Active Venture Partners

Active Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Barcelona, Spain, founded in 2002. The firm specializes in providing early-stage capital to innovative companies in growth industries, primarily focusing on technology sectors such as enterprise software, digital media, mobile communications, security, and clean technology. Active Venture Partners typically invests between €0.5 million and €5 million per company, concentrating on A and B financing rounds, with a preference for minority stakes of 5 to 49 percent and an active role on the board. The firm targets entrepreneurial teams in Europe, particularly in the DACH region, Spain, Scandinavia, and also engages with opportunities in the United States and Latin America. Active Venture Partners aims to support high-growth businesses not just with funding, but also through a network of sector specialists and advisors, fostering holistic partnerships based on shared values.

Carmen de Arriba

CFO

Philipp Schroeder

Founding Partner

Christian Siegele

Advisor

Ricard Söderberg

Founding Partner

Past deals in Barcelona

Whisbi

Venture Round in 2019
Whisbi Technologies, S.L. develops and offers real time customer engagement and omnichannel software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for retail, e-commerce, telesales, and telemarketing businesses. It provides synchronized and real-time phone call, co-browsing, video communication, chatting, and tracking solutions. The company’s solutions include Whisbi Sales Booster, Whisbi Professional, and Whisbi Lite for telesales and telemarketing businesses; and Whisbi Pro plus and Whisbi Custom for retail and e-commerce businesses. Its clientele include Vodafone, O2, Toyota, Volkswagen, Media Markt, Telefonica, Citibank, SKY, and Fiat. Whisbi Technologies, S.L. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Madrid, Spain; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Sydney, Australia.

Whisbi

Venture Round in 2018
Whisbi Technologies, S.L. develops and offers real time customer engagement and omnichannel software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for retail, e-commerce, telesales, and telemarketing businesses. It provides synchronized and real-time phone call, co-browsing, video communication, chatting, and tracking solutions. The company’s solutions include Whisbi Sales Booster, Whisbi Professional, and Whisbi Lite for telesales and telemarketing businesses; and Whisbi Pro plus and Whisbi Custom for retail and e-commerce businesses. Its clientele include Vodafone, O2, Toyota, Volkswagen, Media Markt, Telefonica, Citibank, SKY, and Fiat. Whisbi Technologies, S.L. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Madrid, Spain; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Sydney, Australia.

Incubout.com

Venture Round in 2015
Incubout S.L. is a Barcelona-based company that specializes in developing e-commerce solutions for businesses. The company offers a comprehensive white label SaaS platform designed for online stores, enabling merchants to create and manage their digital shops quickly and efficiently, often in under 30 minutes without any coding. Its key products include LOGIDROID, an integrated warehouse solution; GCAT, aimed at mid- to large-sized companies; and SHOPATOR, which supports brands and retailers in managing their online sales through features like order processing and marketing tools. Incubout also provides OLUTION, a marketplace publishing tool that allows retailers to handle pricing, inventory, and orders across multiple sales channels, including integration with platforms such as Magento and Bigcommerce. Additionally, the company offers a Cash Point System to enhance customer loyalty and consulting services in marketing and entrepreneurship. This robust suite of tools positions Incubout as a comprehensive partner for digital commerce merchants looking to streamline their operations and expand their market presence.

ReviewPro

Venture Round in 2014
ReviewPro is a company that assists hoteliers in enhancing guest satisfaction and increasing online revenue by effectively managing their online reputation. They provide essential analysis and customer intelligence, enabling hotel professionals to benchmark their performance competitively. By aggregating hundreds of millions of social media mentions from leading online travel agencies, review websites, and social media platforms in over 35 languages, ReviewPro delivers valuable insights for hotel management. Following significant growth in the European market, the company has expanded its reach internationally, serving thousands of hotels across more than 80 countries. Notable clients include Louvre Hotels Group, Meliá Hotels International, The Red Carnation Hotel Collection, CitizenM Hotels, and Apex Hotels.

Whisbi

Venture Round in 2014
Whisbi Technologies, S.L. develops and offers real time customer engagement and omnichannel software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for retail, e-commerce, telesales, and telemarketing businesses. It provides synchronized and real-time phone call, co-browsing, video communication, chatting, and tracking solutions. The company’s solutions include Whisbi Sales Booster, Whisbi Professional, and Whisbi Lite for telesales and telemarketing businesses; and Whisbi Pro plus and Whisbi Custom for retail and e-commerce businesses. Its clientele include Vodafone, O2, Toyota, Volkswagen, Media Markt, Telefonica, Citibank, SKY, and Fiat. Whisbi Technologies, S.L. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Madrid, Spain; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Sydney, Australia.

Restaurantes.com

Series B in 2013
Restalo is Southern Europe´s and Australia´s leading provider of real-time online restaurant reservations for diners and cloud-based reservation and guest management solutions for restaurants. The company is headquartered in Barcelona and the Restalo service is available throughout Spain, Italy, Australia and the main European cities. Restalo has more than 8.000 restaurant customers, and, since its foundation in 2009, has seated more than 4 million diners.

ReviewPro

Venture Round in 2013
ReviewPro is a company that assists hoteliers in enhancing guest satisfaction and increasing online revenue by effectively managing their online reputation. They provide essential analysis and customer intelligence, enabling hotel professionals to benchmark their performance competitively. By aggregating hundreds of millions of social media mentions from leading online travel agencies, review websites, and social media platforms in over 35 languages, ReviewPro delivers valuable insights for hotel management. Following significant growth in the European market, the company has expanded its reach internationally, serving thousands of hotels across more than 80 countries. Notable clients include Louvre Hotels Group, Meliá Hotels International, The Red Carnation Hotel Collection, CitizenM Hotels, and Apex Hotels.

Whisbi

Venture Round in 2012
Whisbi Technologies, S.L. develops and offers real time customer engagement and omnichannel software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for retail, e-commerce, telesales, and telemarketing businesses. It provides synchronized and real-time phone call, co-browsing, video communication, chatting, and tracking solutions. The company’s solutions include Whisbi Sales Booster, Whisbi Professional, and Whisbi Lite for telesales and telemarketing businesses; and Whisbi Pro plus and Whisbi Custom for retail and e-commerce businesses. Its clientele include Vodafone, O2, Toyota, Volkswagen, Media Markt, Telefonica, Citibank, SKY, and Fiat. Whisbi Technologies, S.L. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Madrid, Spain; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Sydney, Australia.

Zyncro

Series B in 2012
Zyncro is your Enterprise Social Network A space for internal collaboration and communication, file management, tasks, contacts... all in a single platform. Integrated with all the company's corporate management systems, with complete personalization and customization options, including commercialization as a white label product, available as a cloud-hosted (public or private) or on-premises solution. *** Zyncro is an Enterprise Social Network, a private work environment for sharing information confidentially and securely, containing a social microblogging system, a document repository, a task manager, and a professional contact agenda. Zyncro integrates with the leading business management tools: *SharePoint *ERPs, such as SAP *BI systems (Pentaho, Google Analytics) and CRMs *Project management tools, like Doolphy *Google Apps: Gmail, Calendar and Drive *Social Networks: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, RSS and YouTube *Other corporate web applications: Evernote, SurveyMonkey *With any web content generator... Zyncro uses social technology to enable organizations to: *optimize and reduce email use *improve internal knowledge retainment and management *make teamwork more efficient *motivate and involve employees in the corporate mission *provide access to corporate information and documents. As well as being an enterprise social network, Zyncro can act as a Private Social Network, a space for collaboration and communication, perfect for any organization looking to build private social relationship with its customers, suppliers or partners... where contents and information generated do not belong to third parties (unlike Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) but to the users. Zyncro also has a multi-organization structure, making it a ideal solution not only for single enterprises, but for groups and business communities looking for a common space to share information, news, files, contacts and applications. The original Zyncro idea back in 2008 in the Grupo Inspirit technology laboratory consisted in creating a files synchronizer that would allow and individual to access all of their professional and personal documents "in the cloud". Nonetheless, upon seeing the potential that this tool could have within a company, a more corporate approach was given to it each time. At the same time, the "surname" social and the 2.0 style was inundating the Internet and it was then that the decision was taken to add collaborative and communicative functionalities to it that later converted it to what it is today: an intranet 2.0 or company social network. This part of Zyncro‘s trajectory is what Didac Lee, founder of Grupo Inspirit, considers the a "Journey accross the desert", which all startups must endure. Thanks to the appointment of Luis Font as Zyncro CEO in November 2010, the business strategy and product definition became polished and sales and marketing departments were consolidated until we became what we are today. And still on the uprise!

Whisbi

Venture Round in 2012
Whisbi Technologies, S.L. develops and offers real time customer engagement and omnichannel software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for retail, e-commerce, telesales, and telemarketing businesses. It provides synchronized and real-time phone call, co-browsing, video communication, chatting, and tracking solutions. The company’s solutions include Whisbi Sales Booster, Whisbi Professional, and Whisbi Lite for telesales and telemarketing businesses; and Whisbi Pro plus and Whisbi Custom for retail and e-commerce businesses. Its clientele include Vodafone, O2, Toyota, Volkswagen, Media Markt, Telefonica, Citibank, SKY, and Fiat. Whisbi Technologies, S.L. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Madrid, Spain; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Sydney, Australia.

Restaurantes.com

Series A in 2011
Restalo is Southern Europe´s and Australia´s leading provider of real-time online restaurant reservations for diners and cloud-based reservation and guest management solutions for restaurants. The company is headquartered in Barcelona and the Restalo service is available throughout Spain, Italy, Australia and the main European cities. Restalo has more than 8.000 restaurant customers, and, since its foundation in 2009, has seated more than 4 million diners.

Oferton Liveshopping

Venture Round in 2010
Oferton Liveshopping, S.L. operates a live-shopping portal based in Barcelona, Spain, offering a unique online retail experience. Established in 2009, the platform features a model where six new products are showcased daily across various categories, including electronics, home appliances, gourmet foods, jewelry, and apparel, each available at discounted prices for a single day. As the first live shopping portal in Spain, Oferton Liveshopping aims to attract consumers seeking exclusive deals and a dynamic shopping experience. Since March 2015, the company has functioned as a subsidiary of Pixmania S.A.S.

Polymita Technologies

Series B in 2006
Polymita helps companies to improve productivity, reduce operative costs, increase revenues and gain control and visibility over the business activity. Polymita is a world leader in BPM software, recognized by Gartner as the solutions that requires the "shortest implementation times in BPMS market" and has the "most unified architecture".