Investor

Mouro Capital

www.mourocapital.com ↗ ·London ·Multi stage ·Actively investing

Mouro Capital is a fintech-specialist venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs reshaping financial services, investing at early-to-growth stage across Europe, North America, and Latin America. Sole-backed by Banco Santander, the firm surpassed $1 billion in total commitments in 2026 after closing a $400M Fund III, and has built a high-conviction portfolio (targeting 30-35 companies per fund) spanning payments, lending, identity, blockchain, and AI infrastructure, with 26 exits including iZettle (PayPal) and Kabbage (Amex).

Portfolio
2
Team
17
AUM
~$1B
Rounds
3
Cheque
$8–12M
SectorsFintech, Payments, Lending, Banking infrastructure, Identity & compliance, Blockchain/digital assets, AI infrastructure VC MapCorporate VC

Profile updated 19 Jul 2026

Team

Partners 5 Investment Team 6 Others 6
Chris Gottschalk
General Partner
Daria Dmytrenko
Strategic Partnerships & Portfolio Development Manager
Francesco Pasti
Partner
Manuel Silva Martínez
General Partner
Rafael Esteban Correa
Partner
Bernardo Serôdio
Senior Associate
Cedric Van Duffel
Senior Associate
Ignacio González García
Operations Associate and ESG
Juha Hovintalo
Senior Associate, Investor Relations
Julia Huerta García
Finance Associate
Matthew Griffin
Associate
Catherine Passmore Jones
General Counsel
Chloe Chan
Head of Research & Insights
Elitsa Angelova
Chief of Staff
Enrique Rincón Díez
Finance and Operations Support
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Jitendra Dhageya
Chief Risk & Compliance Officer
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Álvaro Meliá Navarro
Chief Financial Officer

Portfolio companies 2

Alinia AI
alinia.ai
Company Seed Barcelona
Clikalia
www.clikalia.com
Company Series C Madrid

Funding rounds 3

Alinia AI · Seed · $7.5M
Alinia AI, founded in Barcelona and operating between Barcelona and New York, closed a $7.5M seed round led by Santander-backed Mouro Capita…
2025-12-04
Clikalia · Series B · €60M
Clikalia, a Madrid iBuyer that buys, renovates and resells homes, closed a €60M (about $70M) Series B equity round led by Fifth Wall, with L…
2021-12-16
Clikalia · Series A
Clikalia, a Spanish iBuyer that buys and sells homes online, raised an undisclosed Series A led by Mouro Capital, the venture firm spun out …
2020-11-10

News & media 9

PublishedArticle
2026-05-19 Why Santander spinout Mouro Capital is betting on AI: 'We're not fans of the word fintech' ↗
Sifted
2025-12-04 Barcelona's Alinia bags $7.5M seed for AI compliance in banking ↗
Tech Funding News
2025-10-15 UK fintech Hyperlayer bags £30m in fresh funding ↗
FinTech Futures
2025-03-26 FinTech startup Burbank raises £5m to roll out card-present online payments ↗
FinTech Global
2024-02-27 Entrevista con Manuel Silva, GP de Mouro Capital: áreas de oportunidad en fintech, la experiencia de crear fondos corporativos, lo bueno y malo de crypto y muchos otros temas ↗
K Fund
2024-01-03 Fintech in 2024: investors eye payments, interest rates and a shift to emerging markets ↗
Global Venturing
2023-06-09 nocnoc Raises $14 Million in Series A Funding led by PayPal Ventures to Accelerate Cross-border eCommerce in Latin America ↗
GlobeNewswire
2023-06-06 Meanwhile, a Bitcoin life insurer backed by Sam Altman and Google's VC fund, raises $19 million at $100 million valuation ↗
Fortune
2023-04-05 Next-Generation DeFi Platform M^ZERO Exits Stealth Mode With $22.5M Funding Round ↗
CoinDesk
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