Borja Breña is an investment manager at Nauta Capital’s Barcelona office focussed on Spanish and Portuguese opportunities.

Borja is recognised as a venture capital investor with international experience in finance, technology, and innovation. Prior to joining Nauta in 2018, he was a senior investment manager at Telefónica’s corporate venture capital fund. Previously, Borja worked at Kennet Partners, at Barclays Capital as an analyst in the credit trading desk, and as a business consultant at Deloitte UK and Deloitte Spain.

Borja holds an MBA from London Business School, graduated as a Telecommunications Engineer from Seville University (Spain) and is an Associate Chartered Accountant of the ICAEW (UK). He currently resides in Madrid.

Strong supporter of open innovation and believer in the potential of corporate/startup collaboration - if done right. Helping startups grow as Head of Porsche subsidiary MHP's venturing unit, dynamics.vc

In numbers:

- 20: More than 20 years of experience in the startup and VC space

- 50: Named one of the 50 most influential women in the startup and venture capital sector by EU-Startups in 2017

- 100: Invested in over 100 companies to date

Previously MD at Startupbootcamp in Berlin, where we guided companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Airbus, Cisco, here, Vinci, Kühne + Nagel, SBB, EnBW, and DB on their innovation journey.

After 10 years in consulting and the sale of his company to Solucom, François joined LD COM (the future Neuf Cegetel) in the early days and held various positions, including VP Sales, Network VP and FTTH VP. He became a member of the Executive Committee in 2004, a role he occupied for four years until end 2007. He decided to leave Neuf Cegetel when it was being sold to SFR for €8Billion and became an angel investor. François spent a few years investing in startups and participating as an independent board member before co-founding Breega Capital in 2013. François is currently a managing partner at Breega Capital.