BAnCLUBS strengthens its partner network with six strategic alliances and announces the expansion of its investment club model into new territories - Capital

BAnCLUBS, a platform specialised in promoting and facilitating pooled investment in startups through independent business angel clubs, has signed agreements with six strategic partners to support the growth of innovative and scalable early-stage companies across Spain.

The six partners form a comprehensive value-added ecosystem covering critical areas that contribute to the success of startups and their investors:

Through these partnerships, all startups within the BAnCLUBS ecosystem gain preferential access to the specialised services provided by these collaborators.

The addition of Driza — a marketing consultancy with more than 190 accelerated projects and expertise in SaaS, e-commerce and healthcare companies — enables access to top-tier marketing knowledge and talent under a model designed to remain financially accessible for cash-constrained startups.

Founded in late 2024, BAnCLUBS presented its pioneering operating model for business angel clubs across Spain in 2025, based on the premise that specialised startup investing should not be reserved exclusively for family offices or institutional funds. Its methodology, together with the experience and strong reputation of its founders within the ecosystem, has attracted the interest of savers, entrepreneurs, executives and independent professionals across the country. As a result, in 2026 this outreach and education effort has led to the launch of three new independent business angel clubs in Granada (Nazarí Ventures), Palma de Mallorca (Invision Club Deal) and Madrid (Pinama Flex).

Nacho Alonso, President of BAnCLUBS, brings more than 13 years of experience investing in startups and building business angel clubs. Together with co-founder Guillermo Soto, who adds a further 10 years, and three other team members with five years each, the team collectively has direct or indirect exposure to more than 450 companies, which they have financed with €17 million deployed across a total of nine clubs.

BAnCLUBS’ expansion roadmap includes the launch of new clubs in the coming months across Andalusia, Valencia, the Basque Country, Galicia, Asturias and Castilla-La Mancha.

“BAnCLUBS is an initiative the ecosystem needed. The problem is not a lack of capital in Spain. The problem is that this capital often does not understand the opportunity in startup investing and, when it does, it channels it into this asset class in an amateur and insufficiently informed way. Investing in startups carries high risk, and if you are not dedicated to it professionally, you are bound to fail. We recommend pooling investors into vehicles that follow rigorous methodologies throughout each phase of the clubs’ 10-year lifecycle,” says Nacho Alonso.

“The collaborative, group-based model proposed by BAnCLUBS generates multiple returns for business angels across the different clubs. For most investors, these include highly emotional benefits such as contributing to local prosperity, building a legacy to be proud of, learning, valuable connections, and exposure to disruptive innovation, all of which often outweigh the purely financial return,” adds Guillermo Soto.

BAnCLUBS is a business initiative founded in Madrid in 2024, specialised in promoting startup investment through business angel clubs, alongside outreach, training and advisory activities. More information at www.banclubs.com