Juan Margenat
Co-founder & COO @ Marfeel
Barcelona, Spain
Juan Margenat is a Civil Engineer and also an MBA. He is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Marfeel. Margenat has a talent for spotting and investing in technology companies that are at the forefront of the industry and has served as an angel investor, mentor and advisor to numerous start-up companies in Europe (including Kantox,Habitissimo, Deporvillage, Captio, etc.). He served as the Founder and CEO at PlanB!, which is now part of Barcelo Group, one of Spain's leading tourist companies. He previously founded and served as the CEO at Bongo, which was later sold to Smart & Co. Both PlanB! and Bongo have received international recognition for their encouragement of tourism and commerce in Spain. Margenat is often relied on for counsel and support in the technology community in Barcelona and is the power behind a lot of successful companies coming out of Barcelona.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Juan Margenat invests in
Stages Juan Margenat invests in
Countries Juan Margenat invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Pre-Seed
- $371k–$640k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 2 (50%)
- SaaS 1 (25%)
- FinTech 1 (25%)
- InsurTech 1 (25%)
- Automotive 1 (25%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 2 (50%)
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Convertible Note 1 (25%)
Country
- Spain 2 (50%)
- The Netherlands 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Dealcar
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DEALCAR is a company that digitalizes the used car market through a SaaS platform, enabling fully digital transactions. This platform creates a network effect benefiting dealers, partners, and customers. • Dealers: Increase revenue by selling extra products and boost sales by reducing turnover time. • Partners: Distribute products at the pointof sale without marketing expenses, lowering operational costs. • Consumers: Purchase a used car easily in just three steps, enjoying a smooth, trusted process similar to renting but with the benefits of owning a car. | $3.1M / Seed / Feb 24, 2025 | |
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Dealcar
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DEALCAR is a company that digitalizes the used car market through a SaaS platform, enabling fully digital transactions. This platform creates a network effect benefiting dealers, partners, and customers. • Dealers: Increase revenue by selling extra products and boost sales by reducing turnover time. • Partners: Distribute products at the pointof sale without marketing expenses, lowering operational costs. • Consumers: Purchase a used car easily in just three steps, enjoying a smooth, trusted process similar to renting but with the benefits of owning a car. | $640K / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2023 | |
Iristrace
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Iristrace’s mission is to help great brands deliver on their promise. Iristrace enables enterprises to better manage their business risks with flexible control frames for their operations that can easily be changed as processes evolve. By subscribing to its SaaS platform, teams can collaborate better on quality and brand standards, oncompliance programs and on safety procedures. They can also use the platform to react faster to exceptions and incidents. With Iristrace, business experts without IT knowledge easily design and roll out their controls across their organisation in a record time. They can determine themselves whether controls are scheduled automatically, triggered by events or used in self-service. Iristrace makes data collection, consolidation, analysis and reporting much simpler. Data can come from team members themselves directly from their mobile app, from suppliers, from other systems or from IoT devices.With the Iristrace mobile app, employees become much more agile, while management and subject matter experts receive real time information on their tablet or desktop through the Iristrace platform.Customers save time and money by moving away from their disparate traditional tools and methods such as email, messenger, spreadsheets and slide decks or even pen and paper that many companies still use today. Tedious tasks such as chasing for information and reporting are greatly simplified. The benefits include a faster implementation of strategy, better staff and supplier engagement on the company’s objectives, improved compliance, shorter learning cycles, lower costs and a far superior customer experience as a result.Tens of leading companies in sectors such as retail, fashion, hospitality and automotive are benefitting from Iristrace’s platform to mitigate risks and benchmark their multiple business locations. Iristrace helps turning business risks into business valueWith Iristrace, your company will be able to: – See and follow data collection processes in real time – Get visual results as soon as they come in – Manage incidents and solve them immediately by means of a personalised notification system – Simply configure forms and checklists, without any IT knowledge – Request pictures and comments to obtain a visual proof as well as valuable additional information – Store all the data securely on private servers or in the cloud – Get an overview of the data collected in dashboards – Access data through spreadsheets and send data to other systemsPrivate infrastructure and networking are available as an option | $340K / Convertible Note / Feb 20, 2016 | |
Deporvillage
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Deporvillage.com is an online sports store specialized in leading brands of sports equipment. It aims to become the reference space for all athletes looking for the best brands, through the broadest depth and breadth of assortment at competitive prices with outstanding customer service through continuous innovation throughout the company'schain value. | $371K / Pre-Seed / Jul 01, 2011 |
Co-Investors
About Marfeel
Marfeel is an ad tech platform that revolutionizes the way publishers create, optimize and monetize mobile websites.As mobile traffic increases and surpasses desktop volumes, publishers are required to develop a multi-screen digital strategy that adapts to usage trends and stays ahead of the competition. Catering to publishers’ ever-changingneeds, Marfeel developed a proprietary technology that analyzes publishers’ unique audience – user habits, behavior and usage patterns- and dynamically adjusts the mobile site layout, to address these, which results in maximizing readership levels, engagement, page views, loading time and ultimately- ad revenue.Marfeel’s UX technology is designed to automatically update mobile content, reflecting any changes taking place on the desktop site, so that content is consistent across all channels, eliminating any need of IT support. All updates are done via the cloud, making the maintenance of mobile sites simple, user-friendly, and cost-effective for publishers.Marfeel’s exclusive partnerships with over 20,000 global ad networks and exchanges, ensures top-paying ads from premium advertisers.Now reaching over 500 million readers a month, the company’s groundbreaking website conversion and monetization solution has been recognized by Google, forming a strategic alliance with the search engine in 2015.Marfeel has been named a Top 100 European Startup for 2015 by WIRED Magazine, a Gartner Cool Vendor in Mobile Marketing, 2016 and has been included in Forrester's Ad Blocking research in 2016.Marfeel is backed by strategic investors in the mobile space, including: Nauta Capital, BDMI and Elaia Partners. To learn more about Marfeel, please visit https://www.marfeel.com
Marfeel Contacts
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Alberto Martinez Laguia
Director Financiero / CFO
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Alessandro Pregnolato
Head of Data
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Alexian Chiavegato
VP Marketing
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Juan Margenat
Co-founder & COO
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Oliver Fernandez
Principal Architect
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FAQ
What does Juan Margenat invest in?
Juan Margenat invests primarily in Internet, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Juan Margenat's check size?
Juan Margenat typically joins rounds of $371k–$640k 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 Juan Margenat participates in.
When did Juan Margenat last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Juan Margenat closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 4 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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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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