Investor

Grow Venture Partners

growventurepartners.com ↗ ·Barcelona ·Early stage ·Actively investing

A Barcelona-based venture capital firm specializing in Deep Tech and technology-transfer spin-offs from universities and research centers. It invests from pre-seed to seed stage and runs the "Spin-off Launchpad," a 20-week training program for researchers and postdocs offering direct investment of up to €1M. Founded in 2022, the firm has backed 30+ companies across quantum computing, photonics, MedTech, and industrial deep tech.

Portfolio
26
Team
9
AUM
n/a
Rounds
20
Cheque
€0.1–2M
SectorsDeep Tech, Quantum Computing, Photonics, MedTech, Big Data & AI, IoT, Robotics, New Materials, Energy & Circular Economy VC MapSeed

Profile updated 18 Jul 2026

Team

Partners 5 Investment Team 1 Others 3
David Borras
Non-Executive Partner
Francisco Badia
Managing Partner
Ignacio Sala
Partner
Marc Almendros
Partner
María José Morales
Partner
—
Marta Esteban
Investor Relations
—
Carlos Corominas
Operations
Fernando Rayon
Advisor (former Director at Vento, Suez corporate venture)
Néstor H. Oliveiro
R&D Manager (Advisory)

Portfolio companies 26

Amalfi Analytics
amalfianalytics.com
Company Other Barcelona
Electraqua
electraqua.com
Company Seed Barcelona
EoxSense
eoxsense.com
Company Seed Tarragona
Floatech
floatech.eu
Company Seed Getafe
FutureVoltaics
futurevoltaics.com
Company Seed Madrid
HealthTech Innovations
healthtechinnovations.es
Company Seed Badalona
Inmersia
inmersia.com
Company Seed Castelldefels
Inrobics
inrobics.com
Company Seed Madrid
Kreios Space
kreiosspace.com
Company Seed Vigo
Lince Works
linceworks.com
Company Seed Barcelona
Nextmol
nextmol.com
Company Seed Barcelona
Nimble Diagnostics
dxnimble.com
Company Series A Badalona
Porous Energy Technologies
porousenergy.com
Company Pre-seed Madrid
Predictheon
predictheon.com
Company Seed Barcelona
Process Talks
processtalks.com
Company Pre-seed Barcelona
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech
qilimanjaro.tech
Company Seed Barcelona
Shinephi
shinephi.tech
Company Seed Castelldefels
Sincrolab
sincrolab.es
Company Seed Madrid
Suspol
suspol.info
Company Seed Madrid
SUSPOL Polímeros Sostenibles
suspol.es
Company Pre-seed Madrid
teknoCEA
teknocea.cat
Company Seed Barcelona
The Blue Box
thebluebox.ai
Company Seed Barcelona
Tirecat Health
tirecathealth.com
Company Pre-seed Barcelona
Virmedex
virmedex.com
Company Seed Barcelona
Virtest Technologies
virtest.eu
Company Seed Barcelona
X1 Wind
x1wind.com
Company Series A Barcelona

Funding rounds 20

X1 Wind · Other
X1 Wind closed its fourth strategic funding round, led by Grow Ventures (Grow Venture Partners), which takes around 8% of the share capital,…
2026-09-14
Predictheon · Seed · €1.8M
Predictheon, an IDIBAPS/Hospital Clínic spin-off building an AI platform that predicts anaesthesia-related complications during surgery, clo…
2026-04-23
Virtest Technologies · Seed · €800K
Virtest Technologies, a spin-off of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, closed its first seed round of €800,000 led by Grow Venture Partners through t…
2025-10-23
Virtest Technologies · Seed · €800K
Virtest Technologies, a spin-off of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, closed its first seed round of €800,000 led by Grow Venture Partners through t…
2025-10-23
Shinephi · Seed · €1M
Shinephi, ICFO's 13th spin-off, closed a €1M seed round led by Grow Venture Partners through the FITA deep-tech fund (backed by the Generali…
2025-10-20
Kreios Space · Seed · €8M
Vigo-based Kreios Space raised an €8M seed co-led by the NATO Innovation Fund and Berlin's JOIN Capital — the largest European investment to…
2025-09-17
The Blue Box Biomedical Solutions · Seed · €3M
The Blue Box closed a €3M seed round led by Nordic impact fund Unconventional Ventures to advance its AI-powered, urine-based breast cancer …
2025-07-10
Floatech · Seed · €1M
Floatech, an IMDEA Materials spin-off developing 100% silicon anodes (Si⋮Coil®) for next-generation lithium-ion batteries, closed a €1 milli…
2025-05-29
Tirecat Health · Pre-seed · €170K
Tirecat Health, a spin-off of the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), raised €170,000 from deep-tech fund Grow Ventu…
2025-01-30
Kreios Space · Pre-seed · €2.3M
Galician space startup Kreios Space closed a €2.3M pre-seed combining private and public capital to develop its Air-Breathing Electric Propu…
2024-07-29
The Blue Box Biomedical Solutions · Pre-seed · €500K
Barcelona medtech The Blue Box closed a €500,000 round led by Grow Venture Partners with participation from Unconventional Ventures, to fund…
2024-07-29
Suspol · Pre-seed · €100K
Deeptech spin-off Suspol Polímeros Sostenibles, born from the Universidad de Alcalá's SOSCATCOM group, received a €100,000 investment from B…
2024-06-06
SUSPOL Polímeros Sostenibles · Pre-seed · €100K
SUSPOL, a University of Alcalá spin-off led by chemist Miguel Palenzuela, received a €100,000 investment from deep-tech manager Grow Venture…
2024-06-06
Nextmol · Seed
Nextmol, a Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off selling SaaS molecular modelling and AI tools that let specialty-chemicals firms design …
2024-05-28
Virmedex · Pre-seed · €150K
Virmedex, a 2022 spin-off of the UPC and Universitat de Barcelona that builds virtual simulators to train healthcare staff on complex medica…
2024-02-23
teknoCEA · Seed · €200K
GROW Venture Partners invested €200,000 in teknoCEA, a CITCEA-UPC spin-off building power electronics components and a low-cost, low-mainten…
2023-12-13
Floatech · Seed · €1.2M
Floatech, an IMDEA Materials spin-off producing nanosilicon anodes (Si⋮Coil) for electric-vehicle and device batteries, raised €1.2M in a ro…
2023-11-24
NIMBLE Diagnostics · Seed · €1M
NIMBLE Diagnostics, a spin-off of the Germans Trias i Pujol research institute, UPC and Universitat de Barcelona, raised just over €1M led b…
2023-01-18
Inrobics · Seed · €350K
Inrobics is a Universidad Carlos III spin-off that makes AI-powered social robots for rehabilitation. It raised €350K in a round led by Grow…
2022-08-02
Process Talks · Pre-seed · €250K
Process Talks, a Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) spin-off building conversational AI that lets companies automate business proces…
2022-07-15

News & media 14

PublishedArticle
2026-09-21 Open Cosmos, Exein y Fever, protagonistas de las rondas ↗
Forbes España
2026-09-15 50% menos de CapEx y conexión en un día: la catalana X1 Wind acelera la eólica flotante con su plataforma TLP ↗
Autonocion
2026-09-14 X1 Wind Closes Strategic Funding Round Ahead of 8.5 MW Floater Deployment ↗
offshoreWIND.biz
2026-09-14 X1 Wind (energía eólica flotante) cierra una ronda liderada por Grow Ventures y Avançsa ↗
Webcapitalriesgo
2026-03-12 Grow Venture Partners and the FITA Fund complete nine investments in their first year of operations ↗
Capital-Riesgo.es
2025-11-26 ICFO spin-out Shinephi completes €1M seed fund ↗
optics.org
2025-11-17 Grow Venture Partners launches a Spin-off Launchpad to support researchers in the creation of spin-offs ↗
Capital-Riesgo.es
2025-10-23 Virtest Technologies secures €800,000 seed funding led by Grow Venture Partners to transform cardiac surgery through AI ↗
Capital-Riesgo.es
2025-10-10 FITA Fund, managed by Grow Venture Partners, invests in the first five companies in key sectors for the future of Catalonia ↗
Institut Català de Finances (ICF)
2024-10-02 Grow Venture Partners cierra el periodo de inversión de GROW SEED FUND I, F.C.R.E. invirtiendo en diecisiete empresas de transferencia tecnológica ↗
Capital-Riesgo.es
2024-06-06 Grow Venture Partners apuesta por SUSPOL en la aceleración de la producción de bioplásticos ↗
Capital-Riesgo.es
2023-12-19 GROW Venture Partners invierte 200.000 euros en teknoCEA para acelerar la implantación del vehículo eléctrico ↗
El Referente
2023-11-28 Floatech, the disruptive Madrid-based startup, to build pilot plant for the production of its next-generation silicon anodes ↗
IMDEA Materials Institute
2023-10-10 Grow Venture Partners lanza su segundo fondo de 50 millones para proyectos 'deep tech' ↗
Forbes España
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