Axon Partners Group

Axon Partners Group is a Madrid-based growth and expansion firm established in 2006, specializing in technology and innovation through a dual approach of investment and consulting. With a team of approximately 90 experienced professionals, the company operates across Europe, the Americas, and the MENA region. Axon Partners Group focuses on a diverse range of sectors, including B2B and B2C markets, financial services, information technology, clean technology, and various emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and robotics. The firm aims to leverage its expertise to support the growth of innovative companies and facilitate their development in a rapidly evolving business landscape.

Betul Asalangdon

Principal

Luis Cesar Castañeda

Principal

Iván Feito

Principal Direct Investments

Jesús Carballal Fernández

Partner

Javier Martinez de Irujo

Principal

Juan Jiménez

Partner

Dimitri Kallinis

Managing Partner

Alfonso de Leon

CEO - Co-Founder

Jorge Martínez

Partner

Álvaro Neira

Partner

Alfons Oliver

Partner

Nicolas Rios

Principal

Ilhan Tozar

Principal

Miguel Vallone

Principal

Francisco Velazquez

President

Julio Villalobos

Managing Partner

Mauro Yovane

Principal Fund Of Funds

Past deals in Spain

Nextmol

Venture Round in 2024
Nextmol is a Barcelona-based startup that focuses on computational chemistry by offering a cloud-based software platform designed to enhance the design of new chemicals. Utilizing molecular modeling and artificial intelligence, the platform allows for extensive computational testing, significantly reducing the time and costs associated with traditional laboratory methods. This innovative approach provides valuable insights into the physico-chemical behavior of candidate molecules, facilitating more efficient research and development processes. As a spin-off from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, one of Europe's leading supercomputing facilities, Nextmol aims to improve product performance and sustainability in the chemical industry, ultimately increasing the success rate of new chemical discoveries.

Cañas y Tapas

Acquisition in 2021
Cañas y Tapas is a restaurant chain based in Madrid, Spain, known for its focus on gastronomic cuisine. The establishment offers a diverse menu that includes tapas, broken eggs, toasts, and a selection of beers, catering to both local and visiting patrons. With a commitment to providing a distinctive dining experience, Cañas y Tapas has established itself as a notable operator in the culinary landscape of Spain.

HolaLuz

Series B in 2019
HolaLuz is a renewable energy company based in Barcelona, founded in 2010, with a mission to transform the energy sector by prioritizing customer needs and fostering long-term relationships based on trust. The company focuses on creating a sustainable energy model that empowers customers to become prosumers, managing and owning their green energy. HolaLuz is recognized as the first European electric company to achieve B Corp certification, highlighting its commitment to creating a positive impact on employees, communities, and the environment. The company's offerings include the commercialization of electricity and gas, representation services, and solar energy solutions. A notable feature is the HolaLuz Cloud, which enables customers to deduct surplus energy generated by their solar panels from their electricity bills, thereby promoting efficient energy use and self-production.

Pangea

Venture Round in 2019
Pangea is an innovative travel agency based in Madrid, Spain, designed to enhance the tourism experience by bringing together various countries in one location. The company's flagship store spans over 1,500 square meters and features a café, a specialized bookstore, and thematic selling areas, each staffed by expert advisors knowledgeable about specific destinations. Pangea aims to revolutionize the travel sector through its unique product offerings and personalized advisory services. In its first year, the agency achieved over 9 million euros in sales, demonstrating significant market impact. Pangea's business model includes multiple travel stores that provide a range of services, such as trip design, travel assistance, currency exchange, and luggage shipment. With plans to expand its presence in different cities and enhance its online operations, Pangea continues to attract new investors to replicate its initial success. Founded in 2014, Pangea is committed to creating tailored travel experiences that cater to individual tastes and budgets.

BYHOURS

Venture Round in 2019
BYHOURS is an innovative platform that enables users to book hotel stays for short durations of 3, 6, or 24 hours at over 4,500 hotels globally. Founded in Barcelona in March 2012, BYHOURS operates in more than 25 countries and has established itself as a pioneer in the "pay-per-use" hotel model. This approach allows guests to select their preferred check-in and check-out times, paying only for the hours they occupy the room. This flexibility not only caters to the needs of travelers seeking efficient and cost-effective accommodation options but also supports hotels in optimizing their resources and increasing revenue. In addition to its consumer services, BYHOURS has evolved into a travel-tech company, offering B2B and B2B2C solutions through partnerships with notable firms such as SABRE and RAPPI.

SantaFixie

Equity Crowdfunding in 2019
SantaFixie is an online marketplace based in Barcelona, Spain, specializing in bicycles and bicycle accessories. Founded in 2011, the company focuses on fixed-gear and single-speed bicycles, catering primarily to urban cyclists. As the first multi-brand e-commerce platform in Spain dedicated to this niche, SantaFixie offers a wide selection of bicycle gear, components, clothing, and equipment, allowing customers to choose products that meet their cycling needs. The marketplace reflects the growing popularity of fixie bicycles in cities worldwide.

SantaFixie

Series A in 2019
SantaFixie is an online marketplace based in Barcelona, Spain, specializing in bicycles and bicycle accessories. Founded in 2011, the company focuses on fixed-gear and single-speed bicycles, catering primarily to urban cyclists. As the first multi-brand e-commerce platform in Spain dedicated to this niche, SantaFixie offers a wide selection of bicycle gear, components, clothing, and equipment, allowing customers to choose products that meet their cycling needs. The marketplace reflects the growing popularity of fixie bicycles in cities worldwide.

SantaFixie

Funding Round in 2017
SantaFixie is an online marketplace based in Barcelona, Spain, specializing in bicycles and bicycle accessories. Founded in 2011, the company focuses on fixed-gear and single-speed bicycles, catering primarily to urban cyclists. As the first multi-brand e-commerce platform in Spain dedicated to this niche, SantaFixie offers a wide selection of bicycle gear, components, clothing, and equipment, allowing customers to choose products that meet their cycling needs. The marketplace reflects the growing popularity of fixie bicycles in cities worldwide.

Adsmurai

Series B in 2016
Adsmurai, SL is a company that specializes in providing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing and optimizing social media advertising campaigns across various networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, Adsmurai offers a comprehensive solution that allows businesses to plan, launch, measure, and scale their advertising efforts efficiently. The platform includes features such as daily campaign management, analytical reporting, real-time access, and optimization services. Additionally, it aims to enhance the customer experience by automating campaign processes and maximizing the return on investment for clients. Adsmurai also has offices in Milan, Italy, and Bogotá, Colombia, further expanding its reach in the advertising technology sector.

HolaLuz

Series A in 2016
HolaLuz is a renewable energy company based in Barcelona, founded in 2010, with a mission to transform the energy sector by prioritizing customer needs and fostering long-term relationships based on trust. The company focuses on creating a sustainable energy model that empowers customers to become prosumers, managing and owning their green energy. HolaLuz is recognized as the first European electric company to achieve B Corp certification, highlighting its commitment to creating a positive impact on employees, communities, and the environment. The company's offerings include the commercialization of electricity and gas, representation services, and solar energy solutions. A notable feature is the HolaLuz Cloud, which enables customers to deduct surplus energy generated by their solar panels from their electricity bills, thereby promoting efficient energy use and self-production.

Adsmurai

Series A in 2015
Adsmurai, SL is a company that specializes in providing a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing and optimizing social media advertising campaigns across various networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, Adsmurai offers a comprehensive solution that allows businesses to plan, launch, measure, and scale their advertising efforts efficiently. The platform includes features such as daily campaign management, analytical reporting, real-time access, and optimization services. Additionally, it aims to enhance the customer experience by automating campaign processes and maximizing the return on investment for clients. Adsmurai also has offices in Milan, Italy, and Bogotá, Colombia, further expanding its reach in the advertising technology sector.

Sentisis

Series A in 2015
Sentisis is a company based in Madrid, Spain, that specializes in monitoring and analyzing brands in real-time across social networks. It serves clients in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Central America by providing a Customer Experience platform tailored for the Spanish language. The company focuses on helping organizations make sense of their text data, particularly in the realms of social media and customer experience, allowing businesses to gain valuable insights and improve their interactions with customers.

BYHOURS

Venture Round in 2014
BYHOURS is an innovative platform that enables users to book hotel stays for short durations of 3, 6, or 24 hours at over 4,500 hotels globally. Founded in Barcelona in March 2012, BYHOURS operates in more than 25 countries and has established itself as a pioneer in the "pay-per-use" hotel model. This approach allows guests to select their preferred check-in and check-out times, paying only for the hours they occupy the room. This flexibility not only caters to the needs of travelers seeking efficient and cost-effective accommodation options but also supports hotels in optimizing their resources and increasing revenue. In addition to its consumer services, BYHOURS has evolved into a travel-tech company, offering B2B and B2B2C solutions through partnerships with notable firms such as SABRE and RAPPI.

Hot Hotels

Seed Round in 2014
Hot is a last minute Hotel Booking App that offers deep discounts on same day hotel rooms. The App is currently available for iPhone, Android and Blackberry. For smartphone users, this is a quick, reliable and economic way to find a place to stay at short notice. For Hotels, this is great way to find last minute customers for unsold hotel rooms. Hot´s ambition is to provide a hotel for same day smartphone booking in every city in the world. Currently there are hotels available in 23 Countries and 167 cities. Locations are in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Founded in December 2011, the company is headquartered in Spain and remains fully owned by the company's founders.

Akamon Entertainment

Series A in 2013
Akamon Entertainment Millenium, S.L. is a developer and operator of online and mobile social games, primarily targeting the Latin American and Southern European markets. Founded in 2011 and based in Barcelona, Spain, the company focuses on offering a diverse range of casino and traditional multiplayer games, including chess, pool, bingo, checkers, dominoes, slots, and lottery. Akamon employs a local approach by utilizing its own portals, as well as those of partners and social media platforms like Facebook. The company operates under various brands, including Mundijuegos, Mundijeux, Ludijogos, and Mundigiochi, and specializes in synchronous gaming to enhance user engagement. Akamon has established itself within the competitive online gaming industry while adapting its offerings to suit regional preferences.

NPAW

Venture Round in 2012
NPAW is a big data and technology company based in Barcelona, Spain, that specializes in serving the online media industry. Founded in 2008, the company provides a centralized analytics and optimization platform known as YOUBORA Analytics, which offers real-time insights into video delivery experiences. This platform enables broadcasters and media groups to monitor individual user engagement and quality of service (QoS) while optimizing content delivery through advanced features like SmartSwitch CDN load balancing. NPAW's comprehensive analytics tools facilitate data-driven decision-making, allowing clients to enhance performance and maximize revenue across their video services. The company is privately held and backed by venture capital.

DocOnYou

Seed Round in 2011
DocOnYou is the very first universal invoicing network, aimed at administrative staff and businesses. And for all those who are sick of dealing with repetitive calls, hundreds of emails and pdfs, folders, paper invoices, photocopies, and the like. DocOnYou brings an easy and intuitive technology mainly to SMEs, but also to the rest of the business community. We offer a new way to expand business relationships to exchange, store and validate commercial documents, conversate about them, and activate and connect all parties involved in the process in a simple and secure way. DocOnYou is the ultimate step forward toward the paperless economy, where the traditional administrative job evolves in such a way that it is much easier and more enjoyable DocOnYou has been designed for administration staff, accountants, managers, chief executives, and all those involved in the document management process as it relates to customers and suppliers in companies. DocOnYou is been built as a platform technology that will allow functional personalization and extension. Our partners will develop apps to extend the capabilities of the platform through our soon-to-be released AppStore. Apps will include connectors and gateways (which will integrate ERPs, online banking, and other networks into DocOnYou) as well as adapters (which will personalize DocOnYou to better serve a specific geography - language and legislation -, industry or company) and extenders (which will extend orders, delivery notes, invoices, credit note, bank notes... toward other business documents like payrolls, contracts, tax declarations, and the like). DocOnYou has been designed to perform as a global service. In May 2011, we released our second private beta in English and Spanish, targeting companies from Brazil, Mexico, and Spain. We plan to grow into Portuguese and Mandarin, ans roll-out globally by to serving first companies in high-growth markets (Brazil, Mexico, India, and China) and then, focusing on developed countries (Europe, Japan, and USA).

AquaMobile

Series A in 2007
AquaMobile S.L. provides solutions for securing, managing, and tracking the use of digital and printed images. It offers security products, including Secure PDF that enables to prevent and identify confidential information leakage; SecureStamp that offers printed encoding; Secure Rubber Stamp that offers watermarking technologies; Secure Degree that offers watermarking protection against forgery; Secure Check that provides protection for legal printed payment document; ImageBridge that offers images or logos protection; and MyPictureMarc that offers digital protection for online portfolios. The company also provides mobile marketing products, including CLIC2C, a software for camera equipped mobile devices that decodes hidden watermarks in printed objects; Text2c, a software that decodes hidden watermarks in printed objects for mobile devices with no cameras; Code2c that provides barcode reading services; and GATEWAY MMS/SMS that enables sending and receiving SMS and MMS. Its technologies are used in feature films, music, broadcasts, television programs, and printed and digital imaging, as well as entertainment, television and radio broadcasting, electronic devices, and information technology sectors. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Madrid, Spain.

Enigma Software Productions

Venture Round in 2007
ENIGMA is a videogame production and development company based in Madrid with +15 years of experience creating products of all genres across multiple platforms. ENIGMA is currently developing its next title, Legends of War: Patton's campaign, a multiplatform turn-based strategy games, set during the World War II, and the figure of General Patton, from the D-Day to the Fall of Berlin. The company is skilled in developing for all platforms offline and online games, and is available too for work-for-hire. http://www.legendsofwar.info http://www.enigmasp.com
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