# Alberto Gutiérrez

> Alberto Gutiérrez is a seed investor at Plug and Play Spain backing Apps. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Plug and Play Spain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-spain-accelerator)
- Location: Valencia, Spain
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-gutierrez-3a74061

Alberto Gutiérrez is a seed investor at Plug and Play Spain in Valencia focused on Apps and Information Technology. 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $653k–$994k |
| Pre-Seed | $244k–$549k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Sales | 1 | 17% |
| Rental | 1 | 17% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 3 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lyzr | Lyzr is an enterprise agent framework for building reliable and self-learning AI agents that can communicate and exchange intel with one another, forming a knowledge mesh that leads to OGI - Organizational General Intelligence. At Lyzr, we take enterprise data privacy seriously, and hence, we designed the entire agent framework, including the APIstudio and OGI studio, to run locally on the customer's own cloud (VPC) or on-prem servers. | $8M | Series A | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| 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. | $993.7K | Seed | Feb 10, 2021 |  |
| 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. | $243.9K | Pre-Seed | May 10, 2020 |  |
| 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 | $549K | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2017 |  |
| 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. | $653K | Seed | Apr 28, 2017 |  |
| 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. |  | Seed | Oct 18, 2016 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Startupxplore](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startupxplore) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Abac Nest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abac-nest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Accenture Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accenture-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angels Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angels-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arka Venture Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arka-ventures-labs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Benhamou Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benhamou-global-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Plug and Play Spain

VC Fund · Paterna, Spain

At Plug and Play, our core objective is to catalyze technological advancement. Over the past 12 years, we have built the largest innovation platform on the planet, bringing together startups, investors, and blue chip corporations. We are now active in 22 locations globally, including U.S., Spain, China, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Singapore,Indonesia, and Brazil. We are experts in facilitating meaningful introductions, investing in startups, and bringing together key stakeholders into one world-changing network.Since inception, our startup community has raised over $9 billion in venture funding and we continue to make over 200 investments worldwide every year. Some of our success stories include Dropbox, PayPal (acq’d by eBay), Lending Club (NYSE: LC), NatureBox, SoundHound, Zoosk, Matcha (acq’d by Apple), VentureBeat, FiscalNote, CreditSesame, Api.ai (acq’d by Google), Milo (acq’d by eBay), AddThis (acq’d by Oracle), Baarzo (acq’d by Google), ChangeTip (acq’d by Airbnb), Danger (acq’d by Microsoft), Ellie Mae (NYSE: ELLI), Vudu (acq’d by Walmart).The industries we focus on are Fintech, Insurtech, Internet of Things, Brand & Retail, Mobility, New Materials & Packaging, Sustainability, Food & Beverage, Travel & Hospitality, Health & Wellness, and Supply Chain & Logistics.

5 contacts available at Plug and Play Spain.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alberto Gutiérrez | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberto-guti%C3%A9rrez |
| Kevin Chen | Mentor - Agtech & Foodtech | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-chen-8 |
| Michael Wood | Start-up Advisor & Executive in Residence | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-wood |
| Nazim Kareemi | EIR | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nazim-kareemi |
| Paloma Mas Pellicer | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paloma-mas-pellicer |

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## FAQ

### What does Alberto Gutiérrez invest in?

Alberto Gutiérrez invests primarily in Apps, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Alberto Gutiérrez's check size?

Alberto Gutiérrez typically joins rounds of $653k–$994k at Seed and $244k–$549k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alberto Gutiérrez participates in.

### When did Alberto Gutiérrez last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alberto Gutiérrez closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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