Felipe Cortina is the co-founder and co-CEO of Jimmy Lion, the colorful sock brand he launched in New York in 2014 with fellow ex-banker Alvaro Gomis. A Madrid native who traded an investment-banking career for an NYU Stern MBA and then for a single product nobody else seemed to take seriously, Cortina turned the most forgettable item in a wardrobe into a design object sold in more than 30 countries and on the shelves of El Corte Ingles, Galeries Lafayette and El Palacio de Hierro. He also chairs his family's Vallegarcia winery in Toledo.
StubHub International is the non-North American arm of the StubHub ticketing brand, operating online secondary marketplaces where fans buy and sell tickets to concerts, sports, theatre and festivals across the UK, Germany, Spain, France and dozens of other markets. Carved out of viagogo's StubHub acquisition by a 2021 UK regulator-mandated divestiture and now owned by Boston-based Digital Fuel Capital, the company runs from operational hubs in London, Madrid, Bilbao and Berlin, backing every transaction with its FanProtect guarantee.
Frenetic is a Madrid-born deep-tech company building AI-powered software and a manufacturing service for custom magnetic components - the unglamorous transformers and inductors at the heart of every power supply, EV charger, and electrified machine. Their platform compresses what used to take months of trial-and-error into days of simulation, and ships physical samples in roughly a week.
Roger Salameh is a General Partner at Swanlaab Venture Factory's AgriFood Fund I, bringing over 30 years of hands-on agribusiness and biotechnology leadership to the venture world. A veteran of Monsanto, Calgene, and Arcadia Biosciences - where he served as interim CEO and then COO - Salameh now deploys capital into early-stage agri-food tech startups from his perch in Napa, California, while simultaneously running DnA Advisory Services, a consultancy helping AgTech and FoodTech companies navigate the path from innovation to commercialization.
Chema Molina is the CEO and founder of Frenetic, a Madrid-born, San Francisco-based deep-tech company that uses AI to collapse the design time for high-frequency magnetic components from nine months to one week. Holding a PhD in Industrial Electronics from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Molina built Frenetic on the conviction that power electronics — the invisible backbone of EVs, aerospace, and consumer devices — deserved smarter, faster design tools. His platform now serves clients including NASA, GE, Bosch, Infineon, and Thales Alenia Space, and has raised over $19 million in funding, including a $12.3M Series A led by Kibo Ventures in 2023.