RP

Rocío Pillado López

Partner at Adara Ventures

Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Entrepreneurship
Business Strategy
Venture Capital
Start-ups
Competitive Analysis
Investments
Corporate Finance
Software
Leadership
Due Diligence
Management
Product Management
Corporate Development

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2019

    Venture capital firm, managing €180 million in capital, and dedicated to investments in early-stage Deep Tech companies across Europe. Focus on European companies targeting the Digital Enterprise, particularly those that leverage the excellent and efficient engineering talent available in Spain, Portugal & UK.

  • Principal

    2016 - 2018

  • Associate

    2013 - 2015

  • Academic Director, Advanced Venture Capital

    2021

  • Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship

    2018

  • Co-Founder

    2011

    Leading online community about graduate programs in Spanish.

  • Project Manager & Front Office Software Engineer

    2008 - 2011

    Business: Equity Derivatives and Fixed Income sales & trading desks - Managed and worked on several trading and sales application projects for different business lines to drive revenue growth - Led project to handle mid/low frequency trading strategies, increasing trading frequency and daily trading volume while decreasing operational risk - Implemented processes in accordance with compliance standards to manage cash flow pricing, statistics and deals for sales in structured financial notes - Automated and improved trade reporting for non-electronic trades on listed options and stocks preventing rule violations, reporting failures and manual errors - Secured trading applications to prevent trading loss incidents due to rogue traders by redefining and implementing a new authentication architecture

Trusted Logic

2008 - 2008

  • Research and Software Development Engineer

    2008 - 2008

    Leading provider of open, secure software for smart cards, terminals and consumer devices

  • Security Engineer

    2007 - 2007

    Designed and implemented a security and monitoring system using free software (Internship)