Alicia Gavañach López

Founder & CEO @ Invariant | MBA

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
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Sep 2025
Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers
Investor
Jun 2025
Moon Surgical aims to augment the surgeon with leaps forward in computer vision, haptics, and robotics.
Investor
Sep 2024
Beyond Aero is building the first electric business aircraft powered by hydrogen propulsion, enabling six passengers to fly up to 800 NM (1,500 km), a range unattainable with battery-electric aircraft. Founded in December 2020, the company is redesigning the architecture of an aircraft around hydrogen-electric propulsion, focusing on fuel cell technology, gaseous hydrogen tank integration, and advanced cooling systems. With offices in Toulouse, Paris, and Los Angeles, the company boasts a team of over 80 highly qualified engineers from leading aerospace companies. Beyond Aero has secured over $50 million in funding, backed by investors such as Giant Ventures, Bpifrance, and prior supporters like Initialized Capital, Female Founders Fund, and 7 Percent Ventures. Beyond Aero also completed Y Combinator in 2022. The company has secured $1.1bn in Letters of Intent (LOIs), completed France’s first manned, fully hydrogen-electric flight, and acquired Universal Hydrogen Co.s assets, IP, and flight data. Beyond Aero is a member of the World Economic Forum’s First Movers Coalition and the Alliance for Zero Emission Aviation, underscoring its commitment to electrifying aviation with hydrogen propulsion.
Angel Investor
Jul 2024
At Sprive, we’re building an AI mortgage assistant. One that lives on your smart phone that helps you pay off your mortgage faster and ensures youre always on the best deal. The team here at Sprive believes we can really transform how you manage your mortgage and help you maximise the amount of money you can save. A recent FCA study highlights that 30% of homeowners pay up to £550 more than they should every time they switch mortgage. It is also expected that millions of people will be paying their mortgage through retirement. Dont let that be you. Visit www.sprive.com today to register your interest and youll be the first to know when we launch.
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Jul 2024
Sie Ventures is a trusted capital platform for female (co-) founded businesses and investors in Europe. Our ultimate goal is to close the gender funding gap by providing female founders with better access to capital, network, experienced founders and community. We run programs that enable founders to raise from VCs and invest via our Syndicate and Fund. You can learn more about Sie, apply to our programs, pitch for investment or join us as an investor, via our website.
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Jul 2024
HERMESA is a UK based angel syndicate investing in extraordinary female (co)founded start-ups. We are a community of operators who know what it takes to build successful start-ups and we invest smart money – capital and expertise – to help change the funding landscape for women founders.
Angel Investor
Jun 2024
THE REDESIGN APP 💫 Connect with 100+ designers to redesign your clothes! ✨
Investor
Apr 2024
Connectd is a people-first platform connecting startups and scaleups with experienced fractional executives and strategic advisors. Using AI-powered insights and smart matching technology, we help ensure the right experts are placed with the right companies, so both sides can grow with confidence. In a world shaped by transformative technology, we provide a human-centred ecosystem where companies access the guidance they need to scale, and senior leaders find meaningful, flexible work that puts their experience to powerful use. Since 2019, Connectd has facilitated over 35,000 connections across the UK and US, helping both sides of the ecosystem succeed: startups and scaleups gain trusted leadership at pivotal moments, and senior leaders and executives build dynamic, rewarding fractional careers.
Angel Investor
Feb 2024
Receive actionable insights tailored to your AI product and business, delivered directly to your inbox, Slack, or other internal channels, every day. By leveraging the extensive data from your user-AI interactions, these insights provide invaluable guidance on improving both your AI product and your overall business strategy.
Angel Investor
Dec 2023
Alma Angels is a diverse and active community with a bold mission: Generate $1 trillion in women-led wealth by 2050. Since 2020, we have brought together and trained over 500 angel investors who have invested into 200+ women (co)founders building tech or IP-rich ventures with global ambitions. These companies have gone on to raise more than £300m to date. Alma Angels is committed to training 10,000 angels and backing 10,000 women founders by 2035.
Investor, Partner, Advisor
2022
Various board memberships
Investor
2020
Santander Private Banking International (SPBI) is the international private banking unit of the Wealth Management & Insurance Division of the Santander Group. Our purpose is to provide a personalized level of service and financial advice to high-net-worth individuals and family groups. We work with an open architecture, providing clients with competitive investment opportunities available in the market, selecting options that allow them to achieve their financial objectives. We focus on building strong relationships and looking after their interests with a team of professionals organized across a diverse geographic area. With offices in the United States, Switzerland, and The Bahamas, SPBI prides itself on the excellence of its professional reputation and the personal atmosphere that makes it both a pleasant and rewarding place to work. We are committed to providing our employees with the tools to support continuous professional and personal development. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, giving career opportunities in a fast-paced professional environment. Resumes received are treated in a highly confidential manner. We are an equal-opportunity employer. We employ qualified individuals without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, uniformed service, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Experience · 19 entries
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Investments (15)
Founder (1)
2026
Investor
Feb 2026
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. For more information, visit www.spacex.com.
2025
Founder
Dec 2025
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Investor
Sep 2025
Understand the Universe. We are a team of AI technologists and business leaders on a mission to build AI systems that can help humanity understand the world better. https://x.ai/careers
Investor
Jun 2025
Moon Surgical aims to augment the surgeon with leaps forward in computer vision, haptics, and robotics.
2024
Investor
Sep 2024
Beyond Aero is building the first electric business aircraft powered by hydrogen propulsion, enabling six passengers to fly up to 800 NM (1,500 km), a range unattainable with battery-electric aircraft. Founded in December 2020, the company is redesigning the architecture of an aircraft around hydrogen-electric propulsion, focusing on fuel cell technology, gaseous hydrogen tank integration, and advanced cooling systems. With offices in Toulouse, Paris, and Los Angeles, the company boasts a team of over 80 highly qualified engineers from leading aerospace companies. Beyond Aero has secured over $50 million in funding, backed by investors such as Giant Ventures, Bpifrance, and prior supporters like Initialized Capital, Female Founders Fund, and 7 Percent Ventures. Beyond Aero also completed Y Combinator in 2022. The company has secured $1.1bn in Letters of Intent (LOIs), completed France’s first manned, fully hydrogen-electric flight, and acquired Universal Hydrogen Co.s assets, IP, and flight data. Beyond Aero is a member of the World Economic Forum’s First Movers Coalition and the Alliance for Zero Emission Aviation, underscoring its commitment to electrifying aviation with hydrogen propulsion.
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