About This Fund
Leadwind Ventures Fund is a EUR 250 million growth-stage venture capital fund managed by K Fund, the Madrid-based venture capital firm, in partnership with Telefonica. Established in 2022 and headquartered in Spain, Leadwind was created to address the capital gap for technology scale-ups in Southern Europe and Latin America seeking growth capital from Series A through later rounds. The fund completed its final close with backing from institutional limited partners including the ICO Next Tech Fund, which committed approximately EUR 70 million representing roughly 35 percent of the total capital, alongside Telefonica as the principal private sponsor, BBVA Spark, and Catalana Occidente.
Leadwind focuses on deeptech companies developing artificial intelligence, machine learning, cybersecurity, fintech, healthtech, and digital infrastructure solutions, prioritising founders with proven product-market fit and recurring revenues progressing toward profitability. The fund targets companies across Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Latin America — regions where ambitious technology scale-ups have historically faced limited access to growth capital at scale — and aims to support global technology winners anchored in Southern Europe and Latin America from their first institutional rounds through international scaling. Ticket sizes support Series A through Series C rounds, enabling the fund to lead or co-lead financing in competitive European and Latin American deeptech companies. An advisory board composed of senior executives from Google, Roku, Devo, Creditas, and other global technology organisations provides portfolio companies with strategic guidance and network access.
Leadwind completed a EUR 140 million first closing before achieving its EUR 250 million final close. Its initial portfolio includes Factorial, the Barcelona-based HR management platform serving over 10,000 companies across more than 60 countries; Voicemod, a real-time AI voice technology company; Quibim, a medical imaging data analytics business enabling precision medicine; Digibee, an enterprise integration platform; and nflux, an AI co-pilot for manufacturing assembly. The fund reflects K Fund's broader mission to build a Southern European and Latin American deeptech ecosystem that can compete with US and Northern European counterparts, and represents one of the largest growth-stage venture vehicles focused exclusively on this underserved geography.