Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Financial Services startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
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Inveready | Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe | ||
Encomenda VC | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe | ||
Active Venture Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe | ||
Lanai Partners | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe | ||
Antai Venture Builder | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Early Stage Venture investors in Barcelona. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
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- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
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Top Financial Services Investors & Funds (Barcelona)
Inveready
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 150 active companies, +40 exits, and more than €600M of assets under management. Some of their 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. Headquartered in San Sebastián with offices in Barcelona, Madrid, and San Sebastián, Inveready was recognized multiple times by ASCRI and Preqin for their funds’ performance and their transactions.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Life Science, Venture Capital
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Encomenda VC
Encomenda is a Venture Capital specialized in seed investments in technology startups. They open the door to investors and professional business angels to capitalize on their investments through collective investment vehicles. They minimize investment risks thanks to the diversification of the portfolio and preferential access to the best projects in search of financing.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Active Venture Partners
ACTIVE is a European venture capital company focused on positively disrupting its traditional sector. Spearheaded by a diverse, passionate and multinational team, it is building a reputation for providing support that goes beyond capital for high growth businesses. With a presence in Spain, Germany and Scandinavia, ACTIVE targets entrepreneurial teams driving digital start-ups and seeking holistic partnerships based on shared values and pro-active support. Start-up founders connect to the unique ACTIVE community to engage with sector specialists, growth experts and senior advisors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Lanai Partners
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Banking, Digital Marketing, Financial Services
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Antai Venture Builder
Antai Venture Builder is a company launched by Gerard Olivé and Miguel Vicente, focused on the creation of startups under an international, online, and mobile model. Its activity is focused on analyzing the market in search of proven successful businesses and, once identified, implement them in other markets. To achieve this, they select the most prepared professionals and help them to undertake, side by side, accompanying them through a comprehensive service, which includes the development of business, business intelligence, financial, legal, providing the means, as well as the search and Recruitment of necessary personnel. Their main hallmark is their involvement in the projects, which makes them one of the best valued venture builders. The company was established in 2012, and, since then, it has experienced great growth. It currently has more than 300 employees that are fully dedicated to the development of new businesses and ideas and that operate in a national and international environment. Antai has contributed to the development of some of the most recognized and important startups in the market, such as Wallapop, Mascoteros, eShop, Glovo, CornerJob, BePretty, Deliberry, Media Digital Ventures or Marmota.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Incubators, Venture Capital
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ICF Capital
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 the private 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.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services
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aldeA Ventures
aldeA Ventures is a Barcelona-based investment platform supporting the future European tech champions. With a 360 strategy we back best-in-class entrepreneurs across Europe through commitments in MicroVCs led by next-generation managers, and company co-investments, supporting portfolio companies from our invested funds in their breakout paths with flexible capital.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Venture
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Sitka Capital
Sitka Capital is an investment vehicle focused on pre seed and seed phases. Its founders Carlos Guerrero, Jaime Garrido, and Miguel Lobón invest in internet, technology-based startups with high growth potential and innovative business models with a maximum of 50,000 euros. Among their investment criteria they usually give priority to scalable business models, equipment, internationalization, growth capacity and differential technological aspects. Sitka Capital has a network of private investors called Sitka Ban, which aims to spread the culture of Venture Capital in Spain. Therefore, it intends to create the largest business angel community in Europe and give way to two problems in the investment ecosystem: Improve the Deal Flow and the lack of Investors in Series A onwards. For now, Sitka Ban has reached quality deal flow exchange agreements with the most prestigious global startup accelerators, as well as involving Venture Capital from cities such as Berlin, Paris and London in its investor unions. Among the startups invested by Sitka Capital we find Iwopi, a social and sports social network that connects people with companies and social projects; PopPlaces.com, the online commercial space rental market for days that offers a wide range of places for companies, artists, designers and brands to make their products known; Viuing, the first portable device that broadcasts in real time everything that is happening in the event; iOmando, the app that allows you to use your mobile phone as a key; or the Finanzarel group.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Information Technology, Internet, Venture Capital
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Nekko Capital
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Debaeque
[Debaeque](http://www.debaeque.com) invests in South-European companies with global products and competing in businesses where the firm has an expertise or knowledge.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Aurica Capital
Aurica Capital is a venture capital company that invests in the capital expansion segment. One of the main characteristics of Aurica’s investment profile is the taking of minority but significant holdings in companies with a clear vision of growth and expansion.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Viriditas Ventures
Viriditas Ventures is an angel investment firm that finance startups and technological projects. It focuses on IT related projects. Viriditas Ventures specializes in tiered investment. It was founded by Angel Asin, Yago Perrin, and Yago Arbeloa in 2000. Viriditas Ventures is headquartered in Barcelona, Catalonia.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Turtle Capital & Investments
Turtle Capial & Investments is a investment company dedicated to the financing of projects in its early stages.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Internet, Small and Medium Businesses, Venture Capital
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VICTORIA Venture Capital SCR-Pyme S.A.
VICTORIA Venture Capital invests in spin-offs, providing equity from private investors and business advice. The company invests in the capital of spin-offs, which are new companies with cutting-edge technologies that emerge from Research Centers and Universities. The main sectors are cleantech and new advanced materials for Industry. VICTORIA provides business advice, financial and corporate support to the founders of spin-offs, adding value to boost growth of these companies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Advice, Finance, Financial Services
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InnoCells
InnoCells is the hub of new digital ventures of Banco Sabadell. It is the union of two ways of understanding business: the values of the startup world and the experience of Banco Sabadell. A place where design, strategy and technology generate new business opportunities.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech
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Bloomium
Bloomium is a venture capital firm that does investments in early-stage companies in Spain, Germany, and the UK.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
Industries: Digital Media, Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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