Mark Kavelaars
Founder & Managing Partner @ Swanlaab Venture Factory
Madrid, Spain
Mark Kavelaars is a seed investor at Swanlaab Venture Factory in Madrid focused on Software and SaaS. Mark Erik Kavelaars is based out of Alcobendas, Madrid and is the Founder & Managing Partner of Swanlaab Venture Factory. Mark previously worked at IVC as a Partner and Chairman. Mark Erik Kavelaars attended the European Business School (EBS) Madrid.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Mark Kavelaars invests in
Stages Mark Kavelaars invests in
Countries Mark Kavelaars invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (50%)
- SaaS 2 (33%)
- Legal 1 (17%)
- EdTech 1 (17%)
- Big Data 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (33%)
- Series A 1 (17%)
- Series B 1 (17%)
- Funding Round 1 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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RepScan
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RepScan is an eliminate the negative that the Internet says about you. Rapid negative reputation detection and removal technology. | $4.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 13, 2026 | |
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RepScan
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RepScan is an eliminate the negative that the Internet says about you. Rapid negative reputation detection and removal technology. | $3.1M / Series A / Feb 19, 2025 | |
Leemons Edtech Solutions
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SaaS collaborative learning platform to communicate, organize, plan, create content, manage knowledge and evaluate. | $1.8M / Seed / Jan 16, 2024 | |
Appentra
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In the software world, new technologies have recently put on the hands of companies and developers highly powerful tools which involve a leap in computing capabilities. First, heterogeneous multicore systems have become small and affordable supercomputers. Second, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and big data arerevolutionizing entire economic sectors. These powerful tools were up until now only accessible to a minority of organizations with massive resources but finally they have become mainstream. However, to take advantage of these powerful capabilities, companies need to adopt the computing technologies created for years in (HPC) market, particularly parallel computing. PARALLELWARE ANALYZER is the most complete and fast software aimed to enable developers to overcome the complexity of parallel programming. Appentra is a Deep Tech global company that delivers products based on the Parallelware technology, a unique approach to static code analysis specialized in concurrency and parallelism. Our aim is to make parallel programming easier, enabling everyone to make the best use of parallel computing hardware from the multi-cores in a laptop to the fastest supercomputers. | $5.5M / Seed / Sep 19, 2023 | |
Sales Layer
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Sales Layer is a global-leading PIM (Product Information Management) SaaS platform that allows teams to easily upload, analyze and enhance their product information and data. Products can then be showcased on every platform, app and marketplace in the world with just a simple few clicks - saving hundreds of working hours every single year. SalesLayer provides a quick and simple onboarding process, plug-and-play connectors, customizable workflows, and an intuitive UX for ease-of-use.Sales Layer is a market-leader, partnering with Google Manufacturer, Amazon Vendor, BigCommerce and Mercado Libre and working with clients such as Teka, Rexel, ACCIONA and AkzoNobel. Sales Layer PIM offers integration with Google, Amazon, Shopify and Magento, amongst a number of other selling platforms.Founded in 2013, Sales Layer has since grown rapidly, serving clients worldwide and operating offices in Valencia, Spain and London, UK. | $25M / Series B / Jun 18, 2022 | |
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Sales Layer
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Sales Layer is a global-leading PIM (Product Information Management) SaaS platform that allows teams to easily upload, analyze and enhance their product information and data. Products can then be showcased on every platform, app and marketplace in the world with just a simple few clicks - saving hundreds of working hours every single year. SalesLayer provides a quick and simple onboarding process, plug-and-play connectors, customizable workflows, and an intuitive UX for ease-of-use.Sales Layer is a market-leader, partnering with Google Manufacturer, Amazon Vendor, BigCommerce and Mercado Libre and working with clients such as Teka, Rexel, ACCIONA and AkzoNobel. Sales Layer PIM offers integration with Google, Amazon, Shopify and Magento, amongst a number of other selling platforms.Founded in 2013, Sales Layer has since grown rapidly, serving clients worldwide and operating offices in Valencia, Spain and London, UK. | $1.3M |
Co-Investors
About Swanlaab Venture Factory
Entrepreneurs and investors are combining large sums of money, work and effort to succeed at projects involving risk factors. Following the first development phase, they will face the challenges of selling, growing and expanding. Spain needs to integrate solid teams with strategic operations in order to become sound international references.Swanlaab provides a proven, reliable and safe process to detect the projects that have potential and investors seek. Our methodology and international operational teams work alongside entrepreneurs to accelerate their ventures’ growth. We not only invest financially, but also plan ahead to provide our entrepreneurs with the resources they will need. We carefully keep all controllable risk factors under our control.More than 80 professionals of 15 different nationalities who fit flexibly into a venture’s structure in order to expand successfully while minimizing all controllable risks. To take care of necessary, non-core processes: Market Acceleration, Technology, Operations, Administration, Investment Planning, Talent Development, Workplace and Networking. We invest in Spanish companies that have the potential to grow globally. We follow an investment method and fully monitor our businesses to ensure their success.Throughout the last 40 years, the experts of Swanlaab Venture Factory have advised over 2,000 companies through their establishment processes in the Spanish market and internationalization efforts abroad. His investment focus is on expansion capital; working with professional entrepreneurs who want to build robust, scalable and sustainable business from day one. Swanlaab Factory Venture invests in B2B businesses that feature a strong integration of technological innovation and are already up and running with clients. Main priority: reaching 3-4 markets within 18 to 24 months, with at least one investor besides FFF.
Swanlaab Venture Factory Contacts
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Juan Revuelta
General Partner
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Mark Kavelaars
Founder & Managing Partner
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Verónica Díaz-Obregón
Partner
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Dario Villena
Associate
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Martin Hunt
CEO, Swanlaab USA Ventures
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FAQ
What does Mark Kavelaars invest in?
Mark Kavelaars invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Legal startups, most often at Seed and Series A 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.
When did Mark Kavelaars last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Mark Kavelaars closed in Jan 2026. 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.
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