David Palau

Managing Director at Benthos Capital

📍 Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area, Spain🔄 Updated October 2026💼 4 investments📅 23 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2020
Angel investor🌍 Spain
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Board Member
Mar 2020
Essentialist is a private membership travel service providing highly bespoke and curated trips globally to passionate travelers. By using compelling local insights from travel writers and insiders, we design and book travel itineraries that are unique to each member and destination, for all their journeys both large and small.
Board Observer
Aug 2019
Exoticca is a fast-growing online tour operator that’s been disrupting the travel tech sector since 2013. Today, over 400 passionate travel experts work with us every day to make exotic destinations accessible to more people than ever worldwide. By developing innovative tech-based solutions and working directly with trusted local operators, Exoticca offers extraordinary travel packages at never-before-seen prices while ensuring that local communities prosper from our business. We place the world at your fingertips with an online booking system to reserve complex trips in just a few clicks, while our Traveler’s App helps give real-time itinerary updates plus a 24/7 direct line to multilingual customer support. We’re a melting pot of cultures here, but we all share a strong set of core values that unite us all. Commitment, believing in both our mission and the transformative power of travel. Drive, constantly striving for improvement even at the forefront of the industry. Teamwork, knowing our strength lies in the sum of our parts. Resilience, seizing opportunities to grow in any context. And customer-centric, because making their dreams come true is our ultimate goal. Itchy feet have taken us far at Exoticca, and weve landed at the forefront of travel tech!
Experience · 5 entries
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2020
Benthos Capital
Managing Director
Jul 2020
Board Member
Mar 2020
Essentialist is a private membership travel service providing highly bespoke and curated trips globally to passionate travelers. By using compelling local insights from travel writers and insiders, we design and book travel itineraries that are unique to each member and destination, for all their journeys both large and small.
2019
Board Observer
Aug 2019
Exoticca is a fast-growing online tour operator that’s been disrupting the travel tech sector since 2013. Today, over 400 passionate travel experts work with us every day to make exotic destinations accessible to more people than ever worldwide. By developing innovative tech-based solutions and working directly with trusted local operators, Exoticca offers extraordinary travel packages at never-before-seen prices while ensuring that local communities prosper from our business. We place the world at your fingertips with an online booking system to reserve complex trips in just a few clicks, while our Traveler’s App helps give real-time itinerary updates plus a 24/7 direct line to multilingual customer support. We’re a melting pot of cultures here, but we all share a strong set of core values that unite us all. Commitment, believing in both our mission and the transformative power of travel. Drive, constantly striving for improvement even at the forefront of the industry. Teamwork, knowing our strength lies in the sum of our parts. Resilience, seizing opportunities to grow in any context. And customer-centric, because making their dreams come true is our ultimate goal. Itchy feet have taken us far at Exoticca, and weve landed at the forefront of travel tech!
2003
GRUPO DE EMPRESAS E INVERSIONES PALAU SL
Board Member
2003
Board Member
2003
Grupo de Empresas Palau es un holding empresarial líder en el sector de la construcción. Sus inicios se remontan a 1965 bajo la premisa de cubrir las necesidades del cliente profesional, bajo el lema “Todo lo que necesitas”; y valores fuertemente implantados de servicio, trabajo y calidad. En la actualidad, Grupo de Empresas Palau está formado por varias empresas formando un colectivo empresarial con una facturación anual de más de 30 millones de euros.
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2003–2020 · 4 investments
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