Alvaro Alvarez Del Rio

Investor at Boost Capital Partners

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 25 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2023
VC🌍 United Kingdom20+ investments
25
Total investments
9
Early stage
8
Mid stage
2
Late stage
15y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
Jul 2023
Five Lives is a Digital Therapeutics start-up developing “Five Lives”, a direct-to-consumer brain health mobile app to help everyone measure and reduce their risk of dementia through an improved lifestyle.
Board Member
Jan 2023
Creature Comforts is bringing the joy back to vet care. With state-of-the-art clinics now open across London and the Home Counties, we’re reimagining the entire veterinary experience from the ground up. Our membership model makes care seamless, accessible, and part of everyday life for pets and their people. No more scrambling for appointments. No more long waits in uninspiring clinics. No more seeing a different vet every visit. Instead, we offer consistent, personal care in beautifully designed spaces, powered by smart technology - and, of course, plenty of treats along the way. We’re on a mission to restore joy within the profession itself. For too long, vet teams have felt undervalued and faced burnout, driving many to leave the industry. We’re here to change that - supporting vet teams, elevating their experience, and building a future with one purpose in mind: healthier pets and happier vets.
Board Member
Feb 2022
Volta creates live, globally interactive experiences. Audiences impact visual spectacles from the palm their hands whether in person or from the other side of the planet. Fans become active participants over passive spectators, blurring the line between performer, audience and brand.
Board Member
Apr 2021
We are active on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@krew.live And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/krew_live/ Follow us there! - Krew is the world's most advanced live digital fitness product. Peloton for any type of sport, without the need for a $3k piece of kit, from anywhere. We offer live classes which we augment with effort-based leaderboards and pose correction, just using your camera. We have been product of the day and week on Product Hunt, and we're backed by some of the world's best investors. We are on a mission to make the world happy and healthy. In beta.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Our mission is to build the worlds most entertaining and immersive crime experiences.
Board Member
Jan 2020
Viker is a London-based Mobile Studio that designs, develops and publishes games. Comprised of an amazing team that has designed, developed and published some of the worlds best known games. We believe in high quality, fun mobile experiences, that the world can play.
Board Member
Dec 2019
Hi! 👋 We’re Netspeak Games - a remote-first games studio, dedicated to making wholesome social games! Founded in 2020, our ethos is simple. Combining world-class expertise with a commitment to kindness, we aim to prove that being a great place to work - forging a culture of excellence and inclusivity - is the key to building great games, for everyone. We’re proudly remote-first, family-friendly and zero-crunch. And we’ve worked hard to create a company culture that champions kindness, care, and community 💪 Together, we’re pooling our collective ideas, perspectives, and creativity to build beautifully-crafted wholesome games that surprise & delight our players and their communities. Our first game is Sunshine Days - a wholesome village life game with a social twist, currently available in Early Access on Android & iOS!
early stageComputer Games
Board Member
Jun 2019
A fast and flexible platform for lenders, retailers and channel partners to deliver and scale their retail finance programme, with proven technology and expertise.
Board Member
Jul 2018
TinyBytes is ‘The Social Gaming Company for Action Players on Mobile’. TinyBytes develops the best social features for mid-core mobile players around the world, like real-time multiplayer, clans, chats, events and tournaments. Our players can compete, team-up, communicate, interact, and build communities around our games. Our new game Massive Warfare (www.massivewarfare.com) is the ultimate mobile war game, and the only mobile shooter game where players can have online sync PvP battles with all- air, ground and water military vehicles in one same game. TinyBytes Games is a fully remote company since 2014 (gaming industry pioneers) and it’s made up of a highly experienced team of professionals with over 15 years in the gaming industry, having worked for global leading companies: Electronic Arts, Glu Mobile, Behaviour Interactive and Wanako Games, where team members successfully launched more than 50 games cumulatively across console, PC, online and mobile. With 15 games published to date, our games have exceeded 30M downloads, obtained top featured placement in the AppStore and Google Play, received great user reviews and wide media coverage.
Board Observer
May 2018
Led by an experienced team of pioneers in technology, science, real estate, and finance, PLACEMAKE.IO is founded on a commitment to deliver industry-leading location decision-making solutions. Our operating system, Ariadne, synthesises and transforms multi-source complex data at scale into a unified single source of truth. Powered by Ariadne, PlaceRank is a location decision-analytics platform that scores and ranks places to quantify performance and potential and enable consistent and streamlined assessment and comparison — essentially credit scoring for locations.
Board Member
May 2018
Authenteq is acquired by FNZ Group, the leading global wealth management platform. ✅ Authenteq (now FNZ) is the world’s first fully automated identity verification platform. Their AI-powered eKYC® system allows companies and service providers to onboard users in just 35 seconds with a verification process that requires only one piece of government-issued ID and a selfie (while liveness check and face match happening simultaneously). Over 9,813 government-issued photo IDs from nearly 250 countries and territories and 138 languages and dialects, can be verified as authentic in less than a minute. Built on the seven key principles of Privacy by Design and fully GDPR compliant, Authenteq (now FNZ) offers a safe and secure approach to identity verification at scale. ✅ FNZ deploys personalized propositions at scale across the financial services industry (Banks, Insurance, Wealth Management). FNZ’s fully managed digital customer onboarding, servicing and compliance enable clients to reduce complexity, ensure the integrity of their customer base by fighting fraud & identity theft, and effectively allowing them to focus on delivering better end-investor experiences and growing wealth. FNZ combines technology, infrastructure and investment operations in a single state-of-the-art platform. Learn more about how financial institutions globally take their organizations to the next level by going fully digital on their customer onboarding and activation, KYC and AML compliance, regulatory reviews, customer administration and servicing, and so much more with ''FNZ Onboarding and Compliance-as-a-Service'' end-to-end solution. ➤ About FNZ 👉https://fnz.com/ 👉https://www.linkedin.com/company/fnz/ ➤ About "FNZ Onboarding & Compliance-as-a-Service'' fully digital solution 👉 https://onboarding.fnz.com/ 💖 Follow us on: https://twitter.com/FNZ_Group https://www.linkedin.com/company/fnz/ https://www.youtube.com/@FNZGroup https://www.facebook.com/FNZGroup/
Board Member
Feb 2018
Another Place is a London based, free-to-play mobile game studio founded by some of the guys that brought you the award winning ‘Fable’ franchise. We see it as our mission to deliver fun and engaging games of the highest possible quality to your mobile phone and tablet. We believe the best games come from small teams who are willing to take risks and innovate and, after the success of our debut project ‘Dragon Finga’ which has achieved over 3.5M downloads, we returned to our roots with the genre defining fantasy game BattleHand. Launching in Jan 16, it achieved Editor’s choice on iOS and has been downloaded over 4.5M times to date. Building on this early success, we’re now developing several new titles. At Another Place we have built a kick ass team of game makers to produce the best free to play Role Playing games on mobile platforms. Our teams are small, and we operate in an environment where empowerment, passion, commitment and fun are all key values. We’re not on this journey alone. We have some fantastic Advisors and Investors who support our business. Our VC investors are Initial Capital, Connect Ventures and Proxy Ventures. All three bring huge experience in social, mobile and free-to-play having guided similar studios, such as Space Ape Games, Supercell, Hutch Games and Supersolid to success. We’re also supported by Head Gear Films, Chris Lee and Sean O’Connor, as both Investors and Advisors, as well as the Walton Family, who have proved invaluable over the course of the studios conception. Management Team Jeremie Texier - CEO Guillaume Portes - CTO John McCormack - CCO Chris Lee - Observer/Adviser Pietro Bezza - Board member Shukri Shammas - Board member Sitar Teli - Observer/Adviser Sami Lababidi - Observer/Adviser
late stageComputer Games
Board Member
Jan 2018
We create competitive real-time team multiplayer games that can be played in four-minute sessions - coffeebreak eSports. Our first game, Forces of Freedom (think “World of Tanks” crossed with “SOCOM”), has already attracted more than 25 million players in Early Access and we intend on making it a genre-defining entertainment product that can be enjoyed for the years to come. You’ll love it here if you: - Enjoy working with great, kind, hardworking people in a pleasant, friendly atmosphere. - Get along with people, love to share, teach, learn and most importantly get stuff done while aiming for perfection. - Want to think creatively and challenge conventions while creating a phenomenal, community-driven product that millions of people enjoy. - Value ownership and the ability to contribute without any bureaucracy. - Share our passion for games. - Want to become a part of something great, a team which is growing and appreciates the people that make things happen. As a freshly funded Series A company, we are able to provide growth opportunities in a bureaucracy-free environment to both talented and experienced individuals as well as competitive salaries and attractive equity components.
Board Member
Jan 2018
Technology Will Save Us is one of the UK's most exciting design-led, technology start-ups focused on learning. We are on a mission to provide families, educators and young people - of all ages, backgrounds and interests - new opportunities to learn and create using technology. Based in Hackney, East London, we are establishing the most accessible ecosystem for hands on learning with technology that includes DIY Gadget kits, activities and online resources. All of our products are vehicles for education that encourage everyone to make, play, code and invent with technology. Using everyday life as inspiration, our kits tap into the hobbies and passions that we love - music, gardening, cycling and gaming. Everyone learns more when they care about what they are making. Our aim is to inspire a new creative generation that see technology as a tool for solving problems and making things with; equipping them with the skills - soldering, electronics, programming, design, debugging, problem solving and confidence - that are essential for today's world. We recently designed the BBC micro:bit in partnership with the BBC, Samsung and ARM. It's the most ambitious technology project the BBC has undertaken in the last 30 years and we're super excited about how it will help young people unleash their inner maker.
Private Investor
Apr 2017
Zencargo is a digital first freight forwarder & logistics provider. Our platform allows customers to book, manage and keep track of their international freight as well as use analytics to drive intelligent supply chain decisions that help their businesses thrive. Whilst shipping is a complex trillion dollar industry, you might be surprised to know that many of the processes that could be simplified with technology are currently done over the phone, by fax and email or even jotted down on scraps of paper Our services include ocean, air and rail freight as well as trucking and cargo insurance. We deliver significant time, paper and financial savings to our customers offering instant quoting, easy booking and an online dashboard to give them 360 degree, 24/7 visibility on their shipments. Shippers and their counterparts collaborate to manage their logistics on Zencargo and all their supply chain data is stored together in the cloud making business analytics easier than ever. At Zencargo, we believe that technology can simplify logistical complexity and tear down barriers to trade. Automating trade and logistics operations and providing access to data and analysis will help companies to trade smarter and more efficiently, freeing businesses to concentrate on key decisions. Only by combining human endeavour and technology, can we build smarter supply chains that know no borders. Interested in being a part of the journey? Zencargo is hiring so please do check our job postings!
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Board Member
Jul 2023
Five Lives is a Digital Therapeutics start-up developing “Five Lives”, a direct-to-consumer brain health mobile app to help everyone measure and reduce their risk of dementia through an improved lifestyle.
Board Member
Jan 2023
Creature Comforts is bringing the joy back to vet care. With state-of-the-art clinics now open across London and the Home Counties, we’re reimagining the entire veterinary experience from the ground up. Our membership model makes care seamless, accessible, and part of everyday life for pets and their people. No more scrambling for appointments. No more long waits in uninspiring clinics. No more seeing a different vet every visit. Instead, we offer consistent, personal care in beautifully designed spaces, powered by smart technology - and, of course, plenty of treats along the way. We’re on a mission to restore joy within the profession itself. For too long, vet teams have felt undervalued and faced burnout, driving many to leave the industry. We’re here to change that - supporting vet teams, elevating their experience, and building a future with one purpose in mind: healthier pets and happier vets.
2022
Board Member
Feb 2022
Volta creates live, globally interactive experiences. Audiences impact visual spectacles from the palm their hands whether in person or from the other side of the planet. Fans become active participants over passive spectators, blurring the line between performer, audience and brand.
2021
Founder
Sep 2021
Boost Capital Partners is an early stage VC fund company based in London, focused in backing and supporting founders delivering best in class user-experiences. On top of financial support the Boost team hopes to bring their experience with essential aspects like acquiring users, boosting engagement and generating revenue.
Board Member
Apr 2021
We are active on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@krew.live And Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/krew_live/ Follow us there! - Krew is the world's most advanced live digital fitness product. Peloton for any type of sport, without the need for a $3k piece of kit, from anywhere. We offer live classes which we augment with effort-based leaderboards and pose correction, just using your camera. We have been product of the day and week on Product Hunt, and we're backed by some of the world's best investors. We are on a mission to make the world happy and healthy. In beta.
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