4Founders Capital

4Founders Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2017 and based in Barcelona, Spain. The firm focuses on investing in high-growth technology companies that demonstrate a strong potential for profit generation and efficient capital use. Founded by a team with extensive experience as entrepreneurs and CEOs, 4Founders Capital aims to assist startups in building impactful global businesses. The firm prioritizes projects with solid teams that are developing market-tested products or services and have clear revenue models, though companies do not need to be at break-even. 4Founders Capital typically invests from €100,000 in early-stage ventures and may participate in follow-on investments of up to €4 million per company throughout the investment lifecycle.

Marc Badosa

Founding Partner

Castilblanco Genebat, Marc

Principal

Past deals in Madrid

Snab

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Snab aims to automate, digitize, and simplify business payments and cash collections, as well as the treasury management of businesses. They digitise and automate treasury and business payments by providing a seamless experience.

Embat

Seed Round in 2022
Embat creates a cloud-based financial platform that democratizes access to vital financial data. The company's software consolidates all financial information to make treasury projections, automates financial reporting, and makes financial information instantly available, allowing financial teams, managers, entrepreneurs, and shareholders of small and medium-sized businesses to gain greater control over their treasury and financial planning.

Snab

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Snab aims to automate, digitize, and simplify business payments and cash collections, as well as the treasury management of businesses. They digitise and automate treasury and business payments by providing a seamless experience.

Talent Class

Venture Round in 2020
Talent Class is a provider of online cooking classes that allows individuals to learn from renowned chefs globally from the comfort of their homes. The company focuses on offering haute cuisine courses taught by qualified chefs, enabling students to advance their culinary skills and achieve professional goals. Through its innovative approach, Talent Class combines entertainment with practical learning, allowing participants to discover techniques, culinary secrets, and diverse dishes at their own pace. Additionally, the company aims to enhance business operations for the hospitality industry, having successfully assisted over 1,200 clients in optimizing processes, increasing profitability, and scaling their businesses. By implementing effective management systems and providing personalized support, Talent Class empowers its clients to operate more efficiently and grow sustainably.

Stayforlong

Venture Round in 2018
Stayforlong is a hotel reservation website, specializing in 3 night stays and over in hotels all around Spain. The longer you stay, the less you pay. We are a young team of entrepreneurs, and we want to make things fair for the long stayers. Our mission is to make good customers pay less to stay in a hotel. Why does someone that stays a week have to pay the same price per night than someone staying two days? The fair thing would be, if you stay more days, you should pay a little less. We work as intermediaries between the hotel and the clients to get better deals the more nights they stay.

Pulpo

Seed Round in 2018
Pulpo is a fast-growing software startup, focused on changing the way companies manage their vehicles and fleet operations. Its cloud software solution helps companies to save time and money by making better decisions and working more efficiently. The company aims to facilitate the work of companies that have any type of vehicles, through effective and smart management of their fleet´s operations. Pulpo launched in 2016 as a Mexican-Spanish company specialized in vehicle management.

Sheltair

Seed Round in 2018
Sheltair is a network of private spaces, available on demand. Sheltair is not about meeting rooms. Meeting rooms are closed, boring, tatty and impersonal. Sheltair is about spaces. Our spaces captivate because they are beautiful and practical. People today demand flexibility and efficiency. Therefore, we decided to go mobile from the beginning, with an app that blends flawlessly with the user and the space. With the Sheltair app you can locate a space near you, book it and unlock it as soon as you need it. The Sheltair experience opens on-demand spaces to everyone, from a creative team holding an open meeting, to a business traveller focusing on his next presentation, or even an actors’ group in rehearsal. All benefit from a space to fill with their own thoughts, a space that has a strong impact on how you feel, how you think, and what you do.

Mr. Noow

Angel Round in 2018
Mr. Noow is a mobile application designed to enhance the dining experience for working professionals, primarily in Barcelona and Madrid. The app allows users to discover nearby restaurants, browse their menus, and pre-order meals for either pick-up or dine-in, with a streamlined payment process. This convenience has attracted over 6,000 monthly active users and facilitates thousands of orders each month. Additionally, Mr. Noow offers restaurant owners tools to increase visibility, boost revenue, and optimize operational costs, ultimately improving customer satisfaction. The company has successfully raised over €2 million from notable business angels and venture capitalists in Spain to support its growth and development.

Stayforlong

Seed Round in 2017
Stayforlong is a hotel reservation website, specializing in 3 night stays and over in hotels all around Spain. The longer you stay, the less you pay. We are a young team of entrepreneurs, and we want to make things fair for the long stayers. Our mission is to make good customers pay less to stay in a hotel. Why does someone that stays a week have to pay the same price per night than someone staying two days? The fair thing would be, if you stay more days, you should pay a little less. We work as intermediaries between the hotel and the clients to get better deals the more nights they stay.

Celebrents

Seed Round in 2017
Celebrents is a marketplace focused on event and celebration management, providing a comprehensive platform for various occasions, including weddings, corporate events, children's parties, fairs, and family celebrations. The company connects clients with a range of professionals and services necessary for organizing events, such as catering, venue rentals, photography, entertainment, and transportation. Celebrents enables users to obtain multiple free quotes for the services they require, streamlining the planning process for both individuals and organizations. By offering a diverse selection of resources, Celebrents facilitates the successful execution of events and celebrations tailored to clients' specific needs.

Localistico

Seed Round in 2017
Localistico pioneered local marketing by helping chains and brands with physical locations or agencies take more clients from search to store. The growing B2B customer base choose Localistico as a smart local marketing tool in order to optimize the organic and paid presence in local channels, from Google to Apple Maps, gather all the analytics about online-to-offline interactions and better assess marketing spend and evolution, all in the simplest and least time-consuming way possible. The company's local customer support teams in both London and Madrid feel privileged to already handle an early client list, that includes some amazing businesses such as Starbucks, Morrisons, and Foxtons. Localistico was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in London.

Pulpo

Seed Round in 2017
Pulpo is a fast-growing software startup, focused on changing the way companies manage their vehicles and fleet operations. Its cloud software solution helps companies to save time and money by making better decisions and working more efficiently. The company aims to facilitate the work of companies that have any type of vehicles, through effective and smart management of their fleet´s operations. Pulpo launched in 2016 as a Mexican-Spanish company specialized in vehicle management.
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