Achievements of our portfolio companies, strategic partnerships,
and industry insights

Caixa Capital Risc, a CriteriaCaixa venture capitalmanagement company, rebrands to Criteria Capital Risc CriteriaCaixa targets investment of €300 million within its 2030 Strategic Plan via two funds: Criteria Bio Ventures and Criteria Venture Tech

Jul 9th, 2026 - 8Layers extends its pre-seed round to €2.5M led by Criteria Venture Tech alongside Bankinter and Lanai Ventures

July 1st, 2025 - vLex, a Criteria Venture Tech porfolio company, was sold to Clio for $1 billion

Jan 6th, 2025 - Signaturit join forces with our portfolio company, Validated ID

Mar 31st, 2025 - Criteria Venture Tech partners with 33N Ventures, a Series A cybersecurity VC fund based in Porto

Jan 30th, 2025 - iPronics raises €20M Series A led by Triatomic Capital with participation of Criteria Venture Tech

Dec 9th, 2024 - Scalestack raises $3M led by CriteriaVentureTech alongside Ripple Ventures, Geek Ventures, Sentiero, and others

June 13rd, 2024 - Hugging Face acquires Argilla

May 13rd, 2024 - Funding map of funds investing in Iberia, including VCs, CVCs, Accelerators, and Public and Regional funds

Mar 28th, 2024 - A deep dive into the components and tools of the modern LLM infra stack in 2024

Feb 27th, 2024 - Kit-AR raises a €3.3M Seed round led by 3xP Global and BlueCrow Capital

Jan 18th, 2024 - Enline raises a €3.5M Seed round led by Criteria Venture Tech

Jan 15th, 2024 - Unveiling Criteria Venture Tech, our new evergreen fund

Oct 17th, 2023 - Barbara has been named a Cool Vendor in the 2023 Gartner® Cool Vendors™ in Edge Computing report

Sep 19th, 2023 - Codee raises €5M seed round led by Swanlaab with the support of Criteria Ventures

Sep 8th, 2023 - Inari raises $5.2M seed round led by Criteria Ventures to transform Insurance Infrastructure market

Jul 2nd, 2023 - Argilla partners with Hugging Face and launch Argilla on Hugging Face Spaces

June 9th, 2023 - Glovo adquires Worldcoo, our portfolio company.

Jun 3rd, 2023 - Travelsoft acquires Travel Compositor to expand booking software service and will now transact €5bn bookings annually

Apr 4th, 2023 - Amelia Virtual Care merges with a US player, XR Health, to become the leading VR Mental Health software provider

Feb 17th, 2023 - iPronics delivers first reconfigurable photonic microchips

Feb 7th, 2023 - Shift left critical to app security; Build38 raises €13M Series A led by Tikehau with the support of Criteria Ventures

Jan 25th, 2023 - Argilla raises a $1.6M Pre-Seed round co-led by Criteria Ventures and Zetta

Dec 22nd, 2022 - 3D Digital Venue raises a €2.5M seed round

Sep 9th, 2022 - vLex receives a Private Equity investment led by Oakley Capital

Jul 27th, 2022 - iPronics raises a €3.7M Seed round led by Amadeus Capital Partners with the support of Criteria Ventures

Jul 13th, 2022 - Zinklar raises €5.5M Series A led by Criteria Ventures and Beacon Capital

Jun 28th, 2022 - Amelia Virtual Care raises a €7M Series A led by Criteria Ventures and ENDRA

Jun 23th, 2022 - Kit AR raises a €2M Seed round led by Criteria Ventures and Armilar witht he support of NOS and Sintef Ventures

Jun 15th, 2022 - Photoslurp merges with Flowbox, a leading finnish UGC company

May 11th, 2022 - Barbara raises a €2.5M Seed round led by Criteria Ventures with the support of Iberdrola

Mar 1st, 2022 - Semrush acquires Kompyte

Aug 1st, 2021 - Rover takes the IPO route and starts trading on NASDAQ

Jan 19th, 2021 - Build38 raises €3M seed round led by Criteria Ventures and eCapital and the support of G+D Ventures

Oct 27th, 2020 - Apple Inc. acquires Vilynx and establish an AI research center in Barcelona

Jul 29th, 2020 - Click&Boat acquires Nautal

Feb 28th, 2020 - Codee raises €1.8M pre-Seed round co-led by Criteria Ventures, Armilar and K Fund

Dec 19th, 2019 - Meta (Facebook) acquires Playgiga

Jul 29th, 2019 - Validated ID raises €2M Seed round led by Criteria Ventures with the support of Randstad and Cuatrecases Ventures

Apr 20th, 2019 - Zinklar raises 1M€ Seed round led by Criteria Ventures, Inveready and Sabadell VC