Adara Ventures

Adara Ventures, established in 2005 and headquartered in Madrid, Spain, is a private equity firm specializing in early-stage investments. It focuses on ambitious technology companies across Europe, with a particular interest in cybersecurity, data applications and infrastructure, DevOps, hardware components, digital health, and the energy transition sectors. The firm partners with visionary founders, providing capital and support to help them execute their plans. Since its inception, Adara Ventures has invested in 43 companies, managing a fund of €200 million.

Jorge Baron

Principal, Investments

Alberto Echeverri

Partner

Alessandro Gambarotta

Associate

Alberto Gomez

Founding Partner

Nicolas Goulet

Founder and Managing Partner

Rocio Pillado

Partner

Ross Strachan

Principal

Past deals in Madrid

Stratio

Series C in 2022
Stratio is a digital transformation company specializing in artificial intelligence and big data solutions. Founded in November 2013, it has evolved from a small team of 15 to over 500 employees, with operations primarily in Madrid, Bogota, and Paris. The company offers a hybrid virtual data management platform that encompasses the entire data lifecycle, including auto-discovery, virtualization, metadata enrichment, and MLOps for data mining. Stratio's technology promotes scalability and adaptability, allowing organizations to integrate their data management across public clouds and on-premises environments without vendor lock-in. This flexibility enables clients to leverage existing resources, such as ontologies and machine learning models, effectively reducing time and costs while facilitating expansion into new markets.

Scalefast

Series B in 2020
Scalefast is a global e-commerce platform that empowers brands in entertainment, consumer goods, and fashion sectors. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in El Segundo, California, with offices in Madrid and Paris, the company offers a comprehensive suite of tools and services to simplify and enhance online shopping experiences. Scalefast's platform provides business infrastructure, e-commerce operations, internationalization, fulfillment, fraud protection, and customer engagement features such as social sign-on, local currency and languages, checkout cross-selling, exclusive bundling, subscriptions, and loyalty programs. By leveraging artificial intelligence and e-commerce expertise, Scalefast enables brands to scale quickly, increase revenue, and better understand and retain customers.

CounterCraft

Seed Round in 2020
CounterCraft, established in 2015, specializes in advanced cybersecurity solutions, offering a full-spectrum cyber deception and threat hunting platform. Headquartered in London with operations in Madrid, Washington DC, and R&D in San Sebastian, the company serves global Fortune500 clients, including financial institutions, critical infrastructures, governments, and law enforcement agencies. CounterCraft's Threat Deception platform creates controlled synthetic environments, luring attackers into engaging with fake digital assets instead of real systems and data. This proactive approach buys key stakeholders valuable time to respond to evolving threats, while continuously generating relevant threat intelligence. The platform integrates with incident response workflows and proactively mitigates risks from ongoing attacks by reconfiguring defensive systems in real-time.

Stratio

Series B in 2018
Stratio is a digital transformation company specializing in artificial intelligence and big data solutions. Founded in November 2013, it has evolved from a small team of 15 to over 500 employees, with operations primarily in Madrid, Bogota, and Paris. The company offers a hybrid virtual data management platform that encompasses the entire data lifecycle, including auto-discovery, virtualization, metadata enrichment, and MLOps for data mining. Stratio's technology promotes scalability and adaptability, allowing organizations to integrate their data management across public clouds and on-premises environments without vendor lock-in. This flexibility enables clients to leverage existing resources, such as ontologies and machine learning models, effectively reducing time and costs while facilitating expansion into new markets.

CounterCraft

Seed Round in 2018
CounterCraft, established in 2015, specializes in advanced cybersecurity solutions, offering a full-spectrum cyber deception and threat hunting platform. Headquartered in London with operations in Madrid, Washington DC, and R&D in San Sebastian, the company serves global Fortune500 clients, including financial institutions, critical infrastructures, governments, and law enforcement agencies. CounterCraft's Threat Deception platform creates controlled synthetic environments, luring attackers into engaging with fake digital assets instead of real systems and data. This proactive approach buys key stakeholders valuable time to respond to evolving threats, while continuously generating relevant threat intelligence. The platform integrates with incident response workflows and proactively mitigates risks from ongoing attacks by reconfiguring defensive systems in real-time.

Scalefast

Series A in 2017
Scalefast is a global e-commerce platform that empowers brands in entertainment, consumer goods, and fashion sectors. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in El Segundo, California, with offices in Madrid and Paris, the company offers a comprehensive suite of tools and services to simplify and enhance online shopping experiences. Scalefast's platform provides business infrastructure, e-commerce operations, internationalization, fulfillment, fraud protection, and customer engagement features such as social sign-on, local currency and languages, checkout cross-selling, exclusive bundling, subscriptions, and loyalty programs. By leveraging artificial intelligence and e-commerce expertise, Scalefast enables brands to scale quickly, increase revenue, and better understand and retain customers.

CounterCraft

Seed Round in 2016
CounterCraft, established in 2015, specializes in advanced cybersecurity solutions, offering a full-spectrum cyber deception and threat hunting platform. Headquartered in London with operations in Madrid, Washington DC, and R&D in San Sebastian, the company serves global Fortune500 clients, including financial institutions, critical infrastructures, governments, and law enforcement agencies. CounterCraft's Threat Deception platform creates controlled synthetic environments, luring attackers into engaging with fake digital assets instead of real systems and data. This proactive approach buys key stakeholders valuable time to respond to evolving threats, while continuously generating relevant threat intelligence. The platform integrates with incident response workflows and proactively mitigates risks from ongoing attacks by reconfiguring defensive systems in real-time.

Qbitia

Venture Round in 2016
Qbitia is a software company specializing in technology solutions for capital markets, aimed at simplifying and optimizing daily trading activities. With offices in Chicago, London, and Madrid, Qbitia focuses on delivering innovative tools to enhance trading efficiency. Its primary product, Qcaid, is a cloud-based automated trading platform that empowers users to design, backtest, optimize, and execute trading strategies in real time, all without the need for programming skills. Recognized as the Best Automated Algorithmic Trading Platform at the 2016 Technical Analyst Awards, Qcaid streamlines the investment process, allowing traders to analyze and implement complex strategies more effectively.

Qbitia

Seed Round in 2015
Qbitia is a software company specializing in technology solutions for capital markets, aimed at simplifying and optimizing daily trading activities. With offices in Chicago, London, and Madrid, Qbitia focuses on delivering innovative tools to enhance trading efficiency. Its primary product, Qcaid, is a cloud-based automated trading platform that empowers users to design, backtest, optimize, and execute trading strategies in real time, all without the need for programming skills. Recognized as the Best Automated Algorithmic Trading Platform at the 2016 Technical Analyst Awards, Qcaid streamlines the investment process, allowing traders to analyze and implement complex strategies more effectively.

Stratio

Series A in 2014
Stratio is a digital transformation company specializing in artificial intelligence and big data solutions. Founded in November 2013, it has evolved from a small team of 15 to over 500 employees, with operations primarily in Madrid, Bogota, and Paris. The company offers a hybrid virtual data management platform that encompasses the entire data lifecycle, including auto-discovery, virtualization, metadata enrichment, and MLOps for data mining. Stratio's technology promotes scalability and adaptability, allowing organizations to integrate their data management across public clouds and on-premises environments without vendor lock-in. This flexibility enables clients to leverage existing resources, such as ontologies and machine learning models, effectively reducing time and costs while facilitating expansion into new markets.
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