Top 15 Local Startup Investors in Spain in May 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Local startups based in Spain. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Local companies from Spain. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Local Startup Investors in Spain in May 2025
Investor | Local Spain investments |
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Bernardo Hernandez | 3 |
Antai Ventures | 2 |
Felix Ruiz Hernandez | 2 |
Criteria Venture Tech | 2 |
Bonsai Venture Capital SCR | 1 |
Bonsai Partners | 1 |
ENISA | 1 |
TECH TRANSFER AGRIFOOD | 1 |
The Crowd Angel | 1 |
Seaya | 1 |
Ruben Ferreiro | 1 |
ENISA | 1 |
Seed Capital Bizkaia | 1 |
NEOTEC | 1 |
Pere Mayol | 1 |
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.
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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 — Verse is the payments technology platform that takes the friction out of storing, spending and sharing money. The mobile app allows you to share payments easily, instantly and with no hidden fees and also allows you to choose whether your transactions are private or public so that you can have fun while keeping track of your financial activities.Verse is available for both Android and iOS-based phones and transactions are completed in less than two business days. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Shopping, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Spain, Chile, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Domma — Domma counsels and supports women who are reaching the menopause stage so that the symptoms they may experience do not affect their daily life.
- 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.
- Piper — Piper is an AI-based software tool that offers CRM data to keep flawless records of customer interactions, and relations.
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.
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- Software, Logistics, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, Canada
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- GuruCall — Next step on knowledge sharing and content platform.
- Playtomic — Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digitalage.Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
- CoverManager — CoverManager is a tool for creating, sell and managing reservations of a restaurant.
Criteria Venture Tech is the tech VC fund of CriteriaCaixa which invests in B2B SaaS and DeepTech companies in early and growth stages (Pre-Seed to Series C) managing more than €300M of AUM.
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- Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Spain, United States, United Kingdom
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- Medlumics — Medlumics is a medical device start-up born in 2009 from a compromise with improving human living standards by means of technology.
- KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!
- iPronics — Discover the power of lossless optical switches for low latency and flexible AI architectures. Increase density and reduce power consumption with our innovative technology.
Bonsai Venture Capital has been encouraging entrepreneurs since 1999.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, Italy, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Cosmico — We are the platform connecting digital talents with the most ambitious companies, using remote work.We have over 8,000 members and our talents have accelerated dozens of projects alongside big names like Accenture Song, Tangity, Frog, Fjord, Sketchin, EY but also aggressive start-ups like Scalapay, Gimme5, Flowe, Unguess.If you are a digitalprofessional: we offer you a community in which to grow your talent through experiences, networks and cosmic projects.If you are a company: we offer you access to a community of designers, developers and marketers from which to select the talents to accelerate your digital transformation projects. Whether you are a manager or a digital professional, Cosmico is here to help you find your space
- Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.
- Gaiarooms — Gaiarooms offers hotels, hostels and apartments with automated check-in and 24-hour customer service while also providing flexible management options for independent hoteliers with capabilities for revenue management and marketing.
Bonsai Partners is a Venture Capital investment company based in Madrid, Spain. We invest in both primary and secondary opportunities in Tech startups from Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- Spain, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Floww — Connecting startups with funding partners, Floww is a data-centric network for innovators, venture capitalists, investors, banks and entrepreneurs.
- 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.
- Playtomic — Playtomic operates an online sports court booking platform intended to become a social network for sports players. It provides a platform to reserve courts, find other players with similar skill levels, and join a social sports community dedicated to learning that helps sports clubs to optimize the use of their facilities and step into the digitalage.Playtomic was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) founded in 2004.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Education
- Seed, Debt Financing, Grant
- Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cuimo — Cuimo is a motor company that offers transport, financing, and second hand motorcycle servicing.
- MJN Neuroservices — MJN improves the quality of life of people suffering from epilepsy thanks to our wearable ear piece that performs an EEG of the patient. By applying AI algorithms, MJN-SERAS is able to interpret the brain signal, record epileptic seizures, objectively improve the medical monitoring and permanently assess the risk of suffering an epilepsy seizure
- Recycap Technologies — Recycap Technologies develops and commercializes innovative and automated end-to-end coffee capsule recycling solutions and devices. It has created a patented platform for removing coffee grounds from coffee capsules, enabling aluminium capsules to be readily recycled.
TECH TRANSFER AGRIFOOD is a Venture Capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Baby
- Seed, Funding Round
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Cocuus — Cocuus provides the food industry with innovative technology for the manufacture of new high value-added foods.
- Groots — Groots is the first large-scale urban vertical farm in Spain. We grow all of our produce in controlled environments so that our plants grow with exactly what they need, no more, no less!Our system is 40x more productive than traditional agriculture per square meter, consumes 90% less water, eliminates the need for pesticides, fertilizers and longsupply chains.We grow our plants throughout the year, regardless of the seasons or the weather. Thus, you can enjoy local product at any place and time of the year. The agriculture of the future is already here. Groots mission is to grow healthy, local and sustainable food. Anywhere. Anytime.
- AllRead Machine Learning Technologies — AllRead Machine Learning Technologies is a Spanish based deep tech Start Up in the smart logistics ecosystem, founded in March 2019 with the mission of automating operational processes bringing intelligent reading software in the supply chains all around the world. The core of the AllRead software is a deep learning-based reading technology, resultof a research that extended for more than 5 years at the Computer Vision Centre (CVC), Autonomous University of Barcelona. The solution (proprietary) is based on a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture trained in an end-to-end manner which can directly output readings without any explicit text nor character localization nor segmentation step. AllRead's software stands out for being able of accurately reading where current OCR systems fail, and for its lightweight implementation preserving the return on investment. By drastically reducing hardware needs and manual interventions, this plug and play solution disrupts the status quo of legacy OCR.
The Crowd Angel is a premium equity crowdfunding platform that enables its users to invest from 3.000€ in a selection of the best Spanish startups. A hybrid between crowdfunding and venture capital, it takes an active part on the board of the companies invested. The platform opens the business angel model to people wanting to enter the startupecosystem.We have co-invested together with some of top Spanish VCs (Inveready, Keyword VC, Antai Venture Builder, Media Digital Ventures, Bankinter, etc). We are backed by Inveready and Keyword VC.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
- Spain, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- VOLAVA — Volava is a fitness platform that brings the energy and benefits of studio-style workouts to the convenience and comfort of home. It is a connected, technology-enabled fitness boutique. It also makes fitness entertaining, approachable, effective, and convenient, while fostering social connections and building a community around wellness. Volavawas founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.
- Enso Spaces — The best coliving in Spain! We are in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia. Apartments ready to move in and a community of people like you. Find your space!
- Kymatio — Support your people. Protect the company. New approach to Employee Cybersecurity Management: Kymatio identifies, analyzes, assesses, and provides the means to treat the cyber risk of human origin. Visibility: allows companies to know the cyber risk they are facing, how it's distributed, and having metrics about the evolution along time.Efficiency: provides personalized and targeted plans, that can help to use technological tools where and how they are really needed. IT Risk Management + Neuroscience People: they are not agents that produce incidents, but valuable assets that manage information. They have vulnerabilities and are exposed to threats.Risks can be identified, measured and mitigated.
Leading European VC investing in exceptional entrepreneurs who build global tech companies. Seaya currently manages +€600M across 5 funds
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Spain, France, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Payflow — Payflow is an employee benefit that companies can offer to their employees. Payflow provides employees instant access to earned salary to improve their financial well-being. Companies benefit from improved productivity and engagement, with no impact on cash-flow.Payflow was founded in 2020, and it is a Rocket Internet backed venture based inSpain.
- Samara — Samara is a cleantech company.
- Passionfruit — Join hundreds of the best startups around the world and use Passionfruit to hire freelance marketing specialists on-demand.
Ruben Ferreiro is the Founder and CEO of VIKO GROUP. He previously worked at ELOGIA as a CEO. Ruben Ferreiro attended M4c Academy.
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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.
ENISA is a public company under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, through the Directorate General of Industry and Small and medium-sized enterprises which, since 1982, actively participates in the financing of viable and innovative business projects.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United States, France
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- Mygocu — Mygocu is a platform for selling, organizing, and managing excursions and large-scale events.
- Supercubo — Supercubo is a Spanish startup based in Seville, founded with the goal of promoting healthy lifestyle habits by facilitating the creation of outdoor functional training centers through a scalable, low-risk, and cost-effective solution.Our project aims to both ease access for entrepreneurs and foster the growth of our community.The company wasfounded in December 2023 (starting operations in March 2024), and to date, the proof-of-concept for our three business lines has already been implemented and validated: • Own gyms • Franchisees • Third-party sales
- Modular DS — Modular DS enables WordPress professionals and businesses to save time managing their websites.
Seed Capital de Bizkaia is a Regional Council company affiliated to Biscay Regional Council's Department of Economic Development and Innovation (Departamento de Innovación y Promoción Económica de la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia) whose aim is to manage a Venture Capital Fund called “Seed Capital Bizkaia, F.C.R.“.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Spain, Mexico, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- coometes — coometes offer social institutions a comprehensive solution for managing food aid and basic necessities for vulnerable persons.
- Begas Motor — Begas has designed and manufactures the first engine for industrial vehicles powered 100% by LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas or AUTOGAS). Ability to remotorize vehicles and make them ecological with Euro VI certificate.
- Emica Solar — Emica Solar is a company which develops the floating solar energy.
NEOTEC is a multicounty economic development partnership focused on the global competitiveness of Northeast Ohio and its businesses.
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Investment focus
- Local, Internet, Recruiting
- Seed
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Opground — All IT professionals that sign up to Opground take a single virtual interview with Opi, the chatbot. A 30 minutes conversation in a WhatsApp format which for them is the same as getting interviewed by all the +600 companies in Opground. Opground is the first AI-based platform that developers rely on for passive job searching. Tech jobs, IT jobs, software developer jobs and programmer jobs some of the opportunities in the platform.
- citiservi — citiservi is a local advertising engine that provide contact information about local businesses and estimate quotes & quotations of services and/or products for local users.citiservi business model is the evolution of the old and monopolistic yellowpages.From November 2013, citiservi has launched a set of vertical onlinedirectories on different big sectors: - - - - - -
- Ledmotive — ML138 ialah website yang menyediakan 138 game online mobile paling menguntungkan pasti menang dengan pola bocoran admin hari ini.
Pere Mayol - co-Founder - co-CEO & COO @ Avatar Cognition
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Communities
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Spain, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Roomonitor — Roomonitor is an IoT solution to control noise and parties in Short Term Rentals.
- VacationsPal — VacationsPal is a Barcelona-based company that develops vacation booking software. The company serves property owners, holiday rentals, and holiday makers.
- Quality Clouds — DevOps for Low-Code / No-Code
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