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Nauta

Nauta

Venture Capital

Nauta is a pan-European venture capital firm focusing on early-stage business-to-business software companies, with offices in London and Barcelona.

Portfolio

18

companies

AUM

£500M

under management

By category

  • Enterprise Software£22.1M
  • AI/ML£14.9M
  • SaaS£14.0M
  • HRTech£12.5M
  • Uncategorised£6.7M
  • Other£27.1M

By location

  • London£45.9M
  • Denver£19.6M
  • Brighton£13.0M
  • Cambridge£8.8M
  • United Kingdom£4.8M
  • Other£5.2M

Portfolio companies

B

BaseKit

BaseKit provides website and e-commerce platform solutions for small businesses.

BlackCurve

BlackCurve

BlackCurve provides pricing optimisation software for ecommerce businesses.

B

Blaize

Blaize provides a digital subscription platform for the recurring revenue economy.

B

Brandwatch

Brandwatch builds social media analytics and listening software for enterprises.

Cledara

Cledara

Cledara offers a software management platform designed for growing companies.

E

ESProfiler

ESProfiler offers a platform that helps enterprises evaluate and optimise their security tools.

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Team

Carles Ferrer

Carles Ferrer

General Partner

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Jordi Vinas

General Partner

Jordi brings venture capital and consulting experience as a co-founder and general partner at Nauta Capital. He previously co-founded Cluster Consulting and worked as a consultant at Monitor Group.

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Sam Ahmed

Media enquiries contact

Sam brings venture capital brand and communications experience from roles at Nauta Capital and NGP Capital. Prior to that, Sam managed marketing and communications for Startupbootcamp and the London Small Business Centre.

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Pratima Aiyagari

Partner

Pratima brings venture capital and corporate development experience from Nauta Capital, Paladin Capital Group, and Cisco. Her background spans investments in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling.

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Carles Ferrer Roqueta

Carles Ferrer Roqueta

General Partner

Carles is a general partner at Nauta Capital and serves on the boards of Unravel, Zelt, Spotted Zebra, and AppFollow.

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Claudia Urquiola

Claudia Urquiola

Media enquiries contact

Claudia brings marketing, communications, and investor relations experience from venture capital and corporate roles. She previously led customer communications for cyber security at Banco Santander.

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Recent investments

Series A
£5.8M

The investment round was led by Nauta with participation from LAUNCHub, Lunar Ventures, and Techstart.

"This funding accelerates our vision: applying synthetic data and Visual AI to solve the $800 billion problem of inefficiencies in CPG supply chains. We’re growing our computer vision engineering team and deepening our commercial footprint across the UK, European and US markets. Our platform is already a new benchmark for retail image recognition – this investment enables us to scale that impact globally."
— Paul Pop, CEO
Series A
£5.3M

The Series A round was led by Nauta Capital with backing from several notable investors.

"The way people discover travel has changed. They don't sift through endless search results—they get inspired by creators who are exploring the world and sharing their experiences. Unravel bridges that gap, turning creator-shot videos into seamless, AI-powered booking experiences."
— Vijay Anand, CEO & Co-Founder
Seed
£4.8M

The investment round was led by Nauta with participation from Venrex and Episode 1.

"2024 was an excellent year for Zelt as we launched our new Growth module, onboarded our first 1,000+ headcount organisation and closed a new round of funding that will enable us to invest even more into building the best product available in the market. We see a $50bn opportunity globally as organisations move away from legacy and point solutions, to a next-generation all-in-one platform. Alongside the capital, it’s great to have such an experienced and well aligned investor like Nauta on board as a partner at this stage in our journey."
— Chris Priebe, Founder and CEO
Seed
£2.8M

The Manchester-based cybersecurity start-up has secured backing led by Nauta Capital.

"Partnering with Nauta Capital marks a significant step in our journey towards offering continuous security investment validation to enterprises. This funding is not just a financial boost but a validation of our vision at ESProfiler. It will accelerate our engineering efforts, expanding our platform's capabilities and reach."
— Louis Holt, CEO and Co-founder
Seed
£2.1M

The financing round was led by ACF Investors with participation from Nauta Capital, Ascension Ventures, and several strategic angels.

"Against the current zeitgeist of increasing privacy regulations and data restrictions by platforms, there is an urgent need for innovative solutions that empower advertisers without compromising user privacy. This investment is a testament to our foresight in on-device AI and privacy-focused technologies, setting the stage for our global product and commercial expansion plans."
— Abhishek Sen, CEO and co founder