Faraday Venture Partners: Best Start-Up Investment Partner Spain 2018

Unlike traditional Venture Capitalist firms, the Spanish firm Faraday Venture Partners operates as a private investment club offering investors, without access to deal flow, the opportunity to diversify their investment by investing in the best start-ups in Spain and wider Europe.

Its Partners range from individual investors to small funds and family offices, each of which pays an annual membership fee to receive an equivalent of 10 Investment Opportunity Reports annually. In return Faraday accompanies and advises its Partners throughout the entire investment cycle, from the initial search and project analysis to the final exit strategy and liquidation of stakes. As one of Spain’s most active private investors’ clubs, Faraday embraces portfolio diversification for its investors with ticket minimums of € 2,000 and a carefully curated selection of innovative start-ups from all sectors that it regularly offers for investment to its Partners. The firm leverages its extensive national and pan-European networks to identify start-up projects with the potential for swift scalability and the promise of above-average returns on investments within a 3 to 5-year period. Faraday currently serves 170 active Partners with assets under management of over € 10 million and investment stakes in 24 start-ups. Since its launch in 2011, Faraday has been able to offer its Partners a total of 23 divestment opportunities in 9 different companies, with multiples on money invested ranging between 1.1X and 10.7X and having paid out capital gains of over € 1 million.

Aside from expert advisory services and sound investment management, Faraday offers its Partners quarterly networking events bringing together its Partner-base, primarily composed of entrepreneurs and financial and investment service professionals and the CEOs of its investee companies to foment cross-industry relationships. It also runs bi-annual Investment Workshops and provides investee companies with hands-on operational advice, and a Collective Advantages Program.

The CFI.co judging panel applauds the firm’s business proposition that offers private and first-time investors the opportunity to invest in the Venture Capital asset class for a minimum ticket of € 2,000, allowing investors to adequately diversify their investment portfolio and enjoy increased returns typical for the asset class. The judges congratulate Faraday Venture Partners on its 2018 award win for Best Start-Up Investment Partner (Spain).