Swanlaab Venture Factory
Calle Velazquez 86A, 1º izda, Madrid, Community of Madrid, 28006, Spain
Overview
Entrepreneurs and investors are combining large sums of money, work and effort to succeed at projects involving risk factors. Following the first development phase, they will face the challenges of selling, growing and expanding. Spain needs to integrate solid teams with strategic operations in order to become sound international references. Swanlaab provides a proven, reliable and safe process to detect the projects that have potential and investors seek. Our methodology and international operational teams work alongside entrepreneurs to accelerate their ventures’ growth. We not only invest financially, but also plan ahead to provide our entrepreneurs with the resources they will need. We carefully keep all controllable risk factors under our control. More than 80 professionals of 15 different nationalities who fit flexibly into a venture’s structure in order to expand successfully while minimizing all controllable risks. To take care of necessary, non-core processes: Market Acceleration, Technology, Operations, Administration, Investment Planning, Talent Development, Workplace and Networking. We invest in Spanish companies that have the potential to grow globally. We follow an investment method and fully monitor our businesses to ensure their success. Throughout the last 40 years, the experts of Swanlaab Venture Factory have advised over 2,000 companies through their establishment processes in the Spanish market and internationalization efforts abroad. His investment focus is on expansion capital; working with professional entrepreneurs who want to build robust, scalable and sustainable business from day one. Swanlaab Factory Venture invests in B2B businesses that feature a strong integration of technological innovation and are already up and running with clients. Main priority: reaching 3-4 markets within 18 to 24 months, with at least one investor besides FFF.
- Total investments
- 30
- Lead investments
- 18
- Investments · 12mo
- 7
- Active investors
- 11
Sector focus
- Finance
Investment portfolio
- Eaship
Led · Seed · Jul 2026
Eaship offers a plug-and-play TMS targeted at mid-market industrial manufacturers (food, chemical, packaging, construction and consumer goods) handling between 1,000 and 50,000 annual shipments. The platform centralizes transport operations—planning, assignment, tracking and incident management—and can be deployed in weeks without initial ERP integration, then integrated progressively by plant or flow. In 2025 the company launched a load appointment booking module and is developing AI capabilities for automatic validation of transport invoices. Eaship reports tripling its customer base in 2025 from 8 to more than 25 manufacturers in Spain, including Noel Alimentaria, Somos Hijolusa, Damel, Elmubas, Fritoper and Salsa Rica, with some deployments in other EU countries. The subscription model and minimal technical requirements for carriers enable faster adoption and internal expansion, with the company claiming it frees more than 50% of logistics teams' time and can generate annual savings of €100,000–€500,000 in some customers. Eaship positions itself as an operating system for transport and notes its solution natively supports digital transport control documentation (including eCMR) to help customers comply with Spain's Ley 9/2025.
- Dolfin
Led · Seed · May 2026
Dolfin builds an AI-driven platform that automates sales incentive and commission management and integrates with CRM, ERP and HRIS systems to provide deal-level payout visibility and performance tracking. The company was founded in 2023 and is led by CEO Daniel Seror and CPO Antoni Bardina. Dolfin has achieved SOC 2 certification and manages commission architectures for large enterprise clients with combined annual turnover exceeding €851 million. Following its €2.1m Seed raise, the company plans to accelerate engineering, expand commercial go-to-market teams, and pursue market penetration across Europe and the United States. The article did not disclose revenue figures or prior funding rounds.
- Grodi
Led · Equity · Feb 2026
Grodi, founded in 2022 in Almería by Samuel Ruíz, Natalia Gálvez and Ana Molina, develops hardware-plus-software solutions that bring automation and data analytics to intensive agriculture. Its flagship product, the VEGA 11 robot, moves autonomously inside Mediterranean greenhouses, capturing full-plant imagery that is processed by proprietary machine-learning algorithms. The resulting data feed a real-time digital platform that helps growers anticipate plant-health issues, estimate yields with high precision and streamline daily agronomic decisions. By providing continuous, standardised and objective information, Grodi aims to reduce uncertainty, cut costs and improve resource efficiency for farmers, cooperatives and seed companies. The company is currently industrialising VEGA 11 and broadening its product portfolio to address additional on-farm tasks. Near-term plans include scaling sales across Spain’s main horticultural regions and initiating international expansion. No revenue or user metrics have been publicly disclosed, but Grodi is described as being in a key commercial growth phase.
- BigGuardian
Led · Equity · Jan 2026
BigGuardian has developed a proprietary platform that combines connected IoT sensors with advanced data analytics to continuously monitor the body temperature of cattle and swine, enabling farmers and veterinarians to detect infectious diseases at an early stage. Early intervention lowers production losses, improves animal welfare, and reduces unnecessary antibiotic use, directly addressing one of the livestock industry’s largest cost drivers. The company plans to enhance its production cost structure, strengthen its commercial team, and accelerate expansion into strategic markets on the back of its recent funding. Management aims to deploy the technology at larger scale across bovine and porcine operations and to multiply the company’s revenue ten-fold by 2025. BigGuardian’s team blends seasoned production-animal veterinarians with younger IoT-savvy talent, positioning it well to drive adoption of digital tools in rural environments.
- 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.