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#42 Timo Buetefisch: Co-founder & CEO of Cooltra (sustainable mobility, >€60m sales,>3m users, 30k vehicles)

Learning from building a hardware based operationally complex success story, present and future of mobility, challenging views on the European and Spanish ecosystems

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#41 Xavier Brun, PhD: Head of Equity en Trea Asset Management, >€8bn AUM (ESP)

Cómo invierte un megafondo premiado, oportunidades y riesgos en 2025, patrones de éxito de los mejores inversores en renta variable

Jun 10, 2025 • Pol Fañanás

State of Views #4

Pol building something new, Gerard focusing on Deale's great progress, Views keeps growing, Saint Paul and the relevance of suffering

Feb 4, 2025 • Pol Fañanás

#40 Elisalex Löwenstein: alimentando >2.5 millones de niños en riesgo de pobreza con Mary's Meals (ESP)

Mary's Meals España, Premio Princesa de Asturias de la Concordia 2023

Nov 19, 2024 • Pol Fañanás

#39 Pepe Agell: $0 to $100m sales in <3 years, getting Sequoia funding, being acquired by Zynga, working w/ Midas list VCs

Partner at Pear VC (ca. $700m AUM, >150 inv, 3 IPOs including >$38bn market cap Doordash), ex founding team and CEO at Chartboost (mobile ads, 700m…

Jul 23, 2024 • Pol Fañanás

#38 Ruben Bonet: the unknown deep tech going from Spanish uni spin-off to >$200m total sales

Co-founder & CEO of Fractus (deep tech building antennas with >$200m+ total sales, invested by Apax Partners); Founding Partner at ABAC Nest (VC arm of…

Apr 30, 2024 • Pol Fañanás

#37 Samuel Gil: desentrañando la artesanía de un early stage VC de referencia (ESP)

Managing Partner en JME Ventures (early stage VC Español, >€120m AUM, inversiones como Flywire, Jobandtalent, y Lingokids), Founder de Suma Positiva…

Mar 19, 2024 • Pol Fañanás

#36 Rubina Singh: engineer investing in frontier deep tech and climate tech w/ Octopus Ventures (>£1bn AUM)

Deep tech and climate tech investment teams at Octopus Ventures (European VC with over £1bn AUM and investing over £100m a year)

Jan 23, 2024 • Pol Fañanás

#35 Manuel Silva: VC firm building, LP fundraising hacks, and the future of finance

Co-founder & General Partner at Mouro Capital (fintech VC with €400m AUM), Ex Co-founder & Partner at Santander Innoventures (Banco Santander corporate…

Oct 31, 2023 • Pol Fañanás

#34 Daniel Cuthbert: top hacker, leading cybersecurity at SensePost (acq by Orange) & Banco Santander, using tech against child abuse

Global Head of Cyber Security Research at Banco Santander, US & UK govs cyber sec advisory, Board at Sentinel Foundation, ex COO at SensePost (renamed…

Sep 18, 2023 • Pol Fañanás

#33 Lluc Torcal: physicist turned Catholic monk, the relevance of soulful progress

General Procurator of the Order of Cistercians, PhD in Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics from Pontifical Gregorian University, Physics degree from…

Aug 29, 2023 • Pol Fañanás

#32 Ariadna Farres: insights from NASA's legendary research lab, building the future of space tech, lessons to improve STEM ecosystems

Astrodynamics research at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, PhD in Applied Mathematics from University of Barcelona

Jul 11, 2023 • Pol Fañanás

#31 Oscar Farres: the semiconductor engineer turned biggest LP in European Venture Capital

Head of VC - Digital Economy at European Investment Fund, fund of funds part of the European Investment Bank focused on European VC aiming to generate…

Jun 6, 2023 • Pol Fañanás

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