• Nutual

  Participated · Equity · Apr 2023

  Nutual offers a senior-focused product that enables older homeowners to release housing equity while remaining in their homes, addressing demographic pressures and pension fragility. The company is also developing an end-to-end platform for home buyers to search, analyze, finance and manage all transaction steps. Nutual uses artificial intelligence and location intelligence to estimate current and future property values, reduce associated costs, and recommend market options. Founded in 2021, the startup has analyzed real-estate operations totaling more than €425 million to date. The recent financing will support continued expansion, the creation of in-house R&D&I lines, and consolidation of the company’s position in the real-estate market. Nutual is in advanced negotiations with several major European banks to offer buyer-specific solutions such as down-payment assistance.

• Braingaze

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2014

  Braingaze develops diagnostic and therapeutic products that combine patented biomarkers of ocular micromovements, casual video games, and deep-learning algorithms. Its diagnostic solutions aim to deliver cutting-edge accuracy and objectivity for conditions such as ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease, and autism spectrum disorder. The company’s therapeutic offering, including BGaze Therapy — an eye-movement attention-training game — has been tested in clinics and shown promising improvements in cognitive function beyond behavioral training, reportedly mimicking pharmacological effects without side effects. Braingaze’s ADHD diagnostic tools have been used in clinical practice in Spain by pioneering physicians in Madrid and Barcelona. The company plans to use the new funding to accelerate clinical and commercial development, launch clinical solutions, and expand access to consumers via mobile platforms. CEO Laszlo Bax said the team is focused on executing the milestones ahead and growing multi-market business traction. Braingaze develops next-generation eye-tracking software that predicts and identifies personal behaviour for clinical and commercial applications. The company is building several applications, including tools for diagnosing ADHD, analysing consumer preference, and aiding video game navigation. New funding will be used primarily for R&D, product development, patent expansion, regulatory compliance, and to develop a clinical trial programme in Europe and the US. Braingaze recently secured €336K of public and private capital in its first pre-seed round. The seven-person team has moved into larger offices within the Tecnocampus Mataró incubator near Barcelona. Founders Laszlo Bax and Hans Super also increased their investment at the same valuation offered to new investors.

• Masterbranch

  Participated · Equity · May 2011

  Masterbranch aggregates developers' open-source and non-open-source work to make coding experience tangible and comparable for employers by linking online profiles/CVs to projects across multiple code hosts. The platform indexes and analyzes code from SourceForge, Apache, CodePlex, Google Code and GitHub to surface real projects on a developer's résumé. It has indexed and analyzed 500,000 projects from 350,000 programmer profiles and reports 6,000 active users, with a geographic spread including 21% USA, 12% Spain, 8% China, 5.7% Brazil, 4.2% Argentina and 4.2% Russia. Masterbranch already works with leading brand names that access its database free of charge. The new funding will be used to invest in qualitative analysis of profiles, grow the user base, and pivot toward monetization via monthly job posts, freemium, subscription and credit packages for searching, reviewing and contacting candidates. The company was founded by Ignacio Andreu Dolset and Juan Luis Belmonte.

• 3scale

  Participated · Equity · Apr 2010

  3scale, founded in 2007 by CEO Steven Willmott, is an API management solutions provider based in San Francisco and Barcelona. The company offers a Plug & Play SaaS API Management platform and infrastructure that enables developers and companies to open, control, manage, operate and monetize their APIs to third parties. Its customer base spans Fortune 500 companies to small businesses and startups, including Skype, FlightStats, Wine.com, 1WorldSync, SITA, PagesJaunes.fr, FullContact and Yummly. 3scale raised $4.2M in funding and plans to use the capital to broaden its services and reach a global audience. The company is actively hiring in San Francisco and Barcelona. 3Scale Networks offers a platform for analytics, authentication, contracting and billing of Web APIs to enable monetization and commercial management of web services. Its technology targets businesses deploying APIs and SaaS/DaaS models and has been commercialized to more than 25 reference customers including Softonic and Wine.com. The company was founded in 2008 and operates from Barcelona and Sunnyvale, California. With the new financing it plans to grow the team to about 12 people as it develops the product further. Management expects to reach break‑even by mid‑2011. The platform is positioned to address gaps in commercial service management (contracts, rights, payments, QoS) atop existing Web Services technologies.

No current team members are available.