Investor

Acurio Ventures

www.acurio.vc ↗ ·Bilbao ·Multi stage ·Actively investing

European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018 in Bilbao (formerly All Iron Ventures, rebranded in 2024) by Ander Michelena, co-founder of Ticketbis (sold to eBay). Sector-agnostic investor backing pre-seed through Series B companies across Europe, with roughly €450M AUM across multiple funds including a dedicated VC secondaries fund. Portfolio includes Preply, Seedtag, Jobandtalent, Lingokids, Refurbed, Lookiero and Exoticca.

Portfolio
39
Team
19
AUM
~€300M
Rounds
34
Cheque
Up to €3M (initial check)
SectorsGeneralist / sector-agnostic VC MapSeries A

Profile updated 16 Jul 2026

Team

Partners 6 Investment Team 7 Others 6
Ander Michelena
General Partner
Bart Tompkins
Venture Partner
Diego Recondo
General Partner
Hugo Fernández-Mardomingo
General Partner
Iñaki Ecenarro
Venture Partner
Kate Cornell
General Partner
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Ainhoa Saralegui
Senior Investor
Daniel Martin
Finance Associate
Kiril Dimov
Principal, Fund Investments
Luis Robledano
Head of Investor Relations
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Maryna Malanenka
Analyst, Fund Investments
Miguel González
Senior Investor
Piotr Bukanski
Principal
Alberto Merino
VP of Finance
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Bosco Amann
Head of Business Development & Marketing
Eneko Marin
Head of Legal
Iñigo Eraña
Strategy Manager
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Jesus Diaz Rivero
Tech Lead
Matías O'Farrell
CFO

Portfolio companies 39

ApetEat
apeteat.com
Company Seed Madrid
Aplanet
aplanet.org
Company Series A Bilbao
Circular
circular.io
Company Series A Madrid
Crescenta
crescenta.com
Company Series A Madrid
Exoticca
exoticca.com
Company Series D Barcelona
Fintonic
www.fintonic.com
Company Series D Madrid
FlipFlow
flipflow.io
Company Seed Valencia
Fourvenues
fourvenues.com
Company Series A Valencia
Frekuent
frekuent.com
Company Barcelona
Game Strategies
game-learn.com
Company Series A Madrid
Heepsy
heepsy.com
Company Seed Bilbao
Imperia
imperiascm.com
Company Series A Valencia
Insurama
insurama.com
Company Series A Madrid
Jeff
www.jeff.app
Company Seed Riga
Last.app
last.app
Company Series A Barcelona
Lingokids
www.lingokids.com
Company Series D Madrid
Lookiero
www.lookiero.com
Company Series C Bilbao
Manglai
manglai.io
Company Seed Barcelona
Microverse
www.microverse.org
Company Series A San Francisco
Mr Jeff
wearejeff.com
Company Series B Valencia
Mr. Jeff
mrjeffapp.com
Company Series C Valencia
Ontruck
ontruck.com
Company Series B Madrid
OpenWebinars
openwebinars.net
Company Seed Sevilla
Orain
home.orain.io
Company Series A Barcelona
Orain Technologies
orain.io
Company Series A Barcelona
Preply
preply.com
Company Series D Barcelona
RatedPower
ratedpower.com
Company Series A Madrid
Revel
driverevel.com
Company Series B Madrid
Seedtag
www.seedtag.com
Company Series C Madrid
Spotahome
www.spotahome.com
Company Series D Madrid
Sunhero
sunhero.com
Company Series A Barcelona
TandemTrace
tandemtrace.ai
Company Seed Madrid
Team Heretics
teamheretics.com
Company Other Madrid
ThePower Business School
thepowermba.com
Company Seed Madrid
TROOP
trooptravel.com
Company Series B Madrid
TuLotero
tulotero.es
Company Seed Madrid
Urbanitae
urbanitae.com
Company Series A Madrid
Viewed
viewed.video
Company Seed Madrid
Wide Eyes Technologies
wideeyes.ai
Company Seed Barcelona

Funding rounds 34

Flipflow · Other · €3M
Agentic retail-intelligence platform (Tyrell AI) raised €3M led by 4Founders Capital with strategic backing from Puig, Mango and Juan Roig's…
2026-06-03
Crescenta · Series B · €5M
Crescenta, a digital manager giving retail and professional investors access to private equity funds, closed €5M led by Kfund through its $2…
2026-04-08
Lookiero Outfittery Group · Other · €17M
The group formed by Spain's Lookiero and Germany's Outfittery closed a €17M growth round to fund expansion across its 12 European markets, c…
2026-01-08
TandemTrace · Seed
TandemTrace, founded in 2024 by Almog Ohayon (ex-Javelin Networks), closed an undisclosed seed round co-led by Adara Ventures and Acurio Ven…
2025-07-11
Orain · Series A · €6M
Orain Technologies raised €6M to accelerate its European expansion and prepare entry into Latin America and Asia, growing headcount from 40 …
2025-02-28
Orain Technologies · Seed · €6M
Orain, an unattended-retail payments and loyalty platform for vending machines, laundromats, EV chargers and kiosks, raised €6M in a round r…
2025-02-28
Imperia · Series A · €10M
Imperia, a Valencia-based SaaS platform for demand forecasting and supply chain planning, raised over €10M in a Series A co-led by Burda Pri…
2025-02-18
Crescenta · Series A · €7M
Crescenta, a digital platform that gives retail and professional investors access to private equity and venture capital funds, raised €7M co…
2025-01-22
Exoticca · Series D · €60M
Barcelona-based online travel platform Exoticca raised €60M in a Series D led by French growth investor Quadrille Capital, with existing bac…
2024-07-23
Insurama · Series A · €8M
Madrid insurtech Insurama, an MGA specialised in insuring consumer electronics and household goods, closed an €8M Series A led by Basque fun…
2024-05-13
Imperia · Seed · €3M
Imperia (Imperia SCM), founded in 2019 by ex-Deloitte and NTT Data consultants, raised €3M led by Samaipata for its modular supply-chain pla…
2024-03-20
Manglai · Pre-seed · €500K
Manglai, an AI-powered SaaS platform that measures, reduces and certifies corporate carbon footprints, raised a €500K pre-seed led by All Ir…
2024-02-21
Flipflow · Seed · €900K
Valencia-based market-analytics startup Flipflow closed a €900,000 round led by Angels, Juan Roig's investment vehicle, with All Iron Ventur…
2023-12-26
Crescenta · Pre-seed · €2M
Crescenta, Spain's first fully digital private-markets fund manager (CNMV-registered), added €2 million to its pre-seed round with the entry…
2023-12-20
Last.app · Series A · €5M
Barcelona restaurant operating-system startup Last.app raised €5M led by Nauta Capital, with existing investors All Iron Ventures and Bynd V…
2023-11-15
APlanet · Series A · €4M
APlanet, an ESG data management and reporting platform founded in 2019, raised €4 million from EDP Ventures, CDTI, JME Ventures, FJ Labs, Al…
2023-03-30
TROOP · Series B · €10M
Madrid-based TROOP, a platform for planning, booking and managing corporate meetings and events, closed an $11 million (c. €10 million) Seri…
2023-03-30
Sunhero · Series A · €10M
Sunhero, a residential solar installer founded in Berlin in 2021 that moved its headquarters to Barcelona in 2022, raised a €10 million Seri…
2023-03-13
Microverse · Series A · $4M
Microverse, a remote coding school paid through income-share agreements and run by CEO Ariel Camus from Barcelona, raised a $4M (€3.9M) exte…
2022-08-17
Circular · Series A · $7.5M
Circular, a talent-sharing network where in-house tech recruiters recommend vetted candidates they could not hire to their peers, emerged fr…
2022-03-07
Sunhero · Seed · €3.5M
Sunhero, a residential rooftop solar platform run from Barcelona by Christopher Cederskog (ex-Airbnb) and Stefan Braun (ex-Audibene), raised…
2022-02-14
Last.app · Seed · €2.2M
Last.app, founded by former Glovo executives, raised €2.2M to grow its cloud software for restaurant operations (POS, delivery integration, …
2022-01-12
TROOP · Series A · $8M
TROOP makes a platform for organising in-person business meetings. It raised an $8M Series A (about €6.8M) led by Madrona Venture Group, wit…
2021-09-29
Seedtag · Series B · $40M
Seedtag, a contextual advertising company active in EMEA and LATAM, raised a $40M (about €34M) Series B to expand into the US and keep inves…
2021-09-14
Lookiero · Series C · $30M
Lookiero is an online personal-shopper service with more than 3M users. It raised $30M (about €25.2M) to enter Germany and grow in its curre…
2021-07-13
Microverse · Series A · $12.5M
Microverse runs a remote coding school that students pay for through income-share agreements, with no upfront cost. This Series A was led by…
2021-07-01
Urbanitae · Series A · €2.5M
Urbanitae closed its second funding round, €2.5M led by K Fund with existing backers All Iron Ventures (now Acurio Ventures) and Viriditas V…
2021-05-06
Preply · Series B · $35M
Preply, an online language-tutoring marketplace founded in Ukraine with its headquarters in Barcelona, raised a $35M (about €29.5M) Series B…
2021-03-09
Jeff · Series B · €17.4M
Jeff runs a platform and franchise network for laundry, beauty, fitness and massage businesses. It raised a Series B reported as €17.4M ($21…
2020-12-02
Mr. Jeff · Series B · €17.4M
Jeff raised €17.4M (reported as $21M) in a Series B to open a New York office in January 2021 and consolidate operations across roughly 40 c…
2020-12-02
Lingokids · Series B · $10M
Lingokids, a learning platform for young children, raised $10M (about €8.5M) in a round led by German educational games maker Ravensburger, …
2020-10-07
APlanet · Seed · €1.7M
APlanet makes SaaS for managing corporate sustainability and CSR plans. It closed its first seed round of €1.7M, led by All Iron Ventures, w…
2020-09-17
Mr. Jeff · Series A · $12M
Mr Jeff closed a $12M (€10.4M) Series A led by All Iron Ventures, the fund of the Ticketbis founders, with existing investor AddVenture and …
2019-01-10
Urbanitae · Seed · €1M
Urbanitae raised its first round, close to €1M, from K Fund, All Iron Ventures and Viriditas Ventures, with the three funds reported jointly…
2018-06-27

News & media 5

PublishedArticle
2026-07-13 Spain's Acurio Ventures launches €115 million vehicle to provide liquidity to European VC funds ↗
EU-Startups
2025-09-29 Acurio participates in the $19 million funding round of the Italian startup Lexroom ↗
Capital-Riesgo.es
2025-03-19 Acurio Ventures refuerza su presencia europea con la apertura de una nueva oficina en Madrid ↗
Capital-Riesgo.es
2025-02-16 Tendencias VC en España y Europa de la mano de Ander Michelena - Founder Partner de Acurio Ventures y Co-fundador de Ticketbits ↗
Inversión Alternativa (Substack)
2024-09-23 All Iron Ventures rebrands as Acurio Ventures with a new €150M 'follow-on' fund ↗
TechCrunch
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