We invest €100k to €10M in entrepreneurs with the capacity to create differentiated technology-based products and services, mostly in Southern Europe and Latam.
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AI, Brazil, and the Future of VC: Insights from Manoel Lemos (Redpoint eventures) - #233
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In this episode, Manoel Lemos, a managing partner at Redpoint eventures and a key player in Brazil’s startup scene, takes us on a ride through his 30+ years in tech and venture capital. Starting as a kid tinkering with computers in the small Brazilian town of Araguari, Manoel became a Java architect in the early days of the internet, founded multip…
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El SaaS más grande de España - Denodo: bajo el radar y desde A Coruña | #232
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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Alberto Pan, CTO de Denodo. Denodo es una empresa de virtualización de datos que, sin hacer mucho ruido y desde A Coruña, se ha convertido en una de las empresas SaaS más grandes que se han creado desde España. La historia de Denodo está muy ligada a la de la Universidad de A Coruña, donde Angel Viña, fund…
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#231 - “Los equipos de finanzas han sido un perro apaleado” - Julio Martinez (Abacum)
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En este episodio, conversamos con Julio Martínez, cofundador de Abacum, una startup participada por Kfund que ha desarrollado software de FP&A para CFOs y profesionales de las finanzas. Durante la charla, Julio comparte su trayectoria como founder, los retos de fundar una startup en plena pandemia y la visión detrás de Abacum. Hablamos con Julio de…
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#230 - 20 años de Adara Ventures
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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Nico Goulet y Alberto Gomez, cofundadores de Adara Ventures. Adara es una de las gestoras de VC más antiguas de España, con más de 20 años de historia a sus espaldas. En esta entrevista, echamos la vista atrás con la ayuda de Nico y Alberto a los inicios de la firma, los principales retos a los que se han …
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#229 - Bianca Sassoon (17 Sigma): Building a LatAm early stage VC firm from Argentina
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Bianca Sassoon, managing partner of 17 Sigma, shares her background and journey in the VC industry. She was born in the US to Argentine parents and grew up in Argentina. She studied economics and worked in investment banking before joining Kaszek in 2018. In 2021, she joined 17Sigma, a regional VC firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in La…
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#228 - Carlos Riquelme: conceptos básicos (y avanzados) de la IA Generativa y LLMs
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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Carlos Riquelme, ahora Principal Researcher en Microsoft AI y hasta hace poco Head of Language Models en la startup Stability AI.La conversación con Carlos gira en torno a los conceptos básicos de la IA generativa y los LLMs (Large Language Models), para que cualquier persona, técnica o no, pueda entender …
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#227 - JJ Velaz (Kosmo): pivotar, los economics de la última milla y gestión de expectativas
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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con JJ Velaz, fundador y CEO de Kosmo, una startup de nuestro portfolio. Después de varios años en Foodpanda y en el sudeste asiático, Juanjo decidió montar Kosmo para atacar una oportunidad que él vio en el sector de la logística de última milla. Sin embargo, ese primer producto no funcionó como todos esperáb…
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#226 - Juanjo Mostazo: ¿Qué hace un CTO en un VC?
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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Juanjo Mostazo. Carina Szpilka y Miguel Elizondo conversan con Juanjo sobre su recién anunciado nombramiento como Chief Technology Officer (CTO) de Kfund. Además de repasar la carrera de este emprendedor y business angel, durante el capítulo os contamos por qué hemos decidido como fondo contar con un CTO e…
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#225 - MMC Ventures: in-house research, an AI focus, and building the UK ecosystem from within
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MMC Ventures is an early-stage fund based in London that focuses on European Series A investments. They have a research-driven approach and specialize in investing in deeper technology companies, particularly in the AI and data science space.In this episode we chat with partner Simon Menashy and principal Charlotte Barttelot about the firm, to unde…
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#224 - From Ironhack to Fleet: the story of prolific angel investor (+100 companies) and founder Alexandre Berriche
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In this week’s episode we chat with Alexandre Berriche, founder of Fleet. Fleet is a bootstrapped French startup that helps companies simplify IT management. The company operates a sort of Device-as-a-Service model that is transforming the way startups manage equipment and onboard new employees. In the conversation we chat with Alexandre about how …
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#223 - Joaquín Cuenca: Cómo Freepik abrazó la IA Generativa
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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Joaquín Cuenca, CEO de Freepik. Freepik es una de las principales startups que se han creado en España hasta ahora. Desde Málaga y sin haber conseguido financiación, Freepik alcanzó los €80 millones de facturación en 2022 y se convirtió también en una de las páginas web de España con mayor tráfico. Su nego…
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#222 - Carlos Torras (Fintech Collective): fintech investing in Latin America, Africa & more
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We continue with our LatAm series and in this week’s episode we chat with Carlos Torras, partner at Fintech Collective. Carlos has a very interesting career. Born in Barcelona, he studied in Brazil and US before working at JP Morgan in NYC in the FX options trading desk. After three years at the job he decided to move to Colombia to work at Suyo, a…
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#221 - Ignasi Vegas (Cubbo): surfeando la ola del ecommerce en Mexico
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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Ignasi Vegas, cofundador de la startup mexicana Cubbo. Cubbo es una startup que ofrece un servicio de fulfillment para empresas de ecommerce, tanto tradicionales como de DTC (direct-to-consumer). Ignasi lleva ya fuera de España 10 años, trabajando tanto en Estados Unidos como en Mexico, y aprovecharemos pa…
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#220 - Iñaki Berenguer (LifeX Ventures): emprender, invertir y devolver a la sociedad
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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Iñaki Berenguer, hoy en día fundador de LifeX (Life Extension Ventures), un fondo que invierte en “scientists and entrepreneurs launching technologies that extend the longevity of people and planet”.Hablaremos con Iñaki de por qué montar LifeX y de los sectores a los que más le está prestando atención en e…
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#219 - VC deep dive: Project A, the operational VC
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In our first episode of European VC deep dives we chatted at length with Creandum. In this occasion, our guests on the podKast are Dr. Florian Heinemann and Philipp Werner, General Partner and Partner, respectively, at Project A. Founded in 2012, Project A is a leading early-stage VC firm investing all over Europe with offices in Berlin and London.…
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218 - Paulo Veras and the story of 99 Taxi: Brazil's first unicorn
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In this week’s episode we had the privilege of chatting to Paulo Veras, co-founder of 99 Taxi, Brazil’s first unicorn. Paulo has had a very interesting career and we went in-depth with him on both his personal and professional journey. He started coding as a teenager and founded his first company while still in university, which successfully raised…
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#217 - babyvc: can you learn to be a VC?
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baby vc is an initiative run by students and young VCs that revolves around a 10-week venture capital bootcamp, surrounded by a community of passionate entrepreneurial talents from different backgrounds with the shared vision to democratise access to the European tech ecosystem, is coming to southern Europe and more specifically Iberia in 2024. Sin…
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#216 - Miguel Carranza (RevenueCat): Año 6 como founder CTO
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Miguel Carranza, cofundador de RevenueCat (RC), vuelve al podKast por cuarta vez. Como en anteriores ocasiones, repasamos con Miguel su post anual de “My role as a founder CTO”, que publicó a principios de enero. Para entender bien la conversación y sacarle todo el partido posible es recomendable leer el artículo de Miguel antes de escuchar el podK…
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#215 - APIs que mueven millones de euros: Devengo (Fernando Cabello) e Invopop (Sam Lown)
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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Fernando Cabello, cofundador de Devengo, y Sam Lown, cofundador de Invopop. Fernando y Sam son dos personas que llevan involucradas en el sector fintech ya bastantes años. En el caso de Fernando, Devengo es ya su tercera o cuarta compañía fundada en el ámbito de los servicios financieros, tras su exitoso p…
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#214 - Mike Packer and QED, THE fintech VC and its views and activity in LatAm
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If you’re a fintech founder with global ambition and relevant traction, it’s more likely than not that you’ve heard or even talked to QED Investors. QED was founded by Nigel Morris (founder of Capital One) with Frank Rotman and Caribou Honig in 2007 and has become the premier VC in the fintech space since then. With more than $3.6b in AUM, QED has …
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#213 - Mastering Customer Success with Jonathan Sousa (Dropbox, Loom and Kfund venture partner)
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Jonathan Sousa is a seasoned operator in the Customer Success space, and a profile we’re lucky to have working with the Kfund team in a Venture Partner capacity. From his time in the early days of Dropbox, through building customer success functions at Scoop and Loom, to working with First Round and Andreessen Horowitz in advisory and scout capacit…
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#212 - Mario Cantero (IMU Biosciences): El atlas del sistema inmunológico
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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Mario Cantero, cofundador de IMU Biosciences, empresa de nuestro portfolio que acaba de anunciar una ronda de financiación de £11.5 millones. Mario ya estuvo en el podKast hace unos años para hablar de Melio, la compañía de la que surge IMU. Precisamente hablaremos con Mario de los orígenes de IMU y del pí…
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#211 - Alejandro Marti (Mitiga): using machine learning to understand climate risk
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This week we welcomed Mitiga Solutions’ Alex (Alejandro) Marti to the Kfund Podkast. Alex has had a highly varied career covering the intersection between climate risk and artificial intelligence - as CEO and co-founder of Mitiga, Chairman of the UN-ITU Focus Group on AI for Natural Hazards, a researcher within the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (…
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#210 - Farm-to-table with Crowdfarming
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This week’s guests were a special double bill - Gonzalo Úrculo and Juliette Simonin, co-founders of CrowdFarming, the Madrid-based farm-to-table fresh produce marketplace and Europe’s largest organic organic food marketplace as of 2023. We were lucky enough to welcome them during the chaos of Clementine season, with Juliette in the office in Madrid…
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#209 - Javilop, el Magnific(o)
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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Javi López, cofundador de Magnific. Magnific es un proyecto que Javi ha lanzado recientemente con Emilio Nicolás, con el que anteriormente había creado Erasmusu, una startup que posteriormente fue comprada por Spotahome. Hace años grabamos un podKast con Javi y Emilio sobre la historia de Erasmusu. Desde l…
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