Carlos Blanco

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Carlos Blanco Vázquez (Barcelona, 1968) is an entrepreneur and private new technologies investor.

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Entity type: Business Angel Network
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Website: https://carlosblanco.com/en/home-en/

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Funding type: Equity investment;
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Public/Private: Private
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Applicant target: Startup;

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Overview

Winner of the Best Entrepreneur Award in Spain for the X Pyme Awards for Expansión and Ifema; And Best Business Angel 2014 for the AEBAN Awards. In 2001 he founded Grupo ITnet, an online business incubator specializing in Digital gaming, from which he created more than ten companies. In 2011 he founded Akamon Entertainment, a traditional social gaming and casino company, a leader in Southern Europe and Latin America, which he sold at the end of 2015, becoming one of the most important exits of the year in Spain.

Carlos Blanco started investing as a business angel in 2005. Since then, he has invested in more than 70 startups, improving his investment strategy until he achieve being recognized in 2014 as the Best Business Angel in Spain for the AEBAN Awards. Carlos invests in different sectors but always in the earliest phase of the startup, the seed phase. Currently, he invest through his new fund Encomenda Smart Capital.

Portfolio: Tangelo, Citibox, Boardfy, Jobin.

Last updated on 2023-06-06 11:58