Our Team

Agustina is Nauta Capital’s Legal & Tax Controller, based in Barcelona. As a member of the Operations team, she is responsible for the legal and tax matters of the Funds and the Management Company. She ensures the accomplishment of the anti-money laundering regulations, manages the communication with regulatory entities (CNMV in Spain, FCA in the UK), coordinates the legal and tax aspects of capital calls and divestments processes, and leads negotiation/communication with investors.

Prior to Nauta Capital, Agustina worked for four years as a lawyer in different international companies and firms, Scytl and BDO, in areas such as public, civil and commercial law. She holds a Bachelor in Law from Pompeu Fabra University and pertains to the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB).

Anna is Nauta Capital’s Chief Financial Officer, based in Barcelona. As part of her role, Anna oversees the Operations team which are in charge of the investment and divestment transactions and give financial and legal support to the portfolio companies.

Additionally, Anna actively participates in the financial planning of the Group, as well as fundraising, investor relations, relationship with regulators (CNMV in Spain) and in the adoption of several measures to prevent money laundering.

Prior to Nauta Capital, Anna worked for more than three years at Ernst & Young in the Transaction Advisory Services Department, in Paris. As a senior analyst, she carried out financial due diligence of mid-cap and small-cap companies for private-equity, venture capital and corporate clients.

Anna graduated from ESSEC Business School Paris with a Master of Science in Management and a specialisation in corporate finance.

Borja Breña is a Principal at Nauta Capital’s Barcelona office focused on Spanish and Portuguese opportunities.

Borja is recognised as a venture capital investor with international experience in finance, technology, and innovation. Prior to joining Nauta in 2018, he was a senior investment manager at Telefónica’s corporate venture capital fund. Previously, Borja worked at Kennet Partners, at Barclays Capital as an analyst in the credit trading desk, and as a business consultant at Deloitte UK and Deloitte Spain.

Borja holds an MBA from London Business School, graduated as a Telecommunications Engineer from Seville University (Spain) and is an Associate Chartered Accountant of the ICAEW (UK). He currently resides in Madrid.

Carles Ferrer Roqueta is a General Partner at Nauta Capital and is based in London. Carles has extensive Venture Capital experience, having raised, managed and exited different VC funds since 2000. Carles’ areas of interest include Security, SaaS, Marketing/Social Analytics/Intelligence, and Critical data-driven companies.

His previous experience includes managing positions in corporate strategy and planning/finance divisions with blue chip companies in the telecommunications, defence/SW/auto spaces, as well as financial services such as TRW (acquired by Northrop Grumman), Auna Group/Retevision (acquired by France Telecom and ONO), and Ernst & Young.

Carles holds a Business Administration degree from the University of Barcelona, a graduate degree in Administration and Management from Harvard University, and an MBA from SDA Bocconi.

Claudia Urquiola is Nauta Capital’s Head of Marketing & Communications. Based in London, Claudia oversees the marketing and communications strategy and supports in investor relations and fundraising initiatives. Alongside her team, Claudia manages our website, social media channels, media relations and email marketing communications.

Prior to Nauta Capital, Claudia worked for Grupo Santander for more than seven years. Her most recent appointment being the Head of Secure User Experiences for Customers, where she developed global campaigns aimed at shifting consumer behaviours in cybersecurity. And prior to that, she was a Senior Communications Manager in the UK focused on internal communications.

Her earlier work was on the agency side working at Finn Partners and Ogilvy Public Relations, where she developed corporate communications strategies for B2B and technology companies, as well as countries. Some of her clients included the Government of Mexico, GT Nexus, Vonage, Earthport, Kosmos Energy, Genpact, American Express and the Sohn Foundation.

Claudia holds an MBA from Fordham University and a BA from the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Daniel Sanchez is a General Partner at Nauta Capital and is based in Barcelona.

He is the Operations Partner at Nauta, taking responsibility for finance, operations (M&A), internal management and special situations.

He has served at the Board of several portfolio companies and has been directly involved in the sale of several portfolio companies including Privalia and Social Point.

Daniel has been a member of the Board of Directors at the European Venture Capital Association (today InvestEurope). He was also a member of the board at Ascri, the Spanish VC&PE association.

Before co-founding Nauta, he acquired broad experience in M&A as well as in the management of consumer electronics firms.

For 10 years, he was also a M&A consultant at Alpha Corporate (a firm that currently belongs to Deloitte & Touche), where he provided consultancy services to multinationals on mergers, acquisitions and strategy. Following that, he was Deputy Managing Director of Taurus, a consumer electronics firm engaged in small electrical appliances.

He has worked as an assistant professor and collaborator at ESADE in the areas of Finance and Internationalisation of companies.

Daniel holds a degree in Business Sciences and an MBA from ESADE as well as an MBA from the University of Chicago.

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Glen is the M&A Finance Associate at Nauta Capital, based in Barcelona. He is in charge of the M&A process in investment transactions and the financial follow-up of the portfolio. He also provides financial and operational assistance to the companies and their CFOs. As a member of the Operations team, he is involved in portfolio management and valuation, as well as in communication to investors.

Prior to joining Nauta, Glen worked in financial controlling in the education sector. Before that, he had been a part of the operations team at Nauta as an intern.

Glen holds a Master in Finance from ESADE Business School and a degree in Biotechnology as well as a Master in Neuroscience from the University of Barcelona.

Josh joined Nauta Capital’s London investment team in 2022. He primarily focuses on cybersecurity and infrastructure software.

Prior to Nauta, Josh worked as a strategy consultant in the M&A team at Strategy&, where he focused on technology growth investments and buy-out transactions for large-cap funds including EQT, KKR, HG Capital etc.

Josh began his career as the first product manager at an early stage PropTech company that successfully sold to private equity.

Josh holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh where he specialised in cyber security and the commercial applications of DLT.

Jordi was a founding partner of Cluster Consulting in 1993 and in 2000 became VP of DiamondCluster International for South Europe, as well as a member of the Worldwide Operating Committee. He has provided advice to telecommunications companies for over 15 years.

Before 1993, Jordi worked as a telecoms consultant both for Gemini Consulting and The Monitor Company.

As an investor for the last few years, Jordi has been involved in the areas of communications infrastructure, telco-focused enterprise software, mobile commerce, advertising technology and digital media. Jordi has led investment projects in the US, UK, Ireland, and Spain.

Jordi holds a degree in Business Sciences, an MBA from ESADE, and a degree in Law from the University of Barcelona.

Jordi currently serves on the Investment Committee of Spinnaker, a VC fund that specialises in the media sector.

Pratima is a Partner at Nauta Capital and is based in London. At Nauta, Pratima focuses on enterprise software and deep tech domains.

Pratima has 18+ years of professional experience. She is a software developer by background and spent several years in Silicon Valley working on developing intelligent network services in the network management domain. Pratima joins Nauta from US-based cybersecurity-focused investment firm Paladin Capital. Previously, Pratima led investments and acquisitions at Cisco Corporate Development in Europe with a specific focus on ML/AI, Enterprise Collaboration and Silicon. During her investment career, Pratima led an investment or held board seats in Aimotive, Adbrain, Evrythng, Secure Code Warrior, decentriq, Dashbird and several fund investments. She also managed investments in several companies including Behaviosec, Italtel, ip.access and Corvil.

Pratima received her MBA from INSEAD in France and an MS in computer science from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the US. Pratima is a co-author of a US patent in the area of network device clusters and high availability.

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Rita is the Office Manager/EA for the London Office since joining Nauta Capital in October 2022.

With a background in office administration, she organises and manages administration duties and office procedures, she works with Nauta’s Partners and supports the Investment and Marketing teams with their daily tasks.

Previously, she worked as a Team Assistant in a private equity firm, as a Corporate Receptionist in various financial sector companies, and as an Administrative Assistant/Manager in a family office for a Middle Eastern Royal Family.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Tourism from University of Azores, Portugal and an Executive Assistant Diploma from Souters Training in London.

Theo is an Investment Manager in Nauta Capital’s London office. He works across the entire investment process from thematic research and meeting founders through to representing the fund on portfolio company boards. The businesses he works with most closely are AppFollow, Trustshare, HappySignals, Hullabalook and Techspert.io.

Theo has previously worked in a number of startups (incl. Loop Horizon and SimPrints), Venture Capital (Molten Ventures), Strategy and M&A consulting (L.E.K. consulting, including work with the company’s Data & Analytics team building and using internal technical products) and founding a micro-business.

His interests lie in AI, the use and management of data, Fintech & InsurTech, supply chain technologies, Web3 and cryptocurrencies. He holds a Natural Sciences degree from the University of Cambridge.