Six start-ups pitch investors at the sixth Las Rozas Innova Investment Forum

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Las Rozas Innova held the sixth edition of its Investment Forum, and for the first time it did so away from home. The pitches took place at Banco Sabadell's Hub BStartup Madrid rather than at the Hub Las Rozas Innova. BIGBAN Investors Spain helped organise once again, joined for the first time by Senda Partners and Sabadell's BStartup. More than 140 start-ups from across Spain applied, and six reached the stage. One selection criterion was having a funding round already open, which is a sensible way to make sure the investors in the room have something to do.

The six cover a lot of ground. Keepcool has patented post-harvest technology that removes ethylene and cuts airborne microbes so fresh food lasts longer. Maternify is a digital clinic for mothers and young children, offering midwives, psychologists, physiotherapists and nutritionists at home or online. Proflex Spine proposes a minimally invasive, non-fusion operation for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, based on its Nitinol SMROD implant. The Food Chainers uses AI, semantic fingerprints and a Zero-Knowledge Discovery protocol to find, protect and sell knowledge assets, with a vertical for the agri-food sector. Titanium Tech cools data centres with seawater, keeps marine organisms out without chemicals, and cuts cooling energy by close to 80%. Zoometrics is software for managing feral cat colonies, used by municipal staff, vets and volunteers.

The forum's record so far: around thirty start-ups pitched across the five earlier editions, and eight of them later closed rounds worth €7 million combined. Nacho Sánchez of Senda Partners said the aim was to bring in start-ups "not on the usual circuit."