE RATING, ENLINE FAULT LOCATION, ENLINE POWER OPTIMIZATION .
Medlumics — Medlumics is a medical device start-up born in 2009 from a compromise with improving human living standards by means of technology.
KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!

Startupxplore is a premium startup investment platform that allows unexperienced and time-savvy investors to diversify their portfolio by co-investing with a group of top-level investors with a proven track record on startup investment.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Food and Beverage, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Spain

Portfolio highlights

aunoa — We are an Artificial Intelligence Software company focused on providing automation tools to improve customer experience and support
Belender — Belender is the first tool that allows you to obtain, in 2 minutes, the official documentation of a potential client to optimize a risk analysis.
Ginqo — GINQO is pet food processing company which provides a cereal-free diet with the nutrients to pets.

We are a leading asset manager in Spain. We invest in early-stage VC, growth VC, venture debt, strategic public equity, private equity and infrastructure. Our different strategies allow us to provide financing solutions to companies throughout their life-cycle.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nanusens — Nanusens shrinks MEMS sensors and builds nanoscale sensors (NEMS – Nano Electro Mechanical Systems) along with the control electronics using standard CMOS processes.
IENAI SPACE — IENAI SPACE develops efficient ionic-liquid electric propulsion systems and mission analysis for nano-satellites. The company provides propulsion modules customized for each particular platform and mission, from 2U to 12U, from RAAN-spacing to Earth-Moon transits or de-orbiting.Its versatile Tailored Taylor Thruster is highly scalable in specificimpulse and thrust. It is based on a novel iteration of electrospray thrusters, which boast high theoretical efficiencies for electric propulsion technologies in the low power range. In combination with its decreased form factor, meaning less propellant on-board, making this technology attractive in constrained volumes.IENAI SPACE was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Scaleup Finance — Improve your financial management

We help build cutting-edge companies like Flywire. Flywire's trusted and secure global payment platform keeps your money moving around the world.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Hoola — The #1 customer automation platform for commerce. Support, sell and market via WhatsApp on auto-pilot.
Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
XRF.ai — We simplify complexity by presenting crucial information visually and accessibly. With generative AI, we learn and maximize available options, ensuring clarity and confidence in every decision.

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.

Archipelago Next support and promote the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nymiz — Harmonizing knowledge management through our data anonymization software for compliance with legal laws.
Ciudadela — Ciudadela is a property management company that offers digital platform for administrating and managing properties.
Hotelverse — Hotelverse allows customers search over hotels on their platform and book rooms as per their requirements.

Sabadell Venture Capital's main purpose is to support entrepreneurial Spanish projects during their initial stages (Seed and Early Stage). They want to be the financial partner of the startups and to be part of its innovative and transformative projects. They add value to the company through the different stages of its growth. Banco Sabadellis defined by its entrepreneurial spirit: “A bank by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, helping entrepreneurs".

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Series B
Spain, Israel, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

BusUp — BusUp is a mobility service provider that specializes in efficient and flexible corporate commuting services, and is the first company in the world to offer shared corporate shuttle services. Established in 2016, BusUp is already a global company that is currently fully operational in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America for large corporations suchas Accenture, Roche, Siemens, Cognizant, Nestlé, DXC Technologies, Louis Vuitton, etc. Thanks to its technology and its innovative business model BusUp has disrupted a very traditional and low digitized sector, bringing efficiency and convenience to all its stakeholders: passengers, clients, operators, and public administration. Since its inception, BusUp has partnered with more than 150 operators and attended more than 100 clients, exceeding 500,000 passengers worldwide. To learn more about BusUp, visit www.busup.com.
Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.
Hotelverse — Hotelverse allows customers search over hotels on their platform and book rooms as per their requirements.

XesGalicia is a Galician Venture Capital Management firm. It finances company development through the temporary acquisition of minority shares of the capital of unquoted companies.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Envita — Envita is a social innovation start-up for the development of innovative digital solutions for organizations.
Appentra — In the software world, new technologies have recently put on the hands of companies and developers highly powerful tools which involve a leap in computing capabilities. First, heterogeneous multicore systems have become small and affordable supercomputers. Second, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and big data arerevolutionizing entire economic sectors. These powerful tools were up until now only accessible to a minority of organizations with massive resources but finally they have become mainstream. However, to take advantage of these powerful capabilities, companies need to adopt the computing technologies created for years in (HPC) market, particularly parallel computing. PARALLELWARE ANALYZER is the most complete and fast software aimed to enable developers to overcome the complexity of parallel programming. Appentra is a Deep Tech global company that delivers products based on the Parallelware technology, a unique approach to static code analysis specialized in concurrency and parallelism. Our aim is to make parallel programming easier, enabling everyone to make the best use of parallel computing hardware from the multi-cores in a laptop to the fastest supercomputers.
Kreios Space — Kreios Space is developing an electric propulsion system to revolutionize the satellite industry. With this technology we enable orbital keeping in VLEO (Very Low Earth Orbits) thanks to renewable energy. We make space applications easier.

Our ticket size ranges from $100-500k for Pre-seed/Seed and $1-4M for Series A companies. We're in search of promising-founders with product-driven mindsets who have a passion for building. Those who've fallen in love with data. For we believe in fit---both product and with the team here. Got a great idea? Come to TheVentureCity and give it the expertise to help it grow.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
Plexigrid — We provide tailored solutions for electricity systems by using data analysis and optimization technology.
BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.

We help entrepeneurs build succesfull companies. We are more than a Venture Capital, we are a Venture Factory.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nymiz — Harmonizing knowledge management through our data anonymization software for compliance with legal laws.
Appentra — In the software world, new technologies have recently put on the hands of companies and developers highly powerful tools which involve a leap in computing capabilities. First, heterogeneous multicore systems have become small and affordable supercomputers. Second, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and big data arerevolutionizing entire economic sectors. These powerful tools were up until now only accessible to a minority of organizations with massive resources but finally they have become mainstream. However, to take advantage of these powerful capabilities, companies need to adopt the computing technologies created for years in (HPC) market, particularly parallel computing. PARALLELWARE ANALYZER is the most complete and fast software aimed to enable developers to overcome the complexity of parallel programming. Appentra is a Deep Tech global company that delivers products based on the Parallelware technology, a unique approach to static code analysis specialized in concurrency and parallelism. Our aim is to make parallel programming easier, enabling everyone to make the best use of parallel computing hardware from the multi-cores in a laptop to the fastest supercomputers.
Leemons Edtech Solutions — Open Source & SaaS collaborative learning platform to communicate, organise, plan, create content, manage knowledge and evaluate.

ENISA is a public company under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, through the Directorate General of Industry and Small and medium-sized enterprises which, since 1982, actively participates in the financing of viable and innovative business projects.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
Spain, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Zonox — Zonox offers customized and adaptive energy-saving solutions to help customers reduce costs and contribute to environmental sustainability.
Remolon — Remolon's mission is to reduce food losses and waste while also building a better food system for all.
Ubicuity — Ubicuity is a software platform that allows to create and manage advanced audiovisual experiences for space managers and content providers.

Carlos Blanco is the Chairman and CEO of Encomenda Capital Partners SGEIC. He previously worked at Hastee as a Partner. Carlos Blanco attended Pompeu Fabra University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Finteca — Finteca can save you more than € 8,000 * compared to traditional advisors. Without commissions, without risk, our professional team improves conditions of interest and other parameters.
BRICKBRO — Currently, Brickbro is one of the leading real estate transactional platforms in the spanish market.
Viterbit — Viterbit is a technology start-up that offers a Recruitment and Selection Software (ATS). Just what your company needs to go one step further with the talent it hires. The greatest strength organizations have are the people who work in them, so our team is committed to helping you attract the talent you need.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.
Firsty — Firsty offers access to messaging, email, and online calling, as well as a basic global data connection, for free.
Orakl Oncology — Cultivated with love by the Orakl team.

Armilar Venture Partners is Portugal's leading venture capitalist. An independent VC with a 20-year-old history, a high-performance track record and an international footprint, Armilar is a deep-tech investor in ICT, HealthTech and CleanTech.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Portugal, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rows — Combine the power of a spreadsheet with built-in integrations from your business apps. Automate workflows and build tools that make work simpler.
Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
Cintoo — Cintoo is essential for BIM to bridge the gap between your physical and virtual worlds.

The Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) is a public corporation under the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, which promotes innovation and technological development of Spanish companies. Is the entity which channels requests for funding and support to projects I + D + i of Spanish companies in the national andinternational levels. The CDTI has a staff of more than 300 people formed three quarters of engineers and graduates. Although the bulk of the infrastructure of the CDTI is located in Madrid, the Centre offers Spanish companies a strategic network of offices and representatives abroad (Japan -SBTO (Spain Business and Technology Office) - Belgium -SOST (Spain Office of Science and Technology) and Permanent Secretariat Eureka-, Brazil -FINEP (Financier of Studies and Projects) -, Korea, Chile, Morocco, China, India, Mexico and USA) to support them in their technological activities of type int .

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Grant
Spain, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Tebrio — At the rate that the world is growing, we’ll only have enough food to feed 50% of our future population by 2050 and introducing novel proteins into the food value chain that are rich in amino acids and use less water and arable land is the only solution forward for mankind and the planet, which is why, in 2014, Adriana Casillas and Sabas de Diegofounded Tebrio, the world’s leading carbon-negative, zero-residue insect biotechnology company, which tackles climate change and the world food crisis by breeding and transforming rich amino acid mealworms into three main co-products: (i) sustainabe premium fish, pet and animal feed (ii) biofertilizer for plant nutrition that acts as a natural pest repellent (iii) chitosan to manufacture biodegradable plastic that disolves in water. Our carbon negative pilot farm produces 500 tons of co-products a year, does not emit greenhouse gases like ammonia or methane, uses 98% less water and 90% less arable land than other animal and plant protein farms, and is the only company in our industry in Spain that has received an ISO9001 certification, which guarantees the quality of our products. Thanks to our current operations, we have secured an undisclosed Series A round, which we are using to develop a EUR 50 million insect farm that will take us from a 500 tn to a 100.000 tns production of co-products a year and will be the largest of its kind in the world. Company Key Metrics: • Tebrio has 8 industrial patents in 150 countries • Tebrio’s operations are carbon negative, zero residue, and we do not emit greenhouse gases like ammonia or methane • With the same amount of natural resources, we are able to produce 500% more protein for fishmeal and animal feed than plant protein and livestock farms • Our protein for fish and animal feed is 90% digestible, 70% protein, high in essential amino acids and unsaturated fat • Tebrio was the first certified producer in the world of mealworm protein for fish and animal feed and biofertilizer for plant nutrition • Our tech powered biofertilizer has 10x more nutrients than other organic fertilizers and thanks to its properties, acts as a natural pest repellent • We are the only Spanish company in our industry with an ISO9001 certification • We are building the world’s largest insect farm, which will produce 100.000 tons of co-products a year for animal feed and plant fertilization • We use big data and 4.0 industries to industrially produce and control the Tenebrio Molitor insect
Zeleros — Leaders in the development of hyperloop technologies, we are your new electrification & automation partner in the mobility sector.
INBRAIN Neuroelectronics — We are scientists, doctors, techies and humanity lovers, with the mission of building neuroelectronic interfaces to cure brain disorders.

Daniel Seijo - Cofounder @ Fuell

Investment focus

Software, Legal, Content
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Genially — Genially is the world-leader in interactive visual communication. Use Genially as your all-in-one online tool to create stunning presentations, interactive images, infographics, dossiers, quizzes, resumes, etc. and enrich them with interactivity and animation effects in seconds. You no longer need a team of designers and programmers to make animpact with striking, visual communication in a flash. Use interactive and animated effects to easily distribute information in layers that viewers can explore and discover. Leave outdated content creation software behind, and stun and engage your audience with Genially. The Wow Effect is just a few clicks away.Choose from over 1000 templates, or start from scratch. Join a community of millions of users worldwide that includes businesspeople, teachers, marketers, designers and companies like Hulu, Danone, Michelin and Heineken. The future of communication awaits you.
Emérita Legal — Emérita Legal combines judicial BigData with artificial intelligence to provide a key advantage to lawyers and users of legal services. Through its advanced Judicial Analytics tool, it extracts data not available so far on lawyers, judges, parties and the areas of law itself, from the analysis of millions of judicial decisions. With the help ofEmerita Legal, professionals and users can, for the first time, make their legal decisions based on objective data, not opinions.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santiago de Compostela.

Athos Capital is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Zinkee — Zinkee is a platform where companies can create business applications.
Harbiz — Harbiz es la app para gestionar tu negocio de entrenamiento personal. Harbiz te ayuda a organizarte, comunicarte con clientes y cobrarles en un solo lugar. Customizable. Eficiente. Simple de usar. Prueba Gratis.
Ciudadela — Ciudadela is a property management company that offers digital platform for administrating and managing properties.

We help create a path Seed to exit, we've been there. We're experienced tech investors. We partner with founders with vision, courage and the capacity to execute.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

JOTELULU — JOTELULU is an online cloud platform that transforms traditional IT Companies into cloud service providers. Jotelulu offers IT and communication cloud services, system administration tools and many functionalities. All of them focused on solving the daily challenges of small IT Businesses and their customers (SMB and VSB).Very Small Business NEEDdigitalization, but they are no experts in technology. They generally rely on small IT companies that help them. Why not create a platform that helps traditional IT companies sell and manage cloud services easily? Founded in 2013 as an IT consulting company, Jotelulu has evolved into an exclusive cloud platform for IT companies. Independent Software Vendors, Software Integrators, Technical Support, IT Procurement Companies… there are many types and Jotelulu has been designed for all of them.Based in Spain, Jotelulu provides services from different datacenters located in Madrid. However, internationalization forecasts suggest a fast infrastructure deployment in different European and LATAM datacenters in the next few years.Jotelulu is growing fast, increasing the number of partners every week. Our dream is to help digitalize as many SMB and VSB as possible in the next few years and we are working hard to make it a reality.
Cyber Guru — Cyber Guru operates as a cybersecurity awareness training platform. Cyber Guru serves to educate employees around the dangers and pitfalls of information security. The solutions use stimulating and educational learning paths to cater to those who do not hold specialist roles in the field of Cyber Security.
SatVu — SatVu captures high resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth.

Independent Venture Capital Firm specialized in high technology Spanish start-ups. Helping tech entrepreneurs during the early stages of their company to build successful businesses

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Spain, United States, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

MLCode — Accelerated by massive AI/ML adoption, Data is to become the most critical resource for Enterprises. MLCode vision is to protect that Data. MLCode: Data Security Automation.
Inspiration-Q — Inspiration-Q focuses on developing and commercializing software solutions inspired by quantum computing for financial applications.
Mapsi Photonics — Mapsi Photonics focuses on developing macroporous silicon infrared filters for industrial applications like gas identification and thermal vision, aiming to improve performance, cost, resolution, operational range, and environmental footprint.

Elaia is French venture capital firm focused on European digital and deep tech startups, from early stage to growth developpement. We back tech disruptors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Qantev — Qantev is the leading AI claims platform for health & life insurance, enabling insurers to automate claims operations, reduce leakage, improve loss ratios, enhance data quality, and elevate customer experience.
SURGAR — SURGAR provides a plug-and-play augmented reality software suite for computer-aided laparoscopic surgery.
Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.

Miguel Arias, proud dad, entrepreneur, and angel investor, has over 15 years of experience in building technology-based startups with a global reach.Miguel has founded startups before, and helped others grow in a variety of roles. He is a skilled generalist that understands technology as well as people-matters. His expertise encompasses tasks andchallenges, from the vision and strategy definition to product management, with special dedication to startup funding and investor relations.As Global Entrepreneurship Director at Telefónica, he is responsible for leading the new stage in Telefónica's open innovation strategy; this is committed to seeking out and developing technological solutions to complement internal R&D while creating an improved connection with international entrepreneurship ecosystems.Previously as COO at CARTO, he led the sales, financial, and operational efforts from its Madrid, NY, DC, London and Tartu offices, directing the company's growth and scaling-up.He loves to teach and share experiences as entrepreneurship professor at the IE Business School and MIB.Trying to enhance the Spanish entrepreneurial ecosystem, he co-founded and presides over Chamberi Valley, the main Madrid-based networking initiative for startups with over 1 million € revenue or 1 million € in investment.He writes his thoughts about entrepreneurship at http://emprenderagolpes.com.

Investment focus

Data Visualization, Customer Service, Legal
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Graphext — Graphext is a no-code platform for business intelligence helping you to build powerful data science projects.
reclamador.es — reclamador.es offers legaltech and crowd complaining services to help customers claims to companies. Currently offering the service for claims to airlines, banks, assurances, etc or the public administration. Reclamador charges a success fee to the consumers for managing their claims and getting the compensation from the companies. Services arecurrently offered in Spain.
DADA Company — DADA Company is an editorial project, open to a world of innovation in the area of illustrated books and interactive content, where we cater for different artistic visions, and where we bring together new and different ways of looking at the world and each other.DADA Company is formed by a team of experts in the production of digital content:enthusiasts of the arts, communication, technology, and educational fields. A team comprised of grown-ups (with a big inner kid) who have a broad experience of working on products aimed for children. This is a team that focuses on developing digital interactive books and promoting this format for its innovation in new functionality and services, offering children a rich, dynamic and flexible multimedia experience.DADA Company speaks to kids and to every curious person eager to explore new creative ideas, who have a desire to dream, reflect, discover and have fun.DADA Company offers children quality entertainment designed to educate them but also have fun (“pure edutainment”). It provides parents the satisfaction of knowing and offering their children an enriching learning experience.

We support visionary founders across Europe as they build the next generation of B2B software companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

NetBird — Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
Acai Travel — An all-in-one solution to enable your agents be twice as efficient, to optimize your call centers, and gain your customers' trust
Wegrow-app — Wegrow is a digital platform where your teams share & scale best practices in marketing, sales, supply chain, HR, to drive efficiency & margin.

We invest in exceptional individuals with the passion for solving hard challenges and bringing disruptive innovation to high growth markets.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, Portugal, Ecuador

Portfolio highlights

Atani — Atani is an innovative all-in-one non-custodial platform designed for crypto traders and investors. The platform enables trade execution, portfolio monitoring and charting across 20+ crypto exchanges through a single interface, all in real time, and for free. Users of the platform also benefit from having an integrated tax-reporting tool, whichgenerates an automatic report for 30+ countries. In addition, Atani features a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types and a trading calculator, as well as a customizable price alerts system. Following a security-first approach, Atani has built a non-custodial desktop platform.
Payflow — Payflow is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their employees. Payflow provides employees instant access to earned salary to improve their financial well-being. Companies benefit from improved productivity and engagement, with no impact on cash-flow.Payflow was founded in 2020, and it is a Rocket Internet backed venture based inSpain.
Hotelverse — Hotelverse allows customers search over hotels on their platform and book rooms as per their requirements.

Venture Capital for AI Native Startups

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, The Netherlands, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
Trustero — Trustero provides solutions and services that enable demonstrable, sustainable trustworthiness for emerging enterprises. The Trustero Compliance as a Service (CaaS) offers, establishes, and manages regulatory compliance by undertaking vulnerability assessments, security risk analyses, and other measures to ensure all business processes and systemsremain in full compliance. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies means their clients have the visibility needed to gain actionable insights into their compliance across the extended enterprise.
Jimini Health — Jimini’s mission is to radically improve the efficacy of mental health care across the world. Jimini has developed a novel care model that combines teletherapy sessions with personalized AI support. With Jimini, your therapy care team includes your licensed clinician and Sage, your always-available AI therapy assistant, who work together to helpyou achieve your goals.Founded in 2023 by a team of seasoned AI and biotech entrepreneurs, health tech veterans, and psychology researchers, Jimini puts science and tech first, using safe, purpose-built patient-facing technology that works exclusively under clinical oversight and high safety standards.World leaders in psychology designed Jimini’s care model to ensure that every part of the patient's journey is clinically beneficial. Jimini does not believe that LLMs should replace clinicians; rather, AI will help therapists deliver higher-quality care and focus on the most complex parts of their job. Jimini’s care model is first and foremost led by excellent clinicians.Jimini is committed to improving mental health quality and creating radically better, more modern, and clinically efficacious mental health experiences for patients.

Cometa is a VC firm investing in early-stage technology companies targeting Spanish-speaking markets

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Mexico, Colombia, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Solvento — The smart factoring solution for truckers.
Morada Uno — Morada Uno underwrites and insures house rentals by equipping real estate professionals with tools and technology. The company aims to simplify and create trust and security in real estate transactions, promoting fairness in every interaction, and promoting a positive change in the mentality and way of doing things in Mexico.
R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.

We invest in you. Our commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship is your best ally to expand your business. Find out how we can boost your project!

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Splight — Splight is an Artificial Intelligence Company, that creates Artificial Energy, the greenest energy ever made. Artificial Energy is energy that would have not been generated but for the application of digital solutions to existing power infrastructure. Running over a proprietary, powerful and transparent digital platform, Artificial Energyproduction leverages the unutilized capacity of the grid to generate energy combining big data capture and processing with state-of-the-art technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud computing. We create expanded pools of benefits for our clients by increasing revenues, reducing operating and maintenance costs, eliminating or delaying capital expenditures, lowering the cost of capital, and ultimately increasing profitability while directly contributing to the full decarbonization of the energy industry.
Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
Acai Travel — An all-in-one solution to enable your agents be twice as efficient, to optimize your call centers, and gain your customers' trust

Encomenda is a Venture Capital specialized in seed investments in technology startups. They open the door to investors and professional business angels to capitalize on their investments through collective investment vehicles. They minimize investment risks thanks to the diversification of the portfolio and preferential access to the best projectsin search of financing.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Zexel — Zexel is an influence campaign management software streamlining internal financial administrative processes between the agency and the influencer.
KomboAI — Close more deals and level up your sales game with KomboAI Learn new winning methodologies, adapt your pitch to your prospects and personalize your outreach. Start Now See Kombo in Action Free forever No credit card Over 200+ sales reps are already using KomboAI during their job Join the sales revolution today Get Insights Get
Loud Intelligence — Voi<3, crafted by Loud Intelligence, is a specialized AI tool designed for the audio media on-demand ecosystem, focusing on generating contextually relevant advertising content. It meticulously analyzes the content of audio media, understanding its themes and nuances to create advertisements that are perfectly aligned with the audio context.This ensures that the ads complement the auditory experience, enhancing engagement without the need for analyzing listener preferences. By automating the ad creation process, Voi<3 streamlines content production, allowing media companies to swiftly adapt to the content's context, which in turn helps advertisers deliver more resonant and effective campaigns, ultimately enriching the listener's experience.

La SRP del Principado de Asturias opera en el mercado del capital riesgo y actúa como organismo de promoción económica desde 1984

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, Big Data
Funding Round, Debt Financing, Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

H2Vector — H2Vector develops and designs energy management systems and refueling stations that are tailored to the demands of the end customer.
Haux — Haux industrialized modular construction system enables the production of unique residential buildings and technical solutions in a short time and at an affordable cost. Haux offer's modular buildings for various sectors including housing, office, industrial, catering, hotel, healthcare, and education.
Stoic Enterprises — Stoic Enterprises is an online application that helps firms alter their cultures through AI-powered programs.

José Manuel Cifuentes has a markedly interdisciplinary background in engineering, languages and finance, developing his activity among the financial and linguistic services sectors. As founder of Meteora Inversiones, Cifuentes is committed to the fintech, insurtech and proptech sectors with injections of around 15,000 euros. He has carried outinvestments in Housers, Finizens, Coverfy, Coinffeine, Cabify, Syna Capital and Propertista , among others. He is also a member and member of the analysis committee of Civeta Investment. Currently it has gone to investment in blockchain projects.

Investment focus

Legal, Big Data, Software
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Emérita Legal — Emérita Legal combines judicial BigData with artificial intelligence to provide a key advantage to lawyers and users of legal services. Through its advanced Judicial Analytics tool, it extracts data not available so far on lawyers, judges, parties and the areas of law itself, from the analysis of millions of judicial decisions. With the help ofEmerita Legal, professionals and users can, for the first time, make their legal decisions based on objective data, not opinions.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santiago de Compostela.

We back bold and purpose-driven founders.

Investment focus

Software, Insurance, InsurTech
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Raincoat — Get the policy that offers you cash after the hurricane, without deductibles or having to make claims!
Supercede — Supercede is an independent reinsurance technology company that supports, rather than disintermediates, the traditional tripartite value chain. We offer a digital ecosystem for all reinsurance industry stakeholders to let them show what they can really do, unhindered by the burden of manual admin. Our product is a powerful, Lloyd’s-recognised,data-centric, global trading platform designed specifically for the reinsurance community of cedents, brokers and reinsurers. It offers the leading outwards analytics solution, in an intuitive placement platform, with access to a global reinsurance network.Supercede supports networking and collaboration, with group chat threads, rapid file sharing, and workflow tools linked to every placement. We help optimise the reinsurance lifecycle, from capturing single-entry, actuarial-grade data, to doing the deal, to driving on-going administration. If you haven’t met us yet, come and find us on www.supercede.com. We are a team of industry experts, technologists and strategists changing reinsurance for the better, for everyone.
REVER — REVER is born to disrupt how eCommerce returns work by making them easier and faster for everyone.

Felix Lopez Capel - Managing Director @ SEK Lab EdTech Accelerator

Investment focus

Legal, Big Data, Software
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Emérita Legal — Emérita Legal combines judicial BigData with artificial intelligence to provide a key advantage to lawyers and users of legal services. Through its advanced Judicial Analytics tool, it extracts data not available so far on lawyers, judges, parties and the areas of law itself, from the analysis of millions of judicial decisions. With the help ofEmerita Legal, professionals and users can, for the first time, make their legal decisions based on objective data, not opinions.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santiago de Compostela.

We back founders who see the future differently.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Acin — Acin delivers at speed by combining unique industry data, AI and high touch expertise. The trusted partner, built by the industry, for the industry
Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Rubi Laboratories — Rubi Laboratories turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry, with a proprietary synthetic biology technology.

We are the first venture capital company linked to projects from Universities. Meet our team and shareholders.

Investment focus

Mobile, Information Technology, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Ancora — Ancora delivers your mobile experience beyond the smartphone.Smartphones are great tools at work, but they can be even better. Sometimes they can’t be used. Or they make us waste more time than they can save. Or simply their size is constraining. And they usually contain significant information that you can’t manage.Ancora transformssmartphones into more useful tools at work, featuring virtual user interfaces across devices, secure exchange of information and connection of remote peripherals managed from mobile apps.Ancora enables apps to build and manage interactive workflows beyond the smartphone, thus delivering smooth mobile workflows, tight device integration, and enhanced mobile experience, with full control over the information flow.Customers use Ancora to enable powerful workflows using smartphones. Some of them use Ancora for immediate information sharing between the mobile app and devices around. Others want to create a tight integration of user intent and working environment and enable apps to control and exchange real time information and UI with nearby screens and devices. That’s what we call interacting screens.
Appentra — In the software world, new technologies have recently put on the hands of companies and developers highly powerful tools which involve a leap in computing capabilities. First, heterogeneous multicore systems have become small and affordable supercomputers. Second, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and big data arerevolutionizing entire economic sectors. These powerful tools were up until now only accessible to a minority of organizations with massive resources but finally they have become mainstream. However, to take advantage of these powerful capabilities, companies need to adopt the computing technologies created for years in (HPC) market, particularly parallel computing. PARALLELWARE ANALYZER is the most complete and fast software aimed to enable developers to overcome the complexity of parallel programming. Appentra is a Deep Tech global company that delivers products based on the Parallelware technology, a unique approach to static code analysis specialized in concurrency and parallelism. Our aim is to make parallel programming easier, enabling everyone to make the best use of parallel computing hardware from the multi-cores in a laptop to the fastest supercomputers.
Inverbis Analytics — We help you improve your operational performance with the most flexible Process Mining platform in the market.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

JUST — JUST is a company that specialises in ecommerce payment solutions.
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Briefcase — Briefcase is an AI-powered tool for bookkeeping and month-end automation designed specifically for professional services practices.

BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across the most impactful, interesting and fast-changing sectors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Talus Bio — Talus Bioscience combines functional proteomics, automated biology, and machine learning to target hard-to-treat transcription factors driving cancer & beyond.
CytoTronics — Visualize live cell function at scale for cell biology discovery with Pixel systems. Monitor cell viability, morphology, electrophysiology, metabolism and more.
Axonis Therapeutics — AXONIS Therapeutics, Inc. is advancing breakthrough discoveries to develop first-in-class therapies for neurological disorders.

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Investment focus

Information Technology, Legal, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Debos — Debos is a manufacturing firm that produces and installs digital and automatic key security for house doors and electronic devices.
Emérita Legal — Emérita Legal combines judicial BigData with artificial intelligence to provide a key advantage to lawyers and users of legal services. Through its advanced Judicial Analytics tool, it extracts data not available so far on lawyers, judges, parties and the areas of law itself, from the analysis of millions of judicial decisions. With the help ofEmerita Legal, professionals and users can, for the first time, make their legal decisions based on objective data, not opinions.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santiago de Compostela.

ESADE BAN is a Barcelona-based business angel network that works to advance entrepreneurship and investments in Spain.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Spain, Chile, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Kuorum — Kuorum provides solutions for electronic voting. Our clients organize telematic shareholders meetings, assemblies, elections and other secure and legal processes since 2013. Kuorum complies with the European Regulation of Electronic Identification (REU 910/2014), with the National Security Scheme according to RD 3/2010, ISO/IEC27001/2014 audited by AENOR. Our technology is the result of more than five years of research and development in the field of security and usability. And we provide custom support, paying attention to the particularities of each client and advising their teams in technological, as well as legal and strategic aspects.
Pack2Earth — Pack2Earth, S.L. is a company that specializes in developing new, sustainable materials for the food sector and other industries.
Ixoriguè Technologies — Ixoriguè Technologies are into livestock business.

TheVentureCity is a global early stage venture fund, investing in product-centric startups across the US, Europe and Latam. We believe in founders who expect more from their VC. Our data-driven nature allows us to see beyond borders, knowing talent has no zip code. Which is why we have international hubs in Miami, Madrid, San Francisco and SaoPaulo. We create a steady current of resources, offering a combination of bespoke data insights and guidance from experienced operators. With product-led growth at our core.With more than $160M under management, we invest from pre-seed/seed with a ticket size from $100-300k to Series A with $1-4M.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Spike Technologies — November 30, 2022 - Spike technology, REST API end-points, and Cloud architecture are designed with data privacy and security at heart. We process billions of
Tiny Health — Tiny Health is the first at-home gut health test for moms and babies 0-3 years. Detect any gut imbalances early on and prevent chronic conditions.
Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor

Lanai Partners is an angel group that invests in digital startups in Spain. The company partners with business leaders that specialize in different areas of expertise to analyze all type of industries and create the maximum value their investments. Lanai Partners was founded in 2016 and is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ealyx — Ealyx is a B2B SaaS for e-commerce that enables customers to pay for new purchases with old items.Its objective is to make a significant global contribution to the necessary reforms in the existing take-make-waste consumption model.
Depasify — The all in one platform for dealing with digital assets. Reduce costs and time to market in a secure way.
Habitacion.com — Habitacion.com provides a new way of saving and investing through the purchase of rooms as a sensible alternative to renting.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

GlassFlow — GlassFlow is a serverless and production-ready setup that empowers everyone in your data team to build and transform event-based pipelines in minutes.
Neuphonic — Neuphonic is developing the best ultra low latency text-to-speech system to enable the most lifelike and responsive discussions with AI conceivable. We are transforming AI engagement by rethinking what it means to have a voice. We're building a future in which interacting with AI feels natural and seamless, AI can act to make people'slives easier, and people will look at their phones less and communicate more.
Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.

Telmo Pérez Luaces has all-embracing experience within the Internet and telecommunications sector. Starting at Netjuice Networks in 1999, then joining the Orange-France Telecom Group (2000-2015) and occupying numerous positions: Strategy Director. CEO Office (Wanadoo), Online Director and Portales (Orange Spain) and VP Strategy Home &Convergence (Orange Group). During this period within Orange Group, as VP Digital Corporate Development he adapted the online strategy and launched the main open innovation initiatives on a global basis, by being responsible for the design and implementation of the Orange Fab acceleration program globally, along with the corporate venture capital activity (Orange Digital Ventures). He has participated in the acquisition of a variety of Internet and telecommunications companies, and more recently in investments in startups related to IoT (Smart home, connected car, etc.) and Data areas. He has also been member of the Board of Directors of Orange Digital Services and Cityvox.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Legal, FinTech
Angel, Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Cafler — Your car's personal assistant. Ask for a Cafler now, we move your car for you!
Medity — Medity is a hub for health professionals, news, job opportunities, training, networking, and more. Medity's many features provide healthcare providers with a value proposition. A health professional has access to all the newest news in the area, as well as resources and utilities for their work, in addition to being able to communicate withother peers.
Emérita Legal — Emérita Legal combines judicial BigData with artificial intelligence to provide a key advantage to lawyers and users of legal services. Through its advanced Judicial Analytics tool, it extracts data not available so far on lawyers, judges, parties and the areas of law itself, from the analysis of millions of judicial decisions. With the help ofEmerita Legal, professionals and users can, for the first time, make their legal decisions based on objective data, not opinions.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Santiago de Compostela.

Amino Collective is an institutional venture capital firm investing at seed stage in health and bio companies. They help bring life-changing ideas to life by backing, connecting, and advancing our collective of entrepreneurs and scientists. The firm intends to invest in the sectors of biology, biotech, health tech, science, digital health, lifescience, and synthetic biology.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rivia — Integrated Clinical Trial Intelligence. Drive therapeutic evaluation and trial management with real-time insights.
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
Tandem Health — Focus on providing care, while Tandem helps you easily write medical notes directly after the patient consultation.

Fondo Bolsa Social venture capital fund that invests into startups or new companies that generates positive social and environmental impact.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, B2B
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

CubicUp — CubicUp is the person of confidence that accompanies you in your project of Reform from Begin to Finish.
Punto Health — A digital solution for management of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. PuntoClinic for healthcare providers and PuntoCare for patients and carers.
Likes Telecom — Likes Telecom offers white label solutions for telco and related sectors, focusing on rural areas to reduce the digital divide through artificial intelligence and cloud-based solutions.

Garbi Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Big Data, GreenTech, Ad Targeting
Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Tribaldata — Move faster with easy access to your customers voice and opinions through Cutting-Edge AI Technology

Dr. Milad Alucozai is an Afghan-American neuroscientist, entrepreneur, biotech executive, and global investor with nearly two decades of experience in deep tech, primarily in life sciences. He pushes the boundaries of bioengineering and computational advancements, integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence into biology and medicine.With a strong commitment to commercializing transformative technologies and fostering startup ecosystems worldwide, he is a thought leader and formal mentor for entrepreneurs through organizations like Creative Destruction Lab and the Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School.Currently, Milad is the head of Bio and Deep Tech at BoxOne Ventures, where he spearheads the firm’s investments in early-stage companies with breakthrough scientific ideas. With nearly 80 early-stage investments, they are recognized as one of North America’s most active venture firms. He is also a Venture Partner at Entrepreneur First, a global fund that has built over 500 companies from scratch with an enterprise value of $10bn. He supports founders with strategy, scaling, business development, securing growth capital, and leadership training, often being their first investor and guiding them from startup inception to IPOs or acquisitions.He started his career in translational neuroscience and multiphysics laboratories before transitioning into founding roles at biotech startups. He is part of the founding team at Mekonos, a San Francisco-based company creating a proprietary cell-engineering platform to support the future of cell and gene therapies. He was also part of the founding team at Corstem, which specialized in machine learning and artificial intelligence software and was later acquired by Circle Cardiovascular, a platform in over 1000 hospitals and more than 40 countries. At Accenture, Milad directed teams of data scientists, designers, and engineers in developing artificial intelligence platforms for global pharmaceutical companies and hospital networks.Milad serves as a Fellow in Healthcare Engineering at the Regenstrief Center. In 2020, he served as an External Advisor to AstraZeneca. He was recognized as a National Science Foundation Scholar and Macklin Fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Neuroscience from Purdue University’s Honors Program. As a George J. Mitchell Scholar, he completed his master’s in Immunology and earned his doctorate from the Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Arpeggio Bio — Arpeggio Biosciences leverages state of the art sequencing approaches coupled with powerful machine learning to uncover novel insights into a compound's biological mechanism of action.The company is diverse set of molecular biologists, computer scientists, and biotechnology enthusiasts passionate about understanding where, why, and howtherapeutics work.
Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
Eigen Therapeutics — Eigen Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing combination therapeutics for cancer. The company is in the research and development of synergistic therapies that improve efficacy while reducing the toxicity of small molecule therapies and immunotherapies, enabling physicians to get access to novel drugs in areas of unmet medical needs.

Managing Director at HarbourVest Partners.

Investment focus

Big Data, Sustainability, Impact Investing
Funding Round
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Decelera — Decelera is the world's first startup decelerator (born from the 4 years experience of Menorca Millennials).Decelera is a growing company that focuses on generating differential value through a deceleration methodology for our stakeholders (startups, investors, business leaders, and corporations).Decelera is helping startups in finding thebest performing model to grow in a sustainable way and contribute to a better future.

Cosmin Manea

Investment focus

Big Data, Restaurants, Food Delivery
Seed, Angel
Spain, Romania

Portfolio highlights

Burger Index — Burger Index provides restaurants, food and hospitality brands with real-time market, competition and consumer insights for location analysis, product development, order conversion and marketing. No guesswork, no outdated reports.
Ecotree Romania — EcoTree is the first digital platform in Romania that provides real and measurable benefits to the waste management industry by digitizing operational processes and legal documentation through business intelligence modules for data analysis and reporting, dedicated tendering modules and more, ensuring full transparency and traceability. In thisway, the startup actively contributes to a clean and sustainable environment. The company was founded in 2017 by Bogdan Andronache, Alexandru Petrescu, Marius Cîrstea and Dan Simota with the aim of digitizing the specific processes of waste collection and recycling, positioning itself as a player in the circular economy.

Dux capital Invests in the new generation of Latinx heroes

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Mexico, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Zubut — On-Demand B2B last mile delivery. Doing same day delivery for e-commerce, savings for restaurantes and last mile delivery for enterprises.
Bamba — We help large companies that want to help their affinity users to solve unforeseen events fast, by minimizing costs, through a smart digital agent embedded in any company’s interface
Innovare — Unify your k12 data analytics in one platform to streamline insights, boost decisions, and enhance student success.

We created Actyus to invest in Fintech companies via value creation strategies and active management in Europe and Latin America. We count on significant know-how and privileged access to Fintech and private equity sectors, especially after distributing €1bn + in alternative products.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
Brazil, Spain, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
Orain — Orain is an IoT payment platform that enables communication and interaction between humans and machines via mobile. Its system uses chatbots with artificial intelligence to guarantee a personalized and human purchase process in all self-service machines. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Catalonia.
All Structured Notes — All Structured Notes is the fintech specialized in the democratization of structured notes.

As an early-stage European VC, we invest from pre-seed to Series B in Deep Tech, Climate Tech, and Digital-First solutions. Embrace sustainable technological progress with us. Stay updated on the latest tech trends and portfolio news. We invest in the future now.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Guidoio — Guidoio is an ed-tech company that streamlines the process of getting your driver's license.
Talentware — Talentware is the first talent management platform for businesses to automate manual, time-consuming activities while fostering internal talent growth.
Unseenlabs — Unseenlabs designs and develops a spectrum surveillance payload which is designed to detect and track non-cooperative vessels wherever they happen to be in the world.