Itxaso Del Palacio, Phd

General Partner at Notion, Board of Directors Kauffman Fellows (class 18), Associate Professor at UCL

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 23 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom20+ investmentsInvested this year
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Sep 2025
GoodFit is a data platform for GTM. Enabling commercial leaders to configure the data they need, to fuel their GTM strategy of choice.
Investor
Jul 2025
TERN is a AI-Recruitment platform on a mission to address critical workforce shortages in the UK, EU, US and GCC, thats now over 40 million short, translating into a $1Tn category. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa and Central Asia. Our approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drastically cutting complexity and shaving cost for healthcare systems. TERN stands as the bridge between high-potential international professionals and European/GCC institutions, fostering a global workforce that is skilled, diverse, and professionally equipped.
Investor
Jan 2025
When’s your next event? At Naboo, we simplify the planning of all your corporate events across the UK and Europe from 5 to 500+ participants (offsites, corporate retreats, away days, meetings, ️team-building, business meals, company parties, etc). The service of an agency, the simplicity of a platform. 🔑 Turn-key: Benefit from a dedicated events expert for each of your projects ✨ All inclusive: Book your venue, catering, activities and transport all in one invoice 🔍 Transparent: Access to accurate venue pricing, without any hidden costs ⚡️ Instant: Receive instant pre-quotes We’re already loved by 200,000+ participants and have a team of 130 dedicated event experts. Access a collection of 50,000+ venues and service providers to guarantee an unforgettable event. So, whens your next event?
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Dec 2024
Were a tech company that believes healthcare should feel less like paperwork and more like people. Powered by AI, our platform automates medical practice workflows, from patient journeys to billing to next-generation payments. Backed by €50M in Series B funding from investors like Cathay Innovation, Notion Capital, Lakestar, and b2venture, Nelly is one of the fastest-growing health and fintech companies in Europe. What we are really proud of: We only work with nice people. We bring together ambitious humans, give them real ownership, and invest in their growth from day one. If youre looking for a place where your impact is visible and want to work with a great team driven by our Start-Up culture, Nelly is your place to be! Become part of the mission that genuinely transforms European healthcare.
Investor
Aug 2023
We are on a mission to offer simple, affordable, and tailored insurance coverage to European SMBs to give them the peace of mind to focus on what matters. We want to revolutionize the way SMBs interact with insurance with great UX, total transparency, prevention and assistance.
early stageInsurance
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Apr 2023
Were the UK and Europes leading reproductive benefits provider 🌍 Reproductive health is something that impacts so many of us. We created Fertifa to give people the help and support they need, whenever they need it. We offer support, clinical advice, financing and benefits for: - fertility and family-forming - womens health, including menopause - mens reproductive health We work with companies across the UK, as well as the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the United States.​ Our current clients include Monzo, Bain Capital, Sothebys, lululemon, Space NK, Virgin, Natwest, Osborne Clarke, Amadeus, Centrica, Balderton, ClearScore and more. If youre interested in working with Fertifa to attract and retain your top talent and to build an inclusive workplace through reproductive health support, get in touch at enquiries@fertifa.com! Wed love to hear from you. Were making reproductive health accessible to everyone, no matter who they are or what theyre going through 💜
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Oct 2022
Nuestra misión es ayudarte a aumentar la satisfacción de tus empleados aumentando su sueldo de forma fácil, sin que la empresa aumente costes salariales ni tenga que implantar complejos procesos administrativos. Implantar un plan de retribución flexible nunca ha sido más fácil. Configúralo y olvídate, deja que los empleados decidan cómo y cuándo consumir de los productos, con gestión y control automatizados. A través de la retribución flexible los empleados pueden pagar la comida, el transporte, la guardería, su formación o el seguro médico desde el bruto de su nómina y de ese modo ahorrarse el IRPF (ahorros de hasta 35-47%). ¿Hay alguien que no quiera ahorrar? Con las herramientas actuales menos de un 20% de los empleados se adhieren a estos beneficios y además suponen un gran coste administrativo para las empresas, haciendo que el retorno de la inversión por empleado sea muy bajo. ¡Con Cobee se eliminan los costes de administración y conseguimos que más del 80% de tu plantilla utilice el servicio! Un beneficio social de verdad, que aumenta la satisfacción y se adapta a la digitalización actual. Cobee aporta tecnología y flexibilidad para reducir costes e ineficiencias: - Contratación one-click: Las empresas dan de alta a los empleados y desde ese momento pueden olvidarse; todo online y sin costosas gestiones - Flexibilidad 100% en un solo producto: Los empleados disponen de una tarjeta única y una App para ahorrar con cada beneficio cuánto, cuándo y dónde quieran; sin previsiones ineficientes ni limitación de red de establecimientos - Tecnología: Sin más pedidos físicos, aplicación web de seguimiento real time y App digital para empleados con visibilidad e integración total
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Jun 2021
Cledara is a platform for finance teams that gives visibility of your organizations software stack, provides data and insights to cut excess spend, and streamlines software-related admin. Now you have a detailed view of your software spending, you can see which tools are being used and where you could cut spend, painlessly. We don’t stop at savings, managing purchases and renewals is easy with simple workflows for requesting and approving new tools. Finally, with payments for software built-in, you have controls to ensure application owners can manage payments while you keep control with spend limits and budgets. We’ll even capture the invoices automatically, match them to payments, and sync with Netsuite, Xero and Quickbooks. Software is one of your biggest expenses, now you have the tools to reduce that expense by 30% and save 20 hours a month on admin. With 1000+ customers and offices in New York, London, and Barcelona, Cledara is all companies need to manage their software and AI. Visit our website to see our product and open roles.
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Nov 2019
Build one internal tool for all your data. Forest Admin has been designed to help developers save time and to provide their business teams with internal tools that are tailored to their operations and ready to scale. 🛡️ Forest Admin provides a business-grade level of security, including features such as enforced 2FA, IP whitelisting, and more. Your data runs through the admin API hosted on your servers, all the way to your end-user browser, while remaining completely invisible to our Forest Admin servers. Learn how our customers use Forest Admin: 💰 Fintech companies: https://www.forestadmin.com/customers/fintech 🏘️ Property management: https://www.forestadmin.com/customers/real-estate 🚘 Mobility companies: https://www.forestadmin.com/customers/mobility 🛍️ E-commerce businesses: https://www.forestadmin.com/customers/ecommerce 🦺 Insurance companies: https://www.forestadmin.com/customers/insurance Ready for the internal tool that fits all your needs? Join hundreds of innovative companies and get started for free: https://app.forestadmin.com/signup Btw, we are hiring! https://www.welcometothejungle.co/companies/forest-admin/jobs
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Sep 2019
Mya Systems provides the leading recruitment automation and conversational AI platform - transforming the hiring process by automating outreach and communications across the end-to-end candidate lifecycle. Serving hundreds of top brands including 52 of the Fortune 500 and 6 of the 8 largest global staffing firms - the solution helps hiring teams scale their sourcing and talent engagement efforts, screen and shortlist large applicant pools, and automate the scheduling process. Mya leverages cutting-edge AI to deliver the industry’s most robust, two-way conversational experience, gather deep insights, and build trust and confidence with its users. Mya is highly configurable, supports all major messaging channels, can be embedded in the career site and application flow, and is seamlessly integrated into your ATS, CRM, and calendar systems.
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Feb 2019
YuLife is an all-in-one employee benefit that brings insurance, health and wellbeing together into a single, everyday experience. Built as an AI-forward insurtech, YuLife is redefining employee benefits for the way people live and work today - making wellbeing more engaging, preventative and genuinely joyful. By turning small daily actions into lasting habits, rewarding progress, and offering personalised support when it matters most, YuLife helps people engage with their benefits as part of everyday life, not just at the point of claim. That everyday engagement creates meaningful impact at scale. For employers, YuLife supports healthier, more resilient workforces and helps benefits deliver real value. For insurers, it enables earlier, more predictable intervention and more sustainable long-term risk management. YuLife partners with leading insurers, operates globally, and supports millions of people worldwide.
mid stageInsurance
Board Observer
May 2018
Hazy is the world’s leading synthetic data company, re-engineering enterprise data so that it’s faster, easier and safer to use. Data has never been more valuable. But with growing privacy demands and tightening regulations, most of the world’s data is locked away and unusable. For businesses to make better decisions, develop new technologies and deliver more value for customers, they need data they can actually use. They need to set their data free to do more.
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May 2018
Beamery’s AI talent platform empowers companies to understand the skills and capabilities they have, build more agile workforce plans, and attract, retain, upskill and redeploy their workforce. With Beamery, organizations are able to navigate change at speed, retain critical skill sets, foster diversity, and build the workforce of the future.
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Feb 2018
Unbabel eliminates language barriers so that businesses can thrive across cultures and geographies. The company’s language operations platform blends advanced artificial intelligence with human editors, for fast, efficient, high-quality translations that get smarter over time. Unbabel integrates seamlessly in any channel, so agents can deliver consistent multilingual support from within their existing workflows. Making it easy for enterprises to grow into new markets and build customer trust in every corner of the world. Based in San Francisco, Calif., Unbabel works with leading customer support teams at brands such as Microsoft, Booking.com, Udemy, and Panasonic, to communicate effortlessly with customers around the world, no matter what language they speak.
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Aug 2017
Onfido, an Entrust company, makes digital identity simple. We make it easy for people to access services by digitally verifying them using its Real Identity Platform. The platform allows businesses to tailor verification methods to individual user and market needs in a no-code, orchestration layer – combining the right mix of document and biometric verifications, trusted data sources, and passive fraud signals to meet their risk, friction and regulatory requirements. Onfido Atlas™ AI powers the platform’s fully-automated, end-to-end identity verification. Developed in-house for over 10 years, it’s how Onfido ensures its analysis is fair, fast and accurate.
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2025
Investor
Sep 2025
GoodFit is a data platform for GTM. Enabling commercial leaders to configure the data they need, to fuel their GTM strategy of choice.
Investor
Jul 2025
TERN is a AI-Recruitment platform on a mission to address critical workforce shortages in the UK, EU, US and GCC, thats now over 40 million short, translating into a $1Tn category. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa and Central Asia. Our approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drastically cutting complexity and shaving cost for healthcare systems. TERN stands as the bridge between high-potential international professionals and European/GCC institutions, fostering a global workforce that is skilled, diverse, and professionally equipped.
Investor
Jan 2025
When’s your next event? At Naboo, we simplify the planning of all your corporate events across the UK and Europe from 5 to 500+ participants (offsites, corporate retreats, away days, meetings, ️team-building, business meals, company parties, etc). The service of an agency, the simplicity of a platform. 🔑 Turn-key: Benefit from a dedicated events expert for each of your projects ✨ All inclusive: Book your venue, catering, activities and transport all in one invoice 🔍 Transparent: Access to accurate venue pricing, without any hidden costs ⚡️ Instant: Receive instant pre-quotes We’re already loved by 200,000+ participants and have a team of 130 dedicated event experts. Access a collection of 50,000+ venues and service providers to guarantee an unforgettable event. So, whens your next event?
2024
Investor
Dec 2024
Were a tech company that believes healthcare should feel less like paperwork and more like people. Powered by AI, our platform automates medical practice workflows, from patient journeys to billing to next-generation payments. Backed by €50M in Series B funding from investors like Cathay Innovation, Notion Capital, Lakestar, and b2venture, Nelly is one of the fastest-growing health and fintech companies in Europe. What we are really proud of: We only work with nice people. We bring together ambitious humans, give them real ownership, and invest in their growth from day one. If youre looking for a place where your impact is visible and want to work with a great team driven by our Start-Up culture, Nelly is your place to be! Become part of the mission that genuinely transforms European healthcare.
2023
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Aug 2023
We are on a mission to offer simple, affordable, and tailored insurance coverage to European SMBs to give them the peace of mind to focus on what matters. We want to revolutionize the way SMBs interact with insurance with great UX, total transparency, prevention and assistance.
early stageInsurance
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