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Oh how much we enjoyed the Founders & Funders Afterwork during 4YFN! ✨ Last Monday, we gathered with incredible people—ambitious founders with mind-blowing projects, visionary investors, and great friends we are always happy to reconnect with. At Plus Partners, together with GoHub Ventures and Endeavor, we created a space where great ideas found the support they need to take off. 🍸 The atmosphere was fantastic, the networking was truly enriching, and the energy of the startup community was simply unmatched. We are more convinced than ever that the future is built at events like this, where the connection between talent and capital leads to unique opportunities. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us! Here’s a small recap in pictures of the amazing time we had. This is just the beginning! 🔥 #4YFN #Networking #Startups #Founders

Are We Forgetting the Human Factor in AI Innovation? Today, Thursday, March 6, the final day of 4YFN, will be key to reflecting on two crucial topics for any startup founder: AI innovation from a human perspective and how to prepare for an exit in a challenging landscape. 📍 Not Another AI Talk: The Human Side of AI Innovation 🕙 10:00 - 10:30 | Banco Sabadell Stage Featuring: ✅ Álvaro Higes (LuzIA) 🎙 Moderator: Enrique Linares (Plus Partners) 🎙 Moderator: Jorge Araujo Muller (NoBullshit Company) In this conversation, we’ll demystify AI and discuss how creativity, ethics, and human experience are key to its development. 📍 The Road to Exit Amid the IPO Dry Spell 🕥 10:30 - 11:00 | Banco Sabadell Stage Featuring: ✅ Oriol Juncosa (Plus Partners) ✅ Phillipe Gelis (Kantox) ✅ Claire Trachet (Trachet) ✅ Nacho Travesí (Cobee) We’ll analyze what options startups have in a landscape where IPOs have slowed down and what strategies can maximize their value for a successful exit. If you’re at 4YFN and interested in artificial intelligence or scaling and selling your startup, join us at the Banco Sabadell Stage. See you there! 🚀 #PlusPartners #Startups #VentureCapital #Emprendedores #Innovation #FondosdeInversión #4YFN #Investment #Barelona 

You have a great product and an amazing team… but how do you get your first 1,000 customers when no one knows you? This is the challenge most startups face in their early days, and on this second day of 4YFN at Plus Partners, we want to share strategies, insights, and real experiences on how to scale from zero. 📍 Founders Academy: How to Get Your First 1,000 Customers When No One Knows You 📅 Wednesday, March 5 | 🕔 17:20 - 18:00 | Founders Stage Featuring: ✅ Oriol Juncosa (Plus Partners) ✅ Enrique Linares (Plus Partners) ✅ Francesc Font Cot (Incapto Coffee) ✅ Joaquim Mach (Incapto Coffee) We’ll talk about acquisition strategies, growth channels, market validation, and how startups can build a solid customer base even when they’re still unknown. If you’re a founder or interested in the tech world, this panel will provide key insights to boost your growth. See you at 4YFN! #PlusPartners #Startups #VentureCapital #Emprendedores #Innovation #FondosdeInversión #4YFN #Investment #Barelona

🚀 What happens after the first investment round? How do you build strong relationships with investors? And what comes next after selling your startup? These are key questions for any founder, and on this second day of 4YFN, Plus Partners will be sharing our experiences alongside top entrepreneurs. Don’t miss these panels! 👇 🚀 Life After the Exit | La Caixa Stand 📅 Tuesday, March 4 | 🕐 13:00 - 13:50 💬 Enrique Linares (Plus Partners) will be joined by Philippe Gelis (Kantox), Paloma Vila (Endeavor Spain), and Octavi Uyà (Woodea) to discuss what happens when a founder sells their company and how they would prepare for an exit scenario today. 🏆 EmprendeXXI Awards | CaixaBank Day One Stand 📅 Tuesday, March 4 | 🕞 15:45 - 17:30 🔥 Oriol Juncosa (Plus Partners) will be part of the jury for these awards recognizing the most promising startups. The finalists are Food for Joe, NeuralTrust, UniSCool, THEKER Robotics, Oniria, and The Blue Box. Come discover the future of entrepreneurship! 📈 Beyond the Million: Scaling Challenges and Investor Relations | IESE Campus 📅 Tuesday, March 4 | 🕓 16:00 - 17:00 🎤 Enrique Linares (Plus Partners), Carlota Pi Amorós (Holaluz), and Mathieu Carenzo (IESE Business School) will discuss how to scale a startup beyond the first million and build strategic relationships with investors. If you’re attending one of these talks, building your startup, and looking for funding, come meet us! 🚀

🚀 Plus Partners is heading to 4YFN! The entire Plus Partners team will be in Barcelona next week for 4YFN, connecting with founders, investors, and industry leaders. We’re excited to join key discussions on scaling startups, securing early traction, fundraising, and exit strategies. If you’re attending, let’s connect! Here’s where you can find us: 📅 Tuesday, March 4th 🎤 Premios EmprendeXXI Finals – Oriol Juncosa joins the jury for CaixaBank top startup awards. 🕒 15:45 - 17:30 | 📍 Stand Caixabank Day One 🎤 Life After the Exit – Enrique Linares joins Endeavor to discuss what comes after selling a company. 🕐 13:00 - 13:50 | 📍 Stand La Caixa 🎤 Beyond the Million – Enrique Linares explores scaling challenges, investor relations & unicorn ambitions. 🕓 16:00 - 17:00 | 📍 IESE Campus 📅 Wednesday, March 5th 🎤 Founders Academy: Getting Your First 1,000 Customers – Oriol Juncosa & Enrique Linares share tactics for early traction. 🕔 17:20 - 18:00 | 📍 Founders Stage 📅 Thursday, March 6th 🎤 The Road to Exit Amid the IPO Dry Spell – Oriol Juncosa dives into M&A, secondary sales & alternative exit strategies. 🕥 10:30 - 11:00 | 📍 Banco Sabadell Stage 🎤 Not Another AI Talk: The Human Side of Innovation – Enrique Linares discusses the impact of AI beyond the hype. 🕙 10:00 - 10:30 | 📍 Banco Sabadell Stage Looking forward to insightful conversations and catching up with the 4YFN & MWC community. If you're attending, reach out!

🚀 Excited to be attending 4YFN in Barcelona next week! I'll be joining some fantastic panels to discuss everything from scaling beyond the first million to the human side of AI innovation. If you're around, let’s connect! 📅 Tuesday, March 4th ✅ Life after the exit – hosted by Endeavor Spain  💡 What happens after a successful exit? Lessons from founders who’ve been there.  🕐 13:00-13:50 | 📍 Stand La Caixa at 4YFN  With: Philippe Gelis (Co-founder at Kantox), Paloma Vila (Marketing & Comms at Endeavor Spain), Octavi Uyà (Co-Founder at Woodea) ✅ Beyond the Million – Scaling challenges, investor relations & unicorn journeys  💡 The key inflection points and challenges of hypergrowth, investor dynamics, and leading towards IPO.  🕓 16:00-17:00 | 📍 IESE Business School Barcelona Campus  Moderator: Mathieu Carenzo (Senior Lecturer at IESE Business School)  With: Carlota Pi Amorós (Founder at Holaluz) 📅 Wednesday, March 5th ✅ Founders Academy: How to attract your first 1000 customers when nobody knows you  💡 Strategies and real-world tactics to get early traction and turn first users into growth engines.  🕔 17:20-18:00 | 📍 Founders Stage at 4YFN With: My partners Oriol Juncosa 🙌 (Founding Partner at Plus Partners 🚀 ), Francesc Font Cot (Founder at INCAPTO) 📅 Thursday, March 6th ✅ Not another AI talk: The human side of AI innovation  💡 Beyond the hype—how founders balance AI disruption with human impact.  🕙 10:00-10:30 | 📍 Banco Sabadell Stage at 4YFN Moderator: Jorge Araujo Muller (Founder NoBullshit Company)  With: Alvaro Martinez Higes (Co-founder at Luzia) Looking forward to insightful discussions and catching up with founders, investors, and innovators. See you there! 🔥 #4YFN #MWC24 #startups #venturecapital #entrepreneurship 

Open source keeps proving its value, and even OpenAI is starting to acknowledge it. Sam Altman just admitted they’ve been “on the wrong side of history” after DeepSeek released open-source models that rival the best in the industry. With Meta’s Llama and now DeepSeek pushing the boundaries, it’s clear that real innovation doesn’t happen in isolation. My first experience with open source was during my time at ng-voice where I saw how much it helped our product and, the value our team gave back to the telco community through their contributions. This helped us move fast and iterate towards better solutions for our clients. The best products aren’t built in a vacuum—they’re the result of collective effort, iteration, and community. Open source isn’t just an alternative. It’s the foundation of many things that work in tech today, and we at Plus Partners want to see more of this in Southern Europe!

🔝 Great article today published at El Confidencial about the outlook for technology and innovation in 2025. 👉 A great group of authors/founders/investors with top expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Digital health, Future of Work, Internationalisation,... have participated in the article: ✅ Alvaro Martinez Higes: Co-founder and CEO of Luzia , an AI assistant with over 60 million registered users worldwide, focusing on personalized learning and backed by two of the top American venture capital funds. ✅ David Masó: Co-founder & CEO of PromoFarma by DocMorris ; Head of Europe at DocMorris AG, one of the largest e-health companies in Europe with over 10 million patients across multiple European countries. ✅ Nacho Travesí: Co-founder and Chief Sales Officer of Cobee, a SaaS platform for employee benefits management, recently acquired by Pluxee, marking one of the largest SaaS company sales in Spain in the past decade. Alongside Enrique Linares and myself We expect that 2025 will be a very positive inflection point for technology and innovation. We are ready to support great entrepreneurs in this journey at the very early stages. I wish you a great 2025!!

As we look ahead to 2025, technology is set for a transformative year. From the continued evolution of generative AI to the re-emergence of IPOs and M&A activity, the global digital landscape is shifting rapidly. In a recent article, our founding partners, Enrique Linares and Oriol Juncosa, shared their insights on the trends shaping 2025 alongside some of the most respected voices in Spanish tech: - Alvaro Martinez Higes: Co-founder and CEO of Luzia, an AI assistant with over 60 million registered users worldwide, focusing on personalized learning and backed by two of the top American venture capital funds.  - David Masó: Co-founder & CEO of Promofarma; Head of Europe at DocMorris AG, one of the largest e-health companies in Europe with over 10 million patients across multiple European countries.  - Nacho Travesí: Co-founder and Chief Sales Officer of Cobee, a SaaS platform for employee benefits management, recently acquired by Pluxee, marking one of the largest SaaS company sales in Spain in the past decade. The key highlights from the article include: • Generative AI: The transition from experimentation in 2024 to large-scale adoption in critical business processes. • Regulatory trends: The contrasting approaches between the US and Europe, and the broader implications for innovation. • Healthcare innovation: AI-driven advances in telemedicine, predictive medicine, and remote health monitoring. • Emerging fintech: The role of AI and stablecoins in reshaping financial services. • Dual-use technologies: Increased investment in quantum computing, satellites, and drone technologies in Europe. At Plus Partners, we believe these shifts create an unprecedented opportunity for startups and entrepreneurs to drive innovation in sectors undergoing profound transformation, and we are here to help push this innovation. Read the full article to explore how we’re thinking about the future of technology in 2025:     https://lnkd.in/dNPbXNb2.