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The Ideal Background of an Entrepreneur? 👀⤵️ I have no clue, but this great post from Luis Llorens Gonzalez gives very nice insights - all credits to you 👏🏽✍🏼 Not only for investors it’s a nice read, but definitely also for founders is worthwhile reading - make sure you’re ready for a rollercoaster ride 🎟️🎢 #founders #investors
#alwaysbelearning #sharingiscaring #changethewaywework #thefutureofworkisnow #firstdegree https://lnkd.in/gAKMWeD5

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Transforming Real Estate Investment: €6.8M Raised and Counting! We're excited to share that Ratio.cx, launched in January 2024, has secured €6.8M from international real estate investors. Our platform offers advanced digital tools for developers and investors, making real estate investment more accessible and efficient. Thanks to our first white label software development, we unlocked a significant demand from LATAM investors with moderate capital who wanted to have exposure to European real estate income without planning to be physically in Spain. With a minimum investment of €500 and allowing payments in local currency in over 10 countries, our process takes less than 5 minutes and is entirely online. It includes visualization of the opportunities, Q&A, online advisory using AI to answer questions from the data room, legal documentation for remote signing, and a dashboard to track the evolution of their investments and monthly payments. As a result, 156 investors from Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Panama collectively invested €6.8M in various real estate projects in Spain. This is just the beginning. We will continue to add more features for real estate developers and investors, both local and international. Connect with us on LinkedIn: Ratio.cx Thanks EMPRESA EXTERIOR https://lnkd.in/dwVsfp8z

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Pitching your GTM strategy to investors? Borja Santos has some tips for you: focus on market demand, show your competitive edge and be clear on use cases. Highlight acquisition costs, sales levers & team KPIs. Read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/eSTWxTE8

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Join the Pitch-Session in Barcelona powered by our P2S.vc investment program for startups on June 21st at 18:30 CET. If you're thinking of launching a startup and are not yet ready to raise investment, you can attend the event as a guest to ask questions and network. The event program: ✓ 18:30-19:00 - Gathering of guests. ✓ 19:00-20:00 - Startup Pitch Session. ✓ 20:00 onwards - Investors answering your questions and networking. The participation fee is €15. Moderators: → Denis Kalyshkin—Investment Director at I2BF Global Ventures, with 10+ years of experience investing in B2B companies in the US and a focus on transforming old and boring industries with modern technology. → Irina Baigozina—Founder of BCN IT HUB and international IT recruiting agency Hit Hunt, helping large companies and startups find tech talent. The meeting is aimed at Russian-speaking entrepreneurs. If you want to come to our pitch session, write in the comments, and I'll send you the information👇 Yellow Rocks! | AltaIR Capital | Smart Partnership Capital | I2BF Global Ventures #investmentprogram #p2s #preseedtosucceed #startups #fundraising #earlystagestartups #venturecapital

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🚀 Important: This gathering is specifically designed for companies with a team size of approximately 30 or more—indicating they're beyond the early startup phase. In collaboration with IESE Business School, ranked among the top three business schools globally, 🏫 and partnered with Google for Startups, on behalf of Movens Capital we're thrilled to invite you to a one-of-a-kind event in #Warsaw titled "Foundations of Scaling Open Day Warsaw". This all-day workshop focuses on methods for scaling your business from a moderate size to beyond. 📈 🗓 Date and Time: May 13, 2024, from 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM 📍 Location: Google for Startups Campus, 10 Koneser Square, Warsaw 🔗 Registration Link and Event Details: Please see the LINK IN THE COMMENTS BELOW 💸 Price: Complimentary This workshop is part of the Foundations of Scaling (FoS) program, tailored for ambitious technology company founders ready to scale operations beyond 30 staff members. 🌟 🔍 Event Sessions: 📌Growth Strategy: Prof. @Germán Loewe will begin with a session on strategic planning, discussing the crucial role of market barriers, the relevance of profit pools, and strategic planning for expansion. He will also introduce practical tools to help you solidify your market position and growth strategy. 📌Scaling Your Leadership: Dr. Sebastian Ross and a panel including FoS alumni Ron Fridman 🇺🇦, Rafal Plutecki, and Pawel Bochniarz will cover the critical aspect of leadership in scaling operations. They'll discuss upgrading your leadership approach to keep pace with your company's growth. 🚀 📌Pricing Strategies: I'll be discussing the nuances of setting prices for products and services, focusing on balancing profitability with customer goodwill. 💲 📌Operational Growth Routines: Konrad Kwiatkowski will showcase how leveraging data and effective meeting strategies can support business planning and functional growth, helping foster a culture of adaptability and continuous improvement. 📊 Join us for an evening of networking and refreshments 🍹

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📢 Boston calling - Oportunidades para startups  📍 Startups from Europe and North America ⏳ Until 15 December They are selecting 40 startups to pitch at HTVD | HIGHTECH VENTURE DAYS in #Boston. The selected startups will be prepared individually for their participation, including a review of their pitch and the preselection of relevant investors to talk to at the event. 📅 7/8 April in #Boston ⏺ High profile meeting for Startups, VCs and Corporates ⏺ Exclusivity: selected Startups and investors only  ⏺  Focus Areas: Cleantech | Electronics | Manufacturing | Materials | Mobility | Space & Defense  ⏺ Industrial high-tech: IP-based technologies, B2B, hardware ⏺ Series A+ +Cultura +Criatividade +Sustentabilidade . . . #empreendedorismo #startup #startuplife #startups #empreendedorismodigital #startupbusiness #empreendedorismojovem #businessstartup #startupcompany

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Every founder wants to make an impression on VCs they meet with. They want the conversation & pitch to be memorable. But, unfortunately, most founder / VC interactions are usually unremarkable. This week I had a conversation with Maria (Brewer) Palma of Freestyle Capital to find out how founders can be more memorable. Maria and I talked about - How to pitch & communicate like elite founders - Common mistakes founders make when interacting with VCs - How founders in the past made incredible impressions on Maria - How choosing the wrong VC & term sheet can be destructive for startups - And much more... Full Conversation Can Be Found Here: https://lnkd.in/gZJ9hqjp

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🌍 Exciting news! Seaya Ventures has closed its €300M climate tech fund, Seaya Andromeda, making it Spain’s largest VC firm with €650M in assets. The fund will invest €7M-40M in companies reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions. 🌱 Launched in 2022, Seaya Andromeda focuses on energy transition, zero emissions mobility, industry decarbonization, circular economy, agritech, and foodtech. Southern Europe’s potential is vast, with ample sunlight for renewables and strong automotive and real estate sectors ripe for innovation. Interesting to see the backers, including Iberdrola (congrats Diego Díaz Pilas!), Nortia, Santander, and the involvement of French organizations like BNP Paribas and Bpifrance. Seaya has already backed companies like Glovo, Wallbox Chargers,Cabify, Recycleye and 011h, with plans for 25 investments by 2027. More info in this article: https://shorturl.at/wyyQk Alberto Onetti, Mind the Bridge, Helene LABAUME, Elisabeth Menant, Lajla Aganovic, CFA #ClimateTech #Sustainability #VentureCapital #Innovation #OpenInnovation #SeayaVentures #RenewableEnergy #CircularEconomy #SouthernEurope

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Spain’s Digital Health Ecosystem: A New Era of Healthcare Transformation I've made good friends and partners worldwide through the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, including Adam Skali. Since March, Adam and I have been meeting regularly and came up with an idea to gather information on how different countries are modernizing their #healthcare systems. The result - our first report on #Spain, one of the most digitized countries in the Mediterranean, which are their main challenges. Our collaboration is based on a good balance of our interests. I am focused on understanding the life sciences technologies and companies needed for healthcare modernization from an investment perspective, targeting private sector and academia. Adam, on the other hand, is more interested in go to market, policies at the governmental level and how to translate innovation into impact. Share your thoughts on this report, as we plan to release more information about other European countries and other regions soon. Btw thanks to this exercise I’ve learned interesting fact on two small Spanish cities mentioned on the page 9

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Welcome to the Korelya Capital family Ifeel - Humanising Growth! Glad to co-lead this $20m Series B investment that will help building a category leading player in the B2B Mental Health industry. What convinced us about this opportunity: - Mental health issues are unfortunately one these massive secular trends that can be heavily supported by tech to address people in genuine need. - ifeel is actually democratising access to mental health for everyone thanks to a unique and scalable value proposition for all stakeholders: -> for patients: 100% coverage (for low-medium-high risk patients and their family) thanks to a broad suite of AI tech solutions, curated specialised therapists, leading to minutes vs weeks to be supported. -> for corporates: affordable solution (in direct or as part of you insurance health package), with a clear ROI case reducing turnover and absenteism while improving your employer brand. -> for insurers: a scalable business development offering to address new corporates needs while keeping control on their books and collecting insights for smart underwriting. - Finally, we are pleased to see the company is already present in 30+ countries including in Asia where we will do our best to support the team. Kudos Amir Kaplan, Martin Villanueva, Gabriele Murrone and the whole Ifeel - Humanising Growth team for building such an inspiring company. Looking forward to working with you! https://lnkd.in/e3mdb5b4

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SPAIN 2024 AI STRATEGY Spain’s strategy on Artificial intelligence is leveraged on 3 pillars. ✔️ PILLAR 1: Reinforcing the key levers to develop AI lever I - Boost investment in super computing lever II- Generate storage capacities with sustainability lever III - Generate Models and corpora per public infrastructure in language models lever IV - Fostering talent in AI ✔️ PILLAR 2: Facilitating the expansion of AI in the public and private sector, fostering innovation and cybersecurity lever V - Boost AI in the public sector lever VI - Help with the expansion of AI in the private sector (SME) lever VII - Developing a Cybersecurity framework ✔️ PILLAR 3: Develop transparent, responsible and humanistic AI lever VIII - Develop the AESIA’s Functions 👉 MILESTONE: Spain’s AI strategy incorporates specific milestones and objectives for the next two years. 👉 COORDINATION The strategy will be coordinated by the Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial intelligence. Big Data & AI World Spain Spain AI Big Data & AI World Spain

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🚀 Exploring Financial Analysis in Venture Capital 🚀 Yesterday, as part of the #supernovas program we hosted an insightful session with Daniela Raffel Torrebiarte on Financial Analysis for VC, focusing on the metrics that drive sustainable growth for Series A and B companies. Daniela sparked thought-provoking discussions with questions like, “What makes a company truly investment-worthy?” and “How do we define good growth?” => Still looking for the answer Our active participants—including Vanda Gaidamovič, Gita Kler, Barbara Cwiklinska, Anđela Martinović, Giulia Tegas, and many others—brought fantastic insights and questions, making for a highly interactive and engaging session. We dived deep into essentials like cohort analysis, revenue concentration, and the “triple-triple-double-double” growth benchmark—a performance metric many VCs strive for. Beyond growth, we examined efficiency metrics, like CAC payback and burn multiple, and explored future indicators such as pipeline health and hiring plans. Wrapping up with a discussion on valuation and exit strategies, we emphasized that true venture success is more than fast growth—it’s about building resilient, sustainable companies. A big thanks to everyone who joined and contributed! Let’s continue driving impactful conversations that fuel the next generation of successful ventures. Thanks Daniela for sharing this time with us! 🌟 #venturecapital #financialanalysis #growthmetrics #startupsuccess #VC

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🚀 Investment in early-stage Spanish technology companies reached new heights in 2023, exceeding 1 billion euros, according to the Spanish Tech Ecosystem Report 2024 by GoHub Ventures. 📈 Venture capital investment in Spain's tech sector has stabilized, returning to pre-pandemic trends. Following the slowdown in 2020 and the subsequent liquidity-driven surge, investment levels now surpass those of 2019. Spanish startups raised 2.2 billion euros across over 850 funding rounds in 2023. 🌟Early-stage rounds, those raising up to 15 million euros, attracted the most capital. Pre-seed (up to 1 million), seed (up to 4 million), and series A (up to 15 million) rounds collectively exceeded 1 billion euros in 2023, matching 2021 and surpassing 2022. 🌍The report ranks Spain seventh in Europe for venture capital investment. In early-stage investment, Spain ranks fourth. It also ranks fourth in the number of funding rounds. Regarding exits of over one billion dollars, Spain is seventh in Europe, with eighteen unicorn-status companies. 💻 In 2023, 47% of VC-backed investments in Spain went to SaaS (Software as a Service) companies, reflecting a global trend. SaaS has overtaken marketplaces and e-commerce as the leading business model in Spain for the past two years, indicating the maturity of the Spanish tech industry. 🌿 Climate tech and digital health companies saw significant VC fundraising in 2023, attracting 404 million euros and 226 million euros, respectively. Additionally, the Spanish startup ecosystem's maturity is evident in the emergence of a new generation of founders with experience from unicorn companies like Glovo, Cabify, Jobandtalent, Fever, Wallbox, TravelPerk, and Factorial. Over ninety entrepreneurs from these companies participated in funding rounds in 2023. Read the complete news article➡ https://lnkd.in/eVe5bYhH #Investment #SpanishTech #EarlyStage #VentureCapital #GoHubVentures #SaaS #Innovation #Startups #DigitalTransformation 🌟📊🚀

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Looking for investment during South Summit? You have never fundraised and don’t know which investor you should approach? Want to know if the perfect investor for you invests in Spain? Luckily I've made this resource for you. 60+ Venture Capital Investors w/ name, type of VC, funding stages, sectors, contact Email, avg check size, etc. like: - kfund - Kibo Ventures - Samaipata - Seaya... As well as others. -- To get it, do 3 things: 1. Like this post 2. Comment "VC" 3. Connect with me And I can send it over to you.

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Great article from IESE Business School about integrity in organizations. The article defends that the best way to avoid "dishonest conducts" is not just defining what "not to do" but rather "to encourage the desired positive behavior" that leads to greater integrity to all. Professors Joan Fontrodona and Pablo Sanz give us the following keys to foster positive business culture: - Action plans. Besides drawing the red lines never to be crossed, the action plans should also include an aspirational element, encouraging all individuals to improve personally as well as professionally. - Objectives. They must be consistent with the other dimensions, so that progress is measured in more than just economic terms. - Proactive support. Proactively support people in behaving ethically: employees should be given decision-making frameworks. - Tone from the top. The senior management team has to set the tone from the top: first, by articulating the values and ethical conduct; and second, by setting the example. - Codes of conduct. Senior managers should formulate a code of conduct, which gives clear guidelines for respecting and upholding the company’s stated values. - Training. This needs to be offered, not just on the subject of ethics specifically, but to make sure that all company training programs on any business topic contain an ethical piece. - Incentives. To promote ethical conduct, management systems and incentives must be carefully conceived so as to avoid potential conflicts of interest, perverse incentives and unintended consequences. - Controls. There should be adequate monitoring and control mechanisms in place to take the pulse of interpersonal relationships and other dynamics that could affect performance. - Culture. Finally, the corporate culture needs to be ethical, both inside and outside the organization. This entails explicit communication so everyone is fully informed. It also involves rethinking people’s work habits and office spaces to maximize personal responsibility and collective development. https://lnkd.in/gfZzCGCz #iese #integrityinbusiness #culture

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The world is for those who dare. When Ander Michelena reached out to us to brainstorm and execute All Iron’s rebranding, the premise was clear: the name had to reflect Basque heritage. They say that knowing your roots makes it easier to navigate the future. With this in mind, we decided to delve into history and uncovered the story of Magellan's voyage. The second captain, Elcano, hailing from Getaria, assembled a crew of Basque sailors. Tragically, Elcano returned with only a handful of sailors alive from the hundreds who set sail, and the sole surviving Basque was Juan de Acurio. And btw, Getaria also gave us another genius: Cristóbal Balenciaga. History and creativity run deep here. Echoing what Acurio Ventures has explained since its launching, this rebranding is built on three core pillars: 1) Becoming truly international 2) Emphasizing resilience, determination, and teamwork 3)Daring to play I want to share a couple of extra details that haven’t come up before: the graphic system is all about the sea and navigation maps. So, we naturally leaned toward shades of blue, but we also played around with some complementary tones that really capture that innovative spirit of Acurio. For more context, check out this piece from Sifted https://lnkd.in/dizZbZkU

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🌟 Calling All Innovators and Visionaries! 🌟 The world is shifting rapidly, and innovation is the currency of the future. At Painite Ventures, we’re building a transformative venture capital platform that bridges the gap between disruptive startups and forward-thinking investors. 🚀 Our mission? To create a thriving ecosystem where ideas grow, businesses scale, and investments deliver unmatched returns. What We Offer ✅ For Startups: • Access to capital and mentorship to scale your business from concept to market leader. • A network of industry leaders, domain experts, and cutting-edge technology. • Strategic guidance across industries like Real Estate, Healthcare, Green Energy, Education, Agribusiness, Technology, and Hospitality. ✅ For Investors: • Opportunities to partner with high-growth ventures with proven potential and a clear path to profitability. • Insights into untapped markets and innovative business models. • A trusted partner to align your investment goals with impactful outcomes. Why Choose Us? 🌍 We focus on sectors driving global transformation, including: • Green Energy & Sustainability 🌱 • Healthcare & Innovation 🏥 • Tech-Driven Solutions 💻 • Education for the Future 🎓 • Real Estate Disruption 🏢 💡 Whether you’re a startup founder with a big vision or an investor looking for your next high-impact opportunity, Painite Ventures is your gateway to success. Let’s Collaborate! If you’re ready to transform the future—whether by funding innovation or scaling your business—let’s connect. Together, we’ll create a world where ideas thrive, and growth is limitless. Drop a comment below, send me a DM, or email me directly at [email protected]. Let’s build something extraordinary! #VentureCapital #Startups #Innovation #InvestmentOpportunities #Entrepreneurship #GreenEnergy #HealthcareInnovation #RealEstateGrowth #TechStartups #EducationRevolution #InvestInTheFuture #PainiteVentures #ImpactInvesting #Sustainability #StartupEcosystem

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