Laura González-Estéfani

Founding GP & CEO @TheVentureCity | Betting on builders who see the future first | Global Tech Investor Championing “Talent Has No Zip Code” | Henry Crown Fellow |Operator before investor | Board Member |

📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 42 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2021
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Sep 2021
What sets Base apart is that they created something that simply doesn’t exist. A data-science app paired with at-home lab testing to help you improve your health based on gathering data on a regular basis. They guide you through investigating, monitoring and improving your diet, stress, sex drive, fatigue and more - all managed in-app.
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Sep 2021
💛🍃⚡Plexigrid is reinventing electricity grids by developing software that provides distribution grid operators with the real-time analytics, control, and flexibility capabilities they need to efficiently enable the energy transition. ❤️💙💛We are a Swedish & Spanish deep tech scale-up with roots from the University of Oviedo, combined with leading experience in the renewable energy industry. We develop software that enhances, optimizes, and saves time for engineers involved in the operations, planning, and monitoring of the distribution grid. 🎯Monitoring? Load flow analysis? Connection requests? Flexibility management? The functionalities are many. Some examples of applications & functionalities include; ⚡ Low & Medium voltage monitoring ⚠️ Outage detection 🔋 Adding storage ☀️ Adding residential PV 🚗 Adding EV chargers 🔌 Connection requests scenarios 📈 Optimize load flows & configurations 🖥️ Monte Carlo simulations ⏺️ Real-time interaction 📄 Reporting tools 🎯Imagine if you had a full digital twin of your network. Not only that, but a real-time digital twin, updated as we go. This allows you to have abilities that can be extremely complimentary to your exisiting systems, such as SCADA, ADMS & GIS/NIS. It will be a crucial tool for network operators to have in their belt, making it possible to integrate the large amounts of DER in the near future. 💸Our technology will enable a more intelligent and efficient operation of electricity distribution grids and save hundreds of billions in grid CAPEX/OPEX savings for grid operators and their customers, making the energy transition faster, more affordable, and more sustainable for billions of people.
early stageUtilities
Investor
Mar 2021
Tiny Health is the leading microbiome health platform for people tackling chronic conditions or looking to optimize overall health. Tiny Health’s Gut Health Test is the first-ever at-home gut microbiome test for pregnant moms and babies to use shotgun metagenomics, and the company now also offers tests for older children and adults, as well as Vaginal Health Tests. To date, 30,000 families have trusted Tiny Health to correct imbalances in the gut and vaginal microbiome, and optimize their lifelong health. By taking evidence-based action steps from a dietary, supplement and lifestyle based on personalized results, weve helped people reduce severe symptoms and in some cases even reverse chronic conditions. Tiny Healths team includes top scientists, physicians, and microbiologists from Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, WashU, Cornell, and Harvard Medical School. For more information, visit tinyhealth.com and poweredbytiny.com
Investor
Feb 2020
SimpliRoute is a company dedicated to process optimization by means of designing innovative technological solutions for highly complex problems. We look for opportunities to improve upon the logistics and operations of companies - using our expertise in optimization - to strengthen our clients​ business.
Board Member
Dec 2019
We are the leading financial group in the Spanish market, comprised of banking business, insurance activity and investments in international banks and leading companies in the services sector. CaixaBank is a financial group with a socially responsible, long-term universal banking model, based on quality, trust, and specialisation, which offers a value proposition of products and services adapted for each sector, adopting innovation as a strategic challenge and a distinguishing feature of its corporate culture, and whose leading position in retail banking in Spain and Portugal makes it a key player in supporting sustainable economic growth.
Board Member
Dec 2019
En CaixaBank Payments & Consumer, ofrecemos soluciones innovadoras de pago y financiación para que empresas y particulares hagan realidad sus metas. Estando siempre presentes por tu futuro. #PresentesPorTuFuturo
Investor & Growth Program
Sep 2019
Dixper is bringing real interactiveness to live game streaming market providing streamers and viewers with disruptive interaction and monetization tools. Contact us at: hello@dixper.gg
early stageComputer Games
Investor & Growth Program
Jul 2019
Why Emasters? At Emasters, we believe that Esports is not the NFL, esports is every possible competitive gaming situation. So we provide tools that help everyone, from management and analytics to connections with brands and sponsors.
Investor & Growth Program
May 2019
Simple APIs, for payments of mobile top ups and digital gift cards to boost user engagement across 5 billion mobile users. -
Investor & Growth Program
May 2019
Joyners is the network of professional caregivers for the elderly that offers on-demand services at home, hospital or residential center in just 1 hour. For individuals and for companies. In Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Zaragoza and Paris. Soon in new European cities.
Investor & Growth Program
May 2019
Aervio is a new concept business travel platform, integrating artificial intelligence technology and new generation services to provide an intuitive and streamlined travel management system. Designed for everyone in the travel process, from our own team of Aervio Consultants to the travel managers and travellers themselves, the Aervio platform is a completely customisable dashboard equipped with innovative tools to manage and synchronise all aspects of travel. Keeping everyone connected, every step of the way. Our goal at Aervio is to deliver a seamless travel experience, so businesses can simply focus on business.
Investor & Growth Program
Mar 2019
Usizy is the top size recommendation and prediction solution for eCommerce and the latest technology of its kind: combining the most advanced machine learning, big data, and isomorphic algorithms. uSizy Smart Business is the best platform, designed with and for retailers, offering comprehensive analytics to master sizing and maximize success in stock, logistics and pricing – all possible with only 2 lines of code to integrate. ▶️ uSizy Size Adviser: Recommend the exact size for apparel, footwear and bikes to users. Boost conversion and customer loyalty, reduce returns, increase average cart, decrease the buying decision time and more. ▶️ uSizy Smart Stock: Manage your stock supply more effectively by preventing and improving stock breaks, leveraging demand data and the conversion rate by size for each product. ▶️ uSizy Smart Pricing: Adjust prices by size, product and category to boost margins with predictions based on the conversion rate and demand for each size. ▶️ uSizy Smart Logistics: Plan deliveries, transportation and stock logistics efficiently by anticipating products and sizes with a high probability of return. ▶️ uSizy Worky: The best size assignment tool for uniforms and workwear, used by manufacturers, distributors and companies for their own employees. uSizy is a partner, not simply a provider. We achieve immediate results along with continuous improvement. Are you ready to take your business up a size? Getting started is easy. 2 lines of code and we're a team. Contact us today at hello@usizy.com!
Investor & Growth Program
Mar 2019
Qempo is an international logistics platform that helps shoppers in emerging markets get on-demand products from overseas without importation hassles.
Investor & Growth Program
Mar 2019
Alba is a successful and innovative platform, committed to help parents find recommended and verified care givers, within their network of trusted friends and family. On January 1st 2021 Alba was acquired by ZeBrands.
Investor & Growth Program
Mar 2019
INSTAFIT is the leading fitness platform in Latin America. Launched in 2014, it has the mission of impacting the life of millions of people through promoting a healthy lifestyle. The company is built around 4 main Business Units: - Training platform: Brings together content and technology to offer our subscription members the best wellness content (fitness + meditation) online through our mobile apps and web platform. www.instafit.com - Corporate Wellness: We help companies build engaging and scalable corporate wellness programs tailored to their needs and based on our training platform. www.corpwellness.instafit.com - Commerce: Based on selling physical products to our audience and beyond. We started with INSTAFIT Vegan Protein through our online store, that has now diversified into a small selection of fitness products and new channels both online and offline. This is INSTAFIT’s newest venture. www.shop.instafit.com - Avocado Wellness Marketing: This business unit is focused on designing and executing Wellness Marketing strategies for the largest consumer brands in the region such as Gatorade, Samsung, Huggies, Under Armour, amongst many others. www.beavocado.com InstaFit is an Endeavor company, has participated in the Startup Chile, Parallel 18 and Google launchpad amongst other accelerator programs. Follow us on Instagram: @instafit For inquiries: hola@instafit.com
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2021
Investor
Sep 2021
What sets Base apart is that they created something that simply doesn’t exist. A data-science app paired with at-home lab testing to help you improve your health based on gathering data on a regular basis. They guide you through investigating, monitoring and improving your diet, stress, sex drive, fatigue and more - all managed in-app.
Investor
Sep 2021
💛🍃⚡Plexigrid is reinventing electricity grids by developing software that provides distribution grid operators with the real-time analytics, control, and flexibility capabilities they need to efficiently enable the energy transition. ❤️💙💛We are a Swedish & Spanish deep tech scale-up with roots from the University of Oviedo, combined with leading experience in the renewable energy industry. We develop software that enhances, optimizes, and saves time for engineers involved in the operations, planning, and monitoring of the distribution grid. 🎯Monitoring? Load flow analysis? Connection requests? Flexibility management? The functionalities are many. Some examples of applications & functionalities include; ⚡ Low & Medium voltage monitoring ⚠️ Outage detection 🔋 Adding storage ☀️ Adding residential PV 🚗 Adding EV chargers 🔌 Connection requests scenarios 📈 Optimize load flows & configurations 🖥️ Monte Carlo simulations ⏺️ Real-time interaction 📄 Reporting tools 🎯Imagine if you had a full digital twin of your network. Not only that, but a real-time digital twin, updated as we go. This allows you to have abilities that can be extremely complimentary to your exisiting systems, such as SCADA, ADMS & GIS/NIS. It will be a crucial tool for network operators to have in their belt, making it possible to integrate the large amounts of DER in the near future. 💸Our technology will enable a more intelligent and efficient operation of electricity distribution grids and save hundreds of billions in grid CAPEX/OPEX savings for grid operators and their customers, making the energy transition faster, more affordable, and more sustainable for billions of people.
early stageUtilities
Investor
Mar 2021
Tiny Health is the leading microbiome health platform for people tackling chronic conditions or looking to optimize overall health. Tiny Health’s Gut Health Test is the first-ever at-home gut microbiome test for pregnant moms and babies to use shotgun metagenomics, and the company now also offers tests for older children and adults, as well as Vaginal Health Tests. To date, 30,000 families have trusted Tiny Health to correct imbalances in the gut and vaginal microbiome, and optimize their lifelong health. By taking evidence-based action steps from a dietary, supplement and lifestyle based on personalized results, weve helped people reduce severe symptoms and in some cases even reverse chronic conditions. Tiny Healths team includes top scientists, physicians, and microbiologists from Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, WashU, Cornell, and Harvard Medical School. For more information, visit tinyhealth.com and poweredbytiny.com
2020
Investor
Feb 2020
SimpliRoute is a company dedicated to process optimization by means of designing innovative technological solutions for highly complex problems. We look for opportunities to improve upon the logistics and operations of companies - using our expertise in optimization - to strengthen our clients​ business.
2019
Board Member
Dec 2019
We are the leading financial group in the Spanish market, comprised of banking business, insurance activity and investments in international banks and leading companies in the services sector. CaixaBank is a financial group with a socially responsible, long-term universal banking model, based on quality, trust, and specialisation, which offers a value proposition of products and services adapted for each sector, adopting innovation as a strategic challenge and a distinguishing feature of its corporate culture, and whose leading position in retail banking in Spain and Portugal makes it a key player in supporting sustainable economic growth.
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