Oriol is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Encomenda Smart Capital, a super angel fund focused on funding early seed start-ups. Encomenda participates in the first or second investment round in early stage start-ups, alongside business angels, and provides free hands-on support in growth hacking, business development, international expansion, finance, fund raising,... In the past 5 years he and his co-founder have invested in over 50 companies.
Oriol is also partner of White Peak Partners, an advisory boutique specialising in advising growth equity companies in Europe regarding M&A and financing based in the UK and in Spain. He is passionate about helping tech start-ups to commercialise new technologies / business models, to scale internationally and fund raising / M&A. In the past 4 years he has helped start-ups that have raised over $100m and have created over $300m in value for shareholders.
Formerly, he was CFO and advisor to Carto, the leading SaaS intelligence location company based in New York and in Madrid. He helped to scale the company from 10 to 100 employees and raise over to $25m in funding from Accel Partners and Earlybird.
Prior to Carto, he was Investment Director at Nauta Capital, a venture capital fund with over $300m under management. At Nauta he invested / contributed to the growth of European technology start-ups like SocialPoint, ABA English, ForceManager …. and provided hands-on management support on strategy, organisation building, marketing, fund-raising and finance.
Prior to Nauta Capital, Oriol worked in investment banking and principal investment at Merrill Lynch and BNP Paribas in London for 8 years and in technology strategy consulting with Monitor Group.
Oriol regularly speaks and serves as judge at events/ competitions organised by Techcrunch, Websummit, Whitebull, Wayra and TheSouthSummit, amongst others. He is also a mentor at Techstars, Startupbootcamp, Wayra, Conector and The Founder Institute.
Oriol holds a Bachelor from ESADE in Barcelona, a Master of International Management from Thunderbird, USA and an MBA from London Business School. He has also completed graduate courses at Stanford University.