# Active Venture Partners

> Active Venture Partners is a VC fund backing E-Commerce and Software. See 42 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Total investments: 42
- Last investment: Jul 2020
- Lead investor: 45%
- Fund size: $63M
- Last fund: May 2010
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/active-venture-partner
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/activevp
- Website: http://www.active-vp.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ActiveVenturePartners

Active Venture Partners is a VC fund in Barcelona focused on E-Commerce and Software. ACTIVE is a European venture capital company focused on positively disrupting its traditional sector. Spearheaded by a diverse, passionate and multinational team, it is building a reputation for providing support that goes beyond capital for high growth businesses.With a presence in Spain, Germany and Scandinavia, ACTIVE targets entrepreneurialteams driving digital start-ups and seeking holistic partnerships based on shared values and pro-active support. Start-up founders connect to the unique ACTIVE community to engage with sector specialists, growth experts and senior advisors.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.1M–$8M |
| Series B | $1.8M–$10M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 8 | 19% |
| Software | 7 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 12% |
| Internet | 4 | 10% |
| Shopping | 4 | 10% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 10 | 24% |
| Series A | 8 | 19% |
| Series B | 7 | 17% |
| Series C | 3 | 7% |
| Seed | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 11 | 26% |
| United States | 6 | 14% |
| Sweden | 2 | 5% |
| Germany | 2 | 5% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blair MacLaren | Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blair-maclaren |
| Christopher Pommerening | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-pommerening |
| Philipp Schroeder | Founding Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/philipp-schroeder |
| Ricard Söderberg | Founding Partner | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ricard-soderberg |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Odilo | Odilo removes the technology barriers, allowing any institution to offer all kinds of digital content to its users whilst ensuring compliance with copyright laws.Their company is one of the leading software solutions for libraries offering a comprehensive product suite to discover, manage and distribute digital content as well as print.They are headquartered in Cartagena, Spain and have offices in Madrid, Spain; Miami, Florida; Mexico City, Mexico; and New York, New York.Their aim is to develop the market’s most innovative and creative solutions. They lead the way in defining and designing efficient, user-friendly products, serving the needs of public, private, university, school and special interest libraries today, while enabling them to transition into the future. | $10M | Series B | Jul 22, 2020 |  |
| Whisbi | Whisbi provides a mobile-first mobile-first conversational sales & marketing platform for B2C enterprises.Their solution creates an opportunity for Sales & Marketing professionals to increase sales conversion, improve live engagement and provide a differentiating online customer experience.Whisbi combines all contact channels likevideo-call, chat, chatbot, click-to-call or a traditional phone call into one centralized data-driven UI for your customers. Enhanced by a BI engine, Whisbi provides the right channel for the right customer at the right time.The Whisbi solution easily integrates with existing infrastructures, ranging from call centers to physical stores and virtual showrooms. Simple inclusion of the solution on websites provides the ability to drive a truly omnichannel customer experience that significantly increases online conversion rates.They offer a world-class conversational platform for sales & marketing and are able to share industry-specific insights & expertise. They have unparalleled experience working closely with global enterprises in telecommunications, automotive, travel, and insurance & banking. | $5.5M |  | Oct 11, 2019 |  |
| Whisbi | Whisbi provides a mobile-first mobile-first conversational sales & marketing platform for B2C enterprises.Their solution creates an opportunity for Sales & Marketing professionals to increase sales conversion, improve live engagement and provide a differentiating online customer experience.Whisbi combines all contact channels likevideo-call, chat, chatbot, click-to-call or a traditional phone call into one centralized data-driven UI for your customers. Enhanced by a BI engine, Whisbi provides the right channel for the right customer at the right time.The Whisbi solution easily integrates with existing infrastructures, ranging from call centers to physical stores and virtual showrooms. Simple inclusion of the solution on websites provides the ability to drive a truly omnichannel customer experience that significantly increases online conversion rates.They offer a world-class conversational platform for sales & marketing and are able to share industry-specific insights & expertise. They have unparalleled experience working closely with global enterprises in telecommunications, automotive, travel, and insurance & banking. | $1.1M |  | Dec 13, 2018 |  |
| Healthify | Healthify builds the infrastructure to support social determinants of health initiatives at scale. The company builds and manages accountable networks of community-based organizations and provides a technology platform that streamlines the closed-loop referral process, fosters collaboration across the network, and tracks results. Healthify workswith community partners, health plans, and providers in all fifty states and is dedicated to community partner sustainability and demonstrating ROI for social service interventions to ensure that families receive the services they need to thrive. | $6.5M | Series A | Jul 11, 2017 |  |
| Digital Pharmacist | Digital Pharmacist offers a comprehensive HIPAA-compliant digital engagement suite that helps pharmacies connect with patients. Our goal is to transform the way you do business. Digital Pharmacist’s all-in-one platform combines cloud-based communication and adherence solutions with digital marketing and management, integrating with over 70 pharmacymanagement systems. We also power the Cardinal Health Pharmacy Marketing Advantage Program, enabling patients to get the help they need via self-service and automated platforms. A partner of the National Community Pharmacists Association, Digital Pharmacist gives pharmacies the tools to increase business growth and stand out from the competition.Digital Pharmacist supports your patient communication and adherence through secure 2-way messaging, branded healthsites and mobile app, digital marketing, and cloud IVR. Contact us today to attract new patients, increase efficiencies, and grow your business. | $6.5M | Series B | Jun 06, 2017 |  |
| Barnebys | Barnebys is the world’s leading search service for art, antiques and collectibles. We were founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2011 and have since then established our business globally with offices in New York, UK, France, Spain and Germany. Our clients include the world’s top tier of auctioneers, antique dealers, galleries as well as regional andlocal businesses. We are also offering an extensive free database of auction results and a top of the line valuation service. We are now looking to grow our business even further and are seeking top talent to join our team. | $3.3M |  | Apr 03, 2017 |  |
| Odilo | Odilo removes the technology barriers, allowing any institution to offer all kinds of digital content to its users whilst ensuring compliance with copyright laws.Their company is one of the leading software solutions for libraries offering a comprehensive product suite to discover, manage and distribute digital content as well as print.They are headquartered in Cartagena, Spain and have offices in Madrid, Spain; Miami, Florida; Mexico City, Mexico; and New York, New York.Their aim is to develop the market’s most innovative and creative solutions. They lead the way in defining and designing efficient, user-friendly products, serving the needs of public, private, university, school and special interest libraries today, while enabling them to transition into the future. | $6.6M | Series B | Mar 08, 2017 |  |
| Barnebys | Barnebys is the world’s leading search service for art, antiques and collectibles. We were founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2011 and have since then established our business globally with offices in New York, UK, France, Spain and Germany. Our clients include the world’s top tier of auctioneers, antique dealers, galleries as well as regional andlocal businesses. We are also offering an extensive free database of auction results and a top of the line valuation service. We are now looking to grow our business even further and are seeking top talent to join our team. | $4.4M | Series A | Dec 17, 2015 |  |
| Incubout.com | Incubout offers digital commerce merchants a complete toolbox to instantly build, operate and scale online stores. Merchants can build an online shop in less than 30 minutes without coding a single line. Once the shop is up and running, Incubout will publish the store catalogue across 50 marketplaces (e.g. including Tmall.com, Amazon, eBay, etc.)and takes care of the operational complexity, managing: payments, product feeds, publishing, procurement and even order management. On top, the company just added its world class mobile inventory system to complete its product suite. |  |  | Nov 10, 2015 |  |
| Percentil | Clothes that grow with your kids. Focused in the European market (first Spain) we are disrupting the way parents buy clothes for their kids for ever. Parents sell us like new clothes their kids don't fit anymore and other parents can buy those same clothes for their kids at crazy discounts. Sharing to the top, Spanish style... | $3.5M | Series A | Sep 17, 2015 |  |

10 of 42 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Active Venture Partners invest in?

Active Venture Partners invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 42 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Active Venture Partners's check size?

Active Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$8M at Series A and $1.8M–$10M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Active Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Active Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Active Venture Partners?

The team at Active Venture Partners includes Blair MacLaren (Partner), Christopher Pommerening (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Philipp Schroeder (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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