Wayra

Wayra UK Limited, established in 2012 and headquartered in London, is a tech startup accelerator specializing in early venture investments. It runs industry-specific acceleration programs, providing funding and resources to innovative digital product and service startups in sectors such as healthcare, information technology, cybersecurity, smart transport, and 5G. Wayra UK invests up to €0.25 million per startup, offering direct cash investment, office space, mentorship, and access to global networks. It also operates targeted programs like Velocity Health and GCHQ Cyber Accelerator, tailored to specific industries. Wayra UK is a subsidiary of Wayra Investigación y Desarrollo, S.L.U., and is part of Telefónica's global open innovation hub, connecting entrepreneurs with the company and generating joint business opportunities.

Marta Antunez

Investment Director Wayra Spain

Bruno Moraes

Managing Director

Agustin Rotondo

Managing Director

Paloma Castellano Sanz

Director - Wayra Madrid

Gary Stewart

Director

Past deals in Blogging

Fotolog

Venture Round in 2017
Fotolog operates a photo-blogging platform that allows users to create, post, and share online photo diaries. The site facilitates connections among friends, family, and strangers from diverse cultures, enabling users to discover new photos, join special-interest communities, and receive global feedback on their photographs. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in New York, Fotolog gained significant traction, reaching over 3 million user accounts by spring 2006 and attracting more than 15 million monthly hits. In August 2007, the company was acquired by Hi Media for approximately $90 million in stock and cash.

KidRated

Seed Round in 2015
KidRated Limited operates a comprehensive review platform that focuses on attractions, events, and activities for children. The website features reviews created by children themselves, incorporating photos, video clips, and short films to provide authentic insights into various experiences. It covers a wide range of venues, including shows, cinemas, museums, theme parks, and more, primarily in London and beyond. Additionally, KidRated encourages interaction by allowing users to comment on reviews and submit their own video feedback. The platform not only serves as a resource for parents looking to plan enjoyable outings for their families but also offers businesses the opportunity to create dedicated pages on the site. KidRated Limited, originally known as Monkey Mindz Media Ltd., rebranded in March 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Cookbooth

Grant in 2014
Cookbooth is a global platform that connects chefs and food enthusiasts by enabling them to create and share step-by-step photo recipes. The company offers a recipe management application that serves as a content creation tool, allowing users to build personal portfolios of their recipes. This application facilitates internal sharing among teams and promotes users' culinary creations on social media, fostering a vibrant community of chefs and foodies worldwide. Through its innovative approach, Cookbooth enhances the way culinary content is developed and disseminated, making it accessible to a broad audience.

DINO - Divulgador de Notícias

Grant in 2014
DINO - Divulgador de Notícias is a web-based platform for online content distribution. It also distributes and publishes the content in more than 150 websites, news portals, and blogs. The platform helps companies, PR agencies, and marketing professionals to distribute and automatically publish their contents on our network with more than 150 news portals, websites, and blogs. Additionally, Din sends content to journalist database with more than 25,000 professionals. By using DINO, any business is able to distribute its contents easily. The company writes and send themselves their content cutting the costs related to PR Agencies. Using our intuitive online platform, the company can add and send contents with photos, videos, and attachments. In a few minutes, we guarantee the content will be published in at least 40 websites, blogs, and news portals. DINO was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Cookbooth

Convertible Note in 2014
Cookbooth is a global platform that connects chefs and food enthusiasts by enabling them to create and share step-by-step photo recipes. The company offers a recipe management application that serves as a content creation tool, allowing users to build personal portfolios of their recipes. This application facilitates internal sharing among teams and promotes users' culinary creations on social media, fostering a vibrant community of chefs and foodies worldwide. Through its innovative approach, Cookbooth enhances the way culinary content is developed and disseminated, making it accessible to a broad audience.

Thought Network S.A.S

Seed Round in 2012
Thotz lets you show off your thoughts and knowledge, enriched with content from any of multiple cloud services. It is like having a blog of the subjects that matter to you, but with direct access to your content.We want to know your opinion on the idea, the name, the interface, everything! This will make sense if it works for people like you. Let us know what you think, what you hate, what you like... everything!!Thotz.co is a web interface to help small and medium enterprises, to manage and share information in the cloud, for domestic consumption and its entire value chain.
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