The partnership is our portfolio
Our Team's International DNA and extensive experience as Founders and CEOs of successful Technology Companies, together with the collective know-how of our co-investment partners allows us to assist entrepreneurs and maximize their chances of success.
We are interested in projects with solid teams, which aim to create large international companies, with a market-tested superior product or service, and a clear revenue and profit generation model. Companies are not required to be in break-even.
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4Founders is about empowering ambitious and talented entrepreneurs and their teams. It is not about controlling them. We only take minority investments, and we typically co-invest with Business Angels or other VC funds with solid experience managing successful companies in the same or related industries.
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We invest anywhere from €100K in early stage investments, and typically bring co-investors with us to increase that amount. We do follow-ons for up to €3.5M per Company over the lifetime of our investment.
Team
The 4Founders Managing partners collectively have decades of experience as both CEOs of small and large companies and as investors in private and public equity and debt, bringing together a wealth of experience on which our portfolio companies can draw upon.
Marc Badosa
Managing Partner
Began his career as a consultant first in Everis and latter at Deloitte before joining Caixa Capital Risc (CaixaBank). In 2008 he joined Riva y García as Investment manager of a VC fund and worked in the constitution and fundraising of 2 other VC funds.
He has been actively involved in more than 30 transactions such us Privalia, Scytl, Coverfy, The Hotel Network, Holded, Sclipo, Kinamik or Filmax among others.
MS in Civil Engineering and MBA from ESADE Business School.
Jesús Monleón
Managing Partner
Has worked in Arthur Andersen Corporate Finance and Caixa Capital Risc (CaixaBank)
and is founder of eMagister.com, SeedRocket and Offerum.
He has invested in over 40 new tech companies: Trovit, Glamorum, Emagister, Offerum, Teambox (Redbooth), Chicfy, Abiquo, Marfeel, Ducksboard, Tiendeo, Novicap, Habitissimo, Captio and Escapada Rural among others.
Bachelor in Business Administration.
Marek Fodor
Managing Partner
Started his career as a management consultant in CSOB. After that period, Marek co-founded Atrápalo where he was CTO until 2008.
After Atrápalo and a year at the University of California as a visiting scholar, he became a Business Angel and mentor in more than 20 startups: Kantox, Celpax, Deportvillage, Marfeel, PerTransfer, ABAEnglish, Novicap, EscapadaRural, Webphone, Ulabox, etc…
Master in computer science, also studied economics in Prague, Berkeley and London.
Javier Pérez-Tenessa
Managing Partner
Co-Founder and former CEO of eDreams ODIGEO (BME:EDR), a World leader in online Travel, took the company to €4.5B in Sales and €117 million EBITDA, led 3 financing rounds, 2 LBOs, several acquisitions, private and public Debt issuances and the IPO in 2014.
He has sat in Boards of companies including eDreams and Vueling Airlines in 13 countries, and has done 10+ Angel investments including Tuniu in China (Nasdaq: TOUR). Prior to eDreams he worked as Satellite design engineer for Airbus Group and as Strategy Consultant for McKinsey and Company.
MS in Aerospace Engineering Pol. U. of Madrid, and MBA from Stanford University.
Patricia Espaliat
Finance Director
Patricia has more than 18 years of experience in financial management, accounting and auditing. She started her career at Deloitte in Barcelona and later worked in various roles as finance manager and controller. She is also the CEO of Keiro Finance, an advisory firm specialized in accounting and finance.
Degree in Economics from Universidad de Barcelona.
Marc Castilblanco
Associate
Started his career as an Auditor for PwC and later as an M&A Consultant for Deloitte.
He has invested in new tech companies such as Badi, Zank, TheBest5 and Parlem as a Business Angel.
Bachelor degree in Business Administration in Barcelona and Sweden, and Master in Finance from Barcelona School of Management
Alex Casanova
Analyst
Alex started his career as an Intern in SeedRocket Accelerator.
Bachelor degree in Business Administration in Barcelona, Sweden and Canada
Joan Cavallé
Analyst
Joan started his career at InnoCells, the corporate venture arm of Banco Sabadell. Later, he joined Inveready as an investment analyst in the technology fund.
Bachelor’s degree in International Business Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and HEC Montréal and MSc in Finance from ESADE Business School.
