Investor

Criteria Capital Risc

www.caixacapitalrisc.es ↗ ·Barcelona ·Early stage ·Actively investing

Criteria Capital Risc is the venture capital arm of CriteriaCaixa (the investment holding of the 'la Caixa' Banking Foundation), investing in early-stage science- and technology-based companies through two specialized funds: Criteria Venture Tech (deeptech, AI, cybersecurity, software/data infrastructure) and Criteria Bio Ventures (biotech, life sciences, health). Rebranded from Caixa Capital Risc in July 2026, it targets €300M in investment volume by 2030, focused primarily on Spain and Portugal and selectively on Europe and North America; its portfolio includes past investments in Glovo, Wallapop, vLex and Vilynx (acquired by Apple).

Portfolio
59
Team
11
AUM
~€300M
Rounds
18
Cheque
€0.5–5M
SectorsDeepTech, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Enterprise SaaS, Software & Data Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Biotech, Health VC MapSeed

Profile updated 18 Jul 2026

Team

Partners 1 Investment Team 6 Others 4
Roma Jelinskaite
Managing Director
Albert Morro
Principal
Aleix Pérez
Principal
Gina Codoni
Investment Analyst
Milós Esteva Tuñí
Portfolio Manager
Salvatore Cappadona
Principal
Sebastián Chiavenna
Principal
Beltrán Vives
Legal Counsel
Juan-Pablo Bartra
Finance Operations Manager
Mireia Pasalamar
Management Assistant
Pablo Cironi
Director, Life Sciences

Portfolio companies 59

3D Digital Venue
3ddigitalvenue.com
Company Seed Barcelona
AELIX Therapeutics
aelixtherapeutics.com
Company Series A Barcelona
AlgaEnergy
algaenergy.es
Company Other Alcobendas
Amelia Virtual Care
ameliavirtualcare.com
Company Series A Barcelona
Appentra
www.appentra.com
Company Series A A Coruña
AptaTargets
aptatargets.com
Company Series A Madrid
Argilla
argilla.io
Company Seed Madrid
Barbara
barbara.tech
Company Series A Bilbao
Barbara IoT
barbaraiot.com
Company Series A Madrid
Bellahora
bellahora.com
Company Seed Barcelona
Bodeboca
bodeboca.com
Company Other Madrid
Camaloon
camaloon.com
Company Seed Barcelona
Cebiotex
cebiotex.com
Company Series A Barcelona
Circe Scientific
circehealthscience.com
Company Seed Palma de Mallorca
Codee
codee.com
Company Series A A Coruña
Codigames
codigames.net
Company Series A Valencia
Dozen Investments
thecrowdangel.com
Company Other Barcelona
Enertika
www.enertika.com
Company Series A Barcelona
Gigas Hosting
gigas.com
Company Other Madrid
Glovo
glovoapp.com
Company Series F Barcelona
Groupalia
www.groupalia.com
Company Series B Barcelona
Honext Material
honextmaterial.com
Company Other Barcelona
i-Neumáticos
i-neumaticos.es
Company Series A Zaragoza
Idifarma
idifarma.com
Company Other Pamplona
Immfly
immfly.com
Company Series A Barcelona
Inari
inari.io
Company Seed Barcelona
Inbiomotion
inbiomotion.com
Company Series A Barcelona
iPronics
ipronics.com
Company Series A Valencia
KDROC
kdroc.com
Company Series B Madrid
Lince Works
linceworks.com
Company Seed Barcelona
MealFood Europe
tebrio.com
Company Other Salamanca
Minoryx Therapeutics
minoryx.com
Company Series C Mataró
Miscota
miscota.com
Company Other Valencia
mlean
www.mlean.com
Company Series A Valladolid
Mobile Media Content
mobilemediacontent.com
Company Series A Barcelona
Movintracks
movintracks.io
Company Seed Girona
Método Supertics
supertics.com
Company Seed Barcelona
Nanogap
nanogap.es
Company Other Santiago de Compostela
Nautal
nautal.com
Company Series A Barcelona
Nubelo
Company Series A Barcelona
Photoslurp
getflowbox.com
Company Seed Barcelona
PlayGiga
www.playgiga.com
Company Series A Madrid
Privalia
es.privalia.com
Company Other Barcelona
Psious
psious.com
Company Series A Barcelona
Qbitia
qbitia.com
Company Series A Pontevedra
QualityFry
qualityfry.com
Company Seed Madrid
Sheetgo
sheetgo.com
Company Seed Valencia
Signadyne
Company Seed Barcelona
Signaturit
www.signaturit.com
Company Other Barcelona
Silence
silence.eco
Company Other Barcelona
SimpleCloud
www.simplecloud.io
Company Seed Madrid
Smartvel
smartvel.com
Company Seed Madrid
Transplant Biomedicals
transplantbiomedicals.com
Company Series A Barcelona
Travel Compositor
travelcompositor.com
Company Other Palma de Mallorca
Urbiotica
urbiotica.com
Company Seed Barcelona
Vantelis
opscura.io
Company Other San Sebastián
Wooptix
wooptix.com
Company Series C San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Zinklar
zinklar.com
Company Series A Barcelona
Zyncro
zyncro.com
Company Series B Barcelona

Funding rounds 18

Argilla · Seed · $5.5M
Argilla closed a second, larger seed round of about $5.5M (Crunchbase dates it 10 November 2023; Tracxn records it as 19 October 2023 at $4.…
2023-11-10
Codee · Series A · €5M
Galician startup Codee raised €5M led by Spanish-Israeli fund Swanlaab to commercialise its automated code-inspection platform for software …
2023-09-19
Inari · Seed · €4.85M
Barcelona- and London-based Inari, which builds blockchain- and cloud-based core software for insurers, reinsurers, MGAs and Lloyd's syndica…
2023-09-08
mlean · Series A · €3M
mlean, founded in 2014, raised a €3 million Series A led by Caixa Capital Risc with existing investors renewing their commitment. Its mlean …
2023-02-01
Argilla · Seed · €1.5M
Argilla, an open-source data-labelling and curation platform for natural language processing teams, raised €1.5M (about $1.6M) in a seed rou…
2023-01-25
Argilla · Seed · €1.5M
Argilla, an open-source data-labelling and curation platform for natural language processing teams, raised €1.5M (about $1.6M) in a seed rou…
2023-01-25
Mobile Media Content · Series A · €2.5M
Mobile Media Content, maker of the 3D Digital Venue platform, builds 3D and VR models of stadiums and theatres so fans can see the view from…
2022-12-05
iPronics · Seed · €3.7M
iPronics, a Universitat Politècnica de València spin-off building software-reconfigurable general-purpose photonic processors (its Field Pro…
2022-07-27
Zinklar · Series A · €5.5M
Barcelona-based Zinklar raised a €5.5M Series A led by Caixa Capital Risc to accelerate the global rollout of its insights automation platfo…
2022-07-13
Amelia Virtual Care · Series B · €7M
Amelia Virtual Care (formerly Psious), the Barcelona-headquartered virtual-reality mental health platform used by over 2,000 therapists, ann…
2022-06-28
Minoryx Therapeutics · Series C · €51M
Barcelona-area orphan-drug developer Minoryx closed a €51M Series C co-led by Columbus Venture Partners and Caixa Capital Risc (no single le…
2022-05-31
Barbara · Seed · €2.5M
Barbara (formerly Barbara IoT) raised €2.5M led by Caixa Capital Risc through its Criteria Venture Tech fund, with Iberdrola investing via i…
2022-05-11
Aelix Therapeutics · Other · €1.858M
Aelix Therapeutics, which develops a therapeutic HIV vaccine, received €1.858M through a CDTI Innvierte co-investment: €880K from CDTI and €…
2021-09-15
AlgaEnergy · Other
AlgaEnergy makes microalgae-based biostimulants and other products. Caixa Capital Risc and CDTI-Innvierte became shareholders in an undisclo…
2021-07-13
MealFood Europe · Other
Caixa Capital Risc and CDTI (through its Innvierte Economía Sostenible vehicle) agreed with the shareholders of MealFood Europe to take a co…
2020-06-01
Appentra · Seed · €1.8M
Appentra is a spin-off of the University of A Coruña and makes Parallelware Analyzer, a static code analysis tool that helps developers writ…
2020-04-30
Enertika · Other · €12M
Energy-as-a-service and energy-efficiency company Enertika closed a €12M growth round led by SUSI Partners, which put in €10M. Caixa Capital…
2020-01-28
Vantelis · Seed · €200K
As Enigmedia, the company took roughly €200,000 from Banco Sabadell (via its BStartup 10 programme, which had selected Enigmedia in February…
2015-01

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