Lanai

Lanai Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2016 and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. The firm specializes in seed and pre-seed stage investing, adopting a sector-agnostic approach to identify promising startups across various industries. Lanai Ventures focuses primarily on companies operating within Spain, aiming to nurture early-stage enterprises with high growth potential. The firm also benefits from a substantial network of prominent founders who serve as Limited Partners, providing valuable insights and resources to the startups in which they invest.

Mar Alarcón

Founder and General Partner

Rubén L. Ferreiro

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Guillermo Llibre

Co-Founder & General Partner

Jeroen Merchiers

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

33 past transactions

Gretel

Venture Round in 2023
Gretel Labs, Inc. develops an online platform that helps developers to create and share data. It offers data catalog, automate data exposure detection, and fast data cataloging of streaming data for fun and privacy; synthetics; and transformation, real time transformation, and data firewalling. Gretel Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Gretel, Inc. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Poway, California.

Gretel.co

Angel Round in 2022
A company management software with everything you need to run your company.

iF Lastmile

Seed Round in 2021
iF Lastmile is a logistic and delivery company that provides same day delivery and return service for online shoppers.

Flanks

Venture Round in 2021
Flanks is a Barcelona-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in developing an application programming interface (API) platform for banks. It focuses on providing comprehensive, high-value solutions based on financial data, particularly in the WealthTech, InsurTech, and ERP sectors. The platform facilitates portfolio integration, enabling banks to connect seamlessly with developers. Flanks' API allows users to access raw banking information and automate processes involving custodians, fund administrators, and proprietary data warehouses. This innovation aims to enhance the user experience for clients and financial investors alike.

Cobee

Series A in 2021
Cobee develops an online platform that automates and simplifies employee benefits management. The company also provides benefits for employees and flexible compensation that makes companies and employees fall in love. It facilitates the management of your benefits plan and allows you to focus on what really matters. Cobee provides a subsidy to your employees to complement the cost of the benefits you want. They eliminate intermediaries and external suppliers of each of the benefits, thus achieving such as reduce costs and improve service quality for companies and employees, create a single source of information, which facilitates the management, resolution of incidents and the visibility of what happens in each moment, and offer your employees a benefits package centralized on the same VISA card, with real-time visibility of the savings generated and controlled from their Cobee App. Cobee was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Acqustic

Seed Round in 2021
Acqustic provides an online platform that allows families, friends, couples to order live concerts from great musicians so that they come to play at their living rooms, gardens, or rooftops. It is also open for pubs, companies, and public administrations interested in live music.

Atani

Seed Round in 2021
Atani is a non-custodial platform designed for cryptocurrency traders and investors, founded in 2019 and based in Madrid, Spain. The platform offers an all-in-one solution that allows users to execute trades, monitor portfolios, and access charting tools across more than 20 cryptocurrency exchanges through a single interface, all in real time and at no cost. It includes features such as an integrated tax-reporting tool that generates automatic reports for over 30 countries, a portfolio aggregator, advanced order types, and a trading calculator. Additionally, Atani provides a customizable price alerts system, emphasizing a security-first approach with its non-custodial desktop platform.

Frankie The King

Equity Crowdfunding in 2021
Frankie The King makes homemade dog food.

Tacter

Venture Round in 2020
Tacter is a personal gaming assistant that helps players improve in their games. It is a tech-enabled solution in the gaming industry for a long time.

Payflow

Seed Round in 2020
Payflow Digital, SL, founded in 2019 and based in Madrid, Spain, offers a digital wallet service that allows employees to access their earned salaries instantly. This employee benefit enhances financial well-being by providing immediate access to funds, which can lead to improved productivity and engagement within the workplace. Companies that implement Payflow's services can enjoy these benefits without any impact on their cash flow, making it an attractive option for employers looking to support their workforce. The company operates as a venture backed by Rocket Internet, emphasizing its commitment to innovation in employee financial solutions.

HUBUC

Pre Seed Round in 2020
HUBUC is a banking as a service that offers businesses a quick, reliable, scalable, and easy way to provide financial services to their customers. Our vision is to enable any business to be to embed financial services in its product offering. Our customers go to market on average in 7-8 weeks with a live product with a bank account, European IBAN, Debit cards, 27 FX currency pairs, SEPA Direct debit, Instant Payments, Account Aggregation, Payment Initiation, and a full suite a branded digital banking products ready for launch.

Cobee

Seed Round in 2020
Cobee develops an online platform that automates and simplifies employee benefits management. The company also provides benefits for employees and flexible compensation that makes companies and employees fall in love. It facilitates the management of your benefits plan and allows you to focus on what really matters. Cobee provides a subsidy to your employees to complement the cost of the benefits you want. They eliminate intermediaries and external suppliers of each of the benefits, thus achieving such as reduce costs and improve service quality for companies and employees, create a single source of information, which facilitates the management, resolution of incidents and the visibility of what happens in each moment, and offer your employees a benefits package centralized on the same VISA card, with real-time visibility of the savings generated and controlled from their Cobee App. Cobee was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Arengu

Seed Round in 2020
Arengu Software, S.L. develops a lead generation Software as a Service (SaaS) software designed to serve Enterprises and SMEs. The company provides end-to-end solutions designed for web applications. Its online lead generation system offers dashboard, form builder, lead enrichment, lead distribution, and lead scoring solutions and services. Arengu Software, S.L. was founded in 2018 and is based in Vigo, Spain.

PIGARI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
SaaS

Acqustic

Seed Round in 2019
Acqustic provides an online platform that allows families, friends, couples to order live concerts from great musicians so that they come to play at their living rooms, gardens, or rooftops. It is also open for pubs, companies, and public administrations interested in live music.

Trioteca

Seed Round in 2019
Trioteca is the digital advisor that helps you to get your best mortgage: we explain what is going to happen, we manage the relationship with the banks for you and we help you to make the decision. We are an independent service that works with all the banks in the Spanish market; thanks to our algorithm and our users we analyze the offer of mortgages that have been signed near you, to be able to advise you in a transparent and impartial way. Totally free for you.

Flanks

Venture Round in 2019
Flanks is a Barcelona-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in developing an application programming interface (API) platform for banks. It focuses on providing comprehensive, high-value solutions based on financial data, particularly in the WealthTech, InsurTech, and ERP sectors. The platform facilitates portfolio integration, enabling banks to connect seamlessly with developers. Flanks' API allows users to access raw banking information and automate processes involving custodians, fund administrators, and proprietary data warehouses. This innovation aims to enhance the user experience for clients and financial investors alike.

Picker

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Picker is an app and web where you discover the favourite products shared by people you know. Stop searching through Amazon, discover great stuff shared by your favourite influencer, one of your friends or one of your cousins!

Assembler School S.L.

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Assembler School S.L. is a private, tuition-free institution located in Barcelona, Spain, that focuses on training software engineers through a project-based curriculum. The school offers a 36-week on-site program that emphasizes peer learning, allowing students to collaborate on real-world projects in the field of web development. By combining practical experience with collaborative education, Assembler School aims to equip students with the skills necessary to successfully launch their careers in technology.

Reby

Angel Round in 2019
Reby Inc develops a software that helps to find and ride electric scooter in Barcelona. The software searches nearest electric scooter and unlock it through QR code. It can use in android and iOS. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Cobee

Seed Round in 2019
Cobee develops an online platform that automates and simplifies employee benefits management. The company also provides benefits for employees and flexible compensation that makes companies and employees fall in love. It facilitates the management of your benefits plan and allows you to focus on what really matters. Cobee provides a subsidy to your employees to complement the cost of the benefits you want. They eliminate intermediaries and external suppliers of each of the benefits, thus achieving such as reduce costs and improve service quality for companies and employees, create a single source of information, which facilitates the management, resolution of incidents and the visibility of what happens in each moment, and offer your employees a benefits package centralized on the same VISA card, with real-time visibility of the savings generated and controlled from their Cobee App. Cobee was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Baluwo

Seed Round in 2018
Baluwo Financial Services S.L. provides payment clearing service to people which allows them to buy groceries and electricity for their families living in other countries. The company offers its products for food, construction, mobile, and electricity sector. The company offers its services to Nigeria and Senegal countries. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Consentio

Seed Round in 2017
Consentio SL operates an online platform tailored to the fruit and vegetable industries, enhancing trading processes by facilitating communication among various stakeholders, including producers, cooperatives, wholesalers, and supermarkets. Founded in 2002 and based in Madrid, Spain, the company provides a marketplace that improves ordering efficiency, transparency, and real-time price updates, ultimately reducing food waste. Its B2B platform streamlines operations and supports seamless interactions, allowing food retailers and suppliers to optimize procurement and commercial activities. By fostering better connections within the supply chain, Consentio aims to enhance overall operational effectiveness while promoting environmental and social governance compliance.

Celebrents

Seed Round in 2017
Marketplace specializing in events and celebrations

Brokoli

Seed Round in 2017
Brokoli was born with the main objective of bringing the insurance world closer to the end user by working in a transparent, clear and trustworthy way. Through Brokoli, any user can understand the world of insurers and resolve all their doubts, as well as manage their policies. With Brokoli, the user will have a personal adviser 24 hours a day with whom he can chat to resolve any doubts about his policies. You can also manage all your insurance through the app, viewing the details of your policies and creating renewal alerts. In addition, you can change or contract new insurance through the app with the maximum confidence and security and getting the product that best suits your needs

Baluwo

Seed Round in 2017
Baluwo Financial Services S.L. provides payment clearing service to people which allows them to buy groceries and electricity for their families living in other countries. The company offers its products for food, construction, mobile, and electricity sector. The company offers its services to Nigeria and Senegal countries. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Siguetuliga

Seed Round in 2017
SaaS for improving revenues in amateur sport clubs. Results, standings, statistics, reviews, articles, courses, online store on web, iPhone and Android.

Noken

Seed Round in 2017
Noken curates trips to introduce people to a new country. Travelers adapt a Noken Travel Blueprint based on their budgets and timelines and book their accommodations, experiences and transportation. These Travel Blueprints balance helpful guidance with the ability to create your own adventure, introducing travelers to the country’s iconic landmarks as well as local gems. Once on the trip, travelers can find everything they need in the App Guide and chat with the Experience Team for real-time support. Noken gives travelers the best of both worlds: the liberation from countless hours of planning and the guidance on the ground to meet a new country.

Hello Umi

Seed Round in 2017
Hello Umi S.L. provides a SaaS platform that helps companies engage their users, using instant messaging for customer service and conversational commerce. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Valencia, Spain.

Landbot

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Landbot is a platform that enables users to create conversational websites aimed at enhancing lead conversion rates. Launched in June 2017, it originated from an internal experiment driven by frustrations with traditional AI chatbots. The platform features an interactive, rich-text interface that guides website visitors through a dynamic messaging thread, using conversational prompts to facilitate navigation and provide the necessary information efficiently. By replacing conventional website navigation with a more engaging and adaptive approach, Landbot aims to improve user experience and streamline the process of obtaining information.

Fotawa

Seed Round in 2016
Fotawa Alimentación, S.L. operates a food delivery application. Its application allows users to choose delivery time want, choose the dish or the dishes, pay, and you receive food at home or the office. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Valencia, Spain.

AVUXI

Angel Round in 2016
AVUXI has ranked the popularity of every location on Earth to provide Location Context for Travel, Real Estate and Retail. Its pioneering GeoPopularity Engine and TopPlace™ product suite offer detailed Worldwide coverage, offering the quickest answer to where are the top places in any city. TopPlace™ products increase revenues and reduce time consuming location context data review, processing and research.