nobody had properly automated logistics billing recovery.
billions lost every year. silently.
Pablo and team do it at Opereit!
first check of the pre-seed alongside @seedcamp, Yellow and @Carles_Reina.
welcome to the family 🤠
just landed in Geneva. meeting a technical founder at EPFL building in the fusion energy space.
you can’t invest in preseed without looking someone in the eyes first.
southern europe tech is having its moment.
spain, italy, portugal are all building. but the ecosystems are at different stages of the same journey.
what they share is a first generation of category-defining companies being born right now. and those companies are doing something more important than building products, they’re recycling talent, capital, and ambition back into the ecosystem.
founders who watched this happen are now starting their own companies. knowing it’s possible changes everything.
the early-stage landscape splits in two:
there’s always been a long tail of solid, conservative founders. raising modest rounds from local VCs, building sustainable businesses, playing the slow game. nothing wrong with that. it works.
but a new cohort is emerging. fluent in english. comfortable in any room in the world. building from day 1 for global. raising from international VCs before they have product-market fit. thinking continental or nothing.
they’re still a minority. but they’re growing fast.
this second group doesn’t think of their mediterranean roots as a handicap. they’re proof that you can eat the world from barcelona, milan or lisbon.
that’s the bet Enzo makes. that group exists, it’s underserved, and it’s the future of southern europe tech.
not for everyone. exactly as it should be.
venture works best when it stays small.
but every once in a while you find someone that makes the team genuinely sharper
Nadhi joins @EnzoVentures. 🤠
Goldman, Zalando, Speedinvest, K Fund, 4+ countries
wasn't a hire. was inevitable
welcome to the crew 🤝
algo falla cuando ni con sangre, sudor y lagrimas conseguimos la visa española para alguien con 10 años de experiencia en sector financiero, 8 idiomas y que va a generar decenas de miles en impuestos al año.
y luego ves lo que ves… que os voy a contar no?