# Ander Michelena

> Ander Michelena is a Series A investor at Acurio Ventures backing Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-iron-ventures)
- Location: Bilbao, Spain
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-uriarte-uranga-abb88721
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Juriura
- Website: https://www.acurio.vc/team

Ander Michelena is a Series A investor at Acurio Ventures in Bilbao focused on Software and Information Technology. 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

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 17% |
| NFC | 1 | 8% |
| PaaS | 1 | 8% |
| RFID | 1 | 8% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 4 | 33% |
| Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 5 | 42% |
| France | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PassEntry | 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 | Your Alternative Investment Space | $8M | Series A | Dec 27, 2024 |  |
| PassEntry | 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 | 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 | Insurama offers various digital products and services for the online distribution of end-to-end insurance. | $8.6M | Series A | May 13, 2024 |  |
| Manglai | 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 | 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 |  |
| Crescenta | Your Alternative Investment Space |  | Seed | Jun 10, 2023 |  |
| Lookiero | 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 |  |
| Lookiero | 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 |  | Sep 20, 2019 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acurio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/all-iron-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Bonsai Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonsai-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [MMC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mmc-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [10x](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [14W](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/14-w) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Acurio Ventures

VC Fund · Bilbao, Spain

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.

5 contacts available at Acurio Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ander Michelena | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-uriarte |
| Ander Michelena | Founding Partner; Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ander-michelena |
| Bart Tompkins | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bart-tompkins |
| Diego Recondo | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diego-recondo |
| Hugo Mardomingo | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hugo-mardomingo |

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## FAQ

### What does Ander Michelena invest in?

Ander Michelena invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and NFC startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ander Michelena last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ander Michelena closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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