# Top 50 Education Angel Investors in Spain in June 2026

## Andreas Mihalovits
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## Fernando García Abasolo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Children, Education

Fernando García Abásolo is a businessman passionate about neuroscience and innovation to improve the potential of children.

## Ed Vaizey
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Ed Vaizey MP was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, with responsibility for digital industries on 15 July 2014. He is the Conservative MP for Wantage and Didcot.

## Edurne Oteiza
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, EdTech, Family

Edurne de Oteiza is the chief operating officer of Wallapop. Edurne de Oteiza attended ESCP Business School.

## Juan José Mostazo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, EdTech, FinTech

The BidMotion engineering team lead studied computer engineering in his home country of Spain before beginning his entrepreneurial career in the mobile industry, founding a multimedia content aggregator for mobile devices. CTO Juan José Mostazo then transplanted to Berlin to continue his career in system architecture, where he joined forces withDaniel Nathan in the German capital on the Datalift team, following his first AdTech endeavor with Hitfox Group. Juanjo currently defines the technological direction of the BidMotion platform, leading the engineering team and managing the platform architecture.

## Eneko Huarte-Mendicoa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Education

Eneko Huarte-Mendicoa

## Ignacio Lucea
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Recruiting

Ignacio Lucea - Co-Founder @ Mintted

## Tom Horsey
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Delivery, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Tom Horsey is the Director and Co-Founder of StartupLabs Malta. He previously worked at Transeop as an Investor. Tom Horsey attended Aston University.

## Paco Avila
- Type: Angel
- Location: Málaga, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Content, Education, Marketplace

Paco Avila

## Marta Antunez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Entrepreneur, strategist and expert in open innovation. Experience as co-founder and CEO in startups, in Management Consulting and in global FMCG companies. Passionate about digital business, technology and startup ecosystem.Results oriented professional with strong analytical, leadership and communication skills. +14 years of experience definingnew business strategies, launching new ventures and growing teams at international level.
Engineer by ETSEIB (UPC) and MBA by INSEAD.

## Heiko Rauch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Co-Founder of UFOstart

## Hugo Arevalo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Fashion, FinTech

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 .

## Martin Villig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Education

Martin is co-founder of Bolt.eu, Estonian Founders Society, Garage48.org, Good Deed Education Foundation and kood/Jõhvi coding school.
Read more from http://martinvillig.com

## Felix Ruiz Hernandez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Content, Logistics

Félix Ruiz, founder of Tuenti and president of Jobandtalent. He has invested in startups Jobandtalent, Syltek, Vitcord, Fudeat, Glovo or Deporvillage. As a business angel does not follow any pattern, invest for the team. Bet on internationally scalable projects that do not depend on a single market. Personal investments are made as entertainmentwithout being involved in day to day. When it involves investors, it decides to be part of the company's operations, such as Jobandtalent. He is considered an architect and accelerator of companies, invests in the technology and restoration sectors. His two exits are Tuenti and Buytheface.

## Jaime del Pozo Espinosa de los Monteros
- Type: Angel
- Location: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Lifestyle, Personal Development, Professional Services

Jaime del Pozo Espinosa de los Monteros is CEO / Founder @ Smash.

## Dr. Daniel Holz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Education, Career Planning

Dr. Daniel Holz is a Vice President EMEA North at Google Cloud.

## Nacho Tortosa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Training, E-Learning, Online Portals

Nacho Tortosa

## José Antonio Llorente
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Lifestyle, Personal Development, Professional Services

José Antonio Llorente is a specialist in Corporate and Financial Communication. Over the course of a career spanning more than 30 years, he has provided consultancy services on numerous corporate transactions: mergers, acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures and stock market floatations. He is the author of El octavo sentido (The Eighth Sense),an essay about the relevance of communication in 21st century society.Mr. Llorente is one of the 15 People from the marketing and communications worlds to Watch in 2015, according to The Holmes Report’s editors. In 2014, he received the award to Outstanding Partner of the Year from the National Federation of Consultancy, Services and Office Associations (Spanish acronym: FENAC) in recognition of his professional and business career as leader of LLYC. Furthermore, he was the first Spanish professional to have received the SABRE Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement, a European award presented by The Holmes Report.Mr. Llorente worked at the multinational Burson-Marsteller for ten years, where he was Managing Director. He previously worked for five years in the Communications Department of the Confederation of Employers and Industries of Spain (CEOE) and was also a journalist for the News Agency EFE.At present he is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society –the world’s leading professional association for senior public relations and corporate communications executives and educators- on the Board of Advisors of Human Age Institute – the largest Talent initiative put into place in Spain -, on the Board of Trustees of the Euroamérica Foundation and on the Steering Committee of the Spanish Association of Minority Shareholders of Listed Companies. He is also on the Advisory Board to SMEs of the Spanish Confederation of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises and on the Steering Committee of the Agencies of Spain Association.

## Mario Pablo Sánchez Barrón
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Children, Education

Mario Pablo Sánchez Barrón , CEO of Startidea.

## Sandra Ejarque
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: EdTech, Education, E-Learning

Sandra Ejarque is a CPO at AtheneaEdu.ai

## Stephan Jacquemot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Apps

TS Ventures is the private investment vehicle of serial entrepreneur Tim Schumacher (e.g. Sedo, Eyeo/AdBlock Plus, Ecosia, etc.) and Stephan Jacquemot. Stephan has a very successful and long standing career in supporting outstanding entrepreneurs in various roles. He has led the startup units at Microsoft in Germany and Europe and wasco-founder of the Microsoft Accelerator in Berlin. Since 2016, he is an active investor with a portfolio of 15 angel investments. Besides his role at TS Ventures he serves as Director Founders Education at the Founders Foundation established by the Bertelsmann Foundation.

## Oscar Fuente
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, SaaS

Oscar Fuente is the founder and CEO of the IEBS Business School.

## Pablo Fernandez
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: EdTech, FinTech, Lending

Pablo Fernandez is a co-founder at Clikalia.

## Jose Marin
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil).  IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

## Juan Pablo Herrera
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Software, Education

Juan Pablo Herrera - Chief Operations Officer (COO) @ GroupM

## Guillem Serra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, EdTech, E-Commerce

Guillem Serra has an experience of more than 19 years, both in the field of health and in the world of investments.He has been a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, a search engine and developer as a project manager at Gem-Med, SL, R & D Health manager and head of the health market at Barcelona Digital Technology Center.Currently, he is the director of business development at iSalud.com and CEO & Co-Founder at Medipremium.In addition, he is an investor in several projects, such as Taiga Agile, Singularu, and Cuidum.

## Gonzalo Ruiz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Guides, Travel

Gonzalo Ruiz Manzanares is a software and application developer for iOS and Android. Gonzalo Ruiz is a Telecommunications Engineer training, he worked in R & D and technology consulting companies such as Amena, IBM or DMR Consulting (Everis) before embarking in 2005 with Blogsfarm.com, a network of digital magazines was quickly model expansionthat led to the founding of other startups content as Financialred.com or Viajered.com.After a few years he has co-founded companies like Pidemesa and collected SegurosRed or domains as Cursos.com, Bolsa.com or Horoscopo.com. Currently supports the management of their companies with investments in seed stage entrepreneurs, through owning stakes in more than 40 Startups as Vestidia.com, TouristEye, EnterBio, Bibulu.com, Reclamador.es, etc

## Marvin Homburg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Education, Career Planning

Marvin Homburg is a Co-Founder and CEO at Evermood. Marvin previously worked at Founders Foundation gGmbH as a Grantee of the Accelerator Program. He attended Copenhagen Business School and the University of Münster.

## Stefan Menden
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Human Resources, Career Planning, B2B

Entrepreneur & Investor with focus on HR-Tech
MD (Interim) Xing (2022)
Investor in Start-Ups and Turnaround Cases
- Eurocentres (sold to Bayswater Education)
- Ameropa
- Arsipa (Fund)
- JustBook (sold to Secret Escapes)
- Staufenbiel Institut (sold to SQUEAKER)
- TAM-Akadmie
- miBaby
- Hyre Talents
- Consultingheads
- PrepLounge
- SQUEAKER
-European PiratesummitConsultant Oliver Wyman, Munich/Dubai
Venture Capital Associate Straub Ventures, London 
YPO Berlin

## Miguel Guerrero
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: EdTech, Education, E-Learning

Miguel Guerrero is a CTO at AtheneaEdu.ai

## Pep Martinex
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: EdTech, Education, E-Learning

Pep Martinex is a CSO at AtheneaEdu.ai

## Juanjo Traver
- Type: Angel
- Location: Castellón, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Training, Education

Cofounder, CRO & CFO at Declarando

## Miquel Àngel Mora
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: EdTech, Education, E-Learning

Miquel A. Mora is a CEO at AtheneaEdu.ai

## Tom Blomfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech

Tom Blomfield is based out of San Francisco, California and is currently works as a Group Partner for Y Combinator. Tom previously worked at Monzo Bank as a President. Tom Blomfield attended the University of Oxford.

## Gwynne Shotwell
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Family, Children, Training

As President and COO of SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is responsible for day-to-day operations and for managing all customer and strategic relations to support company growth. She joined SpaceX in 2002 as Vice President of Business Development and built the Falcon vehicle family manifest to nearly 50 launches, representing nearly $5 billion in revenue.Shotwell is a member of the SpaceX Board of Directors.Prior to joining SpaceX, Shotwell spent more than 10 years at the Aerospace Corporation. There she held positions in Space Systems Engineering & Technology as well as Project Management. She was promoted to the role of Chief Engineer of an MLV-class satellite program, managed a landmark study for the Federal Aviation Administration on commercial space transportation, and completed an extensive analysis of space policy for NASA's future investment in space transportation.Shotwell was subsequently recruited to be Director of Microcosm's Space Systems Division, where she served on the executive committee and directed corporate business development.Shotwell also served as a Chair of the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Space Systems Technical Committee, and in 2013, was elected to AIAA's honorable grade of Fellow.Shotwell participates in a variety of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)-related programs, including the Frank J. Redd Student Scholarship Competition. Under her leadership the committee raised more than $350,000 in scholarships in six years.Shotwell was named winner of the 2011 World Technology Award for Individual Achievement in Space, and in June 2012 she was inducted into the Women In Technology International Hall of Fame. She is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Space Security.Shotwell received, with honors, her bachelor's and master's degrees from Northwestern University in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, and currently serves on the Advisory Council for Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering. She has authored dozens of papers on a variety of subjects including standardizing spacecraft/payload interfaces, conceptual small spacecraft design, infrared signature target modeling, space shuttle integration, and reentry vehicle operational risks.

## Luis Vives
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Education, Career Planning

Luis Vives - Associate Professor @ ESADE

## Mariano Natera Kindelán
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Training, Education

Mariano Natera Kindelán is the CFO and partner at The Valley Digital Business School.

## Yannick Rault van der Vaart
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Software, Education

Yannick Rault van der Vaart is the co-founder and CEO of Sheetgo.

## Benito A. Alvarez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Farmington, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Training, E-Learning, Online Portals

Benito A. Alvarez is the President and CEO ProHealth Physicians. He previously worked at Cleveland Clinic as a Staff Physician. Benito A. Alvarez attended Columbia University in the City of New York and the University of Tennessee.

## Dr. Jan Brinckmann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Education, Career Planning

Dr. Jan Brinckmann is a Full Professor of Entrepreneurship at ESADE Business School.

## Felipe Navio
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Cofounder and Co-CEO of jobandtalent.

## Antonio F. Faría Soto
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Lifestyle, Personal Development, Professional Services

Antonio F. Faría-Soto was chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Doral Bank, the main operating subsidiary of Doral Financial Corporation, a publicly traded company, and president of Doral Money, a subsidiary of Doral Bank, from 2005 to 2006. He is the chairman of the Board’s Investment and Finance Committee and a member of the AuditCommittee and the Executive Committee. From 2003 to 2004, he was president of the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico and served as an ex-officio member of the boards of directors of several government entities dedicated to the economic development of Puerto Rico. From 2002 to 2003, he served as president of the Economic Development Bank for Puerto Rico and from 2001 to 2002 he was Commissioner of the Office of Financial Institutions of Puerto Rico. Before serving as Commissioner, he worked for over 20 years in various senior positions within the commercial and investment banking industries, with responsibilities that covered countries in Central and South America.

## Eduardo Sicilia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Content, Education, Marketplace

Eduardo Sicilia

## Alejandro Villaran
- Type: Angel
- Location: Huelva, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, E-Learning

Alejandro VillaranI is Founder at Seabery.

## Mercedes Gonzalez Gorbena
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Children, Education

Mercedes Gonzalez-Gorbena is the Chief Product Officer at TES Global.

## Pedro Lizondo Siguero
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Children, Education

Pedro Lizondo seguiro is an individual investor.

## Joan Alvarez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Music, Training, E-Commerce

Joan Álvarez is the co-founder & CEO at HANNUN. He attended Esade.

## Manuel Mercader
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Training, E-Learning, Online Portals

Manuel Mercader

## Michael Wolfe
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, EdTech

Michael has started or been an initial employee at four startups, including Pipewise, Vontu, Kana, and I/PRO. 
Two of the companies (Vontu, I/PRO) had large acquisitions, and one (Kana) had a successful IPO.He was a co-founder of Vontu, an enterprise security software company, acquired by Symantec for $350M in 2007. He spent two yearsat Symantec, including a year as the CTO of the Enterprise Product Group, a $4B business with 5000 engineers inside of Symantec.Prior to Vontu, Michael was a founding employee and VP of Engineering at Kana, the pioneer in web-based CRM. Kana went public in 1999 at a multi-billion dollar market capitalization and generated several hundred million dollars in revenue. Mike started his career at Goldman Sachs in New York and London. He has taught at Stanford University and lectured at Harvard, Dartmouth, ESADE, and St. Mary’s business schools.When Mike is not working or with his family, he enjoys, triathlon, cyclocross, ultra-distance running, loves travel, and loves living in San Francisco. Michael and his wife Mary support several local organizations, including D-Rev, where Michael is on the Board of Directors, Raphael House San Francisco, Stanford University, the University of Virginia, and the California Academy of Sciences.

## Alberto Andújar Estellés
- Type: Angel
- Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Training, E-Learning, Online Portals

Alberto Andújar Estellés

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