Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Spain

Investor	Financial Services Spain investments
François Derbaix	12
Yago Arbeloa	5
Andreas Mihalovits	5
Fernando Cabello-Astolfi	5
Albert Armengol	4
Felipe Navio	4
Jesus Monleon	4
Juan Urdiales	4
Marta Esteve	3
Baldomero Falcones	3
Iñaki Ecenarro	3
Carlos Blanco	3
Bernardo Hernandez	3
James Argalas	3
Carlos Domingo	3
Pedro Luis Uriarte Santamarina	3
Clement Benoit	2
Den Dmytrenko	2
Hugo Arevalo	2
Michael Levinthal	2
Martin Villig	2
Ed Vaizey	2
Ruben Ferreiro	2
Michael Benabou	2
Inaki Berenguer	2
Javier Olivan	2
Juan José Mostazo	2
Marcos Alves Cardoso	2
Chris Bouwer	2
Alberto Gutiérrez	2
David Carrero Fernandez-Baillo	2
Ricardo Schaefer	2
Kintxo Cortés	2
Marek Fodor	2
Den Dmytrenko	2
Ramon Blanco Duelo	2
Kartik Raghavan	1
Samvit Ramadurgam	1
Tom Blomfield	1
Boling Jiang	1
Edmilson Toledo	1
Portman Wills	1
César Azpilicueta	1
Jose Maria Plaza	1
Oscar Fuente	1
Charles Delingpole	1
Atlas Benjelloun	1
David Hoffman	1
Javier Sabas	1
Ben Casnocha	1

Francois Derbaix is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Indexa Capital and Co-founder and Director of Bewater Funds. He has also Co-founded Aplazame, Soysuper, Rentalia, and Toprural.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
Solfy — Solfy is a Marketplace for self-consumption of solar energy.
Tu Lecho al Techo — Tu Lecho al Techo aiming to build a business by distributing ceiling bed.

Yago Arbeloa - President @ MIOGROUP

Investment focus

Apps, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Spain, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
Gloop — Gloop manufactures edible and 100% sustainable cutlery by providing environment friendly alternative for single-use plastic.
Luda Partners — Luda Partners is a neural network of pharmacies generating new sources of income and reducing shortages.

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

BRICKBRO — Currently, Brickbro is one of the leading real estate transactional platforms in the spanish market.
Xceed — Go out and live the best night events, parties & festivals at top clubs, bars and restaurants from around the world. Guest lists, tickets & VIP bottle service.
Tuvalum — Make used bikes great again! Tuvalum is the largets and most trusted site in pre-loved bikes. Every used bike is carefully certified by our expert mechanics. Our mission is to transform the bicycle industry for a more sustainable future through digitization and a great customer experience. Get the bike you really need for your goals and needs, allthe bikes are supremely certified by expert mechanics.

Fernando Cabello-Astolfi is a Co-Founder and CEO at Devengo. Fernando previously worked at Ibercheck as a Co-Founder and co-CEO. He attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tonder — Tonder is a payments capability with a platform to manage payment provider connections, smart routing, reporting, and more. They manage multiple payment providers and eliminate the associated complications.
INESPAY — INESPAY is an online payment gateway that facilitates transferring and receiving money directly to the bank account.
Bankflip — Permissioned data technology to collect and process your customers' income, tax, employment & other relevant data & documents in real-time

Albert Armengol took up his MBA at Esade.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Apps, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Moonoa — Moonoa is a developer of an online platform to help people sleep better.
WOODEA — Constructora industrializada de edificios en madera. Reducimos incertidumbre y plazos de manera sostenible y digital.
Banktrack — Banktrack provides All the bank movements by Email, WhatsApp, or your favorite channel.

Cofounder and Co-CEO of jobandtalent.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

11x.ai — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
Remuner — Remuner's variable pay software automates sales commission systems, integrating company and employee objectives and incentives. Its commission management platform leverages AI and analytics to improve performance.
Piper — Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making.

Jesus Monleon is a serial entrepreneur and Internet enthusiast. Co-founded eMagister.com, SeedRocket and Offerum founder, a daily offers collective buying company.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Honei — Honei is an app that enables mobile ordering and payment in restaurants.
HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products.  e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
Holded — Business management software with top-class invoicing, accounting, inventory and CRM with projects in a super intuitive single platform that suits every type of business.

Cofounder & CoCEO at jobandtalent.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Remuner — Remuner's variable pay software automates sales commission systems, integrating company and employee objectives and incentives. Its commission management platform leverages AI and analytics to improve performance.
Fourvenues — Fourvenues software simplifies leisure management.
Piper — Piper is a next-gen sales productivity and intelligence solution that puts AI to work for both sales reps and sales managers.Through its advanced interpretation of sales conversations from video calls, emails and audio notes, Piper automatically populates deal-related fields in the CRM, freeing up sales capacity and ensuring unbiased, highquality data.Piper further lightens the daily workload of salespeople by assisting through every stage of the client engagement: enhancing meeting prep, drafting follow-up emails, scheduling the next call, and more.For sales reps, Piper is a game-changer, letting them focus on selling without the admin drag. For sales directors and revenue ops, Piper provides top-notch data insights into the sales pipeline, enhancing sales forecasting and data-driven decision-making.

Marta Esteve joined Soysuper as Founder & CEO in 2012.

Investment focus

FinTech, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Angel
Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bewa7er — Bewa7er is a Fintech company builder currently with 1 live business (Indexa Capital), and 2 projects under development (Indexa Lending and Bewa7er Fund).1. Indexa Capital is the 1st automated investment service in Spain (launched in December 2015).2. Indexa Lending is a fund doing passive investment in the leading lending marketplaces inUS and UK, such as Lending Club, Ratesetter and Funding Circle. Indexa Lending objective is to replicate the asset class average profitability. Only for professional investors. Currently under development.3. Bewa7er Fund is a peculiar VC fund with one compartment by investment, allowing investors to invest indirectly in specific startups, and to sell or buy shares with other fund investors. Only for professional investors. Currently under development.
Soysuper — Soysuper is an online supermarket that allows you to make the shopping list and comparing prices. It also pursues the idea that technology is capable of making their lives easier, that it can save us time and money. Soysuper was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Indexa Capital — Indexa Capital is an automated investment service that offers highly diversified, indexed and low cost investment portfolios providing greater potential returns due to automatization and lower commissions. Indexa Capital charges a VAT included management fee between 0.45% and 0.10% per annum. The company was founded in November 2015 and is based inMadrid, Spain.

Baldomero Falcones is a former chairman of MasterCard, former chairman and former CEO of FCC, and former COO of Banco Santander.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software
Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

TaxDown — TaxDown has revolutionized tax advice by being lone of the pioneers in digital service that lets users file income tax returns easily. It claims to guarantee the taxpayers the desired results. As this company is the collaborator of the Tax Agency, taxpayers can present their income statements on their own platform. The digital and automaticsolution maximizes savings.

Iñaki Ecenarro joined Venture Partner All Iron Ventures. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, B2C, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Holded — Business management software with top-class invoicing, accounting, inventory and CRM with projects in a super intuitive single platform that suits every type of business.
Mr. Noow — Mr. Noow is a mobile app that allows working professionals to discover nearby restaurants, view their menu, pre-order either to pick-up or eat-in, and seamlessly pay for their order. Mr Noow has over 6000 monthly active users and is managing thousands of orders every month from professionals in Barcelona and Madrid. The company has raised over€2M from recognized business angels and VCs in Spain.
Housfy — Housfy develops a digital platform designed to sell flats and houses between private individuals. The company's digital platform eliminates intermediation in the sale of houses, offering all the necessary tools for sellers and buyers to connect directly online, enabling home buyers and sellers to avoid traditional agencies and save brokeragefees.

Carlos Blanco is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Profe.com, Chairman and Co-Founder of PropTEX, and Co-founder of Casum. He is a former Co-founder at Verone. He attendedCarlos Blanco is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in multimedia, telecommunications, and project management. He has founded a number of companies which includeServiFutbol.com, New- Info, Diser 2000, OACE Servicios InformÃ¡ticos, Insap Consulting, Grupo ITnet, First Tuesday, Akamon Entertainment, Conector Startup Accelerator, and more. Blanco also works as a mentor, speaker, lecturer, and moderator at various institutions and events.Blanco holds master’s degrees from the University of Navarra, the University of Pompeu Fabra, and the University of Autònoma de Barcelona.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Apps, Delivery
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fiuter — La primera plataforma que permite crear segmentos inteligentes de tus clientes para mejorar el marketing y las ventas de tu Ecommerce.
Citibox — Citibox is the software platform that automatically connects all couriers with online shoppers, allowing all parcels to be delivered conveniently and efficiently in low cost smart parcel boxes inside residential buildings, with no need for the receiver to be at home. Couriers benefit from a boost in productivity while online shoppers are able tosafely receive their parcels in their building and to pick them up at their convenience. The company was founded by David Bernabeu, a serial entrepreneur, and has received support of top tier accelerators, business angels and VCs of the Spanish startup ecosystem.
Verse — We are the bank of the new generation! With Verse, spend, share and enjoy your money without limits nor fees. Split expenses easily

James Argalas is a director of Axos Bank.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software
Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

TaxDown — TaxDown has revolutionized tax advice by being lone of the pioneers in digital service that lets users file income tax returns easily. It claims to guarantee the taxpayers the desired results. As this company is the collaborator of the Tax Agency, taxpayers can present their income statements on their own platform. The digital and automaticsolution maximizes savings.

Carlos Domingo is the Founder & CEO at Securitize.

Investment focus

Social Media, Internet, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bag on Board — Bag on Board partners with airlines to offer their passengers a service to check-in their bags from anywhere in the city.
Startupxplore — 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.
Albora Technologies — High-precision geolocation open ecosystem that delivers accurate positioning coordinates ubiquitously, specially addressing problems in challenging environments.

Pedro Luis Uriarte Santamarina is Board of Governors Member at University of Deusto.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series A
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Bewa7er — Bewa7er is a Fintech company builder currently with 1 live business (Indexa Capital), and 2 projects under development (Indexa Lending and Bewa7er Fund).1. Indexa Capital is the 1st automated investment service in Spain (launched in December 2015).2. Indexa Lending is a fund doing passive investment in the leading lending marketplaces inUS and UK, such as Lending Club, Ratesetter and Funding Circle. Indexa Lending objective is to replicate the asset class average profitability. Only for professional investors. Currently under development.3. Bewa7er Fund is a peculiar VC fund with one compartment by investment, allowing investors to invest indirectly in specific startups, and to sell or buy shares with other fund investors. Only for professional investors. Currently under development.
Indexa Capital — Indexa Capital is an automated investment service that offers highly diversified, indexed and low cost investment portfolios providing greater potential returns due to automatization and lower commissions. Indexa Capital charges a VAT included management fee between 0.45% and 0.10% per annum. The company was founded in November 2015 and is based inMadrid, Spain.

Clement Benoit - Founder and CEO @ Fithouse

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
Cocunat — Cocunat is a natural and 100% toxic free cosmetics brand.
Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

Co-founder and General Partner at Roosh and co-founder of Reface, ZibraAI, and Ukrainian AI/ML community AI HOUSE, which are part of the overarching Roosh ecosystem, along with venture firm Roosh Ventures, upskilling project Gathers, AI R&D company Neurons Lab, venture studio Pawa. Forbes 30 under 30 Europe.In 2018, Den Dmytrenkoco-founded Reface, the company behind the viral face-swap video app. Shortly after, he co-founded ZibraAI, a deep-tech company that creates AI-generated assets for any virtual world or experience. Den wanted to continue building breakthrough companies based on ML and working with the best founders to introduce more companies and tech into the world, so he launched Roosh. What Den and his team do at Roosh is help pioneering entrepreneurs and disruptive technologies scale globally by building, developing, and investing in them. Part of the Roosh ecosystem, is Roosh Ventures, an early-stage, generalist venture firm that invests in Pre-seed to Series A stages in the EU and US markets. The firm supports its portfolio companies through added values derived from their expertise in AI and ML.In addition, there is AI HOUSE, a Ukrainian AI community that brings together talents, experts, and investors to provide educational resources and opportunities for industry talents. Complementing this, there is Gathers, an upskilling project focused on solving the growing skill gap within the AI/ML industry. Moreover, the robust ecosystem encompasses Neurons Lab, an innovative AI R&D company, and Pawa, an ML-based venture studio.Den also take the role of angel investor and seek out additional exciting opportunities beyond Roosh.

Investment focus

Software, CRM, Wearables
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

folk — Powerful as a CRM, simple as a spreadsheet. folk is a collaborative tool to centralize, organize and activate contacts.
Bnext — Bnext is a fintech platform headquartered in Madrid, Spain.Bnext is the first supermarket for financial products, it reflects a new way of banking that challenges traditional banking from its foundations. With Bnext users can do almost everything they do with a bank, without having to use a bank. It allows them to create their own currentaccount in a matter of minutes, with nearly all the functionalities of an account in a traditional entity. Additionally, users can include their external accounts and hence have all their financial information on a single platform, regardless of the provider. However, the real innovation in Bnext lies on its Marketplace. Here, users have access to a wide range of financial products from fintechs and banks. The offering suplliers are meticulously selected in order to best fit the client's needs. On the platform, the user can scan through all different products, purchase them and control his acquisitions, all without ever leaving the app. Instead of charging the customer endless commissions and trying to sell as many products as possible, Bnext has developed a model that allows to really collaborate with the fintechs and get the best available offers on the market. The fintech portfolio to date includes real estate investment firms, mutual fund investment, loans and crowdlending, microloans or crowdfunding. Bnext is progressively integrating the most leading products in the market to expand the offer and thus become the first bank without balance.
Regression Games — Regression Games is pushing the limits of gaming. Visit our site for updates, and sign up for news as it comes out!

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 .

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain, Canada, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Cuimo — Cuimo is a motor company that offers transport, financing, and second hand motorcycle servicing.
Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.

Michael Levinthal is the Managing Partner at Levinthal Capital and currently lives in Park City, Utah.

Investment focus

Social Media, Mobile, Credit Cards
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Spain, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Alysio — The leading Sales Performance Management platform that enables teams to track and visualize their employee's daily performance metrics.
Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.
Fuell — With the Expense Management Platform and the Fuell corporate card, we help companies to manage their employee expenses effortlessly. Forget the expense sheets.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia, Spain, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
Mentornaut — Mentornaut is a new online tutoring platform is aiming to increase inclusion in personalized education and counts Super angel, United Angels VC, and a list of EdTech advocates like Bolt co-founder Martin Villig, and Clanbeat co-founder Kadri Tuisk among its investors.
StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!

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.

Investment focus

Banking, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A
Spain

Portfolio highlights

StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!

Ruben Ferreiro - President & CEO @ VIKO GROUP

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Splitfy — Splitfy is the perfect app to collect money from your plans Group.
Solfy — Solfy is a Marketplace for self-consumption of solar energy.
Housfy — Housfy develops a digital platform designed to sell flats and houses between private individuals. The company's digital platform eliminates intermediation in the sale of houses, offering all the necessary tools for sellers and buyers to connect directly online, enabling home buyers and sellers to avoid traditional agencies and save brokeragefees.

President at Financiere Saint James.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Real Estate, Professional Services
Series A, Seed, Angel
France, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Evy — Evy Merchants provides product protection services.
ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
Metafore — Metafore designs sustainable living spaces for team meetings, seminars, and events. They recycled fishing net carpets, used no single-use plastic, reduced water and energy consumption, and purchased local and organic products as part of their sustainable commitments. They offer modular spaces that adapt to all their needs.

Inaki Berenguer is the President and Co-founder at iPronics Programmable Photonics.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Bankflip — Permissioned data technology to collect and process your customers' income, tax, employment & other relevant data & documents in real-time
Libera Bio — Libera Bio is a biopharmaceutical company devoted to the development of a new class of therapeutics to address unmet medical needs in cancer
Mable (Neurolytic Healthcare) — Neurolytic Healthcare provides personalized medicine for neurological conditions. Neurolytic Healthcare collects and extracts insights from a combination of genetic and biomarker data to enhance diagnosis and help clinicians decide on optimal treatment strategies for neurological conditions.The company delivers digitally and genomically-drivenmedical devices to improve the current treatment of migraine and other neurological disorders, including a diagnostic support tool, pharmacogenetic test, and a mobile app for migraine event prediction.

Javier Olivan - VP of Central Products @ Meta

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Spain, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Reloadly — Reloadly makes it easy for developers to connect with Mobile operator services. We are disrupting a Trillion dollar industry! Mobile Operators are stuck in old school business models, where most of the world is moving to open source platforms for developers to build amazing products. Reloadly is bridging the gap between mobile operators anddevelopers, and at the same time creating new sales channels for the 816 mobile operators around the world.
Videowise — End-to-end eCommerce Video Platform built for scale & performance to help brands and retailers create interactive shoppable video experiences.
Yaba — Yaba buy, finance and support the growth of businesses based on Amazon FBA.

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

WOODEA — Constructora industrializada de edificios en madera. Reducimos incertidumbre y plazos de manera sostenible y digital.
Banktrack — Banktrack provides All the bank movements by Email, WhatsApp, or your favorite channel.
Bcas — Bcas is a Madrid based fintech unlocking access to quality education through student finance for students from all backgrounds.

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

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Katoo — Katoo is the marketplace for restaurants to discover best offers from top suppliers in their city. Browse suppliers. Check offers. Order in one click.
Regalamos — A través de nuestra web gestionamos regalos en grupo. Ya sea para un cumpleaños, una boda, una despedida, benéfico… cualquier tipo de bote. También ayudamos al usuario a elegir el regalo, recaudamos el dinero de las personas que participan en él, y mandamos la sorpresa donde él quiera junto a las dedicatorias de cada uno de los participantes.¡Todo a través de un click!
Premiumguest — All-in-one SaaS to manage and promote events.

Chris Bouwer is the Advisory Board Member of Cellulant.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

BIYU — BIYU offers rental equipment services for gardening, party, cleaning, and the kitchen.
Cobee — Cobee develops an online platform that automates and simplifies employee benefits management. The company also provides benefits for employees and flexible compensation that makes companies and employees fall in love. It facilitates the management of your benefits plan and allows you to focus on what really matters.Cobee provides a subsidy toyour employees to complement the cost of the benefits you want. They eliminate intermediaries and external suppliers of each of the benefits, thus achieving such as reduce costs and improve service quality for companies and employees, create a single source of information, which facilitates the management, resolution of incidents and the visibility of what happens in each moment, and offer your employees a benefits package centralized on the same VISA card, with real-time visibility of the savings generated and controlled from their Cobee App.Cobee was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
Polaroo — Polaroo is a centralized platform that allows its users to manage, optimize, and unify household bills. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

He is currently CEO and cofounder Viva Aqua Service Spain, leader of mineral water service to companies and households has more than 80,000 customers, 14 branches and employs more than 400 people company. Alberto has extensive experience in business development in Spain and is an expert in strategy, development of sales and distribution channels.Alberto is a graduate of Santa Clara University in Business Administration and has completed the Stanford Business School EPGC and executive negotiation program at Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Apps, Sales, Rental
Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Valeet — Valeet is a valet parking service app, right on the curb of the terminal. Car owners can drive their car to the curb and Valeet will pick it up from there. With Valeet, drivers will no longer need to search for parking or wait for shuttles.
Boatjump — Boatjump is the easiest and most complete online platform for renting boats Worldwide. With a database of over 20.000 boats, users can search, compare and book their boats in just 3 clicks at the best rates available.This challenging entrepreneur project was set up in 2016 and since that more than 25.000 users have sailed with Boatjump.Boatjumpsolves the following problems: 1. The process for searching, comparing and booking a boat on the Internet is slow and complex. 2. Most of websites don't show real time availability. 3. The client hardly knows the final price and the real location of the boat.This market place connects people that want to rent a boat with boat owners and boat agencies, brokering in between. Our adding value is connecting these people on a quick, simple and intuitive way, always presenting final and comparable price with real time availability. At the moment, the main source markets for Boatjump are USA and Spanish speaking countries and the main destinations are Caribbean, Spain Croatia, Greece, Turkey and Italy. Boatjump has been growing 3 digits since it was funded.Head offices in Valencia (Spain) & Miami (USA)For more info, please see www.boatjump.com
Qoala — Qoala, founded in 2019, is a browser extension that finds and applies discount codes on online stores and provides its users with cashback, creating a more reliable purchase funnel for more than its 3000 affiliated stores and ensuring its customers will take advantage of the best available deals while shopping online.

David Carrero Fernandez-Baillo is the Co-founder and VP Sales at Stackscale.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Frontity — Frontity is the easiest way to create lightning fast websites using WordPress and React. Open source and free to use.
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.
Fuell — With the Expense Management Platform and the Fuell corporate card, we help companies to manage their employee expenses effortlessly. Forget the expense sheets.

Ricardo Schaefer - Partner @ Target Global

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Jefa — Jefa is a digital financial platform for women. Starting in Mexico, Jefa provides a digital app with access to a financial marketplace in an affordable, convenient, and secure solution.Jefa's goal is to empower women to live without limits or obstacles. Jefa does this by giving its clients access to fair, affordable, and secure financialservices through a mobile account.
Revolut — Join 40+ million customers globally using Revolut to send money to 160+ countries, hold up-to 36 currencies in app, spend in 150+ currencies, and manage their money.
Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.

Kintxo Cortés is the Head of Expansion at Gigs.com

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Genesy AI — Aggregate data in real time from 20+ data sources and launch our AI-powered sales agent across your preferred channels
Imperia — We provide to our clients tools for managing and optimizing their processes in the area of operations through an innovative, advanced and user-friendly software solution. Analytics Demand Planning (ADP) is a complete solution to support the demand forecasting process, based on two key pillars: 1. Easy-to-use: the solution is fully integrated inExcel, providing great ease of use and minimum implementation times. “If you know how to use Excel, you know how to use ADP”. 2. Collaborative planning: the tool is developed under a collaborative environment in which all members of the organization can be involved in the process, improving the decision-making process.Furthermore, it has great computing power based on statistical models and a wide range of advanced functionalities that add extra value to the product. Such as reference segmentation, intelligent cleaning of historical data series and integrated dashboards for sales and forecast analytics.

Marek began his career working in consulting and banking before moving on to internet-related projects. Before joining Kantox he co-founded and was CTO at Atrapalo, largest independent online travel agency in Spain. He is an active business angel investor and mentor for technology startups. He is specialised in marketing and growth strategiHe has adual university education background in both computer science and in economics.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Honei — Honei is an app that enables mobile ordering and payment in restaurants.
Coverfy — Coverfy APP is a free mobile insurance manager that simplifies and solves all insurance-related issues for its users. The APP optimizes user´s insurance policies and covers all his insurance needs using digital technology and semi-authomatic algorithms. Coverfy is an insurance broker registered at the General Directorate of Insurance and PensionFunds (DGSFP) and acting independently from the insurance companies.
Iristrace — Test drive our easy and most effective software for audits, inspections, work orders and sustainability data collection and analysis today.

Co-founder and General Partner at Roosh and co-founder of Reface, ZibraAI, and Ukrainian AI/ML community AI HOUSE, which are part of the overarching Roosh ecosystem, along with venture firm Roosh Ventures, upskilling project Gathers, AI R&D company Neurons Lab, venture studio Pawa. Forbes 30 under 30 Europe.In 2018, Den Dmytrenkoco-founded Reface, the company behind the viral face-swap video app. Shortly after, he co-founded ZibraAI, a deep-tech company that creates AI-generated assets for any virtual world or experience. Den wanted to continue building breakthrough companies based on ML and working with the best founders to introduce more companies and tech into the world, so he launched Roosh. What Den and his team do at Roosh is help pioneering entrepreneurs and disruptive technologies scale globally by building, developing, and investing in them. Part of the Roosh ecosystem, is Roosh Ventures, an early-stage, generalist venture firm that invests in Pre-seed to Series A stages in the EU and US markets. The firm supports its portfolio companies through added values derived from their expertise in AI and ML.In addition, there is AI HOUSE, a Ukrainian AI community that brings together talents, experts, and investors to provide educational resources and opportunities for industry talents. Complementing this, there is Gathers, an upskilling project focused on solving the growing skill gap within the AI/ML industry. Moreover, the robust ecosystem encompasses Neurons Lab, an innovative AI R&D company, and Pawa, an ML-based venture studio.Den also take the role of angel investor and seek out additional exciting opportunities beyond Roosh.

Investment focus

Software, CRM, Wearables
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

folk — Powerful as a CRM, simple as a spreadsheet. folk is a collaborative tool to centralize, organize and activate contacts.
Bnext — Bnext is a fintech platform headquartered in Madrid, Spain.Bnext is the first supermarket for financial products, it reflects a new way of banking that challenges traditional banking from its foundations. With Bnext users can do almost everything they do with a bank, without having to use a bank. It allows them to create their own currentaccount in a matter of minutes, with nearly all the functionalities of an account in a traditional entity. Additionally, users can include their external accounts and hence have all their financial information on a single platform, regardless of the provider. However, the real innovation in Bnext lies on its Marketplace. Here, users have access to a wide range of financial products from fintechs and banks. The offering suplliers are meticulously selected in order to best fit the client's needs. On the platform, the user can scan through all different products, purchase them and control his acquisitions, all without ever leaving the app. Instead of charging the customer endless commissions and trying to sell as many products as possible, Bnext has developed a model that allows to really collaborate with the fintechs and get the best available offers on the market. The fintech portfolio to date includes real estate investment firms, mutual fund investment, loans and crowdlending, microloans or crowdfunding. Bnext is progressively integrating the most leading products in the market to expand the offer and thus become the first bank without balance.
Regression Games — Regression Games is pushing the limits of gaming. Visit our site for updates, and sign up for news as it comes out!

Founder and CEO of Bewater Funds, former Deputy CEO of Boursorama Banque. MBA at Harvard.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Bewa7er — Bewa7er is a Fintech company builder currently with 1 live business (Indexa Capital), and 2 projects under development (Indexa Lending and Bewa7er Fund).1. Indexa Capital is the 1st automated investment service in Spain (launched in December 2015).2. Indexa Lending is a fund doing passive investment in the leading lending marketplaces inUS and UK, such as Lending Club, Ratesetter and Funding Circle. Indexa Lending objective is to replicate the asset class average profitability. Only for professional investors. Currently under development.3. Bewa7er Fund is a peculiar VC fund with one compartment by investment, allowing investors to invest indirectly in specific startups, and to sell or buy shares with other fund investors. Only for professional investors. Currently under development.
Nailted — The employee engagement platform for modern People & HR teams who deliver the best employee experience
Indexa Capital — Indexa Capital is an automated investment service that offers highly diversified, indexed and low cost investment portfolios providing greater potential returns due to automatization and lower commissions. Indexa Capital charges a VAT included management fee between 0.45% and 0.10% per annum. The company was founded in November 2015 and is based inMadrid, Spain.

Mr.Kartik Raghavan is Advisor at Aviso, Inc.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A
Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

TaxDown — TaxDown has revolutionized tax advice by being lone of the pioneers in digital service that lets users file income tax returns easily. It claims to guarantee the taxpayers the desired results. As this company is the collaborator of the Tax Agency, taxpayers can present their income statements on their own platform. The digital and automaticsolution maximizes savings.
Superfluid Dx — Find out what circulating RNA says about tissue and organ health, cell-free RNA and molecular diagnostics by Molecular Stethoscope

Samvit went through the Y Combinator program and started his first venture-backed company when he was nineteen years old. Prior to starting Equidate, Samvit co-founded Streem, a cloud storage company which was acquired by Box in 2014. Samvit is an active angel investor and frequently invests in startups through S2 Capital, where he serves asfounding partner. His previous work spans numerous startups,most recently including Asana where he built out distributed systems infrastructure and Livemagic where he developed audio fingerprinting algorithms. In a previous life, he conducted research on high temperature superconductivity at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Samvit holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Viable — Understand what your customers are telling you in their qualitative feedback with advanced AI and NLP technology for feedback analysis.
RootFi — RootFi provides a dependable and secure integration layer with an expanding list of APIs, allowing you to focus on developing features that your consumers will appreciate. Begin shipping solutions for credit risk assessment, accounting automation, and analytics.
Grey — Open international bank accounts for free to receive and make foreign payments instantly or convert currencies - all in one place.

Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

Fertifa — Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable.The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues. It also offers guidance andadvice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success. The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom.
1Bstories — Helping publishers and brands increase engagement and conversions using AI. Mobile, vertical, 60 second video formats made in an instant. Tell your story today!
StudentFinance — Catapult your career with leading re-skilling and up-skilling bootcamps. Study now and pay us back once you land a job & start earning!

Bo Jiang,CEO at Lithic.

Investment focus

FinTech, Banking, Payments
Seed, Series B
United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products.  e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
Jeeves — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.
Starlight — Starlight offers everything your company needs to operate in the crypto economy from setting up wallets, to buying crypto, to tracking expenses.

Edmilson Toledo

Investment focus

Venture Capital
Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

tQuity —
Ufounders — Investor Relationship Manager platform that connects you with investors. Raise capital and nurture the relationship with your partners.

Portman Wills - Co-Founder & CTO @ Wagestream

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Pillar — Pillar is a fintech credit platform that allows retail consumers to monitor, build and grow their credit footprint as well as access a credit facility through the Pillar credit card.
Kota — Instant access to leading insurance and retirement providers globally, with flexible contributions, automated accounting and a delightfully simple employee app.
Pillar Financial Technologies — All-in-one Financial Platform for Small Businesses

César Azpilicueta Tanco is a professional footballer from Spain.

Investment focus

Fantasy Sports, Gaming, Soccer
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Spain, France, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
Draftea — Draftea is the first daily fantasy sports (DFS) platform in the Spanish-speaking world. It allows users to create their own dream team and win money while competing against others. Sports fans can enter Draftea, draft a lineup, enter a contest and win prizes. They choose their players, based on their knowledge of the game, build their fantasyteam and earn points every time players score goals, complete passes, or even keep a clean sheet in real matches. Draftea is a technology startup backed by Sequoia, Kaszek and Bullpen Capital.

Jose Maria Plaza

Investment focus

Insurance
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

IMEUREKA — IMeureka is the first 360-degree digital solution that covers every need an Insurance Broker may have. We have created the first 100% agnostic insurance marketplace, that can host any product, Insurer, Broker or even End Client. Thanks to our solution, we will bring efficiency, transparency and technology to a sector that is in dire need fordisruption.The Platform presents an intuitive, user friendly dashboard for the Broker to view its main metrics in a snapshot. It also features quick links to upload a policy, request a quote or view quotes on open business. Daily reminders with pending actions and new products are sent to SMB’s email. The Insurer view is geared towards searching for new business, managing ongoing bids and getting reliable data and feedback on every step of the way. Insurers will be able to browse, filtering through the marketplace to find new policies to bid for, according to their preferences. End Client can get a view of all their insurance policies. End Clients can also get an unaltered view of ongoing bids and discuss openly with their Broker. They can also use the Platform to report a claim and for any interaction with their Broker using the intuitive IMeureka app.

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

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Coverfy — Coverfy APP is a free mobile insurance manager that simplifies and solves all insurance-related issues for its users. The APP optimizes user´s insurance policies and covers all his insurance needs using digital technology and semi-authomatic algorithms. Coverfy is an insurance broker registered at the General Directorate of Insurance and PensionFunds (DGSFP) and acting independently from the insurance companies.
Bookinter — All in one platform with channel manager and artificial intelligence for rental property management and commercialization
Infantium — Infantium is an award winning blog about parenting, child development and education, family matters and more. Learn more about how you can become a better parent today.

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
Sync Savings — Rebuilding the infrastructure of cash savings
Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.

Atlas Benjelloun has been working as a Group Chairman, Atlas Finance at Atlas Holding for 13 years. Atlas Holding is part of the Holding Companies & Conglomerates industry, and located in San Francisco, United States.Atlas Benjelloun invest and support curious, mission-minded people who are committed to solving the Internet’s toughestchallenges.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series C
United States, Morocco, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Atlys — Atlys is the world's leading visa platform with 99.5% on-time delivery for over 150 destinations.
Silo — Silo is a platform that automates the perishable supply chain. More time, more opportunity, less waste.
Atlas — Atlas builds cutting-edge generative 3D AI technology to enable the creation of assets & virtual worlds.

David Hoffman began his professional career starting in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. David has been consulting and advising blockchain startups since 2017, in order to ensure these new teams are building products that are in alignment with the ethos found in the cryptocurrency community. David has consulted for 12 cryptocurrencystartups, from various industries such as insurance, healthcare, supply chain management, and gambling David operates a cryptocurrency focused podcast called POV Crypto, where prominent guests come to discuss their views and predictions about the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. POV Crypto is praised for it’s balanced arguments between the co-hosts and guests, in its attempt to bring unbiased arguments into the space. Additionally, David frequently writes articles about the Ethereum ecosystem, MakerDAO, and token economics, and is a leading advocate for the adoption of the decentralized finance industry.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Pimlico — Leverage Pimlico to get more users by unlocking the full potential of gas sponsorships.
Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.
Swell — Swell Network is a permissionless, non-custodial, and liquid ETH staking protocol that is built for stakers, node operators, and the Ethereum ecosystem. A community-driven and open-source protocol backed by the industry’s leading funds and angels.

Javier Sabas

Investment focus

Venture Capital
Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Ufounders — Investor Relationship Manager platform that connects you with investors. Raise capital and nurture the relationship with your partners.

Ben is cofounder and partner at Village Global, a $270M+ venture capital firm that invests in startup entrepreneurs across a range of categories: SaaS, consumer internet, robotics, fintech, digital health, and more.Ben is coauthor of the New York Times bestselling management book The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age (with LinkedInchairman Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur Chris Yeh). He's also coauthor of the New York Times bestselling career strategy book The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career (with Reid Hoffman).

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Enterprise Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Spain, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products.  e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
LightBeam.ai — LightBeam.ai - zero trust data protection pioneer, converges & simplifies data security, privacy, & AI governance, so businesses can accelerate their growth in new markets with speed & confidence. Leveraging generative AI as a foundational technology, We tie together sensitive data cataloging, control, & compliance across structured, unstructured, & semi-structured data applications providing 360-visibility, risk remediation, & compliance with PCI, GLBA, GDPR, HIPAA among other regulations.
Segovia — Segovia provides a secure, reliable platform for frontier market payments.