# Sergio Álvarez-Leiva > Sergio Álvarez-Leiva is a seed investor at CARTO (Madrid) backing SaaS and FinTech. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026. - Type: Angel Investor - Fund: [CARTO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cartodb) - Location: Madrid, Spain - Total investments: 3 - Last investment: Jun 2025 - Lead investor: 33% - Last updated: Aug 2026 - LinkedIn: https://es.linkedin.com/in/saleiva - X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Saleiva Sergio Álvarez-Leiva is a seed investor at CARTO in Madrid focused on SaaS and FinTech. Sergio Álvarez-Leiva - Board Member @ CARTO ## Round sizes | Stage | Round size | | --- | --- | | Seed | $581k–$7.2M | ## Investment focus ### Industry | Industry | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | SaaS | 1 | 33% | | FinTech | 1 | 33% | | Big Data | 1 | 33% | | Software | 1 | 33% | | Analytics | 1 | 33% | 13 industries tracked in total. ### Stage | Stage | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Seed | 2 | 67% | | Series B | 1 | 33% | ### Country | Country | Investments | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | Spain | 2 | 67% | | United States | 1 | 33% | ## Investments | Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Abacum | Abacum is a SaaS that helps finance teams deliver business insights. Abacum is the first collaborative workflow and planning platform for SMB's finance teams to boost productivity and strategic impact. The company believes in empowering people with the best collaborative tools for them to multiply their strategic impact in the organization andbe more fulfilled. | $60M | Series B | Jun 11, 2025 | | | Katoo | Katoo creates tools to make the food supply chain efficient, fair and transparent. | $7.2M | Seed | Sep 30, 2021 | | | Graphext | No-code Advanced Data Analytics, much more powerful than dashboards and more intuitive than notebooks | $581K | Seed | Nov 11, 2017 | | 3 of 3 investments shown. ## Co-investors - [FJ Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fj-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together - [Cathay Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cathay-innovation-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together - [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Cathay Innovation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c-entrepreneurs) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Creandum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creandum) — VC Fund, 1 deal together - [Expa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/expa) — VC Fund, 1 deal together ## About CARTO VC Fund · New York, United States Carto is a platform that turns spatial data into an efficient delivery route, better behavioral marketing, and strategic store placements. From smartphones to connected cars, location data is changing the way we live and the way business happens. CARTO is the platform that turns spatial data into more efficient delivery routes, better behavioralmarketing, strategic store placements, and much more.Data Scientists, Developers, and Analysts solve spatial problems using CARTO’s data and analysis to understand where and why things happen, optimize business processes, and predict future outcomes through the power of Spatial Data Science.Backed by leading VC firms Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Earlybird Ventures, and Kibo Ventures, CARTO is the world’s leading Location Intelligence platform.Founded in 2012 by an environmental scientist and visualization experts, CARTO is headquartered in New York City with offices in Madrid, Seville and Washington DC. CARTO has a team of 130 employees, a portfolio of 2,500 customers including Mastercard, Vodafone, Bain & Company and Coca-Cola, and more than 350,000 users around the globe - and has regularly been recognized by G2, Gartner and Forrester for its innovation in the Location Intelligence space. 5 contacts available at CARTO. | Name | Title | Profile | | --- | --- | --- | | Sergio Álvarez-Leiva | Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sergio-lvarez-leiva | | Aaron Fusselman | North American Sales Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-fusselman-07d2 | | Alberto Asuero | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alberto-asuero | | Anne Marie Kilgallon | Head North America Revenue & Global Strategic Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anne-marie-kilgallon | | A S | VP Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-simcox | ## Similar investors ### Similar industry - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund - [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund ### Similar stage - [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund - [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund - [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund ### Similar country - [ENISA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enisa-2) — VC Fund - [Inveready](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inveready-technology-investment-group) — VC Fund - [Angels Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angels-capital) — VC Fund ## Featured in investor lists - [Big Data Angel Investors in Spain](https://shizune.co/investors/big-data-angel-investors-spain) ## FAQ ### What does Sergio Álvarez-Leiva invest in? Sergio Álvarez-Leiva invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Big Data startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio. ### What is Sergio Álvarez-Leiva's check size? Sergio Álvarez-Leiva typically joins rounds of $581k–$7.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sergio Álvarez-Leiva participates in. ### When did Sergio Álvarez-Leiva last invest? The most recent investment recorded for Sergio Álvarez-Leiva closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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? 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