Number of Portfolio Companies 7
Number of Exits 
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  • Primary Job Title CEO & Executive Chairman
  • Primary Organization 
    Verse
  • Investor Type  Individual/Angel
  • Investor Stage  Seed
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Bernardo Hernandez is leading Spanish Business Angel. He graduated from ICADE, a top Business School in Madrid Spain in 1993. He has a Masters in Finance from Boston College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. At the age of 29, after 5 years as an analyst and portfolio manager in the asset management industry with companies

like Fidelity and Putnam Investments, he started his first internet venture idealista.com, now the leading real estate online portal in Spain. Since then he has participated in other online start-ups as a Business Angel, like floresfrescas.com, planetaki.com, 11870.com or the leading social network in Spain, tuenti.com.

His latest venture is StepOne.com, a company that helps Spanish businesses to get established in the US. He is also member of the board at Bodaclick.com, the first Spanish internet company to go public.

Bernardo joined Google in 2005 and is currently Director of Product Management and Managing Director for Zagat. He is based in New York.

Number of Investments 10
Bernardo Hernandez has made 10 investments. Their latest investment was Pre Seed Round - Fiuter on May 2, 2022, when Fiuter raised
€350K
.
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
May 2, 2022
Fiuter
Pre Seed Round - Fiuter
€350K
Aug 23, 2018
Verse
Venture Round - Verse
$1.7M
May 29, 2018
Citibox
Series A - Citibox
€8.5M
May 1, 2018
Jobin
Series A - Jobin
€1.1M
Jun 14, 2017
Paack
Seed Round - Paack
$2M
Dec 14, 2016
Paack
Seed Round - Paack
$1M
Aug 11, 2016
Glovo
Series A - Glovo
€5M
Nov 24, 2015
Glovo
No
Seed Round - Glovo
€2M
Aug 15, 2015
Verse
Seed Round - Verse
$1.8M
May 7, 2014
Fever
Seed Round - Fever
$1.9M
Number of Exits 
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Bernardo Hernandez has exits. Their most notable exits are Verse and Glovo.
  • Verse Verse offers a payments platform that allows users to share payments easily, instantly, and with no hidden fees.
  • Glovo Glovo is a courier service that purchases, picks up, and delivers products ordered through its mobile application.
Number of Current Jobs 4
Number of Past Jobs 4
Bernardo Hernandez has 4 current jobs including CEO & Executive Chairman at Verse, Member of the Board of Directors at Bodaclick, and Founder at FloresFrescas.com. Additionally, Bernardo Hernandez has had 4 past jobs including Director of Product Management at Google.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Google
Director of Product ManagementNov 1, 2005May 2013
idealista
FounderJan 20, 2000Oct 31, 2005
StepOne Ventures
CEO & Owner
Bonsai Venture Capital SCR
Partner
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 3
Number of Past Board & Advisor Roles 3
Bernardo Hernandez holds 3 board and advisor roles including Advisor at Citibox, Board Chairman at Verse, and Founder at StepOne Ventures.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Headline
Venture Partner/PartnerMay 2016Oct 2017
Tuenti Technologies
Board PresidentSep 15, 2006Aug 4, 2010
Google Ventures
Advisor
Number of Events 7
Bernardo Hernandez has participated in 7 events. They most recently attended, or will attend, MWC 2020 Barcelona on Feb 24, 2020.
Number of News Articles 45
Funding RoundMay 2, 2022
Funding RoundAug 23, 2018
Verse raised $1,730,000 / Series Unknown from Bernardo Hernandez and 2 other investors
Funding RoundMay 29, 2018
Citibox raised €8,500,000 / Series A from Bernardo Hernandez and 7 other investors
Funding RoundMay 1, 2018
Funding RoundJun 14, 2017
Paack raised $2,000,000 / Seed from Bernardo Hernandez and 3 other investors
Funding RoundDec 14, 2016
Paack raised $1,000,000 / Seed from Bankinter and 4 other investors
Funding RoundAug 11, 2016
Glovo raised €5,000,000 / Series A from Antai Ventures and 9 other investors