Rafael Sarandeses

Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer at Stellar X Labs • Non-Exec Chairman at Wiselook • Strategic Advisor at Race Capital

📍 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Seed Investor
Nov 2012
La Mas Mona is the leading fashion rental service in Spain. Our clients can browse our web and find their perfect look from a 2,500+ catalog from more than 70 top designers, or they can visit our guide shops and be helped by one our personal stylists. We are a young and dynamic company, always looking to hire strong, customer-oriented candidates who share our passion for fashion.
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2026
Strategic Advisor
Jun 2026
Race Capital One is an independent investment firm focused on high-performance assets and innovation. The firm applies disciplined capital, strategic insight, and a performance-driven mindset to opportunities where precision and competitive excellence define long-term value.
Strategic Advisor
Jun 2026
The first and only high performance motor sport investment fund. Race Capital stands as the first investment fund of its kind to focus exclusively on the high-performance racing sector, specifically designed to capture the structural evolution of Formula 1. We have moved away from the traditional model of treating racing as a branding exercise and instead approach it through a sophisticated, three-bucket strategic framework. Our model allows us to balance different risk levels, time horizons, and return profiles by diversifying across race teams, race venues, and advanced technical intellectual property. While team investments offer entry into a high-scarcity franchise market, our race venue bucket captures stable real estate development growth and year-round hospitality yields through private track clubs and stadium districts. The third bucket focuses on racing technology, where race-bred IP is commercialized for massive industrial markets like aviation, defense, and healthcare, often yielding the highest percentage ROI. This unique combination ensures that we are not just betting on a single race result, but are instead building a robust infrastructure platform that offers institutional-grade IRR and low correlation to the broader public markets.
2025
Non-Executive Board Member
Oct 2025
We are an independent firm of leadership experts. Since 1994, we have been advising leading companies on business leadership along the entire talent lifecycle: • Helping them find the best talent for their strategy, culture and context. • Supporting them in identifying and minimizing organizational risks, while allowing them to make better people decisions. • Accelerating the achievement of their strategic objectives by maximising their talent with holistic leadership transformation solutions, new work methodologies and change management in the business arena. With 3 decades of experience advising businesses of all sizes, we understand company dynamics and corporate structures, from large public corporations in Europe and America, to high growth medium-size companies, financial institutions, private equity funds, family businesses and non-profit organizations. Our clients in Colombia and Mexico are companies with operations in multiple Latin-American countries, as well as large family businesses investing in other markets in their region.
Co-Founder • Non-Executive Chairman
Oct 2025
Wiselook is a workforce intelligence platform that helps organizations discover and develop the true potential of their people in the age of AI. Through AI-driven conversational assessments —scientifically validated and designed to integrate seamlessly into everyday workflows— we measure real human competencies such as adaptability, critical thinking, or leadership. Our mission is to bridge the gap between business strategy and people strategy: enabling companies to precisely map their internal capabilities, reduce turnover and reskilling costs, and deploy talent where it creates the greatest impact. Rooted in psychometrics, data science, and business strategy, we are building a new category: moving from static assessments to continuous workforce intelligence. Because the future of work is not about measuring who people are, but revealing who they can become.
2023
Co-Founder · Chief Client Officer
Oct 2023
// Building the Investment Model for the AI age // Pioneering Investment Superintelligence
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