Biorce is a Barcelona-based healthtech company building AI-native infrastructure for clinical trials. Its core product, Aika, helps pharmaceutical companies, biotechs and CROs design regulator-ready trial protocols in roughly 90 seconds, drawing on a corpus of more than one million clinical studies and 260,000+ protocols. By cutting protocol design time by at least 50% and flagging regulatory and feasibility risks early, Biorce aims to compress the years and billions of dollars it takes to bring a drug to market - so treatments reach patients sooner. In February 2026 it closed a USD $52.5M Series A led by DST Global, the largest Series A to date in the Iberian healthtech and AI ecosystem.
Pedro Coelho is the founder and CEO of Biorce, a Barcelona-based health AI company building software that designs and manages clinical trials in minutes instead of months. A Portuguese entrepreneur with over eight years in life sciences consulting, he started Biorce after a clinical trial bought his father, who was dying of melanoma, ten extra months of life. In February 2026 the company closed a $52M Series A led by DST Global, the largest Series A in Iberian healthtech and AI, backed by angels including the CEOs of Mistral, Revolut, OutSystems and Seedtag.
Julio Martinez is the co-founder and CEO of Abacum, an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform he launched with Jorge Lluch during the first week of Spain's COVID-19 lockdown in April 2020. A former M&A lawyer turned Citigroup banker turned fintech venture builder, he built the product he wished he had had during two decades inside finance. Abacum has raised more than $100 million from investors including Atomico, Creandum, Scale Venture Partners, Cathay Innovation and Y Combinator, and now serves hundreds of mid-market companies across more than 30 countries from offices in New York, London and Barcelona.
Imma Calvo is VP of Sales, US Commerce at Google Customer Solutions, leading commerce innovation for brands across the Americas. Originally from Barcelona, she spent a decade in California before relocating to New York and has worked at Google since 2007 across EMEA and US markets in roles spanning retail, apps, and agency. A passionate mentor to startups and women in tech, she speaks at major industry conferences and brings fluency in Spanish, Catalan, and the language of disruption.
Kjeld Aamodt is a UCSF-trained orthodontist who turned a faculty research interest into a transcontinental clear-aligner company. He founded Uniform Teeth in San Francisco in 2018, merged it with Barcelona-based Impress in 2022, and now serves as co-founder and CEO of Impress US while continuing to teach at UCSF.
Pete Pallarés is the Barcelona-born founder and CEO of Center for Social Dynamics (CSD), an Alameda-based provider of in-home and center-based ABA autism services that has scaled across six western states since 2012. A former college basketball player at the University of Hawaii, he turned a personal experience with dyslexia and ADHD into a multidisciplinary, multilingual treatment company and a foundation that funds students entering the autism field.
Víctor Pérez is the co-founder and CEO of Krea.ai, a San Francisco-based generative AI platform that has raised $83 million and grown to 20 million users. A Barcelona native who studied audiovisual systems engineering at UPF, Perez received the prestigious laCaixa Fellowship (a scholarship from the King of Spain) to pursue graduate studies at Cornell University — but spent just one day on campus before convincing his co-founder Diego Rodriguez to drop out and build Krea instead. A researcher whose work has appeared at NeurIPS and ICCV, and a graffiti artist at heart, Perez leads a company whose mission is to put creators in control of AI — not replace them with it.
Anna Piñol Mediano is a Partner at NFX, a $450M seed-stage venture capital firm, where she leads investments in AI, marketplaces, fintech, and consumer companies across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. A founder-turned-investor, she co-founded Jupiter (YC S19) after her Stanford MBA and was recruited to NFX - the very firm that had backed her startup. Promoted to Partner in May 2024, she is widely recognized as one of Silicon Valley's leading voices on AI agents and the emerging AI workforce, having authored influential essays and spoken at Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.