# Top 40 Recruiting Startup Investors in Spain in May 2026

## Caixa Capital Risc
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, E-Commerce

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.

## LocalGlobe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Seeding ambitious founders at places like @citymapper, @improbableio,@teamkano, @moo, @songkick,@seedcamp, @transferwise and @zoopla since 1999. Who's next?

## Finaves
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Recruiting, Information Technology

Finaves brings together IESE expertise, investors and entrepreneurs to foster new enterprises.

## Ignacio Lucea
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Recruiting

Ignacio Lucea - Co-Founder @ Mintted

## Nazca Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services

Mountain Nazca is a Venture Capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs who seek to build tomorrow's breakout and transforming technology-enabled businesses. Mountain Nazca applies a true bottom-up approach in its quest to help founders reach their ultimate goals. The firm provides entre preneurs with multi-stage venture capital, a highlyimpactful local and global network, robust market intelligence, insights on strategy formulation and deployment, legal and regulatory advice, high quality talent sourcing, and acces to premium business partnerships. Mountain Nazca focuses in Latin American and US companies with global understanding and ambitions. We back proven breakout propositions in Latin America's vas and untapped markets as well as transforming innovations created in early adopting markets like the US. The firm holds operations in San Francisco, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Additional hubs, thorugh Mountain Partners, include Berlin, Zurich, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others. Mountain Nazca was founded as Nazca Ventures in early 2014 by some of Latin America's most prominent technology entrepreneurs. It subsequently merged with global venture firm Mountain Partners to achieve robust global capabilities.

## Join Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

JOIN Capital is an early stage VC focused on pre-Series A investments in Industry 4.0 and enterprise tech. Our portfolio companies are front and center at factories, delivering smart machinery and robotics for high-volume manufacturing. They’re behind the scenes with powerful algorithms for managing global production systems. They rethink andrewire essential processes, with the goal of maximizing human capabilities. We invest in technologies related to core business functions: operations, manufacturing, data analytics, supply chain and software development. We seek innovative solutions to real customer problems that have achieved product-market fit. Technologies we invest in include: machine learning, robotics, cloud computing, IoT, smart sensors.

## Bonsai Venture Capital SCR
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Advertising, Mobile Apps

Bonsai Venture Capital has been encouraging entrepreneurs since 1999.

## Point Nine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Point Nine Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused exclusively on early-stage Internet investments in areas like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), online marketplaces, and mobile.The fund and its managers, Pawel Chudzinski and Christoph Janz have backed a number of highly successful Internet companies such as Delivery Hero, Clio,Shiftplanning, Vend, Typeform, and Zendesk from their earliest stages.

## ESADE BAN
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

ESADE BAN is a Barcelona-based business angel network that works to advance entrepreneurship and investments in Spain.

## Carlos Blanco
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Carlos Blanco is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Profe.com, Chairman and Co-Founder of PropTEX, and Co-founder of Casum. He is a former Co-founder at Verone. He attendedCarlos Blanco is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in multimedia, telecommunications, and project management. He has founded a number of companies which includeServiFutbol.com, New- Info, Diser 2000, OACE Servicios Informáticos, Insap Consulting, Grupo ITnet, First Tuesday, Akamon Entertainment, Conector Startup Accelerator, and more. Blanco also works as a mentor, speaker, lecturer, and moderator at various institutions and events.Blanco holds master’s degrees from the University of Navarra, the University of Pompeu Fabra, and the University of Autònoma de Barcelona.

## Faraday Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, SaaS, Software

Founded in 2011, Faraday Venture Partners is a pan-European Venture Capital firm investing in European innovative early-stage startups via its network of Clubs of  Investors and its own Funds.

## ENISA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

ENISA is a public company under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, through the Directorate General of Industry and Small and medium-sized enterprises which, since 1982, actively participates in the financing of viable and innovative business projects.

## Harry Serra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources

Harry Serra

## Inveready
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

Inveready is a leading alternative asset manager in Spain - investing in early-stage VC, growth VC, venture debt, strategic equity in listed companies, infrastructure and private equity - providing financing solutions to companies throughout their life-cycle. Founded in 2008, Inveready counts on 177 active companies, 61 exits and more than €1bnof assets under management. Some of our portfolio companies have been acquired by multinationals such as Intel, Symantec, IBM, and Facebook, whilst others are listed in public markets such as NASDAQ, the Spanish BME Growth, AIM London, and Euronext Growth. (visit www.inveready.com for more information)

## Banco Sabadell
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## BStartup
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sant Cugat Del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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

## Bankinter
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, E-Commerce

Bankinter is an innovative Spanish commercial bank. From an investment perspective, Bankinter's Venture Capital team and Fundación Innovación Bankinter jointly develop a program called Venture Capital Program, focused on identifying and investing in high potential startups using the bank's resources. The program has been active since2013, and from that moment it has already invested in more than 40 startups. In addition to the investment itself, the program tries to add value to the companies with which it interacts through the sharing of experiences and best practices.A key part of the company's strategy is the quality of customer service and innovation. The spirit is defined by the values ​​agility, enthusiasm, integrity, and originality. The company offers a wide range of financial products and services, in addition to advising clients, aggregators, product simulators, and a variety of value-added services. The company's staff are trained, agile, flexible workforce, capable of adapting to technological and market changes.Bankinter was founded on 1965 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

## Oriol Juncosa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Financial Services

Oriol Juncosa is co-founder and managing partner of Encomenda Smart Capital, a leading seed VC based in Spain and investing primarily in Southern Europe. He is also co-founder and partner of White Peak Partners, an M&A and fundraising boutique focused on digital companies.

## Ignacio Garcia-Drake
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Recruiting

Ignacio Garcia-Drake - Founder @ beWanted

## Kibo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Kibo Ventures, based in Madrid (Spain) is a VC Fund focused on early-stage investments in digital companies. Kibo Ventures manages $130 million from a mix of institutional and private investors, including IEF, Telefonica, the Spanish Government (through CDTI), Mutua Madrileña (Spain's largest insurance company) and Axis (ICO's 25year-old private equity arm).Specifically, Kibo likes to invest in companies which combine exceptional and committed teams, aiming to digitalize a product or service in a big-enough market with international potential. Kibo is managed by an experienced team of professionals with a solid track record, who are actively involved in the companies in which they invest. Kibo follows a stage-investment approach and financially supports portfolio companies as they grow, whilst promoting co-investment from valuable investors.

## Quentin Nickmans
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Quentin is a Co-founder of eFounders.
He spent his first years working as a strategy Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and acts on the board of several SaaS ventures

## All Iron Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bilbao, Pais Vasco, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

All Iron Ventures partners up with bold founders promoting innovative startups. We mainly invest in the early stages of European companies that aspire to reshape the future of both consumers and enterprises through technology. We at All Iron Ventures have been and continue to be entrepreneurs. We know what it is to be a founder and empathize withthe challenges our partner founders face. We put our resources and experience creating, scaling and selling companies at their disposal to help them take their projects to the next level. Based in Bilbao, Spain, and with approximately €110Mn under management, All Iron Ventures was promoted by the founders of Ticketbis, a global marketplace sold to eBay in 2016, in what is one of the main success stories in Spain’s startup ecosystem.

## The Crowd Angel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

The Crowd Angel is a premium equity crowdfunding platform that enables its users to invest from 3.000€ in a selection of the best Spanish startups. A hybrid between crowdfunding and venture capital, it takes an active part on the board of the companies invested. The platform opens the business angel model to people wanting to enter the startupecosystem.We have co-invested together with some of top Spanish VCs (Inveready, Keyword VC, Antai Venture Builder, Media Digital Ventures, Bankinter, etc). We are backed by Inveready and Keyword VC.

## Andreu Cabot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources

Andreu Cabot

## Nacho Valles
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources

Nacho Valles

## NEOTEC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kent, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Local, Internet, Recruiting

NEOTEC is a multicounty economic development partnership focused on the global competitiveness of Northeast Ohio and its businesses.

## FI Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Coloma De Cervelló, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Animation

FI Group is a management consulting firm that offers research tax credit, export aid, funds and innovation management services.

## Ithaca Investments
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, E-Commerce, Internet

Ithaca Investments is a Family Investment Office firm mainly focused on early-stage opportunities.

## Rat Gasol
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, PC Games, Software

Rat Gasol

## VERI SEED CAPITAL
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palma De Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Information Technology, B2B, Home Services

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## Roma Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources

Roma Ventures providing retail space to many companies.

## Juan Carlos Rovira Ventin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Recruiting, Human Resources

Juan Carlos Rovira Ventin - VP Finance @ Badi

## Enrique Linares Plaza
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Banking, FinTech

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

## 4Founders Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

4Founders Capital is Venture Capital fund, founded in Barcelona in 2017 investing in high growth technology companies with a clear focus on profit generation, efficient use of capital and with solid teams.4Founders Capital is promoted by Jesús Monleón, Marc Badosa, Javier Pérez-Tenessa and Marek Fodor. 4Founders team's international DNA andextensive experience as Founders and CEOs of successful technology companies allows to assist entrepreneurs and maximize their chances of success to build high impact global technology businesses.We are interested in projects with solid teams, which aim to create large international companies, with a market-tested superior product or service, and a clear revenue and profit generation model. Companies are not required to be in break-even.We invest anywhere from €100K in early stage investments, and typically bring co-investors with us to increase that amount. We do follow-ons for up to €4M per company over the lifetime of our investment.

## Draper B1
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Our mission is to help entrepreneurs who are innovating and transforming the way we live and work.

## Grupo Intercom
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Advertising, Online Portals, Internet

Grupo Intercom develops and innovates businesses that run on the internet. The company was founded in May 1995 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

## Lanai Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce

Lanai Partners is an angel group that invests in digital startups in Spain. The company partners with business leaders that specialize in different areas of expertise to analyze all type of industries and create the maximum value their investments.
Lanai Partners was founded in 2016 and is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

## Shilling
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Software

Shilling is an early-stage venture capital firm backing exceptional founders from the start.Shilling invests in a wide range of verticals and seeks out the biggest opportunities across all B2B and consumer categories.
Leveraging the concept of Founder LPs, Shilling brings much more than capital and offers through its Shilling Platform, directaccess to successful founders and executives of leading companies. This platform supports entrepreneurs in validating and developing their ventures, which then accelerate their growth into global markets.

## Nero Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Information Technology, Software

Nero Ventures is a venture capital fund focused on investments in companies with technology-based services in growth stages of development. Nero has a strong vocation for active management of investments, accompanying investees in several stages to reduce operational risk, sectorial and technology specialisation and presence in five European cities.

## Kima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.

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