For entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs
Encomenda is a Venture Capital fund manager created by successful entrepreneurs. We specialise in investing in early stage technology startups, mainly in Spain. Our partners have more than 250 successful investments under their belts.
Early Stage Venture Capital is about exceptional people. We make high conviction investments in technology-driven pre-seed and seed founders.
Entrepreneurs who create the world we want to live in. We believe in good ideas that can become great partnerships and cultivate a brilliant future-forward ecosystem.
Encomenda is a VC firm created by entrepreneurs and managed by entrepreneurs which counts with a great pool of successful entrepreneurs among its Limited Partners. We have experienced what entrepreneurship is all about and we are here to help our portfolio companies grow.
We invest at the earliest stage of the project where we can bring our experience as entrepreneurs and investors.
Team
We are a team of former serial founders managing a family of seed funds, with offices in Barcelona and presence in Madrid. We put ourselves in your shoes and ask “What would I do?” This is a key principle that guides our approach.
Encomenda Team
A team that combines vast entrepreneurial and investment experience that provides expertise in the early stages of development of start-ups and how to boost their growth and that has the confidence of many entrepreneurs to invest in projects led by founders eager to change the world.
Carlos Blanco, President & CEO
Mercè Tell, General Partner & COO
Javier Darriba, General Partner
Telmo Pérez, Partner
Christophe Canler, CRO
Francisco Lodeiro,Investment Manager
Carolina Cavallo, Portfolio Manager
Jacobo Wirz,Associate
Jan Oñate, Financial controller
Sasha Tam, Investment Analyst
Víctor Bescós,Investors Relations
Ferran Millan, Investment Analyst Intern
Our Venture Partners
Our venture partners contribute to the success of the funds by providing deal flow of startups that fit our investment thesis, supporting in the analysis and filtering of advanced investment opportunities linked to their field of expertise and in some cases, representing the funds in the follow-up of the invested startups.
Ernest Sánchez,Blockchain & Fintech
Miguel Sanz, Edtech & Healthtech
Toni Raurich,Traveltech
Marc Vicente, E-commerce & Marketplaces
Miguel Planas, Cloud & Cybersecurity
Mario Brassesco, Blockchain & Edtech
Victoria Gago, Blockchain
FUNDS
Encomenda Seed 2
Entrepreneur-led VC fund with entrepreneurial LPs and a focus on the best entrepreneurs.
Encomenda Seed 1 was born in 2017 with a philosophy focused on giving maximum returns to investors and investing in best seed stage founders. This philosophy was not by chance: it was based on our experience of more than 20 years as entrepreneurs, executives and digital investors. Likewise, our experience in the creation, advice, and execution of digital projects, from very early stages, allowed us to cover a space in the market that made it possible to be even closer, if possible, to entrepreneurs and, in turn, allowed us to generate higher returns for our investors.
Encomenda Seed 1 supported more than 40 companies, its team analyzed more than 6,000 digital projects and managed to consolidate a recognized brand in the southern European market. You may get more information about Encomenda Seed 1 at: www.escvc.com
Encomenda Seed 2 is based on the same investment thesis as Encomenda 1, but with a larger size, it aims to accompany projects from the pre-seed stage to series A.
Investment stage:
Pre-seed & Seed
Ticket size:
100-500k + follow-on of 2-3M.€ per company
Sector:
Agnostic
Target geographies:
Mainly Spain
N Ventures 1 Incubación
Fund focused on supporting start-ups launched by the successful Venture Builder Nuclio
Investment stage:
Pre-seed & seed
Ticket size:
150k + follow-on up to 0.5M.€ per company
Sector:
Agnostic
Target geographies:
Mainly Spain
Palladium Corporate Ventures
Corporate VC fund focused on travel, hospitality & leisure to bring innovation in an exceptional way to the Palladium group.
Investment stage:
Pre-seed & Seed
Ticket size:
150k + follow-on up to 0.5M.€ per company
Sector:
Travel & leisure
Target geographies:
Mainly Spain
Hands-on approach
We are as active as our entrepreneurs requires us to be, helping them with our know-how and networking.
Fast execution
We make quick decisionsand we even have a fasttrack for smaller tickets
Entrepreneur-oriented
We know what means to be an entrepreneur, we have been there before.
Investors network
We have strong connections with national and international venture capital funds.
Follow-on investments
We initially invest from 100K€ to 500K€, and can make follow-on investments of up to 3M€ per company.
Venture Partners network
We are connected to market-leaders in a variety of industries
A Portfolio That Excites Us. Every Day.
We’ve invested in several startups in the past decade. We have worked, and continue to work, with amazing founders and teams who are driven to change the world. Their successes are our successes. We are proud of our portfolio which you can visit at this link!
The network driving venture capital
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Mathew, backed by Encomenda and Decelera, raises €1.2 million to strengthen its commitment to educational AI
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Diversification: the key to building a portfolio
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What is behind OpenAI’s mega funding round?
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Verticals: the other AI
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SaaS startups you shouldn’t lose sight of
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CarHub closes a €350,000+ funding round led by Encomenda to expand access to the European used car market
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Encomenda adds bcount to its portfolio, betting on the digitalisation of tax and accounting management
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Encomenda invests in VoiceB.ai, an AI-powered voice agent platform
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Encomenda Seed II receives €9.5 million from SETT to boost Spanish tech startups
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