Top 15 Publishing Startup Investors in Spain in April 2025
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 April 2025
Investor | Publishing Spain investments |
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Ines Ures | 2 |
Mangrove Capital Partners | 2 |
Didac Lee | 2 |
Oscar Pierre | 2 |
Elaia | 1 |
Criteria Venture Tech | 1 |
Fides Capital | 1 |
Angel Faus | 1 |
Nauta Capital | 1 |
Lluis Faus | 1 |
ENISA | 1 |
Andreas Mihalovits | 1 |
Glovo | 1 |
Ayce Capital Partners | 1 |
ICF Capital | 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
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.
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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- Apps, Banking, Real Estate
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United States, 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.
Elaia is French venture capital firm focused on European digital and deep tech startups, from early stage to growth developpement. We back tech disruptors.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- France, United States, Spain
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- AQEMIA — Aqemia is an in silico drug discovery start-up, whose ambition is to discover rapidly more innovative therapeutic molecules with better chances of success.
- GetVocal AI — GetVocal AI is help companies automate customer service processes with the most advanced Conversational AI phone agent.
- Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.
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
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- 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!
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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- 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.
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.
We support visionary founders across Europe as they build the next generation of B2B software companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
- 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.
- Acai Travel — An all-in-one solution to enable your agents be twice as efficient, to optimize your call centers, and gain your customers' trust
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.
European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) founded in 2004.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Education
- Seed, Debt Financing, Grant
- Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cuimo — Cuimo is a motor company that offers transport, financing, and second hand motorcycle servicing.
- MJN Neuroservices — MJN improves the quality of life of people suffering from epilepsy thanks to our wearable ear piece that performs an EEG of the patient. By applying AI algorithms, MJN-SERAS is able to interpret the brain signal, record epileptic seizures, objectively improve the medical monitoring and permanently assess the risk of suffering an epilepsy seizure
- Recycap Technologies — Recycap Technologies develops and commercializes innovative and automated end-to-end coffee capsule recycling solutions and devices. It has created a patented platform for removing coffee grounds from coffee capsules, enabling aluminium capsules to be readily recycled.
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.
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.
ICF Capital is a venture and growth capital management firm from ICF. ICF is a public financial institution founded in 1985 and owned by the Government of Catalonia. Our mission is to foster and improve access to funding for companies that operate in Catalonia in order to contribute to the growth of the region's economy while complementing theprivate financial sector. ICF provides funding to Catalan companies and entrepreneurs. They assist them in their development and growth, generating value for society at large. The institution offers companies a range of products and services in the area of corporate finance, focusing on loans and guarantees and venture capital investments. ICF operates via a parent company, two subsidiaries (IFEM and ICF Capital), and an investee (AVALIS). ICF, through IFEM, supports the creation and growth of innovative start-ups through the investment in venture capital funds for seed segments and co-investment with private investors through participative loans. ICF Capital, which manages closed-end UCITS and is authorized by Spain's National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), manages, nurtures, and advises public and/or private funds or venture capital firms that provide capital to Catalan companies. At present, ICF Capital directly manages 2 venture capital firms: ICF Capital Expansió II and ICF Venture Tech II.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Seed
- Spain, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Zinklar — Transform your market research game with Zinklar. Agile consumer insights platform top choice. Gain actionable consumer insights in 3 Hours!
- 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.
- AtG Therapeutics — At AtG, we develop new drugs and biomarkers to stop cancer metabolic adaptation.
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