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Artesmedia is a Spanish media group, with a cross-channel presence through television, radio and cinemas. The company typically invest through media for equity deals.The group has backed to date fast-growing and customer-oriented startups in Spain such as Wallapop, Groupalia and Restaurantes.com

Founder of Fenghou Capital and Secretary-General of China Young Angel Investor Leader Association (founded in 2013 by China’s leading angel investors such as Bob Xu and Yang Ning).

Pau Vaquero Pérez is a Spanish Telecommunication engineer and currently CTO and co-founder of Proppos FastPay an intelligent self-checkout solution powered by computer vision which caters to the food services industry.Prior to Proppos, Vaquero worked as a specialist at Apple and software engineer at Napptilus Tech Labs in Barcelona.

Spanish-born Juan Urdiales is best known as the co-CEO and co-founder of UK-based employment site Jobandtalent where he has worked since 2009. As angel investors, Urdiales and co-CEO Felipe Navio have also participated in the €1.15m seed round of fintech StudentFinance in 2019.

Navarre-based Orizont is a Spanish accelerator that invests in its accelerated companies at the pre-seed and seed stages. It invests in agritech and local startups. Established in 2015, Orizont is managed by Sodena, the development agency of the Navarre Autonomous Community. It has accelerated 22 companies to date.

González-Montejano is the Spanish CEO and co-founder of AI-enhanced insurtech SingularCover, where he has worked since 2018. Prior to this, he briefly worked as CMO at the US-based Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, an exchange program, and at Madrid-based automotive marketplace startup Autingo. He previously spent five years as Senior Vice-President for Southern Europe of Affinion, a global leader in loyalty and engagement solutions and a provider of insurance to large multinationals. Before that, he had spent almost two decades working in the US, the UK, Spain and Southern Europe in a range of executive posts in large multinationals, incuding Citigroup and BNP Paribas. He holds an MBA in Finance from Carroll School of Management, Boston College, and a Business Administration degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as a professional qualification as a licensed insurance broker in Spain. González-Montejano volunteers frequently for organizations helping the elderly. 

Charlie Bavington holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Edinburgh and has done postdoctoral research at the Scottish Association for Marine Science in natural marine products specializing in glycobiology and carbohydrate chemistry.In 2000, he moved from academic research to industry, joining a marine biotechnology company where he has been responsible for natural product discovery and contract research. His commitment to marine life and natural product development continued with GlycoMar, a company he co-founded in 2005, specializing in the discovery and development of novel functional glycans from microalgae, macroalgae, invertebrates, and plants.Since 2018, he’s CTO and co-founder of Oceanium, a Scottish startup developing marine-safe bio-packaging and plant-based food and nutrition products from sustainably farmed seaweed.

The VC arm of Kalonia, a Barcelona-based management consultancy focused on corporate digital transformation, Kalonia Venture Partners invests in B2B software, AI and fintech startups in the Spanish-speaking world. The VC is currently investing via its KVP III fund of €4.3m, with a target of 10 investments of about €5m on average each, taking equity stakes of 10% onward in co-investment; plus two follow-ons. Founded by Josep Arroyo, Alejandro Olabarría y Enrique Marugán, Kalonia began helping Spanish investors diversify into Silicon Valley and other US startups as early as 2001. Currently its funds come mainly from Barcelona-based family offices. Co-founder Alejandro Olabarría is son of Pedro Olabarría Delclaux, the powerful patriarch heading one of Spain's richest industrialist families today, with interests across industrial farming, banking, real estate, automotive and paper.

Diego Ballesteros is one of Spain's most prominent serial entrepreneurs and business angels, backing some of the most successful acquisitions in Spain and Latin America. He made his first disclosed investment in 2016, as an angel investor of Spanish femtech WOOM’s pre-seed and seed funding rounds. He is currently the sole founder of Bewe SaaS for beauty and wellness professionals.Ballesteros started his first enterprise in 1997, an online classified ads platform Ocioteca.com and also MundoSalud that was acquired by Sanitas of Bupa Group.  Cabify and co-investments with Seaya Ventures also form part of his investment portfolio. One of his biggest successes is on-demand food delivery platform SinDelantal with operations in Spain and Mexico. In 2013, the Spanish delivery company was acquired by Just Eat that later also bought the Mexican company in 2015.

Founder of Federal Software, China’s biggest software circulation company; and Executive Director of China software industry association.

China Venture Capital was initiated by the China National Democratic Construction Association Committee in 2000. It focuses on technology SMEs with independent intellectual property rights, investing RMB 5 million to RMB 100 million in each project.

Juan Monzón Fabregat is a Spanish entrepreneur, angel investor and marketer. He is the co-founder of tech innovation company Meraki Codes and Exovite, where he is CEO. For three years, Monzón helmed Health Valencia 2.0, an organization which seeks to bring technological innovation to the health sector. He has completed courses at the Sloan School of Management and Singularity University. 

Jose Francis Cianni is the Italian-born co-founder and CEO and CFO for Italy of Italo-Spanish insect protein manufacturer Nutrinsect, where he has worked since 2016. Cianni is also in charge of HR and admin and previously worked as a sports technical director.   

Juan Campmany Ibañez is one of the founders of Tandem Campmany Guasch, a Spanish advertising agency that merged with the network DDB Worldwide in 1979. In 1997, he was appointed the CEO of DDB Madrid.  Campmany is well known as an industry expert, responsible for shaping Spain’s advertising industry for over 40 years.

Kinesys Group is an Indonesian VC founded in 2019 by startup ecosystem builder Yansen Kamto. The company made their debut investment in new retail F&B startup Wahyoo. They have also backed sweet-drinks chain Goola and online learning center Zenius. While the company has made at least five investments in Indonesian companies, they have not closed their first fund, for which they targeted to reach $20m. Kinesys targets seed rounds, contributing ticket sizes averaging around $500,000 per startup.

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