# BBVA

> BBVA is a VC fund in Panama City backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Panama City, Panama
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/bbvapanama
- Website: http://www.bbvapanama.com/

BBVA is a VC fund in Panama City focused on FinTech and Financial Services. BBVA provides consumer, corporate, small-company banking, and financial security investment services. The company was established in 1968 and is based in Panama City, Panama.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$2M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$3.2M |
| Debt Financing | $70M–$6.2B |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 20% |
| Credit | 2 | 13% |
| Construction | 2 | 13% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 13% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 27% |
| Seed | 3 | 20% |
| Debt Financing | 3 | 20% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 2 | 13% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 27% |
| Spain | 3 | 20% |
| Mexico | 2 | 13% |
| France | 1 | 7% |
| Germany | 1 | 7% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ainhoa Campo | Global Head of Open Innovation | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ainhoa-campo |
| Alberto Arilla Gomez | Head of Global SWIFT Operations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberto-arilla-gomez |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Solaris | Solarisbank is Europe's leading Banking-as-a-Service platform. As a technology company with a full German banking license, Solarisbank enables other companies to offer their own financial services. Via APIs, partners integrate Solarisbank's modular banking services directly into their own product offering. The platform offers digital bankaccounts and payment cards, identification and lending services, digital asset custody as well as services provided by integrated third-party providers.To date, Solarisbank has raised more than EUR 160 million from a bluechip shareholder base, including ABN AMRO’s Digital Impact Fund, BBVA, finleap, Global Brain, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, Lakestar, Samsung Catalyst Fund, SBI Group, Storm Ventures, Visa, Vulcan Capital, and yabeo Capital. | $41.9M | Series F | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Greenspark | Greenspark incentivises and inspires companies to take action on environmental and social issues around the world.At a time when consumer and employee demand for action on climate change and social injustice is at an all-time high, we're giving businesses the tools they need to do something about it.Our Impact-as-a-Service Platform allowscompanies to create positive impact at key business touchpoints, track it in an easily digestible way, and then communicate it effectively with their customer base, site visitors and key stakeholders.The results are great for the planet, great for their brand image, and great for their bottom line. | $1.2M | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) | Empresas Públicas de Medellín provides Public utility service company. | $700M | Debt Financing | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| Rize ag | Rize accelerates the transition of agriculture from a net carbon emitter to a carbon sink by leveraging tech and carbon credit mechanisms. By generating carbon credits on behalf of farmers who adopt sustainable practices, the company supports the transition toward greener agriculture and provides an additional revenue stream for regenerative farms. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 07, 2022 |  |
| Opdenergy | Opdenergy is an international presence focusing on energy assets, development management, financing, construction, operation & maintenance. | $357.4M | Post-IPO Debt | Jul 22, 2022 |  |
| CityFibre | CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings plc is the UK’s largest independent provider of fibre infrastructure in secondary cities. It builds dedicated, next-generation, gigabit speed fibre networks for the public sector, business community and residential markets. Services are delivered by a number of Service Provider partners. The company currentlymanages over 100 private fibre projects and seven separate metropolitan fibre networks under long-term contract with local authorities, businesses and wholesale partners.The company owns the UK’s largest FTTH project in Bournemouth where its own Internet Service Provider Gigler currently offers one of the few gigabit residential and business services in the country. Alongside Bournemouth and York, CityFibre has recently announced Peterborough as its next Gigabit City project | $6.2B | Debt Financing | Jun 02, 2022 |  |
| Vitro | Vitro manufactures and sells glass products. It operates in two segments, glass containers, and flat glass. the glass containers segment offers glass containers for the fragrances, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals markets; provides precision components; supplies raw materials, and develops machinery and molds for the glass industry. the flat glasssegment offers flat glass products for the construction and automotive industries in the original equipment and automotive glass replacement markets; and provides carbonate and sodium bicarbonate. | $70M | Debt Financing | Apr 14, 2022 |  |
| Wiserentr | Wiserentr offers a renting service for brand new consumer technology, integrating a renting button at the checkout of existing e-commerce and mobile telcos. The decision is instantaneous. It represents the cheaper and most convenient option for consumers to access new technology. Wiserentr also controls the devices through their lifetime, managingsubsequent renting cycles as used products through its own website. Wiserentr measures and certifies the savings in carbon emissions thanks to the circular economy it contributes to create. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Apr 04, 2022 |  |
| Greenspark | Greenspark incentivises and inspires companies to take action on environmental and social issues around the world.At a time when consumer and employee demand for action on climate change and social injustice is at an all-time high, we're giving businesses the tools they need to do something about it.Our Impact-as-a-Service Platform allowscompanies to create positive impact at key business touchpoints, track it in an easily digestible way, and then communicate it effectively with their customer base, site visitors and key stakeholders.The results are great for the planet, great for their brand image, and great for their bottom line. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Greenspark | Greenspark incentivises and inspires companies to take action on environmental and social issues around the world.At a time when consumer and employee demand for action on climate change and social injustice is at an all-time high, we're giving businesses the tools they need to do something about it.Our Impact-as-a-Service Platform allowscompanies to create positive impact at key business touchpoints, track it in an easily digestible way, and then communicate it effectively with their customer base, site visitors and key stakeholders.The results are great for the planet, great for their brand image, and great for their bottom line. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 16, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does BBVA invest in?

BBVA invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Credit startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is BBVA's check size?

BBVA typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$2M at Seed, $1M–$3.2M at Pre-Seed and $70M–$6.2B at Debt Financing. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds BBVA participates in.

### How do I contact BBVA?

Public channels for BBVA include X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at BBVA?

The team at BBVA includes Ainhoa Campo (Global Head of Open Innovation) and Alberto Arilla Gomez (Head of Global SWIFT Operations). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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