| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.09.2024 | Interview: Adara Ventures Energy with Alberto Echeverri | Our Partner Alberto Echeverri sat down with the Zero One Hundred ESG & Impact Talks podcast to discuss the role of VC in driving the energy transition and our motivation for launching Adara Ventures Energy – our first Pan-European Artic... |
| 18.09.2024 | Adara Energy Fund: Announcing commitments from energy leaders Elewit & Grupo Energía Bogotá | Over the last 20 years, Adara Ventures has invested in ambitious businesses, partnering with founders with vision, courage, and the capacity to execute. We’ve backed over 46 deep tech companies across Europe and witnessed many industry lead... |
| 05.09.2024 | EIF invests €35M in Adara Ventures Energy Fund | We are proud to announce today that the European Investment Fund (EIF) has invested €35 million in the Adara Ventures Energy Fund, our new energy transition fund. Together with other investors, including Redeia, the global operator of essen... |
| 26.08.2024 | Adara Ventures Operations/Compliance Internship Program | Are you interested in compliance and financial regulation? Do you want to learn from the best and gain valuable insights into the venture capital industry? If so, you might be the perfect candidate for our Operations/Compliance Internship P... |
| 22.07.2024 | Summer 2024 Review |
As we head into the second half of 2024, we wanted to reflect on the key moments from the past few months: celebrating new investments, team promotions, and impressive growth stories from our across portfolio.
We have completed the final i... |
| 08.07.2024 | We are hiring a Head of Legal
We’re hiring a Head of Legal
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Adara Ventures is a European early-stage venture capital firm specializing in data and AI, digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, digital health, and energy transition. Currently investing from its fourth generation ... |
| 18.06.2024 | Adara Ventures Investment Analyst Program 2024/25: Apply Now!
👋 About Adara Ventures
The Analyst Program
What we’re looking for |
At Adara Ventures, we are searching for talented future VCs (in their final years of University or recently graduated) to join our team on our 4–6 month Investment Analyst Internship Program. The Program has two start dates, and you’ll joi... |
| 22.05.2024 | Adara Ventures Energy: Inaugural Meeting Recap | At this year’s Energy Tech Summit in Bilbao, we had the honor of hosting the inaugural meeting of the Industrial Advisory Committee for Adara Ventures Energy, our first Pan-European fund dedicated to technologies enabling the energy transit... |
| 30.04.2024 | Why we invested in Indigitall: Bridging the omnichannel marketing gap with AI | We are excited to announce our recent investment in Indigitall, a fast-growing omnichannel marketing platform powered by AI.
Adara invested in the €6M Series A funding round alongside Data Point Capital, a US venture capital firm, and GoHub... |
| 25.04.2024 | Intelex Vision: Where AI Meets Video Surveillance | There is a rapidly growing need for better security across all areas of society and industries – including transport, manufacturing, logistics, education, health, public spaces and critical infrastructure. This demand is driving the growth ... |
| 14.03.2024 | Strengthening the Adara Ventures team: Promotions 2024 | As we kick off 2024, we are proud to announce the promotion of two highly deserving members of our team: Ross Strachan as Partner and Jorge Baron as Principal.
Since launching Adara Ventures, we have set out to build a team that brings toge... |
| 22.02.2024 | Why we invested in WIVI Vision: A gamified approach to improving vision | We are pleased to announce our recent investment in WIVI Vision, a fast-growing startup on a mission to assess vision impairments and improve vision care with cutting-edge immersive 3D and AI technologies.
The €4 million Series A round was ... |
| 22.12.2023 | Adara Ventures: Year in Review 2023
Highlights from 2023 | As we head into 2024, we want to reflect on the past year at Adara Ventures. Despite complex market conditions, we continued backing the best early-stage enterprise tech founders in Europe, expanded our investment thesis, and celebrated man... |
| 04.12.2023 | 🌟 Big Dog 2023: our 5th Founders Retreat | We recently brought together 40 of our portfolio founders for our annual Big Dog event. This is our fifth year running the event, which provides an opportunity for founders to share knowledge, network, and, of course, have a great time toge... |
| 18.09.2023 | Adara Ventures Investment Analyst Program 2024: Apply Now!
👋 About Adara Ventures
The Analyst Program
What we’re looking for | |
| 14.09.2023 | Ready for take off: Why we’re doubling down on Caravelo | We first partnered with Caravelo in 2020, and today we are delighted to share that we have invested again as a part of a €3.5 million investment led by Samaipata, confirming Caravelo’s position as a leader in subscription solutions for the ... |
| 13.09.2023 | IOMED raises €10M: AI for healthcare data activation | We are excited to share the news that IOMED, a leader in AI-powered technology for healthcare data activation, has closed €10 million in a Series A investment round led by Philips Ventures, the venture capital group of health technology lea... |
| 05.09.2023 | Adara wins 2023 VC Deal of the Year | We are honored to announce that Adara Ventures has received the award for ‘Best Venture Capital Deal’ at this year’s SPAINCAP Awards for our investment in Seedtag and the subsequent partial sale of its stake to Advent International in July ... |
| 28.08.2023 | Summer 2023 Review | As we head into the second half of 2023, we wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the accomplishments within our portfolio over the past few months. |
| 03.07.2023 | Adara welcomes Alberto Echeverri as Partner | We are delighted to announce Alberto Echeverri has joined Adara as Partner to co-lead our investment in technologies that enable the energy transition alongside our Managing Partner Alberto Gómez. |
| 05.06.2023 | Why we invested in XONAI: Building a Universal Compute Fabric | We are excited to announce our recent investment in XONAI, a UK-based cloud optimization startup that helps enterprise organizations reduce data infrastructure costs with a non-invasive approach that sits between the hardware and the execut... |
| 24.05.2023 | We are hiring an Operations Associate
We’re hiring an Operations Associate
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| 24.05.2023 | We are hiring a Junior Financial Controller
We’re hiring a Junior Financial Controller
What can you expect as a Junior Financial Controller at Adara? | |
| 22.05.2023 | Why we invested in Jotelulu: Helping IT companies easily deliver cloud services to SMEs | We are pleased to announce our recent investment in Jotelulu, a fast-growing startup helping transform IT companies into cloud service providers. The €4 million Series A round was led by Adara, alongside Bankinter, Big Sur Ventures and G2A ... |
| 27.04.2023 | Cyber Guru: Closing the cyber security awareness & training gap | Cybersecurity experts and industry leaders agree that the threat of cyber-attacks is rapidly increasing and evolving, with employees being the most vulnerable line of defense. |
| 19.04.2023 | Why we invested in Kimera Technologies: Reinventing visual content management with Computer Vision AI | We are excited to announce our recent investment in Kimera Technologies, a new startup born in Valencia, Spain that has developed a computer vision AI solution to transform visual content into more valuable business data. |
| 15.03.2023 | Quibim: A year of breakthroughs in AI medical imaging | X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasounds, PET scans, and other types of imaging methods play a crucial role in diagnosing and monitoring diseases. |
| 09.02.2023 | We are hiring an Assistant Financial Controller
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| 09.02.2023 | We are hiring an Assistant Financial Controller
We’re hiring an Assistant Financial Controller
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| 18.01.2023 | Adara Ventures Investment Analyst Program: Apply now!
👋 About Adara Ventures
The Analyst Program
What we’re looking for | |
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| 24.11.2022 | Openbravo joins DL Software | We are delighted to share that Adara portfolio company, Openbravo, is joining DL Software, a leading France-based group of vertical software providers, as part of its ambitious path to internationalize its business footprint. |
| 16.11.2022 | Big Dog 2022: Our Founders Retreat 💫 | In October, we brought together 40 of our portfolio founders for our annual Big Dog event in Sitges, Spain. This is the fourth year we’ve held the event, which focuses on self-development, knowledge sharing, and relationship-building over t... |
| 27.10.2022 | Pablo Sanz joins Adara as COO to expand family of funds | We are delighted to welcome Pablo Sanz to Adara Ventures as our new Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Pablo will be responsible for leading our internal operations, investor relations, and finance management. He joins Adara from Arcano Partn... |
| 17.10.2022 | Data Fabric leader, Stratio BD, secures €65m Series C investment | Stratio BD has announced a new round of investment to continue fueling its international expansion. The €65m Series C investment was led by InfraVia Growth, with participation from Adara Ventures and the Stratio founders. |
| 12.08.2022 | Seedtag surges ahead with €250m investment | |
| 01.06.2022 | Why we invested in Komon: Web3 platform to empower creator communities | We are pleased to announce our recent investment in Komon, a platform that permits creators to launch NFT-powered communities. Adara participated in the $2 million pre-seed round alongside Samaipata, Inveready, Shilling, and several busines... |
| 18.05.2022 | Quality Clouds raises £5.5m to support migration to low-code, cloud-based applications and workflows | Quality Clouds has announced a new round of investment to continue scaling its application development governance platform. The investment was led by YFM Equity Partners (YFM), with participation from Seed-round lead Adara Ventures, plus ne... |
| 13.05.2022 | Taking NFTs beyond collectibles: Freeverse raises €10m Series A | We’re excited to announce that Freeverse has closed its €10m Series A funding round, less than one year after its €1m Seed raise, to fuel the development of its ‘Living Asset’ (NFT 2.0) technology and a strong go-to-market push. |
| 11.05.2022 | ESW to Acquire Scalefast | Today we are proud to announce that ESW, the world's leading global direct-to-consumer (DTC) eCommerce company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, has agreed to acquire Scalefast, an Adara portfolio company and leading end-to-end eCommerce so... |
| 09.05.2022 | Datadog to Acquire Hdiv Security | We are delighted to share that Datadog, Inc., the largest monitoring and security platform for cloud applications, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Hdiv Security, an Adara portfolio company and leading security-testing softwa... |
| 17.03.2022 | Semrush Acquires Kompyte | We’re delighted to announce the acquisition of Kompyte, an Adara portfolio company and leading competitive intelligence automation and sales enablement platform, by Semrush (NYSE: SEMR), a global online visibility management SaaS platform.... |
| 15.03.2022 | Ask the experts: Tips for hiring technical talent | Hiring tech talent was difficult even before the pandemic, and continues to be one of the greatest challenges for startups. |
| 22.02.2022 | Perspectives: Investing in the Future of Cybersecurity | Over the coming months, we’ll be taking a deeper dive into sectors, trends, and technologies that we believe represent compelling investment opportunities. In this edition, Alberto Gómez, Managing Partner, walks us through Adara’s perspecti... |
| 24.01.2022 | We’re hiring! Join our Investment Team (all levels) | Adara Ventures is an early-stage Venture Capital firm with €180m of AUM. We back visionary founders building innovative solutions that solve complex problems for the enterprise. We invest at Pre-Seed / Seed / Series A. |
| 13.01.2022 | How InteleXVision is redefining the real-time video surveillance market | It’s no secret that addressing security threats in physical environments in real-time is a growing challenge for enterprises. There is a fast-growing demand for solutions that combine video analytics with threat detection. |
| 30.12.2021 | Adara Ventures: Year in Review 2021 | We have been incredibly fortunate to partner with so many ambitious, inspiring entrepreneurs – and this year was no different. |
| 29.11.2021 | Introducing Caravelo: Unlocking the power of Passenger Engagement | We are proud to back Caravelo, the platform that is unlocking the power of passenger engagement in the post-pandemic travelscape. |
| 18.11.2021 | Perspectives: Investing in the infrastructure shaping Digital Health | Over the coming months, we’ll be taking a deeper dive into sectors, trends, and technologies that we believe represent compelling investment opportunities. In this edition, Partner Rocío Pillado walks us through Adara’s perspective on Digit... |
| 26.10.2021 | Securing the worlds APIs: why we’re partnering with 42Crunch | Adara Ventures recently completed an initial investment in 42Crunch, the European cybersecurity startup based in London that is changing the way companies secure their API ecosystem. |
| 26.10.2021 | Five Pivots, Three Company Cultures, and a Huge Exit - the Remarkable Journey of AlienVault | At Adara Ventures we recently closed the acquisition by AT&T of AlienVault, a Madrid-founded cybersecurity company which we first backed in 2008. This was an excellent outcome - the largest exit ever by a Spanish deep technology company... |
| 13.10.2021 | Why we invested in Bigle Legal: Next-generation document automation | Bigle Legal, a pioneer and leader in the field of legal document automation, announced last week that it closed a €2 million round of funding led by Adara Ventures with participation from ICF Venture Tech II . THCap and Cuatrecasas, existin... |
| 14.09.2021 | Seedtag raises $40m Series B: An explosive growth success story | Seedtag, the leader in contextual advertising in EMEA and LATAM, has announced that it has secured $40 million in a Series B round led by Oakley Capital, a pan-European PE group with $4 billion of assets under management. Adara Ventures als... |
| 17.08.2021 | AVIII Update: Welcoming four new companies to the Adara portfolio | Since the last update on our €80m third fund, we’ve invested in four more world-class teams, including our first-ever investment in Italy and our first in the legaltech sector. |
| 05.08.2021 | Why we invested in Councilbox: The legaltech bringing security and legal validity to virtual meetings | We are pleased to announce our recent investment in COUNCILBOX, the leading platform for hosting and managing remote meetings that require legal validity. The €5 million Series A round was led by Adara, alongside Telefónica’s Wayra and ABAN... |
| 29.07.2021 | Why we’re backing Freeverse’s Living Assets revolution | We recently welcomed Freeverse.io to the Adara family, a Barcelona-based startup and pioneer in the fast-growing non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) ecosystem. The Freeverse.io team has developed a technology that permits the creation and management... |
| 29.07.2021 | Announcing our investment in InteleXVision | We are excited to welcome another ambitious venture to the Adara family this month: InteleXVision, a UK-based early-stage company that is disrupting the professional surveillance industry by enabling real-time video monitoring at scale. |
| 26.07.2021 | We’re hiring: Investment Analyst Internship Program | At Adara Ventures, we are searching for talented future VCs to join our team on our 6 month Investment Analyst Internship Program. The Program has two start dates, and you’ll join us either in September 2021 or March 2022. |
| 26.06.2021 | Saluti Cyber Guru: announcing our first investment in Italy | We’re delighted to announce our first investment in Italy as we partner with P101 to invest in the €3.6m Serie A fundraising round of Cyber Guru, a Rome-based cybersecurity training and awareness software startup tackling cybercrime by focu... |
| 19.05.2021 | 42Crunch raises $17m: The journey from Seed to Series A in 11 months | 42Crunch, a global leader in API security, announced today that it secured $17 million in Series A funding led by Energy Impact Partners and with participation from Adara Ventures. We initially backed this exceptional team at the seed stage... |
| 17.05.2021 | AVIII: Two years in, Eight phenomenal teams and we’re just getting started | In May 2019, we launched our €80m third fund to continue backing the best early-stage enterprise tech founders in Europe. |
| 04.02.2021 | Transparent, responsible AI that Enterprises can trust: why we’re backing Apres | U.S. and Portugal-based Apres this week announced the closing of a $1.5 million seed round to bring its explainable AI solution to market. We at Adara are delighted to back co-founders Matt, Subbu and the Apres team alongside Faber Ventures... |
| 15.12.2020 | 4iQ + Alto = Constella Intelligence, a new global leader in Digital Risk Protection | 4iQ, the leader in identity intelligence, and Alto Analytics, a leader in applying AI & data science to the digital public sphere, today announced the two companies have merged and rebranded as Constella Intelligence (“Constella”), effe... |
| 19.11.2020 | Uniting clinical data worldwide: why we’re partnering with IOMED | IOMED, a Digital Health company based in Barcelona, Spain, recently raised a €2M round from Adara Ventures, with the participation of existing investors Easo Ventures and SpeedInvest. |
| 20.10.2020 | Applying AI to Radiology to drive ultra accurate disease detection at scale: Why we invested in Quibim | We are excited to announce our recent investment in Quibim, a Digital Health startup from Valencia that provides a quantitative radiology solution for doctors and researchers. We were joined in the €8m fundraising round by Amadeus Capital P... |
| 28.07.2020 | Why we backed Scalefast: the Adara Ventures view on the $26m Series B | Scalefast, the digital commerce solution that is changing the way brands do direct-to-consumer (DTC) eCommerce, recently announced it had raised $26 million in Series B funding, in a round led by Xplorer Capital, Stereo Capital, FJLabs. |
| 17.06.2020 | CounterCraft closes $5m of funding to take best in class Threat Detection Intelligence platform to the US market | CounterCraft, a global leader in threat detection and intelligence technology, has recently closed $5 million in funding. Alongside Adara Ventures, Wayra, Evolution Equity Partners and ORZA, the business welcomes eCapital and Red Eléctrica ... |
| 26.05.2020 | Enabling secure & efficient LC/NC platform customisation: Why we invested in Quality Clouds | Quality Clouds, a cloud-based software for the management of Low Code / No Code (LC/NC) platform customisation from Barcelona, Spain, recently announced that it had raised €1.2m from Adara Ventures. We are delighted to partner with CEO Albe... |
| 14.04.2020 | Introducing FLUZO: the innovative cross-media audience measurement intelligence solution | FLUZO, an Audience Measurement Intelligence startup from Madrid, UK, recently announced that it had raised €1.25m from Adara Ventures and Sabadell Venture Capital. |
| 14.04.2020 | Revolutionizing the Construction Industry through Augmented Reality: why we invested in XYZ Reality | XYZ Reality, a Construction Tech startup from London, UK, recently announced that it had raised £5M to set the foundations for the company’s ambitious vision: to substitute the use of 2D drawings at the construction side with Augmented Real... |
| 17.01.2020 | Why we invested in Beonprice: the Adara Ventures view on the €2.5m Series A | Beonprice, a leader in Revenue Management software for the Hospitality industry, announced last week that it closed €2.5 million in Series A funding, led by Adara Ventures and with participation by K Fund and Top Seeds Lab. Headquartered in... |
| 17.01.2020 | Why we invested in Beonprice: the Adara Ventures view on the â¬2.5m Series A | Beonprice, a leader in Revenue Management software for the Hospitality industry, announced last week that it closed â¬2.5 million in Series A funding, led by Adara Ventures and with participation by K Fund and Top Seeds Lab. Headquartered ... |
| 13.06.2019 | The Risky Business of Raising Series B | As early stage investors, we’re typically the first institutional investors to invest in our portfolio companies, either at the Seed or Series A stage. With both Stratio & 4iQ closing Series B rounds in the last few quarters we thought ... |
| 09.04.2019 | Should I stay or should I go? A look at Kompyte’s move to the US | Kompyte, an Adara Ventures portfolio company that is reinventing how companies compete online, has recently completed a redomestication of the company to the US and opened an office in Austin, Texas. We caught up with Co-Founder & CEO P... |
| 07.02.2019 | What is cloud gaming? A deep dive into the heart of the $138bn video games industry | Adara Ventures is proud to partner PlayGiga, the leading B2B cloud gaming solution, that has developed a proprietary technology that allows telcos, publishers, media companies, and retailers to offer a cloud gaming solution to their custome... |
| 17.12.2018 | An introduction to Cyber Deception | Adara Ventures is proud to partner with CounterCraft, a cybersecurity company from San Sebastian, Spain, that uses Deception techniques more commonly used in espionage, to protect large enterprises by fooling their adversaries with decoy co... |
| 17.12.2018 | Why we doubled down on 4iQ: Adara Ventures view on the $18m Series B | 4iQ, a pioneer in identity attribution analysis and a leading provider of intelligence for the largest identity theft protection vendors, announced last week that it closed $18 million in Series B funding, led by C5 Capital and with partici... |
| 13.11.2018 | The advent of enterprise blockchain security applications | |
| 18.10.2018 | How do Enterprises define Cybersecurity strategy? | Earlier in October at South Summit Adara Ventures ran a Cybersecurity track to explore emerging threats and technologies within the cybersecurity space with some of the sector’s key international players. Alongside deep dives into AI in Cyb... |
| 17.09.2018 | Baking security into app development -Why we invested in Hdiv Security | |
| - | Summer 2022 Review: Marking extraordinary milestones and momentum
🚀 Three acquisitions & welcoming AVIII investment #14
🎉 More growth stories we celebrated
📚 Content we loved
✨ Thank you... | As we head into the second half of 2022, we wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the great achievements across our portfolio over the past few months. It’s been quite a year so far, and we continue to be impressed with the hard work... |
