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November 5, 2020

All Iron Ventures launches Spain’s biggest debut fund, with no public money

The experienced founders were able to attract all of the money from private investors


Tim Smith

4 min read

Spain has a new venture capital fund on the scene, and it's already refusing to play by the rules. All Iron Ventures is today closing its first fund of €66.5m, the largest debut VC fund in Spain to date, and it's done so without any help from public investment institutions.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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