Top 15 Publishing Startup Investors in Spain in December 2024
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Publishing startups based in Spain. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Publishing companies from Spain. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Publishing Startup Investors in Spain in December 2024
Investor | Publishing Spain investments |
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Ines Ures | 2 |
Oscar Pierre | 2 |
Didac Lee | 2 |
Mangrove Capital Partners | 2 |
Fides Capital | 1 |
Nauta Capital | 1 |
Criteria Venture Tech | 1 |
Innovacom | 1 |
Andreas Mihalovits | 1 |
Miguel Arias | 1 |
Delivery Hero | 1 |
Lluis Faus | 1 |
Angel Faus | 1 |
Glovo | 1 |
Ayce Capital Partners | 1 |
Ines Ures is a Partner at IRIS Ventures.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom
Aerospace engineer and entrepreneur, Oscar Pierre, is CEO and co-founder of Glovo. He began his studies at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. After two years, he moved to Georgia Tech, in United States, to explore better opportunities.After graduating, he began his professional career as aerodynamics engineer at Airbus, at his base inToulouse. After 6 months he decided to look for new challenges and dedicate to creating a new business. Glovo began in early 2015. Previously, while studying,Pierre had already founded Zikkomo.com, a solidarity platform with 30 children sponsored in Malawi, and LoveItLocal.es in 2014, a market destined to boost local craft businesses. In January 2017 he was on Forbes magazine's 30under30 annual list of most influential young people.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Buo — Buo is a social commerce app.
- Papaya — Papaya offers platform to source, run and manage your electric vehicles.
- Premiumguest — All-in-one SaaS to manage and promote events.
Prior to founding Galdana Ventures, Didac has been an entrepreneur for more than 20 years, funding more than 15 tech companies (among others: Inspirit, TradeInn, Fhios, Peninsula, Threepoints - Planeta, Safe365) which today account for more than 800 employees and €300 million turnover.Dídac is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Galdana Ventures.With 1B USD fund invested in Silicon Valley (50%), China (30%) and Europe (20%), Galdana Ventures is considered one of the best performing Venture Capital Fund of Funds globally.Dídac is a former Board Member of FC Barcelona, he served on the Board for 10 years from 2010 to 2020. Since 2018, he was Head of Digital, an internationally recognized reference in its field, with 370M followers in social media and more than 100M Euros in turnover. Among Lee´s achievements at FCB, one of the biggest is the leading of the digitalization of the Club; his legacy is applauded by many. During his career, Dídac has received several awards, including the following: Doctor Honoris Causa (Universidad del Siglo 21), Entrepreneur of the Year (Pimec, 2019), Business Angel of the Year (AEBAN, 2019), Best European Startup Mentor Award (The Founder Institute, 2013), he has been listed by IESE as one of 20 most influential entrepreneurs under 40, and selected by WIRED magazine as one of the Top 100 European Digital Influencers (number 2 in Spain).Didac was born in Figueres (close to Barcelona), his parents are from China and he is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.Galdana Ventures (Co-Founder - 2015/Current)Galdana is a Venture Capital fund of funds founded and invested by successful tech entrepreneurs that invests in some of the top tier firms in the United States, Asia, Israel and EuropeGaldana’s management team counts on more than 80 years of accumulated experience as successful entrepreneurs and investors. It has taken part in the creation of 17 companies with an aggregate value of $1.5 billion and managed investments for approximately $240 million in 30 companies with an aggregate final value of $1 billion.Our investor base includes entrepreneurs who have founded companies worth more than $4 billion in aggregated value, and we work to further increase this base with successful entrepreneurs from all the regions where we invest.In addition to this, Galdana has partnered with Altamar Capital Partners, a fund of funds management company specialized in private equity, real estate and infrastructure with approximately $3.4 billion in historically committed capital.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Banking, Real Estate
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United States, United Kingdom
Mangrove Capital Partners is a contrarian investment firm helping innovative entrepreneurs start and grow.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.
- Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
- K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.
Fides Capital is an investment firm, specialized in seed and early stage technology-based companies with scalable B2B business models that have already achieved recurring income. We back committed and experienced teams who are capable of leading ambitious projects with international projection. But, beyond the professional abilities, for usit's essential to have a personal understanding and alignment of interests with the entrepeneurs in order to row together in the same direction. Partnering with the teams is a key pillar in Fides's investment strategy since we like to collaborate actively with them, sharing our experience and knowledge. We invest between 50,000 € and 400,000 € per deal by disbursing funds in gradual installments and we co-invest with other participants that assume the role of lead investor.Our portfolio companies are mainly in the telecom, B2B services, health, fintech and edutech sectors: - AdmInMe (www.admin-me.com)
- Agile Content (www.agilecontent.com)
- eGarante: (www.egarante.com)
- Excom (www.excom.es)
- Imegen (www.imegen.es)
- Indexa Capital (www.indexacapital.com)
- Joinup (www.joinuptaxi.com)
- Kuaderno (www.kuaderno.com)
- Masmovil (www.masmovil.es)
- Next (www.gruponext.es)
- Nuubo (www.nuubo.com)
- Playfilm (www.playfilm.tv)
- Quantyca (www.quantyca.com)
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Investment focus
- Software, Automotive, Telecommunications
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Lawwwing — Lawwwing provides a distinctive solution in the market for website compliance. It's a platform that automatically adapts your website or online store to regulations, keeping it up-to-date and personalized.
- Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
- CHECKTOBUILD — Compare automatically the reality of your construction inspection with the BIM Model and get an accurate as-built analysis.
Nauta Capital is a Venture Capital firm investing in early stage technology companies. Main areas of interest include B2B Software propositions, disruptive Digital Media companies, and enabling technologies for Mobile and the Internet. Nauta has over €300 million under management and invests across Europe. Nauta operates from London (UK), Barcelona(Spain) and Munich (Germany).
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Xonai — Big data analytics empowers large growing businesses worldwide by converting insights into actionable decisions and has become ubiquitous across modern data-driven businesses.
- NetBird — Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
- Spotted Zebra — Spotted Zebra's skills cloud powers skills-based organisations. Our platform ensures skills are the centre of every decision made about people. Whether talent acquisition, talent development or internal mobility, Spotted Zebra focuses people on skills.
Criteria Venture Tech is the tech VC fund of CriteriaCaixa which invests in B2B SaaS and DeepTech companies in early and growth stages (Pre-Seed to Series C) managing more than €300M of AUM.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Spain, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Enline — Technology for Power Systems, TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OPERATORS, INDUSTRY AND MINING, ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION, INSURANCE AND CONSULTANCY, UTILITIES & POWER GENERATION, ENLINE MONITORING SYSTEM, ENLINE DYNAMIC LINE RATING, ENLINE FAULT LOCATION, ENLINE POWER OPTIMIZATION .
- Medlumics — Medlumics is a medical device start-up born in 2009 from a compromise with improving human living standards by means of technology.
- KIT-AR — Reduce time and costs spent fixing errors on your manufacturing shopfloor with quality assurance and augmented reality- Click in to find how!
Innovacom provides new technologies, hardware, and software products. They focus on the creation of financial and strategic value through support, networking, and the search for the best industrial partners for our startups in a context of open innovation.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Telecommunications
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- France, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Samp — Samp accelerates modernization and de-risks contracts by connecting outdated drawings with current 3D reality captures of your facilities using our AI.
- Tilkal — Tilkal is the software infrastructure building traceability and transparency for industrial sectors. Combining private blockchain networks and big data, Tilkal organizes an end-to-end, real-time traceability across supply chains for greater control, security and transparency.
- Sirfull Technology — Solutions SIRFULL pour le soudage, l'inspection et la maintenance | Welding cloud logiciel soudage | Linspec Cloud logiciel inspection
Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
- CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
- GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.
Miguel Arias, proud dad, entrepreneur, and angel investor, has over 15 years of experience in building technology-based startups with a global reach.Miguel has founded startups before, and helped others grow in a variety of roles. He is a skilled generalist that understands technology as well as people-matters. His expertise encompasses tasks andchallenges, from the vision and strategy definition to product management, with special dedication to startup funding and investor relations.As Global Entrepreneurship Director at Telefónica, he is responsible for leading the new stage in Telefónica's open innovation strategy; this is committed to seeking out and developing technological solutions to complement internal R&D while creating an improved connection with international entrepreneurship ecosystems.Previously as COO at CARTO, he led the sales, financial, and operational efforts from its Madrid, NY, DC, London and Tartu offices, directing the company's growth and scaling-up.He loves to teach and share experiences as entrepreneurship professor at the IE Business School and MIB.Trying to enhance the Spanish entrepreneurial ecosystem, he co-founded and presides over Chamberi Valley, the main Madrid-based networking initiative for startups with over 1 million € revenue or 1 million € in investment.He writes his thoughts about entrepreneurship at http://emprenderagolpes.com.
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Investment focus
- Data Visualization, Customer Service, Legal
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Graphext — Graphext is a no-code platform for business intelligence helping you to build powerful data science projects.
- reclamador.es — reclamador.es offers legaltech and crowd complaining services to help customers claims to companies. Currently offering the service for claims to airlines, banks, assurances, etc or the public administration. Reclamador charges a success fee to the consumers for managing their claims and getting the compensation from the companies. Services arecurrently offered in Spain.
- DADA Company — DADA Company is an editorial project, open to a world of innovation in the area of illustrated books and interactive content, where we cater for different artistic visions, and where we bring together new and different ways of looking at the world and each other.DADA Company is formed by a team of experts in the production of digital content:enthusiasts of the arts, communication, technology, and educational fields. A team comprised of grown-ups (with a big inner kid) who have a broad experience of working on products aimed for children. This is a team that focuses on developing digital interactive books and promoting this format for its innovation in new functionality and services, offering children a rich, dynamic and flexible multimedia experience.DADA Company speaks to kids and to every curious person eager to explore new creative ideas, who have a desire to dream, reflect, discover and have fun.DADA Company offers children quality entertainment designed to educate them but also have fun (“pure edutainment”). It provides parents the satisfaction of knowing and offering their children an enriching learning experience.
Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, E-Commerce, Delivery
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, Colombia, India
Portfolio highlights
- LAIKA — LAIKA is an e-commerce platform for pets that offers a variety of products and services. LAIKA is like a dog with two tails right now. Its platform for pet products and services has been growing in recent months and it’s drawn the necessary investment to keep up its momentum.LAIKA built a digital platform where users don’t have to go anywhereelse to meet said needs. With two main sections; products and services. In the products section, we have more than 4,000 references (among which you can find most of the brands of food, snacks, medicines, accessories, and others). In the services section, we have more than 17 services, all the healthcare, beauty, and entertainment services. All of the above is delivered straight to your home and with the flexibility of choosing the date and time on and at which you wish to receive the order, including same-day deliveries for the main cities and accepting all payment methods, both online and cash on delivery.
- Buo — Buo is a social commerce app.
- OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
Lluis Faus is is the Co-Founder and Member of the Board at Lexdir. He attended Pompeu Fabra University.
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Investment focus
- News, Legal, Content
- Funding Round
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Lexdir — Lexdir is a spinout of vLex Group, the pan-hispanic site of legal answers for consumers and businesses. Lexdir provides ready-to-use legal information hot topics legal guides, a public legal Q&A answered by the directory's professionals, and is also a strong digital marketing tool for professionals, giving the chance to interact withconsumers before the need to hire a professional, and so developing strong and lasting relations. The company also runs Diariojuridico.com, the Spanish company in legal news for lawyers and professionals, providing news about firms and law market, top lawyers interviews and rankings, as well as a comprehensive selection of opinion articles from the most prestigious professionals. Lexdir develops its Latin American expansion. It has currently local site and operations in Colombia, Mexico and Chile, and will launch 5 more local sites and operations in the region until the end of 2014.
Angel Faus is Co-founder & CTO at vLex.
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Investment focus
- News, Legal, Content
- Funding Round
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Lexdir — Lexdir is a spinout of vLex Group, the pan-hispanic site of legal answers for consumers and businesses. Lexdir provides ready-to-use legal information hot topics legal guides, a public legal Q&A answered by the directory's professionals, and is also a strong digital marketing tool for professionals, giving the chance to interact withconsumers before the need to hire a professional, and so developing strong and lasting relations. The company also runs Diariojuridico.com, the Spanish company in legal news for lawyers and professionals, providing news about firms and law market, top lawyers interviews and rankings, as well as a comprehensive selection of opinion articles from the most prestigious professionals. Lexdir develops its Latin American expansion. It has currently local site and operations in Colombia, Mexico and Chile, and will launch 5 more local sites and operations in the region until the end of 2014.
Glovo is a Barcelona based start-up that is transforming the way consumers access local goods, enabling anyone to get nearly any product delivered in less than 60 minutes. They are currently present in Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and many more to come.Glovo’s mobile application connects customers withindependent local couriers, who acquire goods from any restaurant or shop in a city and also deliver urgent packages for a variable fee. The mobile app allows users to find and place orders with their favorite restaurants which are picked up when ready and delivered to the user's doorstep.The platform’s features include geolocation, which allows customers to track their deliveries in real-time and locate the nearest glover (courier), thus optimizing speed and distance. It´s like a new personal courier available to everyone that runs your errands immediately and on-demand.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Retail, Publishing
- Pre-Seed
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Buo — Buo is a social commerce app.
Ayce Capital Partners is an investment company advising their client in asset management and investments.
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Investment focus
- News, Legal, Content
- Funding Round
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Lexdir — Lexdir is a spinout of vLex Group, the pan-hispanic site of legal answers for consumers and businesses. Lexdir provides ready-to-use legal information hot topics legal guides, a public legal Q&A answered by the directory's professionals, and is also a strong digital marketing tool for professionals, giving the chance to interact withconsumers before the need to hire a professional, and so developing strong and lasting relations. The company also runs Diariojuridico.com, the Spanish company in legal news for lawyers and professionals, providing news about firms and law market, top lawyers interviews and rankings, as well as a comprehensive selection of opinion articles from the most prestigious professionals. Lexdir develops its Latin American expansion. It has currently local site and operations in Colombia, Mexico and Chile, and will launch 5 more local sites and operations in the region until the end of 2014.
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