Javier Santiso

Javier Santiso is the CEO and General Partner of Mundi Ventures, a 200 VC fund, with offices in London, Madrid, and Barcelona and venture partners also in New York and London. He invests in deep tech companies, IoT, cyber, AI, industrial internet and also insurtech and fintech in Europe, in London, Berlin, Paris, Helsinki or Zurich, and also Barcelona, Madrid and Tel Aviv. He run in the past the tech investments of Khazanah, the 50 billion USD asian sovereign fund, and invested in multi billion tech unicorns like Farfetch (London, a startup exited and listed in the Nasdaq), Skyscanner (Edinburgh, a startup also exited and bought by Ctrip) and others like Auto1 (Berlin) or Sigfox (Paris). He is now an independent board member of Paris Based multinational, FNAC Darty. He is a Young Global Leader (YGL) of the World Economic Forum (Davos), and founder of the Club Mundi, a +750 network of Spanish and Foreign executives both working abroad and in Spanish multinationals or foreigners linkedin with Spain. Formerly he has been also Managing Director at Telefónica where he worked with the current Chairman, José María Alvarez Pallete and set up the venture capital fund of funds (Amerigo, 400M Euros), worked on Wayra, the startup accelerators network worldwide and created Talentum, the hackers program. He is the Founder of Start Up Spain, the leading platform on startups and ventures powered in cooperation with Rafael del Pino Foundation. He is also interested in the interactions between artificial intelligence and emotional intelligence and plans a Forum where corporate leaders, startups founders and visual artists will be brought together, around art & technology. Javier holds both Spanish and French nationalities,. He is a leading economist on emerging markets, startups and venture capitals. He has authored several books (listed below) and papers published in leading referee journals and edited books published by Columbia University Press, Oxford University Press or Routledg