Eduardo Diez-Hochleitner, Founding Partner & Chairman at Samaipata, Madrid, Madrid, Spain — verified investor profile. See sector focus and contact routes.
Eduardo Díez-Hochleitner is the Founding Partner and Chairman of Samaipata, a Madrid-based venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016 with José del Barrio after previously serving as a Partner at APAX Private Equity and CFO/COO at PRISA. His investment thesis targets early-stage digital platforms with network effects at the Seed stage across Southern Europe, France, Benelux, Germany, the DACH region, and the UK, excluding pure hardware, IoT, deeptech, or biotech models. The firm typically invests tickets between €500,000 and €2 million, averaging €1.5 million, focusing on asset-light, tech-based “many-to-many” models. Notable portfolio companies include La Nevera Roja (co-founded by his partner and sold to Rocket Internet), as well as investments in sectors like fintech, e-commerce, SaaS, healthtech, travel, logistics, and AI across over 40 companies. Díez-Hochleitner distinguishes Samaipata as a “Founders’ fund” created by entrepreneurs who built and sold companies, emphasizing that investments require visible network effects generating increasing medium-term returns. He also serves as Chairman of MásMóvil Group, a multi-billion Spanish telecom operator
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