Top 10 Local Startup Investors in Spain

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC 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 10 Local Startup Investors in Spain

Investor	Local Spain investments
Bernardo Hernandez	3
Antai Ventures	2
Felix Ruiz Hernandez	2
Criteria Venture Tech	2
The Crowd Angel	1
Seed Capital Bizkaia	1
Pere Mayol	1
ENISA	1
Ruben Ferreiro	1
Seaya	1

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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.
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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.

Investment focus

Ride Sharing, Transportation, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Genially — Genially is the world-leader in interactive visual communication. Use Genially as your all-in-one online tool to create stunning presentations, interactive images, infographics, dossiers, quizzes, resumes, etc. and enrich them with interactivity and animation effects in seconds. You no longer need a team of designers and programmers to make animpact with striking, visual communication in a flash. Use interactive and animated effects to easily distribute information in layers that viewers can explore and discover. Leave outdated content creation software behind, and stun and engage your audience with Genially. The Wow Effect is just a few clicks away.Choose from over 1000 templates, or start from scratch. Join a community of millions of users worldwide that includes businesspeople, teachers, marketers, designers and companies like Hulu, Danone, Michelin and Heineken. The future of communication awaits you.
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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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Enline — Technology for Power Systems, TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OPERATORS, INDUSTRY AND MINING, ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION, INSURANCE AND CONSULTANCY, UTILITIES & POWER GENERATION, ENLINE MONITORING SYSTEM, ENLINE DYNAMIC LINE RATING, ENLINE FAULT LOCATION, ENLINE POWER OPTIMIZATION .
Argilla — The labelling platform designed for modern MLOps. Label and improve your data with multiple feedback loops. Bridge the gap between training and production data. From experimentation to production, Argilla helps domain experts and data teams to build better NLP datasets in less time.
KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!

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.

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.

Seed Capital de Bizkaia is a Regional Council company affiliated to Biscay Regional Council's Department of Economic Development and Innovation (Departamento de InnovaciÃ³n y PromociÃ³n EconÃ³mica de la DiputaciÃ³n Foral de Bizkaia) whose aim is to manage a Venture Capital Fund called â€œSeed Capital Bizkaia, F.C.R.â€.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Fisify — Fisify is a physical treatment clinic, that creates technologies to make people's life easier and offers the requested services as well as commercial communications.
H2SITE — We provide fully integrated systems to produce on-site high quality hydrogen.
CLCircular — CLCircular is a digital company that provides real-time monitoring of logistics by implementing Big data, smart tags, and IoT devices.

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

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

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.