• Nester

  Led · Equity · Nov 2023

  Nester offers an all-in-one platform for the end-to-end management and administration of rental properties, aimed at property managers and operators. The software automates daily operations—contracts, invoices and settlements, tenant communications, digital rent collection and incident management—replacing manual processes to increase efficiency and visibility. The product targets clients from mid-size agencies to large portfolio owners and counts customers such as Badi Homes and Spain Student Housing. In a little more than two years the company scaled from managing 100 properties in under six months (2022) to managing 20,000 properties across 250 companies. Nester was selected for AWS's accelerator and for Lanzadera and has received backing from various investment funds and business angels. The startup plans to expand its range of functionalities and modules and aims to become the reference daily-management software for rental properties in Spain and Europe. It recently closed a financing round to support product development, customer acquisition and continued innovation.

• Okticket

  Participated · Equity · Apr 2021

  Okticket provides a digital platform that automates the full process of professional travel expense management, from payment and digitization to validation, control and ERP integration. The company emphasizes product quality and fast digitalization to improve customer experience. Okticket was founded in October 2017 and has pursued steady, capital-efficient growth, including through the pandemic. In 2022 it doubled its number of customers and subscription contracts. It currently serves more than 500 clients and has over 100,000 users across Spain, Portugal and France, from SMEs to multinationals such as Manpower, Orange, Central Lechera Asturiana and BASF. Management plans to use new capital to accelerate internationalization, add sales staff and continue product improvements, and expects to double sales in 2023. Okticket, founded in October 2017, provides a platform to digitize and manage business travel expenses end-to-end, from receipt capture to validation, control and ERP integration. The company emphasizes a powerful real-time data-extraction/recognition engine and offers bidirectional integrations with major management tools. It provides a free tier for sole traders and micro-SMEs of up to five users. Okticket reached break-even without prior external funding and continued growing in 2020 despite the pandemic's impact on business travel. The platform reports more than 70,000 users and over 3,000 client companies and is active in Spain and Portugal. The company plans to enter additional European markets during 2021 and will use the new funding to accelerate growth. Okticket provides a digital expense management platform focused on user experience, using an in-house optical character recognition engine to automate notes de gasto and invoice digitization. Its software is homologated by the Agencia Tributaria, giving digitized documents the same legal validity as paper originals. The platform supports bidirectional integration with ERPs, accounting modules, BI systems and payment methods to fit into corporate tech stacks. As of the article, Okticket serves more than 50,000 users across 2,500 companies. The company is pursuing international expansion (already active in Portugal) and plans short-term growth that includes the creation of about 20 jobs. Financially, it secured support to improve its technology and back its expansion initiatives through regional public financing.

• Renty

  Led · Equity · Apr 2021

  Renty operates a mobile app that aggregates local rental shops and handles logistics—pickup and delivery—so users can rent items on a pay-per-use or subscription basis. The platform lists around 400 products across more than 10 categories (electronics, cycling, mobility, photography, furniture, fashion, luxury, events, outdoor, babies, decoration, etc.). The company was founded in January 2021 by Marc Pierre and currently has more than 20 collaborators supporting operations. Renty positions itself to promote the circular economy and reduce consumerism by making rental simple, secure, and attractive. The startup closed its first funding round of €200,000 and plans to invest the proceeds in product development and geographic expansion across Spanish cities. Investors in the round include Encomenda Smart Capital, Levels Up Ventures and Successful Ventures.

• Kubbo

  Participated · Equity · Feb 2021

  Kubbo is a technology provider for eCommerce logistics that offers order preparation, same-day and next-day delivery, personalized order handling, and customer service for incidents and returns. The company was founded in 2019 by Eric Daniel Fernández and Víctor García Pujol and is based in Barcelona. Kubbo says it has seen strong adoption by brands and eCommerce companies and positions itself as one of Spain’s more innovative logistics startups. The startup plans to continue developing new functionalities for its logistics management software and to expand its network of strategic partners nationally and internationally. Financially, Kubbo closed a second investment round of €1 million and has also secured a loan from ENISA to support team growth and geographic expansion into major Spanish cities. Kubbo is a Barcelona-based provider of fulfillment services and same-day, next-day and sub-2-hour deliveries for e-commerce. Founded in 2019 by Eric Daniel Fernández and Víctor García Pujol, the company operates multi-client urban warehouses where it prepares orders and manages last-mile deliveries. It offers integrations with major e-commerce platforms and a web application that allows clients to monitor inventory levels and order status from a single point. Kubbo plans to open new warehouses in six provincial capitals and to expand nationally during the year, with further expansion to other EU countries planned for 2021. The startup was one of two winners of the first PcComponentes Startup Booster program. Kubbo recently closed its first funding round, raising €266,000 from business angels led by Aurorial, with participation from Future One (Itnig), Successful Ventures and other business angels. The company will use the proceeds to deploy new locations, grow product, technology, sales and operations teams, add new features and broaden its service catalogue.

• Paymefy

  Participated · Equity · Jan 2021

  Paymefy automates the collections and recovery cycles of large companies by sending automated digital notifications that integrate payment platforms such as PayPal, Apple Pay and PISP transfers. The service aims to accelerate debtor payments and, when payments are not made, to surface what is happening with the account. Founded about a year and a half before the December 2021 article and based in Barcelona, the company focuses on validating use with large financial and utilities customers to test international markets. At the time of the round Paymefy had 15 employees and plans to use the funds to grow the team to 25. Founders Quim Zurano and Guillem Sarlé retained 60% ownership after the raise. No revenue figures were disclosed in the article.

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