Masia closes its first fund, enters 45 start-ups and opens new headquarters

✦ Meridian Analysis

Masia VC has closed its inaugural €18 million fund, a limited‑partnership vehicle that will invest in pre‑seed and seed‑stage artificial‑intelligence and frontier‑technology companies. The capital comes from a community of roughly 70 founders and business angels (65 % of the total), with the remaining 35 % supplied by the Spanish Technology Transformation Agency (SETT) and the City of Barcelona. The fund’s strategy is to deploy tickets of around €200 000 in partnership with international funds, focusing on B2B AI and the Barcelona entrepreneurial ecosystem. Its first portfolio already contains 45 start‑ups, including Biorce, Didit and Prosper, and the firm plans to add a further twenty companies over the next twelve months. The new headquarters, Masia House, will house the fund’s offices, a coworking space for portfolio companies and a U.S.‑style entrepreneurship hub. The deal signals a strengthening of Barcelona’s venture‑capital landscape and a growing appetite for AI‑driven businesses in Spain. The public‑sector backing from SETT and the city reflects a policy push to nurture high‑tech innovation. Earlier this month Meridian reported on Multiverse Computing’s €500 million quantum‑AI round, illustrating a broader European trend of sizable AI investments. Masia’s focus on early‑stage, small‑ticket deals fills a niche that larger funds often overlook, potentially accelerating the maturation of local start‑ups and attracting further global capital to the region.

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