Finaves

Finaves S.C.R., S.A. is a venture capital firm based in Barcelona, Spain, established in 2000. The firm specializes in seed, start-up, early venture, and mezzanine investments, primarily focusing on new technology and Internet companies, while also considering opportunities across various sectors. Finaves prioritizes projects developed by students and alumni of the IESE Master’s Programs and typically invests between €0.05 million and €0.3 million in companies located in Europe, North and South America, and beyond. The firm takes minority stakes of 10% to 30% in its portfolio companies and aims to secure board representation. Finaves seeks to exit its investments within four to six years, reflecting a strategic approach to fostering innovation and entrepreneurship across diverse markets.

Pedro Nueno Ph.D

Founder

Antoni Subirá

Partner

Fernandez Terricabras, Alberto

Director

Past deals in Catalonia

Taclia

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a facilities management platform designed to help service companies to concentrate all their business in one place. The company's platform can be used to hire, manage, control, and track all maintenance, repair tasks, and expenses in real-time, enabling clients to have fast, optimized, and valuable facilities services.

Boxmotions

Venture Round in 2020
Boxmotions S.L. offers a valet storage service for scheduling the pick up and storage of belongings in Barcelona and surrounding area. It offers monthly subscription where users can manage their belongings through an online catalogue and where are they stored. The company arranges pickup from the designated location, picks up items, labels them, and produces a digital inventory with images of all the items. It serves apartment owners, individuals, and companies. The company was formerly known as Bagmotions S.L. Boxmotions S.L. was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Cobugs

Seed Round in 2019
Cobugs develops a professional DiY Internet of Things (IoT) platform. Its platform helps users to build their business process and create solution as the same way they think; and enables operations personnel to embed IoT into their processes with a spreadsheet. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

Busup

Seed Round in 2019
Busup Technologies S.L. designs and develops a bus-sharing and booking platform. It offers BusUp application, which provides public transportation services. The companies services include rent bus, e-ticket, GPS bus tracking, and design trip. Busup Technologies S.L. was founded in 2016 and is based in Sant Boi De Llobregat, Spain.

Talent Clue

Venture Round in 2018
Talent Clue is a recruitment software company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, with additional offices in Madrid and Mexico City. The platform automates and optimizes the hiring process for businesses, allowing them to efficiently post job vacancies and screen applications. Companies can create job listings within the Talent Clue tool and publish them across various job boards and social networks, as well as promote them on their career pages through branded widgets. The software centralizes applicant information in a searchable database, enabling employers to filter and compare candidates effectively. It also facilitates the organization of CVs in the cloud and includes features for sending personalized emails and generating reports. By streamlining these processes, Talent Clue helps businesses enhance their recruitment efficiency and improve their ability to attract and hire qualified talent.

Daysk

Seed Round in 2018
Daysk is a complete mobility solution for professionals, companies, and self-employed people. With its Web platform and App, it offers quick access to tables and meeting rooms, where you can find a variety of spaces to work, such as: coworkings, business centers, hotels, among others. In this way, it helps companies to improve their agility and their flexible work policies, with access tools and space management (both internal and external, throughout their network). Daysk also offers a complete advice focused on the mobility strategy of companies.

BANDIT

Seed Round in 2016
BANDIT Solutions, S.L. is an online recruitment platform based in Barcelona, Spain, that connects companies with top digital talent. Founded in 2011 and launched in December 2016, BANDIT focuses on streamlining the hiring process by offering curated playlists of sought-after candidates who are actively seeking new job opportunities. The platform emphasizes placing talent at the center of the recruitment process, facilitating connections between teams and individuals to foster innovation and collaboration in the workforce. The company is led by Francesc Font and the Araujo twins, Jorge and Nicolás, along with Sergio Méndez.

nubelo

Seed Round in 2014
Nubelo is a career marketplace for the digital workforce (developers, designers, digital marketers, product owners...). Nubelo works with clients to understand their project/team needs and custom-matches them with pre-screened professionals who join their teams on a full-time, part-time, or hourly basis. Users on the nubelo platform receive objective guidance throughout the interview process from a dedicated Talent Advocate, as well as the ability to compare new opportunities side by side so they can make their next career move or collaborate into a new project. Employers get access to a hand-picked pool of candidates who are interested in new roles, or available for new projects. The end result is an efficient, effective and enjoyable experience that’s far faster than traditional methods. Nubelo is headquartered in Barcelona (Spain) and Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Worldsensing

Seed Round in 2013
Worldsensing is a market leader in Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The company has built on its expertise in low-power wireless sensing networks and has created comprehensive vertical solutions in sectors where IoT is making a measurable impact. The company focuses on two key markets: Mobility - a unique smart traffic management portfolio includes Bitcarrier, a real-time traffic flo management solution, and Fastprk, its market-leading smart parking system. Industrial Solutions - offers the LS-G6 platform to monitor key assets in remote or hard-to-access locations. Examples include bridges, tunnels, large public buildings and infrastructures, mines, power lines. Worldsensing raised its round of seed capital in 2010. A series A round was closed in 2013 with Fundación Jose Manuel Entrecanales (FJME) and IESE Business School's Finaves fund as investors. A series B round was completed in 2015, led by FJME, Kibo Ventures and Mitsui & Co. Cisco Ventures and Endeavor also participated in this round. Today, the company has offices in Barcelona and London and has a team of more than 40 professionals. Awards -Fastprk- has won two major awards: the Stockholm Smart City Living Labs Global Award 2011 and the IBM Smart Camp 2010 London Award. -Bitcarrier was IBM Smart Camp Winner (2011), and it has been recognised by Analyst Firm Gartner as "Cool Vendor 2013". -Ignasi Vilajosana, Worldsensing’s CEO, was named the first Spanish Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2014.

Mythos

Angel Round in 2012
Mythos is the ultimate e-commerce solution for SMEs, proffessionals or individuals/entrepreneurs looking to sell online from all the different available platforms, and powered by waves and waves of incentivized word of mouth by users, customers, or simply by people looking to make a living online out of affiliate marketing or MLM marketing with their reviews, buys, shares, likes, and all of their other social activity, whether online or offline.

ForceManager

Seed Round in 2011
ForceManager is the all-in-one sales accelerator platform for field sales teams. In order to improve results and increase sales activity, the system offers a native application for smartphones, tablets and the Apple Watch that tracks and provides contextual information when on the move, allowing sales reps to work efficiently and focus on selling, not on reporting. With ForceManager, sales managers also get real-time insights into their sales team's activity. By receiving detailed statistics that accurately reflect all interactions between sales teams and customers, managers make better decisions and increase quarterly revenue.

Good Deal

Venture Round in 2011
Good Deal, S.L. offers technology solutions and marketing services for retail outlets to increase interactivity and promotional efficiency of the consumers. The company is based in Barcelona, Spain. As of October 11, 2017, Good Deal, S.L. operates as a subsidiary of Innofis Esgm SL.

Cooltra

Funding Round in 2009
The Cooltra Group is the leading company in sustainable mobility solutions on two wheels in Europe, founded by the entrepreneur Timo Buetefisch. Created in Barcelona 14 years ago, it is present in six countries in Europe (Spain, Austria, France, Italy, Portugal, and the Czech Republic), and has a workforce of 1,000 employees. It currently has a fleet of 17,000 vehicles, of which more than 56% are zero-emission electric scooters. The company is the driving force behind Cooltra, which offers mobility solutions for individuals, and companies or institutions. The market leader in the number of vehicles and revenue, it has more than 5,000 scooters rented to B2B services, 20 delegations, and up to 100 points where customers can pick up their vehicles in the main European tourist cities. eCooltra, another subsidiary of the Cooltra Group, is the leading motosharing service in Europe. Launched in 2016, the company is currently present in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Lisbon, Milan and Rome, with a fleet of 7,400 electric scooters driven by fully renewable energy. The platform has almost one million active users that can move through the 6 cities where it is present, simply by opening the app from your Android or iOS device. EcoScooting is the third brand of the group. Its concept is simple: last mile eco delivery; or what is the same, delivery of parcel in a sustainable way within cities. EcoScooting vehicles, both 2 and 4 wheels, are 100% electric and have their own software. This last point guarantees total independence, flexibility, adaptation, speed and traceability to the service. The system, exclusive to the company, is one of the biggest differential values of the brand. Available in apps for Android and iOS, it makes its use agile and effective.