Asier Rufino Bengoechea
Managing Director @ Tecnalia Ventures
Bilbao, Spain
Asier Rufino Bengoechea is a Series A investor at Tecnalia Ventures in Bilbao focused on Energy and Renewable Energy. Asier is the co-founder and CEO of Tecnalia Ventures; he is Chairman and Board member in several deep-tech spin-offs; a Professor at Deusto Business School in the Finance and Entrepreneurship Masters; an European Union Commission Expert in Innovation in SMEs and a Business Angel Investor.Asier has previously worked for both blue-chipOrganizations such as: Accenture (Ireland), BNP Paribas (France), The Parthenon Group (UK-USA-UAE, Dubai), Eli Lilly (UK), Gilead (UK-Turkey) and smaller Organizations (start-ups and SMEs) always focusing on innovation; early stage investment and tech entrepreneurship.Before joining Tecnalia, Asier worked at the Basque Institute of Competitiveness (Orkestra) in projects such as the set-up of the most successful business angel network in the Basque Country and programs to help raise funding and internationalize local start-ups.Asier is the co-founder and member of the investment committee of Microwave Ventures, a seed capital fund focusing on software and internet investments; he is the Chairman of 3 start-ups and board member of several others. Asier teaches at Deusto Business School’s Finance and Entrepreneurship Masters; he is part of the European Commission Expert Group on Innovation in SMEs and a board member of the TTO Circle (JRC).Asier regularly participates in conferences as both a keynote speaker and a round table participant. He has also collaborated in several entrepreneurship and venturing books and articles.Asier holds an MBA from London Business School / Sloan MIT and has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from the Basque Country University in Spain with an Erasmus in Reims (France).
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Industry
- Energy 1 (100%)
- Renewable Energy 1 (100%)
Investments
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| Systems and Membranes for high efficiency and purity Hydrogen production i.e. for Separation or Ammonia cracking | $13.2M / Series A / Jun 28, 2022 |
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About Tecnalia Ventures
Tecnalia Ventures is a venture builder belonging to the Tecnalia research and technological development center, the first national center and one of the most relevant in Europe. It performs a comprehensive management of the life cycle of technological assets, from their definition to their commercialization. Thus, it maximizes its value and thentransfers them to the market through the creation of technology-based companies or the sale of industrial property and increase the return on investment made in R&D. In short, it transforms technology into GDP.To do this, they look for technologically disruptive solutions that solve problems of the corporate income statement, accelerate them by deploying technological capabilities in them, expose them from early stages of development to investment criteria and focus efforts on initiatives with greater commercialization potential. It is about accelerating the incubation of business opportunities, turning innovative technologies into invertible businesses capable of generating value for society.Since its creation in 2013, Tecnalia Ventures has established itself as a key tool for the valorization of R&D. As of December 31, 2016 they have promoted 22 active companies and have a portfolio of 13 investee companies, which accumulate 33.5 million euros of turnover and 267 jobs generated.In addition, Tecnalia has multiplied by seven the revenues it had in the section on the sale of industrial property, consisting of royalty income, technology sales and revenues derived from the creation and exploitation of new technology-based companies. Also, in 2016, in addition to the 12 applications for software registrations, Tecnalia applied for 28 new patent families, of which they obtained 11. Thus, the VB already has a portfolio of 116 families with 391 patents and is sixth in the ranking of Spanish companies with more European patent applications.
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