Frank Malek

Backing AI-Native & Deep Tech Founders

📍 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2021
VC🌍 Spain
16
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7
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3
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19y
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Investor & Advisor
Jun 2021
Focus on the delivery of your core business and let us take care of how you build your brand and generate revenue in this digital age.
Investor thru Gaingels LLC
Mar 2021
Kernal creates mRNA therapies to cure severe diseases including cancer. Our mRNA therapies instruct specific cells on how to make their own drugs. With roots at MIT, Harvard and Big Pharma, our team previously built a successful Biotech company and has deep expertise in mRNA space.
Investor
Mar 2020
CA Media group (CoinAfrique) develops and operates mobile services in emerging markets, with focus set on online classified sites. Currently, CA Media operates the top classified sites in Sénégal, Benin, Togo, Ivory coast as well as an OS for SMEs addressing their basic needs in term of DIGITAL Company merged with AutoChek Group in July 2022 Get a chance to work on a product that is changing the lives of millions of users in emerging markets. It’s an opportunity to join a fast growing company, working in a dynamic, innovative, entrepreneurial, non-bureaucratic environment. People are at the heart of every step that we take towards accomplishing our mission. We foster a culture of individual growth and learning. Our people have the freedom to approach, own and solve problems in their own unique way. Remote working allows you great flexibility in your daily lives. Less time spent in commute means you get more time for you, your family and dear ones. It also helps in reducing our environmental footprint.
Investor
Nov 2018
Founded in 2018, Mitiga Solutions provides climate risk intelligence that combines science, AI, and high-performance computing. We help our customers analyse, report, and act on their business exposure to climate risk through our self-serve platform EarthScan™ and our risk models. Our mission: Make the world a more resilient place under a changing climate. Mitiga is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, and backed by Kibo Ventures, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Nationwide Ventures, Telefónica, CREAS Impacto, and Faber. If you’d like to find out how we can help your organisation become climate-resilient, contact us at sales@mitigasolutions.com
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Aug 2013
Guardant Health is a leading precision medicine company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, were transforming patient care by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360® Liquid, Guardant360® CDx, Guardant360® Tissue, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantINFINITY™ tests for advanced-stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal® for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the FDA-approved Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening. Important Note for Job Applicants: Guardant Health is aware of recruiting scams where unauthorized individuals use the companys name in fraudulent emails, job postings, and social media messages. Please note that Guardant Health will never ask for money or credit card information during the job application process, nor does the company communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or personal email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail.
Investor & BOD Advisor
Aug 2009
Cachengo provides backup solutions to the SMB market. These solutions collapse file-Server, backup server, backup software and online backup services into a fully integrated and simple to use appliance. With Cachengo, there's no need to buy products and services from different vendors. Simply buy a Director and it is integrated with our Cachengo Cloud service out of the box. All data can be quickly and reliably restored from our local appliance or from our cloud. And if data ever gets corrupted by an application or operator error, it can be restored thanks to our online CDP capabilities.
Investor
May 2009
Corent's SurPaaS® Platform automates some of the most complex, time and labor-consuming Cloud migration, modernization and management tasks. SurPaaS® is used by clients and partners to accelerate Discovery/Assessment, Cloud Migration, PaaS Integration, Containerization, SaaS-enablement, Marketplace Publishing, and Cost Optimization, as a fully integrated automation platform for the entire Cloud Journey. Corent is managed by a team of industry veterans from Microsoft, IBM, HPE, Cisco, EMC, Oracle, and VMware among others.
Investor
Mar 2009
Fotomoto provides an instant print-on-demand e-commerce solution for websites. It enables art and event photographers, magazines, blogs, newspapers, news agencies, sports and celebrity websites, or any other entities with large image archives to monetize their image content. Fotomoto was sold to liveBooks Inc on December 31st, 2012.
Investor and Advisor
Jan 2009
BaseHealth is a next-generation health care analytics company for top health systems and Medicare Advantage plans focused on applying evidence-based expert systems and AI to analyze any type of patient population, improve care management programs, identify risk adjustment payment opportunities, and optimize quality ratings. BaseHealth has built an advanced, scalable enterprise analytics platform on the widest set of data types available, including pioneering uses of laboratory data for value-based care applications. We believe in transparently augmenting what health care providers and plans are currently doing to maximize successful outcomes at reduced costs, helping them achieve greater analytics maturity as organizations, and continuously improving.
Investor *Acquired by Reliance India*
Mar 2008
Aurora Algae is the premier provider of algae-derived solutions for modern human health and nutrition. By combining cutting edge biotechnology with proprietary cultivation techniques, we are creating long-term, sustainable alternatives for the food, pharma, and supplement markets. We INVENT algae-based products to DISRUPT unsustainable markets & BENEFIT People and Planet
Investor
2008
NextBio is the provider of an innovative platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge locked within public and proprietary data. NextBio's platform seamlessly combines powerful tools with unique correlated content to transform information into knowledge, providing the foundation for new scientific discoveries. NextBio helps organizations increase productivity and dramatically improve collaboration across therapeutic groups and geographic boundaries. NextBio is delivered as a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution resulting in quick deployment and rapid return on investment.
Experience · 23 entries
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Investments (16)
Founder (3)
2025
Managing Director
Jun 2025
Backing visionary founders in AI, Robotics, Autonomous systems, Industrial AI, Defense technology, Scientific discovery and beyond to drive lasting impact in the world.
2022
General Partner
Jan 2022
Venture Capital deeptech investors for visionary innovators
2021
Cachengo
Investor and Advisor
Jun 2021
mid stage
Investor & Advisor
Jun 2021
Focus on the delivery of your core business and let us take care of how you build your brand and generate revenue in this digital age.
Investor thru Gaingels LLC
Mar 2021
Kernal creates mRNA therapies to cure severe diseases including cancer. Our mRNA therapies instruct specific cells on how to make their own drugs. With roots at MIT, Harvard and Big Pharma, our team previously built a successful Biotech company and has deep expertise in mRNA space.
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