
ESADE BAN
Avenida Pedralbes 60-61, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08034, Spain
Overview
ESADE BAN is a Barcelona-based business angel network that works to advance entrepreneurship and investments in Spain.
- Total investments
- 21
- Lead investments
- 7
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 1
Investment portfolio
- RepScan
Participated · Equity · Jan 2026
RepScan provides a platform that locates and eliminates harmful or rights-infringing content across the internet, helping individuals and companies safeguard their digital reputations. The service boasts a 96 % success rate and has completed more than 100,000 content removals in 68 countries for clients such as Jordi Évole, Santiago Segura, Real Betis and the Federació Catalana de Futbol. To deepen its offer, the company has released RepScan Care, a premium solution aimed at CEOs, senior executives and boards of directors that combines advanced detection algorithms, legal assistance and takedown services. RepScan positions itself as a “digital shield” against disinformation, harassment and defamation. The newly raised capital will fuel international expansion and continued product development. Co-founder and president Josep Coll, who previously helped build Red Points, stresses that online reputation has become “the new oil” in the digital world. The company seeks to entrench itself as a global reference in lawful content removal and online reputation defense.
- Centros Torguet
Led · Equity · Sep 2025
Centros Torguet operates 18 psychology clinics across Spain, delivering mental-health services through two business lines: private patients and patients referred by major insurers. Founded by entrepreneur Maurici Badia and psychologist Mercè Torguet, the company seeks to combine high-quality in-person therapy with a seamless digital experience. Revenues grew from €300,000 in 2023 to €830,000 in 2024, with a forecast of €1.3 million for 2025. Current sites include Barcelona, Girona, Tarragona, Lleida, Alicante, Bilbao, A Coruña and Murcia. The firm plans to relocate to larger premises in its existing nine cities and open clinics in ten additional cities. It will also launch a new website and booking platform, strengthen its call center, and invest in brand-building marketing. By 2027, Centros Torguet aims to run 50 clinics and become Spain’s leading psychology network.
- Pack2Earth
Participated · Seed · Feb 2024
Pack2Earth, founded in January 2022 in Barcelona, develops biobased materials that compost at ambient temperature and are suitable for packaging products ranging from dry goods to liquids with long shelf lives (6–12 months depending on product). The company has two PCT patent applications for a flexible film and an injection-mouldable material that seal together and can be produced on existing plastic manufacturing equipment. Its materials are described as high-barrier to gases and generate a compost free of toxic substances and microplastics at end of life. Pack2Earth is running pilots with about 25 companies, including food groups such as Vicky Foods and Angulas Aguinaga, and pet-food brands like Platinum and Dingonatura. The team comprises eight people, and the company plans to license materials, protect its intellectual property, and scale commercial deployments. Pack2Earth aims to replace fossil-based and other contaminating plastics across packaging and molded articles while enabling rapid adoption via compatibility with current machinery.
- hello.app
Led · Seed · Jul 2023
hello.app is a Barcelona-based startup that pays users in exchange for the unused storage space on their personal mobile devices. Its core product is a mobile app that lets users 'rent out' storage on phones, tablets, or laptops, positioning itself as a Web3 alternative to centralized cloud providers. The company plans to develop and launch apps on iOS and Android and to activate a "contribution node" function to consolidate the offering. Financially, hello.app completed a €500k seed round at a €16 million valuation and previously closed a €170k investment round plus a €130k loan from the National Innovation Company (Enisa). The company began operations in 2022, was founded by Álvaro Pintado Santaularia, and already reports nearly 200k users from more than 200 countries. hello.app aims to reach 3 million users by 2025 and to replace centralized server farms with a decentralized, collaborative storage network. Hello.app is developing a Web3 storage network that uses mobile devices to provide geo-redundant, encrypted, open-source, and user-controlled storage. The company intends to create an ecosystem centered on Web3 principles with an emphasis on encryption, decentralization, and user control. Hello.app has opened a €2 million seed investment round to fund development. This round complements a prior €170,000 financing from investors including Iese, Esade, Castiventures and Bcombinator and a €130,000 loan from the European Union cybersecurity agency Enisa. Taken together these financings amount to roughly €2.3 million to date. The company is based in Barcelona. Hello develops a decentralised Web3 ecosystem of applications, networks and infrastructure built on blockchain technology, decentralised storage and distributed databases. Its core approach emphasizes sustainable, scalable, efficient and user-controlled data storage to address centralisation and security limitations of traditional systems. The project aims to build what it describes as the most comprehensive decentralised system globally and to expand from Web3 into traditional Web2 markets. Hello has set a target of reaching 10 million users by the end of 2024. The startup recently closed an initial pre-seed round of €170,000 to be used for product development and go-to-market execution. Bcombinator has supported Hello through acceleration programs and the team is led by 18-year-old CEO Álvaro Pintado Santaularia and 20-year-old CTO Alexander Baikalov.
- Nymiz
Participated · Seed · Jan 2022
Nymiz develops a platform that embeds state-of-the-art anonymization and pseudonymization directly into corporate data architectures, turning privacy from a compliance cost into a strategic asset. The technology allows customers in highly regulated sectors—such as legal, financial services, healthcare, and technology—to unlock data utility while remaining compliant with evolving regulations. With the new capital, Nymiz plans to enhance its product features, strengthen its footprint in key European markets, and begin U.S. expansion in 2026. Management intends these efforts to push the company beyond 70 enterprise customers, validating the platform’s applicability in demanding, real-world environments. The business completed a seed round earlier in 2024, and the latest raise underscores continued investor confidence in its growth trajectory. By positioning privacy as core infrastructure for the data economy, Nymiz aims to become an essential partner for organizations handling sensitive information.
Team
Marta Campillo
Project Manager
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