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Aldea Ventures

Aldea Ventures

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Aldea Ventures is a Barcelona investment platform backing technically ambitious companies across Europe and the UnitedStates. Its current thesis spans AI and computing infrastructure, software-operated expert workflows, robotics and machine perception, programmable biology, energy systems and industrial capabilities. The legal manager is Aldea Ventures, SGEIC, S.A., Spanish NIF A01636133, CNMV registration215. Its model combines partnerships with early-stage specialist venture funds and direct company investments; the current website explicitly distinguishes companies directly backed by Aldea from companies backed through seed-fund partners. Those indirect ecosystem companies are not automatically Aldea direct investments, and a partner’s prior investment history is not assigned to the firm. The current own public operating directory names seven people; CNMV additionally identifies co-founder CarlosTrenchs among statutory directors, independently corroborated by his current Masia bio. Six actual registered investment vehicles include the A/B forms of AldeaTechFundI andII, AldeaOpportunityFundI and MasiaCollectiveSeedFundI. MasiaCapitalSL is a separately identified appointed advisory representative, not merged with the Aldea manager. No unverified target, aggregate strategy corpus or regulatory asset value is allocated as the closed size of each parallel vehicle. Automata’s October3,2023 issuer announcement confirms Aldea as a returning participant in its actual USD40M growth financing; individual check amount remains unpublished.

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Type
Venture capital

Funds6

  • Aldea Opportunity Fund I, FCR—

    CNMV exactregisteredmanagedvehicle 304, SpanishNIF V01858190, legalmanagerAldeaVenturesSGEICSA215. ActualOpportunityI registeredventurecapitalfund; no undocumentedclosedsize or historicalcompanyallocation. StructuredamountandannouncedAtremainNULL because exactvehicle closedcorpus/announcementday isnotprimaryverified; regulatoryregistrationday isnotactualclosing. Fundtargets/GAV/clientcapital/priorpartnerinvestmenthistory areexcluded.

  • Aldea Tech Fund I-A, FCR—

    CNMV exactregisteredmanagedvehicle 296, SpanishNIF V01663020, legalmanagerAldeaVenturesSGEICSA215. TechFundI parallelFCRvehicle; do not allocate aggregate strategy commitments to this entity without primary allocation. StructuredamountandannouncedAtremainNULL because exactvehicle closedcorpus/announcementday isnotprimaryverified; regulatoryregistrationday isnotactualclosing. Fundtargets/GAV/clientcapital/priorpartnerinvestmenthistory areexcluded.

  • Aldea Tech Fund I-B, SCR, S.A.—

    CNMV exactregisteredmanagedvehicle 329, SpanishNIF A01636372, legalmanagerAldeaVenturesSGEICSA215. TechFundI parallelinvestmentcompany/SCRvehicle; kept distinct fromI-Awithoutduplicating aggregatefundcorpus. StructuredamountandannouncedAtremainNULL because exactvehicle closedcorpus/announcementday isnotprimaryverified; regulatoryregistrationday isnotactualclosing. Fundtargets/GAV/clientcapital/priorpartnerinvestmenthistory areexcluded.

  • Aldea Tech Fund II-A, FCR—

    CNMV exactregisteredmanagedvehicle 466, SpanishNIF V56812720, legalmanagerAldeaVenturesSGEICSA215. TechFundII parallelFCRvehicle; ownArticle8policy describes earlystage specialistfundpartnerships and companyco-investments. Do not assign aggregatefirstclose independentlyto bothA/B. StructuredamountandannouncedAtremainNULL because exactvehicle closedcorpus/announcementday isnotprimaryverified; regulatoryregistrationday isnotactualclosing. Fundtargets/GAV/clientcapital/priorpartnerinvestmenthistory areexcluded.

  • Aldea Tech Fund II-B, S.C.R., S.A.—

    CNMV exactregisteredmanagedvehicle 626, SpanishNIF A56873011, legalmanagerAldeaVenturesSGEICSA215. TechFundII parallelSCRinvestmentcompany; no inventedallocationofaggregatecorpus. StructuredamountandannouncedAtremainNULL because exactvehicle closedcorpus/announcementday isnotprimaryverified; regulatoryregistrationday isnotactualclosing. Fundtargets/GAV/clientcapital/priorpartnerinvestmenthistory areexcluded.

  • Masia Collective Seed Fund I, F.C.R.—

    CNMV exactregisteredmanagedvehicle 526, SpanishNIF V75982900, legalmanagerAldeaVenturesSGEICSA215. Actualregisteredseedfund managedbylegalAldeaSGEIC. MasiaCapitalSL isits appointedadvisoryrepresentative; separateMasia brandanddirectcompanybuyeridentity arequalified, no automaticAldeaportfolioallocation. StructuredamountandannouncedAtremainNULL because exactvehicle closedcorpus/announcementday isnotprimaryverified; regulatoryregistrationday isnotactualclosing. Fundtargets/GAV/clientcapital/priorpartnerinvestmenthistory areexcluded.

Team

Operations and support

Adrià AmabilinoAdrià AmabilinoFinancial Controller
Alfonso BassolsAlfonso BassolsManaging Partner / Statutory CEO
Alina FesenkoAlina FesenkoHead of Data Science
Andrew PadillaAndrew PadillaManaging Partner
Carlos TrenchsCarlos TrenchsCo-Founder / Partner / Statutory Director (qualified alongside current seven-person operating roster)
Daniela CavaglianoDaniela CavaglianoPartner & Chief Operating Officer
Gabrielle CumminsGabrielle CumminsInvestment Principal
Gonzalo RodésGonzalo RodésManaging Partner / Statutory Chair

Co-investing

A.P. Moller Holding
Dimension
Hummingbird Ventures
Isomer Capital
Modi Ventures

Investments