Operator-led VC fund

We empower early stage, deep-tech founders to reach Momentum

Enabling the Momentum wheel is the hardest part yet the only thing that startups need to care about in the early days.

Some startups we backed

Theker Robotics is an industrial robotics company using LLMs and robots to automate heavy-duty tasks
Murphy AI is a debt collection agentic platform
Altan AI is an agentic application builder platform

We are backing global, pre-seed & seed technical teams where we can help them reach Momentum quickly

Managing Partner

Carles Reina

Carles is an operator-turned-investor who continues to be a GTM Exec where he experiences the problems & challenges of building a company across the world.

He was an early employee at Uber EMEA (NYSE: UBER), built Ops at Tractable AI (Unicorn) and GTM at Sonantic (Acq. by NYSE: SPOT), and currently leads GTM at ElevenLabs (Unicorn).

Pre-Baobab Ventures, Carles backed +70 startups including Revolut, HappyRobot, Vsim, Theker Robotics, Volumetric Bio and Murphy AI, amongst others. He was the first investor in ElevenLabs.

Carles is a plants lover who seeds Baobab trees alongside exotic plants at home.

A potted dioscorea elephantipes with a large, round base and a long, thin, leafless stem growing like a startup
A small baobab tree thriving in a warm environment

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