Ander Michelena
Founding Partner @ Acurio Ventures
Bilbao, Spain
Ander Michelena is a Series A investor at Acurio Ventures in Bilbao focused on Software and Online Portals. Ander Michelena Llorente : Graduated in Business Administration and Finance in the Universidad Pontifica de Comillas ICADE (Madrid). He start his career in Morgan Stanley London, where he specialized in merger, acquisitions and IPOs of European financial institutions. In 2009 he left the Bank to create Ticketbis.com, a market where fans can buy orsell tickets, with his partner Jon Uriarte. In 2014, Ticketbis became the leader in South Europe and Latam with presence in 30+ countries and over 300 employees in 14 offices around the word with revenues of Eur 60m. Ticketbis has recently started operations in Asia with a special focus on the Japonese market throught Ticketbis Japan
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 58%
Last updated:
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Industries Ander Michelena invests in
Stages Ander Michelena invests in
Countries Ander Michelena invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (25%)
- Online Portals 2 (17%)
- Information Technology 2 (17%)
- NFC 1 (8%)
- PaaS 1 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (33%)
- Seed 2 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series C 1 (8%)
Country
- Spain 5 (42%)
- France 1 (8%)
- United States 1 (8%)
- United Kingdom 1 (8%)
Investments
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PassEntry
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The global digital pass issuance company that bridges the gap between your physical wallet and your digital wallet. We do this via our open API platform allowing developers to integrate our technology for their own use cases. | Mar 06, 2025 | |
Crescenta
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Your Alternative Investment Space | $8M / Series A / Dec 27, 2024 | |
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PassEntry
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The global digital pass issuance company that bridges the gap between your physical wallet and your digital wallet. We do this via our open API platform allowing developers to integrate our technology for their own use cases. | $6.6M / Series A / Dec 01, 2024 | |
Exoticca
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Exoticca develops an online booking platform to facilitate travel tour package deals. It offers holiday packages, including flights, accommodation, meals, guides, and private transport, for locations worldwide. The packages are designed to make travel to destinations more accessible, with partial and guided tour options. Exoticca's mission isto make exotic destinations accessible to more people by offering high-quality trips at competitive prices. They achieve this by partnering with local travel experts and negotiating deals on accommodations, activities, and transportation. Their innovative model allows them to create bespoke travel packages that cater to modern explorers seeking unique and luxurious adventures. | $65.1M / Series D / Jul 23, 2024 | |
Insurama
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Insurama offers various digital products and services for the online distribution of end-to-end insurance. | $8.6M / Series A / May 13, 2024 | |
Manglai
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Manglai is a user-friendly platform that simplifies, speeds up, and ensures the accuracy of carbon footprint measurement, reduction, and certification. | $538.8K / Pre-Seed / Feb 19, 2024 | |
PharmaCCX
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PharmaCCX operates a market access platform with a simple and configurable infrastructure for planning, negotiating, and managing deals. The company software increases the capacity of market access teams at pharma and payers to plan, execute and administer innovative payment models | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 29, 2023 | |
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Crescenta
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Your Alternative Investment Space | Seed / Jun 10, 2023 | |
Lookiero
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Lookiero is an online personal shopping service limited to female customers. It claims to have more than 250,000 registered users in France and Spain, though won't disclose the number of active users. On the platform, users indicate their size, tastes, and preferences, and then receive a package with five clothing items and accessories chosenfor them. The customers are free to keep as many items as they want—although they get a 25 percent if they keep all five. | $30M / Series C / Jul 13, 2021 | |
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Lookiero
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Lookiero is an online personal shopping service limited to female customers. It claims to have more than 250,000 registered users in France and Spain, though won't disclose the number of active users. On the platform, users indicate their size, tastes, and preferences, and then receive a package with five clothing items and accessories chosenfor them. The customers are free to keep as many items as they want—although they get a 25 percent if they keep all five. | $19M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 20, 2019 | |
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Co-Investors
About Acurio Ventures
Acurio Ventures partners with visionary founders to make history happen. Acurio Ventures is a European early-stage VC that invests across sectors and business models and that relies on its entrepreneurial DNA, flexible approach and proven value add to partner with the best founders out there.
Acurio Ventures Contacts
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Ander Michelena
Founding Partner
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Ander Michelena
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Bart Tompkins
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Diego Recondo
General Partner
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Hugo Mardomingo
General Partner
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What does Ander Michelena invest in?
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