Top 50 Consumer Angel Investors in Spain in July 2025

Francois Derbaix is the Co-founder and co-CEO of Indexa Capital. He previously worked at Toprural as a Founder and CEO. Francois Derbaix attended the Catholic University of Louvain.

Yago Arbeloa - President @ MIOGROUP

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.

Albert Armengol took up his MBA at Esade.

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.

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.

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Nacho Di Pinedo is Co-Founder & CEO at ISDI.

Alejandro Betancourt Lopez currently serves as director, controlling party and the largest shareholder for the O’Hara Administration Co., S.A., an international investment group. In addition, he also serves as president of Hawkers, a Spanish sunglasses company, as well as the director of Pacific Exploration & Production Corp., a Canadianpublicly held energy explorer and producer.Betancourt earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and business administration at Suffolk University. He began his career at Guruceaga Group, an international trade, finance, real estate and agriculture company. He has extensive experience in the energy sector, having worked as the Latin American commercial manager and trader for London-based ICC-OEOC, an oil exploration and drilling technology company, and as a director of BGB Energy, an affiliate of Kawasaki Heavy Industries.He founded O’Hara Administration, a leading asset management company that has investments in industry leaders across several sectors. At Pacific Exploration & Production (formerly Pacific Rubiales Energy), he has overseen the company’s expansion into Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. At Hawkers, one of the world’s largest sunglasses companies, he has focused on brand expansion, fund-raising and strategic relationships. Betancourt also serves as a major shareholder for Banque de Dakar in Senegal, working to expand banking services throughout Africa. Betancourt’s philanthropic endeavors center on community involvement, with a focus on education, including the Carmen Salles School at Ciudad Bolivar and Universidad Simón Bolívar.---Alejandro Betancourt López actualmente es director, parte controladora y accionista mayoritario de O’Hara Administration Co. S.A., un grupo de inversión internacional. Además, es el presidente de Hawkers, una empresa española de lentes de sol, así como el director de Pacific Exploration & Production Corp., un explorador y productor de energía canadiense que cotiza en la bolsa.Betancourt obtuvo su licenciatura en Economía y Administración de Empresas de la Universidad de Suffolk. Inició su carrera en Guruceaga Group, una empresa de comercio, finanzas, bienes raíces y agricultura. Tiene amplia experiencia en el sector de energía, ya que trabajó como gerente comercial y operador de América Latina en una empresa ubicada en Londres llamada ICC-OEOC, una empresa tecnología de exploración y perforación de petróleo, y como el director de BGB Energy, un afiliado de Kawasaki Heavy Industries.Fundó O’Hara Administration, una compañía líder en gestión de activos que cuenta con inversiones en líderes de la industria en varios sectores. En Pacific Exploration & Production (anteriormente llamada Pacific Rubiales Energy), supervisó la expansión de la empresa hacia México, Perú y Venezuela. En Hawkers, una de las compañías de lentes de sol más grandes del mundo, se enfocó en la expansión de la marca, recaudación de fondos y relaciones estratégicas. Betancourt es también el mayor accionista de Banque de Dakar en Senegal, trabajando para expandir los servicios de la banca hacia África. Los esfuerzos filantrópicos de Betancourt se centran en el compromiso con la comunidad, con un enfoque en la educación, incluyendo la Escuela Carmen Salles en Ciudad Bolívar y la Universidad Simón Bolívar.

Hugo Arévalo is co-founder of Buytheface , Bright & Sharp , and Albau Ventures . In addition, he has invested in: Jobandtalent , Cabify , Ontruck and Deporvillage : and has led the 50M € round of Hawkers . One of its criteria is the qualification of management. Lately, it is focused on investing in marketplace, fintech and ecommerce, althoughit is open to any sector. Among his exits, Tuenti and Buytheface stand out .

Founder of EZ Texting and JoonBug. Serial entrepreneur and investor in Tech, Real Estate & Hospitality.cA forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

John Borchers is General Partner of Crescendo Ventures. Borchers joined Crescendo Ventures in 1997 and has played a leading role in developing the firm’s international presence. After spending nearly three years working in Crescendo’s London office, in 2003 he relocated to Palo Alto, where he focuses on investment opportunities in the enterpriseinfrastructure market. Borchers currently serves on the Board of Directors of Credant Technologies, Dust Networks, SealedMedia, StoneFly Networks and Transitive Corporation.Prior to joining Crescendo Ventures, Borchers worked in the data warehousing and predictive analytics fields where he held various operational roles including a two-year posting to Sydney, Australia, where he opened the first Asia Pacific office for a U.S.-based data warehousing firm. Borchers holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from the University of Richmond.

César Oteiza - COO @ idealista

Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse

Mr. Angel Cano Fernandez serves as President, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Member of the Board of Directors of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A.He is also Member of the Executive and Management Committee of the Bank as of 2000. He began his career in 1984 at Arthur Andersen where he stayed for seven years. Between 2006 and 2009, heacted as Director of Resources and Means for the BBVA Group with added responsibilities for the corporate Global Transformation Plan.Moreover, he served as Director of Resources and Means with responsibility for Technology across the BBVA Group from 2005 till 2006. Between 2003 and 2005, he acted as Director of Human Resources and Services for the BBVA Group and prior to this, as Chief Financial Officer of BBVA from 2001 and 2003. In the past, he served as Controller at Argentaria, from 1998 to 2000, and Assistant Controller, from 1996 to 1998. Moreover, he has served as Alternate Member of the Board of Directors of BBVA Bancomer SA and Grupo Financiero BBVA Bancomer SA de CV, as well as Member of the Board of China Citic Bank Corporation Limited (CNCB) and Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS.He graduated in Economics and Business Administration.

In April 2014, Erik Brieva was appointed as a new CEO of Strands, leading software provider for digital banking and e-commerce. Prior to joining Strands, Erik Brieva was President & CEO of Polymita, a worldwide leader in Business Process Management (BPM) software, which was acquired by RedHat in 2012. Polymita was recognized by Gartner asInnovator and Visionary (Magic Quadrant 2009 & 2010) and by IDC as Major Player (MarketScape 2011). Erik is a succesful serial entrepreneur in the enterprise software and internet business. Previously, he founded Intelligent Software Components S.A. (iSOCO - acquired by Private Equity Investors), Enzyme Advising Group (acquired by Nexe Group) and Altea Consulting. He also invests and serves as board director in several companies. He also has academic experience including teaching Entrepreneurship and Startup Development at IESE Business School, Computer Graphics at Middlesex University, Computer Programming and Digital Image Processing at the University of Havana.Erik has a degree in Cybernetics and Mathematics (University of Havana), MSc in Computer Graphics (Middlesex University), with complementary studies in Business Administration (San Telmo), Marketing & Sales (Bosel) and Global Growth (MIT). Erik was named Entrepreneur of the Year in Spain (Entrepreneurs Magazine, 2006). His achievements also include driving Polymita to be a finalist among the Best Startups in the European Venture Contest (2005) and to have raised 25M€ of Venture Capital for his different businesses.He is member of the CEO Collaborative Forum (CEO-CF) and the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), where he served as Finance Chair and Membership Chair for the Spain Chapter. Erik is passionate about entrepreneurship, processes and innovation, and currently gives lectures at leading universities and business schools worldwide. He also loves to spend time with his family and travel.Specialties: Make things happen. Entrepreneurship. Business Development. Innovation. Internet Businesses. Business Process Management (BPM).

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Eneko Knorr is the Managing Partner at Woonkly Labs. He attended IE Business School from 2006 to 2006.

Albert Botet is an individual investor.

Manuel Gandarias

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Álvaro Azcárraga

Alejandro Garcia - Advisor @ Apocalypse Hunters

SouthWing was founded by Bart Huisken in December 2000 at the INSEAD Business School in Fontainbleau, France. Prior to his MBA Bart worked for seven years at Ericsson in the Netherlands, Australia and Sweden in the areas of product management of wireless technologies and innovation, marketing, sales, and product design. Apart from the MBA fromINSEAD he holds a MSc from TU Delft (Netherlands). Mr Huisken's experience has given him a thorough understanding of the dynamics of the mobile communications market and an appreciation for the importance of strategic partnerships, bringing expertise in the development of the company and its products.Mr Huisken's current role in SouthWing is as Chief Innovation Officer and Member of the Board. His main ambition is to make SouthWing a leader in Wireless Headsets and a significant player in the design of wireless solutions.

Javier was co-founder and Executive Chairman of Cluster Consulting, until its sale to Diamond Technology Partners in 2000 to create DiamondCluster, where he was the Chairman for Europe and Latin America up until 2003.He was also a co-founder, substantial investor and the Executive Chairman of Nauta Capital, a venture capital fund based inBarcelona with offices in Boston and London and investments in both Europe and the United States. For instance, he led the investment in Social Point, where he is also the Chairman.Javier holds a degree in Telecommunications from the University of Barcelona and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Bernardo Hernandez is leading Spanish Business Angel. He graduated from ICADE, a top Business School in Madrid Spain in 1993. He has a Masters in Finance from Boston College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. At the age of 29, after 5 years as an analyst and portfolio manager in the asset management industry with companieslike Fidelity and Putnam Investments, he started his first internet venture idealista.com, now the leading real estate online portal in Spain. Since then he has participated in other online start-ups as a Business Angel, like floresfrescas.com, planetaki.com, 11870.com or the leading social network in Spain, tuenti.com.His latest venture is StepOne.com, a company that helps Spanish businesses to get established in the US. He is also member of the board at Bodaclick.com, the first Spanish internet company to go public.Bernardo joined Google in 2005 and is currently Director of Product Management and Managing Director for Zagat. He is based in New York.

Prior to joining Elaia, Christophe co-founded GetApp (acquired by Gartner) where he spent a couple of years helping Gartner with the integration of GetApp and their digital strategy for new markets. He was previously the Chief Executive of two B2B startups financed by venture capital funds and businesses in the United Kingdom and Spain. He also hasa solid background as world marketing manager with NCR (Nyse: NCR).

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Ferran Ferrer Perea is the CEO at Emagister. Ferran attended ESIC Business & Marketing School.

Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish. Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups. During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded: - co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components. - invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content. - invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization - invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered. - invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer - invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators. - invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV - He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.

Founder and Partner of Findasense, expert in digital transformation, marketing and entrepreneurship. Findasense, a global Customer Experience company with three business areas: innovation consultancy, experience factory and technology integrator with more than 300 employees and presence in 12 countries. Consultant in digital transformation ofmultinational companies with more than 15 years of experience in Digitalization of sectors, omnichannel consumer experiences, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and digital marketing. It has a deep and multidimensional knowledge of the consumer in more than 10 industries, obtained by working as a partner of companies such as: L'Oreal, The Coca-Cola Company, Kimberly Clark, FOX, Huawei, Warner, Lenovo, Banco Santander, Electronic Arts , IE Business School, Orange, Bayer, Bimbo, among others. He is the author of What robot has my cheese taken? in which he explains that new technologies do not have to be the enemy, and where it is discovered that the alliance betw

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Ramiro Salamanca is the chief legal officer at reclamador.es.

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Mateo del Río Cámara is the Product Manager at Adevinta Spain.

Pilar Nestar Garcia is the CEO and founder of Invitadisima.

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Ivan Peña Uribe is Head of Capital Markets & Co-Founder at Ritmo. Attended University of Deusto.

Marcos Alves Cardoso Partner & Chief Growth Officer LUDA Partners. He attended IE (Instituto de Empresa) 2012-2012.

José María Baños , founding partner of LetsLaw.

Josep Casas Pérez is the CEO and co-founder at Europistachios

René is an independent adviser and businessman working with Equiteq in Spain in the consulting and IT services sectors. He draws on his extensive business career and personal experience of major corporate transactions to guide owners through growth and M&A.

Pedro Tortosa is Founder and CEO at Peak Thomas. He attended EUITT La Salle Bonanova.

Pere Mayol - co-Founder - co-CEO & COO @ Avatar Cognition

Juan Carlos Ruiz Cubo

Lourdes Mesado Human Resources Director at ENAIRE.

Arturo Gonzalez Mac Dowell - President & CEO @ Eurobits Technologies

Francois Guy

Ignasi Vilajosana - CEO @ Worldsensing