Criteria Venture Tech
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Criteria Venture Tech is a technology-focused venture capital fund that invests in early-stage startups, primarily in deep tech sectors such as AI, cybersecurity, and software infrastructure. It is part of Criteria Capital Risc, the venture capital management company of CriteriaCaixa.
Criteria Venture Tech is a corporate venture arm headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, founded in 2002. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in AI, cybersecurity, data and software infrastructure. Its stated cheque size is €0.5 - 2M first check size (up to €15M incl. follow-ons). +300M under management and 92 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We are a tech-focused Venture Capital fund investing in early-stage startups across Europe and the US.”
— Criteria Venture Tech, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Invests in
- Spain, Portugal, Europe, US
- Sectors
- AI, Cybersecurity, Data, Software infrastructure, DeepTech, B2B SaaS
- Cheque size
- €0.5 - 2M first check size (up to €15M incl. follow-ons)
- Founded
- 2002
- Assets under management
- +300M
- Portfolio
- 92 companies
- How to reach it
- Its pitch / apply page on its own site
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 53 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Antai Ventures 2 shared companies: wallapop.com, glovoapp.com
- Korelya Capital 2 shared companies: wallapop.com, glovoapp.com
- VNV Global 2 shared companies: wallapop.com, glovoapp.com
- Armilar Venture Partners 2 shared companies: codee.com, kit-ar.com
- Swanlaab Venture Factory 2 shared companies: codee.com, kompyte.com
- Asabys Partners 2 shared companies: ameliavirtualcare.com, xr.health
- Fundación Ship2B 2 shared companies: ameliavirtualcare.com, worldcoo.com
- Faraday Venture Capital, SGEIC S.A. 2 shared companies: codigames.com, bodeboca.com
- Cometa 1 shared company: wallapop.com
- Mangrove Capital Partners 1 shared company: wallapop.com
and 43 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Criteria Venture Tech publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.criteriaventuretech.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, approach_url
- https://www.criteriaventuretech.com/about-usdescription
- https://www.criteriaventuretech.com/legal-noticehq_country, hq_city
Record 8708 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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