Urs Rothmayr

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

2021 - Current

Limited company specialized in investing in start-ups, made up of Business Angels who want to support and empower ambitious and talented Spanish entrepreneurs in early stages of development to build high-impact global technology companies through the investment of capital, knowledge and contacts, thus enhancing its scalability. We are part of COREangels international network, whose mission is to make Business Angel investment professional and global, improving results, while contributing and enjoying the journey.

Program Director & Mentor

2015

Advising established organisations to engage employees, accelerate innovation and transform culture, by creating the world's greatest Corporate Entrepreneurs. We design and implement Intrapreneurship Programs in FORTUNE Global 500 organizations around the world. Try out our free Intrapreneurship Program Design Tool: https://afce.typeform.com/to/GLJkiq

Venture Partner | Corporate Venturing Manager

2023

WORSLEY Acceleration Services is a consultancy boutique, with a highly experienced team of professionals, focused on bringing disruptive solutions to lay the foundation for current and future competitiveness, fueling sustainable growth. It was born taking over from the Corporate Acceleration Services (Open Innovation) and Sustainability Services (Network 4SDGs) of Esade Creapolis. The Corporate Venturing team, which I'm leading, offers a wide range of services for corporates which focus on boosting their competitiveness through investing in and supporting entrepreneurs as well as developing internal innovation – ‘intrapreneurship’, by means of a well proven methodology, leading edge technological tools and hundreds of cases behind our backs.

Co-Founder & President Europe

2019

We strive to empower and enable human creative potential by integrating the power of voice AI storytelling and analytics. We create solutions for digital marketers that leverage our proprietary Voice/AI technology and the Arrivu Platform. Our first product, iStory, integrates Voice/AI, rich media (video, music), and analytics, enabling marketers to create engaging interactive content, cost-effectively.

Venture Partner

2020

Match-Maker Ventures accelerates innovation by fundamentally changing the way corporates and startups work together. We drive collaboration from beginning to end and are measured against actual impact created. Our unique network approach enables startups to scale fast by connecting them to the global market and corporates to profit from pre-selected, globally scouted innovation.

Chapter Director Barcelona & Andalucía

2012

Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 90+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to empower talented and motivated people to build impactful technology-enabled companies worldwide. Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing companies have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. The Founder Institute has helped alumni raise over $1B worldwide. Currently looking for entrepreneurs that want to join our 4 month program in order to launch their dream company with expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup founders and CEOs - while not being required to quit their day job: http://fi.co/join.

Advisor

2020

Loyal VC is a Toronto based VC fund investing in tech startups sourced from INSEAD and Founder institute. Loyal has a core portfolio of over 100 investments in over 30 countries.

Professor for Innovation & Design Thinking of the MBA in Digital Ecosystem Management

2018

Advisor & Investor

2013

Funding, Strategy, Business model, Metrics, Dashboard, Marketing plan, Customer care

Venture Partner

2021 - 2022

Leading the new line of services of Esade Creapolis, called Corporate Acceleration Services, offering a wide range of services focused on boosting the competitiveness of corporations through disruptive innovation, including: - Definition of Open Innovation / Corporate Venturing strategies - Scouting of disruptive solutions and identification of new business models - Organization and development of acceleration and collaboration programs with startups - Organization and development of intrapreneurship programs - Management of the integration of disruptive solutions and associated talent