# Chris Bouwer

> Chris Bouwer is a seed investor in Barcelona backing FinTech, Finance and Software. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-bouwer-0730761

Chris Bouwer is a seed investor in Barcelona focused on FinTech and Finance. Chris Bouwer is the Advisory Board Member of Cellulant.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $978k–$2.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $589k–$1.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 33% |
| Finance | 2 | 33% |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 33% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Angel | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 2 | 33% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BIYU | BIYU offers rental equipment services for gardening, party, cleaning, and the kitchen. | $978.3K | Seed | Nov 01, 2024 |  |
| Polaroo | Polaroo is a centralized platform that allows its users to manage, optimize, and unify household bills. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Barcelona, Spain. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| BIYU | BIYU offers rental equipment services for gardening, party, cleaning, and the kitchen. | $588.9K | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2021 |  |
| Cobee | Cobee develops an online platform that automates and simplifies employee benefits management. The company also provides benefits for employees and flexible compensation that makes companies and employees fall in love. It facilitates the management of your benefits plan and allows you to focus on what really matters.Cobee provides a subsidy toyour employees to complement the cost of the benefits you want. They eliminate intermediaries and external suppliers of each of the benefits, thus achieving such as reduce costs and improve service quality for companies and employees, create a single source of information, which facilitates the management, resolution of incidents and the visibility of what happens in each moment, and offer your employees a benefits package centralized on the same VISA card, with real-time visibility of the savings generated and controlled from their Cobee App.Cobee was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain. | $2.3M | Seed | Feb 24, 2020 |  |
| Polaroo | Polaroo is a centralized platform that allows its users to manage, optimize, and unify household bills. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Barcelona, Spain. | $1.1M | Seed | Nov 01, 2019 |  |
| Polaroo | Polaroo is a centralized platform that allows its users to manage, optimize, and unify household bills. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Barcelona, Spain. |  | Angel |  |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Shamrock Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shamrock-ventures-6f32) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Abac Nest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abac-nest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arket Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arket-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BStartup - Banc Sabadell](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bstartup-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Encomenda VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/encomenda-vc-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [IGNIA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Bouwer invest in?

Chris Bouwer invests primarily in FinTech, Finance and Software 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 Chris Bouwer's check size?

Chris Bouwer typically joins rounds of $978k–$2.3M at Seed and $589k–$1.6M 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 Chris Bouwer participates in.

### When did Chris Bouwer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Bouwer closed in Nov 2024. 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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