Surfingvest

Surfingvest

Surfingvest is a Madrid-based private equity firm focused on early-stage and growth investments. The firm structures its support around three core services: startup rating, valuation, and direct financing. Rather than a traditional fund, Surfingvest presents as an advisory-plus-capital platform, embedding its own functional squads in digital marketing, UX and development, sales, retail, and recruitment to accelerate portfolio companies. The firm targets nine verticals on its website, including D2 Consumer, Mobility as a Service, Real Estate, BPO, Leisure, E-commerce, EdTech, FinTech, and Sustainability. Surfingvest stages investments across Seed, Launch, Growth, and Series A&B phases, matching its capital deployment to the maturity cycle of each company. The firm's in-house teams — each backed by leaders with 20 to 40 years of operating experience in banking, digital marketing, software development, and retail — work directly with portfolio companies on go-to-market execution. While no specific portfolio holdings are publicly disclosed, Surfingvest's website emphasizes a dual focus on direct-to-consumer models and asset-light tech platforms, with a clear geographic concentration in Spain and Europe. No AUM or total deployment figures are publicly available. The firm's website lists senior operators by initials — including NRT in Finance, YAC in UX and Development, LSM in Sales, JFS in Retail, NPV in Recruitment, and SPV in Consulting — but does not publish full names, titles, or exact headcount. Surfingvest invites founders to connect via a web form and direct email, suggesting an active, deal-by-deal sourcing posture rather than a closed fund structure. What distinguishes Surfingvest is its embedded operating model: the firm deploys dedicated functional squads into its portfolio companies, not just capital. This blurs the line between investor and consultant, positioning Surfingvest as a hands-on growth operator for consumer and tech-enabled businesses in Southern Europe. The absence of disclosed principals, vehicle structure, or track record makes the firm's governance opaque, but its public posture clearly functions as a direct-execution platform rather than a pure financial sponsor.