CartoDB $8m funding round: the inside story – 1st Part

Publicado por San Fernando, Spain ⋅ septiembre 18, 2014 ⋅ Deja un comentario

CartoDB, Interactive Mapping Start-Up, Raises $8 Million.Story by Oriol Juncosa.

Yesterday CartoDB, a leader in geospatial cloud software based in Madrid and in New York, raised a Series A round of $8m, one of the largest Series A rounds ever completed in Southern Europe, from a mix of local and international investors: Earlybird (the lead) and Kibo + Vitamina K (the locals that first spotted the opportunity).

This exceptional result is an evidence of the high quality company that Javier de la Torre and Sergio Alvarez Leiva, CartoDB co-founders, have built for the last five years, surrounded by an A+ team of professionals, like Miguel Arias, Andrew Hill and Javier Santana, amongst others.
I have the pleasure and the privilege of advising the company on the fund raising and rolling up my sleeves beyond the round across finance, strategy and operations matters.
What follows is the Advisor View of the fund raising (with permission from those involved) intended to provide some…