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Agustín Vitórica Gutiérrez-Cortines

Founder and Co-CEO of GAWA Capital

📍 Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area, Spain🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 23 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Spain
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Board Member
2024
The name Sindhuja is said to be one of the names of Goddess Lakshmi –the goddess of wealth, fortune and prosperity. Etymologically speaking, this name refers to the avtar of Goddess Lakshmi, who was born out of the river Sindhu. Sindhuja Microcredit (Sindhuja) is a new generation Micro Finance Company which is headquartered in Delhi NCR with its Zonal office in Patna. It has received Certificate of Registration from the Reserve Bank of India to operate as NBFC-MFI. Sindhuja plans to offer credit products like Micro Finance and Micro Enterprise Loan and also plans to offer insurance, pension and other services through third party arrangements to its customers. Through these products it aims to reach the lives of the “Bottom of Pyramid” and the “Missing Middle” customers and contribute in financial inclusion. Sindhuja aspires to serve financially excluded and self-employed micro-entrepreneurs across rural, semi-urban and urban locations in its area of operations through micro finance loans, micro insurance and other suitable financial products. * As a growing company we are continuously hiring and welcome resumes/CVs from suitable candidate. Please mail your resume/CV to careers@sindhujamicrocredit.com
Board Member
Oct 2017
Kinara Capital is a socially responsible fintech committed to driving last-mile financial inclusion for small business entrepreneurs in India. As an RBI-registered, Systemically Important NBFC, we provide Fast and Flexible Collateral-free Business loans, empowering MSMEs to scale and thrive. Led by visionary Founder and women-majority management team, Kinara Capital is globally acclaimed for driving financial inclusion and empowering MSMEs. Kinara has won the Platinum Award for ‘SME Financier of the Year - Global’ and Silver for ‘SME Financier of the Year - Asia’ from SME Finance Forum & IFC along with Innovative Financing award at UN Women Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards. Kinara Capital has been ranked among the ‘Top High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific’ by the Financial Times for 5 consecutive years and recognized as one of ‘India’s Growth Champions’ by the Economic Times. Kinara’s AI/ML-driven risk assessment has empowered over 1 Lakh+ MSME customers across 300+ sub-sectors with seamless loan approvals and disbursements in just 24 hours. MSMEs can quickly check their loan eligibility in just 1 minute with #myKinaraApp, available on the Google Play Store, enabling them to focus on growing their businesses and achieving success. #KinaraCapital #FundingYourFuture #myKinaraApp #BusinessLoans #CollateralFreeBusinessLoans Call us at 1800 103 2683 or Give a Missed Call at 7026290000
Board Member
2009
Zinkia Entertainment, which specialises in the creation and management of entertainment brands for the international market, is primarily involved in the animation business, creating quality content for the audiovisual market as well as interactive content for multi-player console and online games. Founded in 2001, Zinkia is headquartered in Madrid, with a commercial office in Peking, China and Mexico DF. Zinkia’s TV series and associated merchandising and licensing products are distributed to over 100 countries worldwide. TV credits include the multi-award winning series Pocoyo and the successful series Shuriken School. Zinkia also created and recently launched the virtual universe PocoyoWorld.com, targeted at young children.
Board Member
2007
With the mission of improving the bank-client relationship, Strands is the worldwide leading FinTech that develops solutions for financial institutions to increase customer engagement and generate new revenue through digital channels. Strands uses its more than 15 years of experience in machine learning, open banking, open finance, and artificial intelligence to create highly-personalized digital money management solutions that help people to better manage their lives and their businesses, and to make better financial decisions. With headquarters in Barcelona (Spain) and strong presence in North America, Latin America, and Asia, we have contributed to revolutionize digital banking implementations worldwide. The company is now part of the CRIF Group since 2019, the Europe first Credit information provider and worldwide leading player.
Board Member
2005
20minutos es un medio de comunicación español de información general y de distribución gratuita. - En Internet, '20minutos Sites'​ alcanzó la cifra de 13.076.029 usuarios únicos en julio de 2014, según la información divulgada por la empresa de medición online ComScore. En online, 20minutos se mantiene como el tercer medio más leído en español en el mundo. En su edición de papel, según los últimos datos del Estudio General de Medios, 20minutos es el segundo diario más leído a nivel nacional, con 1.083.000 personas que leen cada mañana el diario impreso.
Board Member
2003
R is the cable telecommunications operator for Galicia that offers integrated telephone, mobile, internet, television and mobile services. R has more than 277.000 clients and has invest 855 million euros, focusing primarily on continuing network distribution in Galicia.
Experience · 14 entries
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2024
Board Member
2024
The name Sindhuja is said to be one of the names of Goddess Lakshmi –the goddess of wealth, fortune and prosperity. Etymologically speaking, this name refers to the avtar of Goddess Lakshmi, who was born out of the river Sindhu. Sindhuja Microcredit (Sindhuja) is a new generation Micro Finance Company which is headquartered in Delhi NCR with its Zonal office in Patna. It has received Certificate of Registration from the Reserve Bank of India to operate as NBFC-MFI. Sindhuja plans to offer credit products like Micro Finance and Micro Enterprise Loan and also plans to offer insurance, pension and other services through third party arrangements to its customers. Through these products it aims to reach the lives of the “Bottom of Pyramid” and the “Missing Middle” customers and contribute in financial inclusion. Sindhuja aspires to serve financially excluded and self-employed micro-entrepreneurs across rural, semi-urban and urban locations in its area of operations through micro finance loans, micro insurance and other suitable financial products. * As a growing company we are continuously hiring and welcome resumes/CVs from suitable candidate. Please mail your resume/CV to careers@sindhujamicrocredit.com
2019
Spain NAB Founding Member
Jun 2019
GSG Impact builds impact economies. We do this by working to embed social and environmental impact at the heart of every political, investment, business and consumption decision. We connect global leaders, governments, investors, regulators and social innovators, so that together we can build the infrastructure and incentives for social and environmental impact to be central to all decision making. GSG Impact is the cornerstone of the wider GSG Impact Partnership – a global network of 43 National Partners representing 48 countries: more than half in emerging markets.
2018
Foro Impacto
Leader of the Supply of Impact Capital Commission
May 2018
2017
Board Member
Oct 2017
Kinara Capital is a socially responsible fintech committed to driving last-mile financial inclusion for small business entrepreneurs in India. As an RBI-registered, Systemically Important NBFC, we provide Fast and Flexible Collateral-free Business loans, empowering MSMEs to scale and thrive. Led by visionary Founder and women-majority management team, Kinara Capital is globally acclaimed for driving financial inclusion and empowering MSMEs. Kinara has won the Platinum Award for ‘SME Financier of the Year - Global’ and Silver for ‘SME Financier of the Year - Asia’ from SME Finance Forum & IFC along with Innovative Financing award at UN Women Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards. Kinara Capital has been ranked among the ‘Top High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific’ by the Financial Times for 5 consecutive years and recognized as one of ‘India’s Growth Champions’ by the Economic Times. Kinara’s AI/ML-driven risk assessment has empowered over 1 Lakh+ MSME customers across 300+ sub-sectors with seamless loan approvals and disbursements in just 24 hours. MSMEs can quickly check their loan eligibility in just 1 minute with #myKinaraApp, available on the Google Play Store, enabling them to focus on growing their businesses and achieving success. #KinaraCapital #FundingYourFuture #myKinaraApp #BusinessLoans #CollateralFreeBusinessLoans Call us at 1800 103 2683 or Give a Missed Call at 7026290000
2014
Teacher at the Master in Microfinance and Master in Impact Investing degrees
2014
La Universidad Autónoma de Madrid es una institución pública de referencia en el contexto universitario español e internacional. Al reconocimiento por su altísima calidad investigadora se une su capacidad emprendedora, su permanente búsqueda de la excelencia docente así como su destacado compromiso social. Su proyección internacional se ve potenciada por numerosos programas de intercambio y formación con universidades de todo el mundo, en los que participan estudiantes, profesores y personal no docente.
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