Gonzalo Torres

General Manager Iberia at Wonderful, ex-Shopify

📍 Spain🔄 Updated October 2026💼 2 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2019
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Seed Investor @ Wheel The World
Sep 2019
Wheel the World is building the leading (B2B2C) platform for accessible travel - empowering millions of people with disabilities to explore the world confidently, while helping the travel industry unlock the full potential of inclusive tourism. We combine verified accessibility data, personalized recommendations, and tech-enabled services for supply and demand to deliver a scalable, trusted solution in a $120B underserved market. Our long-term vision is to become the accessibility data layer of the travel industry - powering a world where every traveler, regardless of ability, can navigate and experience it without limits.
Founder and Investor
Jan 2017
Were changing how the world hires talent by unlocking the power of personal networks. For companies: No exclusivity. No upfront fees. No risk. Publish a role with a fair reward, and we will activate members likely to know the right people. For HireWatchers: Monetize your network. Refer talented professionals you know and earn rewards - paid directly to your personal or business account. Recruit Faster, Better and Fair.
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2022
Country Lead Spain | Lead PDM SI Partnerships Europe
Jun 2022
Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more. Find all our jobs here: www.shopify.com/careers
Venture Partner
Mar 2022
RRW is a cross-border hands-on VC firm that supports EU tech start-ups in their growth in the US. A unique combination of a renowned French-based investor -Groupe Artémis- and a successful US-based entrepreneurial team and network. Red River West promotes the international take-off of outstanding Fr/EUTech companies by providing significant financial firepower and game changing hands-on support in EU & the US.
2020
Partner & Country Manager Spain
Feb 2020
Talent Garden is Europes leading digital skills academy and founding partner of a global EdTech group, that provides individuals and organisations with the knowledge, spaces and resources needed to transform and thrive within the innovation ecosystem. They offer diverse learning experiences with online, offline and hybrid courses, corporate programs and events and a network of coworking campuses that hosts a vibrant community of digital and tech professionals. Founded in Italy in 2011, Talent Garden’s mission is to empower people and organisations to drive digital transformation through life-changing learning and networking experiences. With an unparalleled vision to combine work life and learning. Talent Garden has already significantly impacted and uplifted professionals and corporations by closing the digital skills gap, training over 25,000 professionals in digital design, marketing, data and hard skills, human resources, business innovation, product management, and cyber security. As one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe, Talent Garden also develops tailored corporate education programs leveraging their expertise in digital transformation and a network of partners such as Google, Procter & Gamble, Cisco, Unilever, leading European banks, institutions and other companies in the Fortune 500 ranking. These transformative experiences go beyond the classroom, with the company enabling powerful connections within the digital and tech ecosystem. Thanks to a network of coworking campuses in 13 countries (Austria, Brazil, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, North USA, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK) that hosts not only students but over 45,000 innovators from startups, agencies, corporate labs, freelancers, and SMEs, who are all united by a like-minded vision for digital innovation. Open 24 hours a day, these campuses are designed to encourage collaborations and provide professionals with a physical base to succeed and scale.
2019
Seed Investor @ Wheel The World
Sep 2019
Wheel the World is building the leading (B2B2C) platform for accessible travel - empowering millions of people with disabilities to explore the world confidently, while helping the travel industry unlock the full potential of inclusive tourism. We combine verified accessibility data, personalized recommendations, and tech-enabled services for supply and demand to deliver a scalable, trusted solution in a $120B underserved market. Our long-term vision is to become the accessibility data layer of the travel industry - powering a world where every traveler, regardless of ability, can navigate and experience it without limits.
2017
Founder and Investor
Jan 2017
Were changing how the world hires talent by unlocking the power of personal networks. For companies: No exclusivity. No upfront fees. No risk. Publish a role with a fair reward, and we will activate members likely to know the right people. For HireWatchers: Monetize your network. Refer talented professionals you know and earn rewards - paid directly to your personal or business account. Recruit Faster, Better and Fair.
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