Pere Merino

Executive Chairman & Impact-driven Entrepreneur Investor in sustainable materials, AI, and immersive tech Former CEO with successful exits | Board Member & Advisor Focused on innovation, purpose, and long-term prosperity

📍 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023
Operator-angel🌍 Spain
4
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12y
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Portfolio

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Board Member and investor
Jan 2023
Since VR was founded, at Kiin we have been researching and developing immersive scenarios to create a better society. Today, we offer diversity and inclusion training to companies so that their employees can put themselves in other peoples shoes and create real empathy, improving relationships between individuals as well as the productivity of the organizations themselves. Our co-founders, Mel Slater and Mavi Sánchez, are pioneers in the fields of virtual reality and neuroscience, with over 20 years of experience and over 500 papers in the worlds most prestigious publications.
mid stageE-learning
CEO & Board Member
Jan 2015
HONEXT is an innovative Barcelona-based company manufacturing certified circular, flame-retardant, non-toxic boards for a sustainable and healthy built environment. Our vision is to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Thanks to our continued research and development, the IP protected, industrial, bio-based HONEXT® process can upcycle residual fibres from paper mills as the main raw material into well-performing boards which can be fully recycled again. This makes our process and products certified as Circular by design. The HONEXT® boards are manufactured and designed for additional processing. They can be cut, glued, drilled, laminated and texturised and are therefore highly versatile for e.g. wall cladding, partitioning, acoustic solutions, decorative surfaces and furniture. Being flame-retardant and non-toxic with no formaldehyde nor VOCs added, the boards provide a unique safe and healthy alternative for a wide range of applications for the interior built environment such as Public Buildings, Workplaces, Hospitality, Healthcare and Educational facilities. The boards are sold through a distributed network. For more product features, company information and our certification credentials, please refer to our website where you also find recent applications and high-profile projects where HONEXT® boards are used.
Board Member & Mentor
Jan 2014
Ship2B is a non-dividend, non-for-loss, business adventure aimed at moving our society towards a better world. Our VISION is a plan B for our society, where economics, social welfare, culture and the environment go hand in hand in self-sustaining companies with a social mission. Our MISSION is to help change the world by connecting entrepreneurial talent, transformational ideas, socially conscious investors and senior mentors to generate new social innovation projects self-sustaining high impact. At Ship2B we engage with entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to design, finance and build business projects with high social impact, our "ships"​, which are the vehicle for society to progress. We engage in a totally personalized support, event with entrepreneurs who do not have a clear idea yet. But do not help build any venture, we build "ships"​ which: • Respond to social challenges • Provide an innovative component over other existing "ships"​ • Are scalable and replicable • Are economically and financially sustainable and viable in the long-term • Develop a framework for inter-sectoral collaboration For now we are based in Barcelona but we hope to expand internationally. If you have an idea, a project, or simply lots of talent and a motivation to be a social entrepreneur, get in touch! If you are interested in investing your money in a social business with lots of social return and a moderate financial return, get in touch too!
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2023
Board Member and investor
Jan 2023
Since VR was founded, at Kiin we have been researching and developing immersive scenarios to create a better society. Today, we offer diversity and inclusion training to companies so that their employees can put themselves in other peoples shoes and create real empathy, improving relationships between individuals as well as the productivity of the organizations themselves. Our co-founders, Mel Slater and Mavi Sánchez, are pioneers in the fields of virtual reality and neuroscience, with over 20 years of experience and over 500 papers in the worlds most prestigious publications.
mid stageE-learning
2017
Virtual Bodyworks
Board Member
Oct 2017
2015
CEO & Board Member
Jan 2015
HONEXT is an innovative Barcelona-based company manufacturing certified circular, flame-retardant, non-toxic boards for a sustainable and healthy built environment. Our vision is to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. Thanks to our continued research and development, the IP protected, industrial, bio-based HONEXT® process can upcycle residual fibres from paper mills as the main raw material into well-performing boards which can be fully recycled again. This makes our process and products certified as Circular by design. The HONEXT® boards are manufactured and designed for additional processing. They can be cut, glued, drilled, laminated and texturised and are therefore highly versatile for e.g. wall cladding, partitioning, acoustic solutions, decorative surfaces and furniture. Being flame-retardant and non-toxic with no formaldehyde nor VOCs added, the boards provide a unique safe and healthy alternative for a wide range of applications for the interior built environment such as Public Buildings, Workplaces, Hospitality, Healthcare and Educational facilities. The boards are sold through a distributed network. For more product features, company information and our certification credentials, please refer to our website where you also find recent applications and high-profile projects where HONEXT® boards are used.
2014
Co-Founder & board director
Nov 2014
Improve yield, reduce deviations, and ensure product quality in GxP pharmaceutical manufacturing with real-time, practical Artificial Intelligence (AI)- powered software as a service solutions.
Board Member & Mentor
Jan 2014
Ship2B is a non-dividend, non-for-loss, business adventure aimed at moving our society towards a better world. Our VISION is a plan B for our society, where economics, social welfare, culture and the environment go hand in hand in self-sustaining companies with a social mission. Our MISSION is to help change the world by connecting entrepreneurial talent, transformational ideas, socially conscious investors and senior mentors to generate new social innovation projects self-sustaining high impact. At Ship2B we engage with entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to design, finance and build business projects with high social impact, our "ships"​, which are the vehicle for society to progress. We engage in a totally personalized support, event with entrepreneurs who do not have a clear idea yet. But do not help build any venture, we build "ships"​ which: • Respond to social challenges • Provide an innovative component over other existing "ships"​ • Are scalable and replicable • Are economically and financially sustainable and viable in the long-term • Develop a framework for inter-sectoral collaboration For now we are based in Barcelona but we hope to expand internationally. If you have an idea, a project, or simply lots of talent and a motivation to be a social entrepreneur, get in touch! If you are interested in investing your money in a social business with lots of social return and a moderate financial return, get in touch too!
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2014–2023 · 4 investments
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