Investor

Samaipata

www.samaipata.vc ↗ ·Madrid ·Early stage ·Actively investing

Samaipata is a pan-European venture capital firm founded in 2016 that leads early-stage rounds in tech companies with network effects, including marketplaces, platforms, SaaS and fintech, and now increasingly AI-native startups. It has backed around 40-77 companies (including follow-ons) across Southern Europe, France, the UK and Germany, and recently launched Samaipata III, a €110M fund, after building a reputation for hands-on operational support to founders via its Founder Success platform ("The Hive").

Portfolio
20
Team
27
AUM
€250M
Rounds
20
Cheque
€0.5–3M
SectorsMarketplaces, Network-effect platforms, SaaS, Fintech, AI-native startups VC MapSeed

Profile updated 16 Jul 2026

Team

Partners 19 Investment Team 3 Others 5
Alberto Cuevas
Partner
Andrea Finnegan
Operating Partner - Customer Experience
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Eduardo Diez-Hochleitner
Founding Partner | Chairman
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Emmanuel Martin-Chave
Operating Partner - Data | Reporting
Jessica Romano
Operating Partner - Revenue Strategy & Company Scale
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José del Barrio
Founding Partner (CEO)
Laura Rueda
Operating Partner - Product
Laura Ryan
Operating Partner - HR and People
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Lee Clancy
Operating Partner - Product-Led Growth
Ligia Sabillón
Operating Partner - Talent Acquisition
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Luis Garay
Partner
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Maria Fosarello
Operating Partner - Growth | Marketing
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Matt Turzo
Operating Partner - Operations
Maurice Whelan
Premium Partner - Coaching | Mental Health Wellbeing
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Nadini Sathiyarajan
Operating Partner - Communications & PR
Pablo Ferreras
Partner - COO/CFO
Roberto Cruz
Operating Partner - AI | Machine Learning
Stephan Lagraulet
Operating Partner - Tech
Wais Shaifta
Operating Partner - International Expansion & Operations
Carmen Sánchez
Investment Associate
Irene Gentili
Investment Manager
Íñigo Laucirica
Principal
Carolina Martínez-Caro
Senior Advisor
Ernesto Matos
Platform Operations Manager
Judit Lerch
Operations Assistant | Office Manager
Lucia Garcia
Head of Brand Marketing & Comms
Ramiro Fernández Omedes
Head of Legal
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Portfolio companies 20

21 Buttons
21buttons.com
Company Series B Barcelona
Auctree
auctree.com
Company Seed Madrid
Caravelo
www.caravelo.com
Company Series A Barcelona
Colvin
www.colvin.com
Company Series C Barcelona
Dcycle
dcycle.io
Company Series A Madrid
Deporvillage
www.deporvillage.com
Company Other Manresa
Embat
www.embat.io
Company Series B Madrid
Enginy
www.enginy.ai
Company Seed Barcelona
Fly-Fut
fly-fut.com
Company Seed Madrid
Genesy AI
genesy.ai
Company Seed Barcelona
Imperia
imperiascm.com
Company Series A Valencia
Komon
komon.io
Company Pre-seed Madrid
Ontruck
ontruck.com
Company Series B Madrid
PropHero
prophero.com
Company Series A Madrid
Punto
punto.ai
Company Seed Madrid
Spotahome
www.spotahome.com
Company Series D Madrid
Streamloots
streamloots.com
Company Series A Valencia
The Colvin Co
colvin.es
Company Series C Barcelona
Together Price
www.togetherprice.com
Company Seed Madrid
Vivla
vivla.com
Company Series A Madrid

Funding rounds 20

Embat · Series B · €30M
Madrid-based treasury management fintech Embat raised a €30 million Series B led by Cathay Innovation, with Creandum, Samaipata, 4Founders C…
2026-05-12
Punto · Seed · €2M
Punto, founded by Patrik Bergareche (ex-Just Eat) and Javi Escribano (ex-Ontruck), raised €2M fully covered by Samaipata to scale its genera…
2026-04-20
VIVLA · Series A · €8M
VIVLA, which sells fractional co-ownership of premium second homes from one-eighth shares, raised €8M led by returning investor Samaipata, t…
2025-07-23
PropHero · Series A · €16M
PropHero, the AI-powered property investment platform founded by Pablo Gil and Mickael Roger, closed a €16M (A$25M) Series A led by Australi…
2025-02-20
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
Enginy · Seed · €5M
Genesy (rebranded to Enginy in late 2025) closed a €5M seed round led by pan-European VC Samaipata, with existing investors K Fund and Itnig…
2025-01-14
Genesy · Seed · €5M
Genesy, a Barcelona platform of AI sales agents that autonomously find and engage B2B prospects, raised €5M led by pan-European fund Samaipa…
2025-01-14
Dcycle · Series A · €6M
Dcycle closed a €6M Series A led by Samaipata with follow-on from existing investors Ship2B Ventures, Sabadell Venture Capital, Draper B1, D…
2024-12-11
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
Embat · Series A · $16M
Madrid fintech Embat, which automates real-time corporate treasury and accounting for around 150 European corporates including Cabify, Walla…
2024-02-27
Vivla · Seed · €2.7M
Fractional luxury-home ownership startup Vivla raised €2.7M, mostly from its existing investor base plus several Spanish real-estate finance…
2023-10-16
Caravelo · Series A · €3.5M
Barcelona-based Caravelo, which powers flight subscription and ancillary revenue products for more than 20 airlines including Volaris, Alask…
2023-09-14
Colvin · Other · €6M
Flower and plant marketplace Colvin closed a €6 million internal round from its existing shareholders, reported as a down round with the val…
2023-07-05
Embat · Seed · €5M
Real-time corporate treasury management fintech Embat, founded by ex-J.P. Morgan bankers Antonio Berga and Carlos Serrano, raised €5M led by…
2023-06-26
Auctree · Seed · €2.5M
Auctree, an online marketplace that opens up distressed and judicially auctioned real estate to individual and professional investors, raise…
2023-03-28
PropHero · Seed · €5.2M
PropHero is a property-investment proptech founded by Spaniards that operates in Spain and Australia. It closed a Seed round of more than €5…
2022-10-05
Komon · Pre-seed · $2M
Komon, founded by ex-Samaipata principal Sebastián Fernández-Medrano and engineer Manuel Bevilacqua, raised $2M (about €1.86M) in pre-seed f…
2022-05-30
Vivla · Seed · €26M
Vivla, a fractional co-ownership platform for premium second homes operating in Madrid, Marbella, Sotogrande, Ibiza and Mallorca, closed a €…
2022-03-22
Colvin · Series C · €45M
Barcelona online flower and plant marketplace Colvin raised a €45M Series C led by Eurazeo to expand in Europe, starting with France, and to…
2021-07-28
Colvin · Series B · €14M
Barcelona online flowers and plants marketplace (The Colvin Co), which buys straight from growers and skips the Dutch auction middlemen, rai…
2020-06-26

News & media 9

PublishedArticle
2026-09-14 Dealflow #526: Self-driving taxis in Madrid in Q4 2026. The data centre doubts. idealista launches in France. ↗
Dealflow.es newsletter
2026-09-12 DISRUPTORES Innovation Awards 2026: estos son los nombres de los cinco finalistas a Mejor Inversor/a ↗
El Español / Invertia Disruptores
2026-06-16 Samaipata recruits 15 executives from Airbnb, Microsoft, Google, and N26 to advise its startups on growth, technology, and mental health ↗
Capital-Riesgo.es (English)
2026-03-11 Samaipata launches €110M Fund III to back Europe's next generation of AI-native startups ↗
Tech.eu
2026-01-16 Samaipata closes 2025 with 17 million invested and a focus on European AI ↗
Capital-Riesgo.es (English)
2025-09-23 Konvo AI lands €3.5M to transform ecommerce customer service into a sales engine ↗
Tech Funding News
2025-07-23 Madrid-based VIVLA secures €8 million to scale its co-ownership model for premium second homes ↗
EU-Startups
2025-01-10 Samaipata's 2024 in Review: €20M deployed, Graduations and Momentum ↗
Samaipata Insights (Substack)
2023-12-21 Samaipata VC "sets its sights" on Spanish investment in 2024 ↗
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