Top 15 Social Impact Startup Investors in Spain

Investor	Social Impact Spain investments
Jean-Marc Armitano	1
Nekko Capital	1
Banco Sabadell	1
Fundacion Creas	1
Caixa Capital Risc	1
Mnext Venture Capital	1
B&Y Venture Partners	1
BStartup	1
Guillaume Houzé	1
Lucas Carne	1
Moussa Karim	1
Leandro Sigman	1
George Anson	1
Equity4Good	1
Florian Bressand	1

Jean-Marc Armitano

Investment focus

Web Apps, Communities, Marketplace
Angel
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Reforestum — Reforestum is the platform that allows everyone to see and understand the Voluntary Carbon Markets with full transparency and to manage and disclose organisations' offset portfolios with confidence.

Nekko Capital, a Barcelona-based Venture Capital firm aimed at investing in scalable early stage digital transformation companies led by outstanding teams with global ambitions and excellent execution capabilities. Nekko Capital has offices in Barcelona, London, Madrid & Paris.

Investment focus

Travel, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kintai — Kintai's a lending platform aiming to help small and medium companies with their funding needs. Based on a merchant cash advance model, companies can return their loans on a daily basis with low frictionless amounts.
Minube — Minube enables travellers to read reviews posted by others about various destinations, compare prices between hotels and flights, and share their own experiences on the site. Users can create travel blogs and post details about their favorite spots. The Minube app is available for iOS and Android devices.The website contains details of over 180countries and over 15,000 cities and price comparisons between more than 45 websites. Users can filter their destination search based on various categories such as gastronomy, weekend, adventure, culture, city, type of travellers, and more.Minube was launched by Raul Jimenez Algobia in 2007 and is operated from Madrid, Spain.
Profe.com — Profe.com is an educational tutoring platform where students, from Primary to High School, can connect with a personal tutor instantly to answer questions or prepare exams quickly, easily, and from the comfort of their homes.

Banco Sabadell is a banking group that specializes in serving small and medium enterprises. It comprises of several banks, brands, subsidiaries, and associated banks. The company was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in Alicante, Spain.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Funding Round, Debt Financing
Spain, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Thytech — Thytech is a health tech company.
Incapto Coffee — Incapto Coffee offers the sale of the automatic coffee machine and a subscription system for coffee beans.
Aquila Clean Energy — The clean energy development platform of Aquila Capital in Europe, Aquila Clean Energy EMEA.

They believe that the meeting between the business world and the social sector is the best way to create a sustainable future.They work towards this goal, they are pioneers in Spain in the use of social equity as investment vehicle that ensures the economic viability and social impact.Through their funds, please Creas and Creas Develop ,support social entrepreneurship and invest in business projects that are a priority to creating social and environmental value.Participating in the capital projects in which they invest , they add their expertise and foster a new model of understanding of the economic, social and environmental relationships.The professionals , the Advisory Board and network of collaborators who participated in Creas share with entrepreneurs and investors committed to act on reality and transform it.

Investment focus

Education, Software, Baby
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain, Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

KOIKI — Koiki is a Home delivery service that will pick‐up and deliver parcels at the time specified by the consumer. Koiki is a DISRUPTIVE, SUSTAINABLE (Social, Environmental), MOBILE Home Delivery Service within the SHARING ECONOMY.• Disruptive because Koiki changes the way we receive/send parcels from our homes. Nowadays, the transport companies(UPS, DHL,...)dictate the time at which the parcel is going to be delivered or picked up at your home. Koiki’s solution allows you to define the exact time at which you want the parcel to be delivered or picked up at your home• Social because Koiki Messengers will be crowdsourced from our neighborhoods and we will give preference to disabled and minorities communities.• Environmental because our Koiki Messengers as they live very near to the consumers, will deliver either walking, in bikes or in electric vehicles. Thus, reducing carbon footprint.• Mobile: Koiki is a Smartphone mobile App that will interconnect the Consumers and our Koiki Messengers• Opendata: in order to geolocate users, Koiki will build a Geographical Information System based in OpenStreetmap and will also use European Environmental Agency’s Data or local Townhall’s data in order to advise Koiki’s users on air quality within their cities or neighborhoods.• Sharing Economy: Koiki is a vertical transport marketplace within the sharing economy it is Scalable as and Inspired by companies like BlaBlaCar, Taskrabbit, Helloalfred…
Smileat — Smileat is an organic baby food brand. Smileat is present in more than 3000 point of sales. They are strongly implemented in Spain and they also started selling in Portugal, France, Italy and Hong Kong
Ironhack — Ironhack is a global school offering full time and part time courses in Web Development and UX/UI design. Ironhack was ranked as the #2 student-rated coding and design bootcamp in the world by national rating site Switch Up. Since 2013, with campuses in Miami, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Mexico City & Berlin, Ironhack has graduated over5,000+ students who are building their careers at global companies like Google, Visa, and Twitter.Ironhack was founded by Gonzalo Manrique and Ariel Quinones and is headquartered in Miami.

Caixa Capital Risc (CCR) is the VC arm of CriteriaCaixa which invests in innovative companies in their start-up and growth stages. The company has three specialised teams in the areas of Information Technology, Life Sciences, and Industrial technologies. Caixa Capital Risc currently manages more than €300m through 11 specialised vehicles.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

inari — INARI provides blockchain, machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies for the Insurance industry
AbolerIS Pharma — AbolerIS Pharma aims to develop novel and unique therapeutic approaches to induce immune tolerance.
Mobile Media Content - TICKETING3D — Mobile Media Content, a Barcelona, Spain-based provider of virtual visualization technologies, raised €400k in seed funding.Founded in May 2012 by Michele Marino, CEO and Francis Casado, Head of Business Development, Mobile Media Content provides TICKETING3D, a SaaS 3D seating chart of a venue, which allows the final user to check the view fromhis seat before purchasing a ticket. It also Tranfer3D, which lets any club or sports organization to move supporters or fans from one location to another, and Match3D, a 2nd screening tool that allows following matches in real time.The company currently employs 20 people

Mnext Venture Capital targets early-stage marketplaces & disruptive e-commerce businesses with a proven business model and supports them to become leaders in their respective fields. Mnext seeks to achieve social or environmental impact through ventures with business models based on technology.The geographic scope of Mnext is Spain and itsvision is to foster both innovation and quality employment, which show great room for improvement. Meridia Capital Partners advises Mnext in the corporate governance, business planning, strategic thinking, mentoring and networking.

Investment focus

FinTech, Apps, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Paymefy — Paymefy helps you recover more money faster and at a lower cost.
Worldcoo — Worldcoo is the European social company based in Barcelona, aimed at funding NGO solidarity projects through omnichannel committed companies (ecommerce, banks or retailers). Through the Charity Rounding Up, the establishments can offer their customers the option to round up their ticket and donate the cents to a social cause each time they usetheir card. The company is committed to innovation, solidarity and total transparency in every project it is involved in. Worldcoo is part of the B Corp movement and has the support of the European Commission as a result of participating in their Horizon2020 project. More information: http://www.worldcoo.com/. Its goal is to help people in need and make together a better world.Worldcoo was founded on 2012 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.
Agora Awards — AGORA images is the market of images without intermediaries where you can make money with your photos.

B&Y Venture Partners is a MENA based Venture Capital firm that invests globally at both seed and growth stage. We invest in visionary and high-impact founders aiming to create new markets or transform existing ones.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bridged Media — Bridge the gap between empathy to action to boost your engagement and retention on text, audio, and video. The easiest way to help your audience create an impact.
Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance.

A Banc Sabadell initiative to support young companies in developing their projects. Bstartup is designed to support entrepreneurs so their projects can be developed with maximum guarantees of success. - Investment and growth - Specialized products and branches - Collaborative innovation

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Dcycle — Dcycle develops environmental intelligence tool.
Oniria Therapeutics — Modulating cell dormancy to overcome cancer persistence
Nanobots Therapeutics — Nanobots Therapeutics is a deeptech firm focused on the development and commercialization of the MotionTx platform. MotionTx technology enables the development of novel therapeutic entities with better efficacy in penetrating tissues and increasing drug accumulation in target cells.

Guillaume Houzé Directeur de l’Image et de la Communication, Membre du Directoire chez Groupe Galeries Lafayette

Investment focus

Art, Web Apps, Communities
Seed, Angel
Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

Reforestum — Reforestum is the platform that allows everyone to see and understand the Voluntary Carbon Markets with full transparency and to manage and disclose organisations' offset portfolios with confidence.
LaCollection — LaCollection is creating a new way of owning digital versions of a physical artwork by working with cultural institutions. Like a limited edition “digital lithography”, collectors are now able to own certified digital twins of masterpieces from the world’s greatest museums, galleries, and artists.

Lucas Carne is Founder at Privalia.

Investment focus

Retail, Big Data, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Series A
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Groupalia — Groupalia is an e-commerce platform that offers discounted flash sales on leisure packages, services, food, and other products in Spain and Italy.Leisure-related services offered by the platform include daily deals ranging from restaurants, spas, gyms, events, adventures, and more. Deals are sold through coupons which buyers receive by emailenabling them to print and hand the coupons to the suppliers on the day of consumption.Groupalia provides consumers with the opportunity to buy attractive services at reduced prices and helps suppliers benefit by enabling them to ensure higher volumes, occupancy rates, and brand awareness.Groupalia was launched in May 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.
Decelera — Decelera is the world's first startup decelerator (born from the 4 years experience of Menorca Millennials).Decelera is a growing company that focuses on generating differential value through a deceleration methodology for our stakeholders (startups, investors, business leaders, and corporations).Decelera is helping startups in finding thebest performing model to grow in a sustainable way and contribute to a better future.

Karim joined EFG Hermes in 2008, with primary responsibility for building the Group's infrastructure private equity platform. He lead the creation of the Vortex Energy Platform and raised and deployed over USD350m of equity in yielding renewable energy assets across Europe. Karim has recently been appointed Co-CEO of EFG Hermes InvestmentBank, responsible for the entire buy-side business of the Group.

Investment focus

Big Data, Sustainability, Impact Investing
Funding Round
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Decelera — Decelera is the world's first startup decelerator (born from the 4 years experience of Menorca Millennials).Decelera is a growing company that focuses on generating differential value through a deceleration methodology for our stakeholders (startups, investors, business leaders, and corporations).Decelera is helping startups in finding thebest performing model to grow in a sustainable way and contribute to a better future.

Leandro Sigman

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Delivery
Seed, Funding Round
Spain, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

QuadMinds — QuadMinds is a SaaS company that offers logistics efficiency solutions in Latin America and Spain. QuadMinds go along with his clients throughout their digital transformation and adoption of innovative solutions for the business.The QuadMinds Platform allows companies to be more efficient in their logistics processes and offers a better service totheir clients at a competitive cost. Currently, more than 500 companies plan, certify and optimize their daily operations using the QuadMinds Platform. More than 125,000 delveries are optimized activities per day in our platform.
Decelera — Decelera is the world's first startup decelerator (born from the 4 years experience of Menorca Millennials).Decelera is a growing company that focuses on generating differential value through a deceleration methodology for our stakeholders (startups, investors, business leaders, and corporations).Decelera is helping startups in finding thebest performing model to grow in a sustainable way and contribute to a better future.

Managing Director at HarbourVest Partners.

Investment focus

Big Data, Sustainability, Impact Investing
Funding Round
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Decelera — Decelera is the world's first startup decelerator (born from the 4 years experience of Menorca Millennials).Decelera is a growing company that focuses on generating differential value through a deceleration methodology for our stakeholders (startups, investors, business leaders, and corporations).Decelera is helping startups in finding thebest performing model to grow in a sustainable way and contribute to a better future.

Equity4Good is managed by Ship2B with investment by the European Investment FUnd (EIF)

Investment focus

Health Care, Crowdfunding, Project Management
Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hannun — Hannun manufactures and designs rustic, industrial, and Nordic style furniture to turn houses into homes.
Devicare — Devicare designs point-of-care medical devices that monitor, diagnose and treat chronic diseases. The company's medical devices are useful in measuring the level of biomarkers in body fluids such as saliva, tears, sweat, sputum, feces, urine or blood, enabling medical professionals to detect and treat various infectious diseases.
AgroSingularity — AgroSingularity is an foodtech and environmental impact company.

Florian joined Mirakl‘s executive team as Chief Operating Officer in 2017. He oversees and organizes ongoing operations, actively supports Sales and Customer success teams, and takes an active part in all strategic decisions. Florian joined Mirakl after 13 years at McKinsey, where he served players in retail and services in over 25 countries.Florian graduated from HEC and holds an Msc in management CEMS.

Investment focus

Web Apps, Communities, Marketplace
Angel
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Reforestum — Reforestum is the platform that allows everyone to see and understand the Voluntary Carbon Markets with full transparency and to manage and disclose organisations' offset portfolios with confidence.