Samaipata is an early stage founders’ fund investing in digital platforms, displaying increasing returns at scale, across Europe. ‘When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters — one represents danger, the other represents opportunity’ — John F. Kennedy Acceleration: Covid-19 as a forcing function Like many people, during the pandemic at Samaipata…

Desde Samaipata hemos creado la plataforma #StopCorona para divulgar y promover iniciativas desde la comunidad emprendedora que contribuyan a ganar esta batalla sanitaria. La recompensa por quedarte en casa, no ver a tus seres queridos y otros grandes esfuerzos personales será enorme. Se trata de salvar más de 30.000 …

Samaipata is an early stage founders’ fund investing in digital platforms displaying increasing returns at scale, across Europe. Over the last 10 years I’ve been involved in over 30 different boards, mostly start-up boards — Sometimes as a lead investor, other times as a “follower” investor, chairman, or independent director…

Samaipata & Cherry on stage — I’m on my way back home after 2 very inspiring days at Lisbon Investment Summit. It’s great to see how quickly the Portuguese ecosystem is evolving. The main components of a well functioning tech scene are starting to be gathered: i) increasing number of talented and ambitious entrepreneurs with a…

Today at Samaipata we are extremely happy for our portfolio company Spotahome. They’ve just achieved a very important milestone: raising a $40m Series B led by KPCB. Fundraising is never easy, especially when it comes to Tier 1 growth stage funds, where the bar is extremely high for candidates, typically…

The main driver of long-term value creation — Samaipata is an early stage founders’ fund investing in digital platforms, displaying increasing returns at scale, across Europe. “Would you invest in a marketplace in the absence of network effects?” … A tricky question I was recently asked by David Pritchard, a marketplace founder (OpenTable Europe) at an event we, at Samaipata, organised in London for marketplace founders. It took me a…

An early validation of our investment thesis — Today we’re delighted to announce our first exit, and we do so in the best scenario possible. In one of our industries of expertise, FoodTech, and involving returns well over the target of the fund. Sodexo S.A., a leading $17Bn market cap French publicly-listed food services and facilities management company…

In 2011, I co-founded La Nevera Roja, a food delivery marketplace that was sold to Rocket Internet 40 months after launch for ~$100 Million*, becoming one of the few so-called Centaurus in the short history of Southern European Venture Capital (A startup worth $100 million or more) A few months…