# Top 50 SaaS Angel Investors in Spain in June 2026

## Andreas Mihalovits
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## François Derbaix
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 20
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Francois Derbaix is the Co-founder and co-CEO of Indexa Capital. He previously worked at Toprural as a Founder and CEO. Francois Derbaix attended the Catholic University of Louvain.

## Carlos Blanco
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Apps

Carlos Blanco is the Chairman and CEO of Encomenda Capital Partners SGEIC. He previously worked at Hastee as a Partner. Carlos Blanco attended Pompeu Fabra University.

## Juanjo Mostazo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Málaga, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, B2B

Juanjo Mostazo

## Albert Armengol
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Mobile Apps

Albert Armengol took up his MBA at Esade.

## Yago Arbeloa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, E-Commerce, FinTech

Yago Arbeloa - President @ MIOGROUP

## Didac Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile

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.

## Fernando Cabello-Astolfi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

Fernando Cabello-Astolfi is a Co-Founder and CEO at Devengo. Fernando previously worked at Ibercheck as a Co-Founder and co-CEO. He attended The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

## Felipe Navio
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Cofounder and Co-CEO of jobandtalent.

## David Tom&aacute;s
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Internet, Software

David Tomas is General Manager Cyberclick, group of companies specializing in online advertising and marketing, based in Barcelona, Madrid and Bogota, and awarded in December 2013 as Third Best Workplaces in Spain.He has over 15 years of experience in the online world. He is an engineer and completed a program of Entrepreneurship at MIT,Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2012 he was named one of the 20 most influential entrepreneurs in Spain, under 40 years, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 and IESE.From Cyberclick, has developed a range of online advertising campaigns: web advertising, email marketing, mobile marketing, coregistros, etc. The objective of this group of companies is to improve the conversion of client campaigns. Specialize in online lead generation through search marketing actions. Only generate quality leads, create and manage mobile campaigns, inbound and email marketing, optimizing the cost of finding customers through online advertising. And also generate databases through coregistros. Cyberclick currently works for both Spanish and international companies from different sectors: education, NGOs, distance selling, or B2B e-commerce, among others.Likewise, David Tomas is a member of the board of Adigital, Spanish Association of Digital Economy, and the Board of Entrepreneurs Organization and actively participates in Founders Institute and SeedRocket, reference initiative in Spain for entrepreneurs with technology-based projects. In the latter, he has mentored projects like Deporvillage, Habitissimo, Captio and Social & Loyal, among others. He has spoken at various events and teaches marketing and ICEMD EADA.

## Bernardo Hernandez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Apps, Delivery

Bernardo Hernandez is leading Spanish Business Angel. He graduated from ICADE, a top Business School in Madrid Spain in 1993. He has a Masters in Finance from Boston College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
At the age of 29, after 5 years as an analyst and portfolio manager in the asset management industry with companieslike Fidelity and Putnam Investments, he started his first internet venture idealista.com, now the leading real estate online portal in Spain. Since then he has participated in other online start-ups as a Business Angel, like floresfrescas.com, planetaki.com, 11870.com or the leading social network in Spain, tuenti.com.His latest venture is StepOne.com, a company that helps Spanish businesses to get established in the US. He is also member of the board at Bodaclick.com, the first  Spanish internet company to go public.Bernardo joined Google in 2005 and is currently Director of Product Management and Managing Director for Zagat. He is based in New York.

## Tom Horsey
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Delivery, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Tom Horsey is the Director and Co-Founder of StartupLabs Malta. He previously worked at Transeop as an Investor. Tom Horsey attended Aston University.

## David Carrero Fernandez-Baillo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce

David Carrero Fernandez-Baillo is the Co-founder and VP Sales at Stackscale.

## Juan Urdiales
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Cofounder & CoCEO at jobandtalent.

## Hugo Arevalo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Fashion, FinTech

Hugo Arévalo is co-founder of Buytheface , Bright & Sharp , and Albau Ventures . In addition, he has invested in: Jobandtalent , Cabify , Ontruck and Deporvillage : and has led the 50M € round of Hawkers . One of its criteria is the qualification of management. Lately, it is focused on investing in marketplace, fintech and ecommerce, althoughit is open to any sector. Among his exits, Tuenti and Buytheface stand out .

## Inaki Berenguer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Inaki Berenguer is the President and Co-founder at iPronics Programmable Photonics.

## Miguel Arias
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Data Visualization, SaaS

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.

## Jesus Monleon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, FinTech

Jesus Monleon is a serial entrepreneur and Internet enthusiast. Co-founded eMagister.com, SeedRocket and Offerum founder, a daily offers collective buying company.

## Carlos Domingo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Social Media, Internet, Software

Carlos Domingo is the Founder & CEO at Securitize.

## Rene De Jong
- Type: Angel
- Location: Salamanca, Castilla y Leon, Spain
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Events

René is an independent adviser and businessman working with Equiteq in Spain in the consulting and IT services sectors. He draws on his extensive business career and personal experience of major corporate transactions to guide owners through growth and M&A. 

## Pere Mayol
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Film

Pere Mayol - co-Founder - co-CEO & COO @ Avatar Cognition

## Juan José Mostazo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, EdTech, FinTech

The BidMotion engineering team lead studied computer engineering in his home country of Spain before beginning his entrepreneurial career in the mobile industry, founding a multimedia content aggregator for mobile devices. CTO Juan José Mostazo then transplanted to Berlin to continue his career in system architecture, where he joined forces withDaniel Nathan in the German capital on the Datalift team, following his first AdTech endeavor with Hitfox Group. Juanjo currently defines the technological direction of the BidMotion platform, leading the engineering team and managing the platform architecture.

## Kintxo Cortés
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

Kintxo Cortés is the Head of Expansion at Gigs.com

## Felix Ruiz Hernandez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Content, Logistics

Félix Ruiz, founder of Tuenti and president of Jobandtalent. He has invested in startups Jobandtalent, Syltek, Vitcord, Fudeat, Glovo or Deporvillage. As a business angel does not follow any pattern, invest for the team. Bet on internationally scalable projects that do not depend on a single market. Personal investments are made as entertainmentwithout being involved in day to day. When it involves investors, it decides to be part of the company's operations, such as Jobandtalent. He is considered an architect and accelerator of companies, invests in the technology and restoration sectors. His two exits are Tuenti and Buytheface.

## Enrique Linares Plaza
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Apps

Enrique Linares co-founded Letgo in October 2014, since which he has been serving as its chief executive officer.

## Guillem Serra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, EdTech, Retail

Guillem Serra has an experience of more than 19 years, both in the field of health and in the world of investments.He has been a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, a search engine and developer as a project manager at Gem-Med, SL, R & D Health manager and head of the health market at Barcelona Digital Technology Center.Currently, he is the director of business development at iSalud.com and CEO & Co-Founder at Medipremium.In addition, he is an investor in several projects, such as Taiga Agile, Singularu, and Cuidum.

## Ivan Peña Uribe
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Payments, Financial Services, B2C

Ivan Peña Uribe is Head of Capital Markets & Co-Founder at Ritmo. Attended University of Deusto.

## Pedro Tortosa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps

Pedro Tortosa is Founder and CEO at Peak Thomas. He attended EUITT La Salle Bonanova.

## Oscar Pierre
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS

Aerospace engineer and entrepreneur, ​O​scar ​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.

## Vincent Rosso
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Apps, Mobile

Vincent Rosso is founder of BlabBlaCar Spain, SeedPop Capital and Consentio. As a business angel, he opts for marketplace-type digital startups with a scalable model and a powerful team with two minimum co-founders. His investments include BlaBlaCar, TheBrubaker, Monkimum, LetsGoi, SocialCar, PeopleITrust, MicoCar, LeasePilo and Startupxplore. Youhave made two partial exits in BlaBlaCar and OnTruck.

## Xavier Pladellorens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2C, SaaS, Hotel

Xavier Pladellorens - Co-Founder & CEO @ Deporvillage

## James Argalas
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software

James Argalas is a director of Axos Bank.

## Kilian Thalhammer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Kilian Thalhammer - Managing Partner @ Pearlscout

## Alberto Hospital Marco
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Logistics

Alberto Hospital Marco

## Pere Valles
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Software, B2B, SaaS

Pere joined Scytl in March 2004 after spending most of his professional career in the United States. Prior to joining Scytl, Pere was Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of GlobalNet, a NASDAQ publicly-traded telecommunications company headquartered in Chicago.Pere assisted GlobalNet in becoming one of the leading providers ofVoice-over-IP in the world and was instrumental in the successful sale of the company to the Titan Corporation, a NYSE defense company.

## Adeyemi Ajao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Adeyemi (“Ade”) is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor.Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and afounding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B). While at Workday, Ade led launch to Workday Ventures, the first fund focused on Applied AI for Enterprise Software and was VP of Technology Strategy.Ade is originally from Spain and half Nigerian. He holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He also holds a J.D. in Law and a M.S in Economics from Icade University in Spain and studied a certificate on Machine Learning at Stanford.

## Marcos Alves Cardoso
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Apps, SaaS

Marcos Alves Cardoso Partner & Chief Growth Officer LUDA Partners. He attended IE (Instituto de Empresa) 2012-2012.

## Luis Martin Cabiedes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Music

Luis Martín Cabiedes is part of Cabiedes & Partners, a company specialized in investments in early-stage technology startups and, usually, in Spain. Previously, he studied Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid and was CEO of Europa Press for twelve years. Among its investment startups include Printcolor, Bubok, Blablacar, Uvinum,Credimarket, Talmix, Tiendeo, Deporvillage, Deskidea, Kantox, Modalia, Derecho.com, Weareknitters, Clinicpoin, Smadex, Funidelia, Reclamator, Chicfy, Traventia, Aprendum, Zacatrus, Cocunat , Socialcar, Suop, Dietox, Postpone, Advise, startupxplore, ovipac, Labellessiette, Gocater, Livetobe, Tiko, Tripsum, Besepa, Wetaca, Tviso, Regalador, Kuaderno, Tripuniq, Laagam, Celebrents, Tomabida, BePretty, Sevensenders, Baluwo and Rentuos .

## Baldomero Falcones
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software

Baldomero Falcones is a former chairman of MasterCard, former chairman and former CEO of FCC, and former COO of Banco Santander.

## Oscar Fuente
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, SaaS

Oscar Fuente is the founder and CEO of the IEBS Business School.

## Sina Afra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet

Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.

## Alberto Gutiérrez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Sales, Rental

He is currently CEO and cofounder Viva Aqua Service Spain, leader of mineral water service to companies and households has more than 80,000 customers, 14 branches and employs more than 400 people company. Alberto has extensive experience in business development in Spain and is an expert in strategy, development of sales and distribution channels.Alberto is a graduate of Santa Clara University in Business Administration and has completed the Stanford Business School EPGC and executive negotiation program at Harvard Business School.

## Iñaki Arrola
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Iñaki Arrola founded coches.com as entrepreneur in 2003. He invested as BA during some years and raised two funds. Vitamina K in 2011 and in 2016 K Fund.

## Eneko Knorr
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Fashion

Eneko Knorr is the CEO and Co-Founder of Stabolut. He previously worked at AngelClub as a Co-Founder. Eneko Knorr attended IE Business School.

## Jordi Miro Bruix
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Grocery

Jordi Miro Bruix is the CTO at The Hotels Network. Jordi also serves Teltoo as an advisory board member.

## Michael Benabou
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Real Estate, B2B

President at Financiere Saint James.

## Javier Olivan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, FinTech

Javier Olivan is the Chief Operating Officer of Meta. He previously worked at MercadoLibre.com as a Board Member. Javier Olivan attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Jacky Abitbol
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Health Care

Jacky Abitbol is a Partner at Cathay Innovation, based in Paris. He benefits from over 17 years of advisory and operational experience in Telecommunications, Medias and Technology, with a particular expertise in venture capital and corporate development.Prior to joining Cathay Capital, Jacky was a Venture Partner with Iris Capital in Israël from2012 to 2015. In this role, he was responible for identifying investment opportunities for Iris Capital and monitoring local portfolio companies. In addition Jacky headed the Corporate Development activity for Orange startups program.
Before, he was Vice President for Corporate Development at Orange Digital from 2012 to 2013 and Investment Director at Orange Capital (now Iris Capital) from 2011 to 2012.Previously, Jacky Abitbol was Business Development & Sales Director for the mobile division of SanDisk from 2006 to 2011 and worked as a Corporate and Business Development Director at GFI in Spain from 2003 to 2006.He started his career as part of the management team of Fantine Group (now Aviv Ventures).Jacky holds a MBA from Boston University and a degree in Business Administration from Madrid Business School.

## Gerald Heydenreich
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Retail, Content, Women's

Gerald has been an entrepreneur since 1999. At the age of 25 he founded PORTUM AG, the first European provider of b2b reverse online auctions and sourcing events with a trading volume of more than €10 billion which was sold to IBX / Cap Gemini in 2006.
He then co-founded BuyVIP, an eCommerce shopping community and sold it to Amazon in 2010with more than 8 million members, 320 employees and a turnover of more than 140 million USD. In 2012, he founded Pippa&Jean, a social selling community that has helped more than 5,000 women to become self-employed and paid more than €10 million in commissions before being sold in 2018.
In 2019, he founded youtiful, the world's first climate-neutral beauty involvement brand and cang.eco a subscription service for healthy and sustainable FMCG products which eventually had to shut down. Since then he has been focusing on Blockchain & Web 3.0 Investments and created with Shant Kevonian the Barcelona Blockchain Network, a tech incubator, venture studio and seed investor focused on web 3.0 from which they jointly founded EtherMail, the first web 3.0 email provider allowing wallet-to-wallet communication.
Since 2006, Gerald has also been an active investor in start-up companies through Omnis Mundi and Firestartr, a network of entrepreneurs that he founded together with Alain Falys. He is a member of the Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) and strongly believes in entrepreneurship as a way of life and, above all, as a means to make the world a better place.

## Rat Gasol
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, PC Games, Software

Rat Gasol
