Oriol Juncosa is a tech investor and advisor. He has invested in 80+start-ups as Co-Founder of Encomenda (a VC) and Business Angel. He has advised 30+ digital companies, as Co-Founder of White Peak Partners, an M&A boutique. He was an early employee and CFO of Carto, a SaaS start-up. He was also Investment Director at Nauta Capital (a VC), worked in London for Merrill Lynch and BNP Paribas and in Madrid for Johnson & Johnson (pharma) and Monitor (consulting). Oriol graduated from ESADE and London Business School.

He usually invests in the first or second round of investments in startups during the early stages and provides free support. His investments include fintech sector, marketplaces, SaaS, IoT, and data-driven businesses.

Some of his previous experiences involve him having lead an insurtech SaaS company headquartered in Spain and across Europe in GT Motive Spain, and lead another mobile-centric banking platform using credit scoring and algorithms to provide customers with a great financial experience and products. Oriol also was involved in raising $2.5 million dollars in 2014 and $12 million in 2016 for ABA English as an advisor for expansion. Another great extension of his skills was with his time at Blueliv, where he managed to raise €4M in 2017. While he was an investment director at Nauta Capital, he helped invest $2.5 million into ForceManager, $3 million into ABAEnglish, and $2 million into SocialPoint. He used his vast knowledge of business to scale the Nauta Capital from 10 people to 100 people. He also helped with Investment Banking at BNP Paribas. He has been involved in several other major roles and has made a huge impact throughout Europe.

He has a very strong educational background involving his MBA at the London Business School, also took advanced graduate courses at Stanford University, he was ranked first in the Thunderbird School of Global Management class and was top tier in his bachelor’s in business administration at ESADE. He has almost decade-long of experience in mentoring different startups and companies with some of his different experiences in Spain and the UK with Wayra, Techstars, Conector Startup Accelerator, Startupbootcamp and NUMA Barcelona. Oriol plays an active role in the business world and serves as a mentor and advisor in business events and competitions organized by rising companies such as Techcrunch, Websummit, Whitebull, Wayra and TheSouthSummit along with many more.

Oriol is a very talented individual who has bilingual proficiency in Catalan, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. He thrives in environments related to venture capitalism, private equity, start-ups, corporate finance, investment banking, business strategy, investments, entrepreneurship, management consulting, restructuring, and merging companies.