Rodrigo Garcia De La Cruz

Chairman Global FinTech Alliance | World FinTech Forum | FinTech & AI Ecosystem Builder

📍 Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area, Spain🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Co-Founder & board member
Mar 2024
iDEA (International Digital Economies Association) is a global organization advancing inclusive, sustainable, and human-centric digital economies across the Global Digital Majority. Representing a network of leaders, innovators, policymakers, and entrepreneurs from over 100 countries & 200+ members, iDEA fosters cross-border collaboration in AI, fintech, digital infrastructure, Web3, and emerging technologies. Through global partnerships, roadshows, advocacy, and innovation platforms, iDEA connects ecosystems across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eurasia to promote equitable digital transformation, responsible innovation, and new opportunities for global growth and deal flow.
Investor
Mar 2021
RITMO is a cash flow management platform for e-commerce businesses in Europe and LATAM. RITMO’s all-in-one financial solution enables e-commerce to efficiently manage their cross-border payments and get access to flexible funding, making it easier for e-commerce entrepreneurs to spend time on building incredible businesses. Through this range of products, we are embedded in the day to day operations of our clients, offering financing for growth and enabling merchants to extend payment terms with suppliers. RITMO was founded in 2021 by serial entrepreneurs and eCommerce veterans Raimundo Burguera, Iñaki Mediavilla, Iván Peña, and Prageet Sharma After our first year of operations, we have raised more than $225MM in financing and have active operations in five countries in Europe and Latin America.
Founding Board Member
Sep 2018
The roadmap to The European PropTech market Our mission is harmonize the fragmented European PropTech market, to strengthen the European PropTech economy and to help European institutions creating a legal framework adapted to new technologies of PropTech and a legal framework which fosters innovations in Real Estate. We are here to help startups to export in new European markets. Together with Workero, Finnova and all the National PropTech Initiatives, we aim to structure the consolidation of the European PropTech Economy. Our first goals ?To promote the contacts with the EU Commission and the European Innovation Council, to scale up cross-border collaboration and to facilitate access to EU Funding. In 2019 we will launch the EU PropTech House in Brussels, part of co-working space as a bridge between PropTech startups, scale-ups & projects. This House will provide in-house services for facilitating access to European funding programs, such as the Horizon2020 SME Instrument. Next steps: EU PropTech Network EU PropTech Watch: Market analysis EU PropTech Fund EU PropTech Lobby
early stageReal Estate
Cofounder and Board Member
May 2016
Somos un Quant Advisor FinTech cuyo objetivo es democratizar las estrategias Cuantitativas Institucionales para los inversores profesionales particulares. Implementamos estrategias cuantitativas-algorítmicas con el objetivo de obtener rentabilidades positivas por encima de los indices y de forma consistente, con un exhaustivo control de riesgos y un comportamiento descorrelacionado con los mercados. De esta forma, conseguimos mejorar las carteras de forma estable y a lo largo del tiempo. Más información en https://www.accuratequant.com
Cofounder & Board Member
Feb 2016
Asociación Española de FinTech e InsurTech AEFI tiene como objetivo crear un entorno favorable para el desarrollo de Startups y empresas FinTech e InsurTech en España, realizando labores de interlocución, comunicación y colaboración con los organismos y agentes relevantes del sistema, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional, para ayudar al desarrollo de su ecosistema.
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2024
Co-Founder & board member
Mar 2024
iDEA (International Digital Economies Association) is a global organization advancing inclusive, sustainable, and human-centric digital economies across the Global Digital Majority. Representing a network of leaders, innovators, policymakers, and entrepreneurs from over 100 countries & 200+ members, iDEA fosters cross-border collaboration in AI, fintech, digital infrastructure, Web3, and emerging technologies. Through global partnerships, roadshows, advocacy, and innovation platforms, iDEA connects ecosystems across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eurasia to promote equitable digital transformation, responsible innovation, and new opportunities for global growth and deal flow.
2023
CEO Founder
Mar 2023
MatchGPT® is an AI tool developed with OpenAI and AI-owned algorithms and fueled by exclusive data from the Finnovating Platform.
2021
Investor
Mar 2021
RITMO is a cash flow management platform for e-commerce businesses in Europe and LATAM. RITMO’s all-in-one financial solution enables e-commerce to efficiently manage their cross-border payments and get access to flexible funding, making it easier for e-commerce entrepreneurs to spend time on building incredible businesses. Through this range of products, we are embedded in the day to day operations of our clients, offering financing for growth and enabling merchants to extend payment terms with suppliers. RITMO was founded in 2021 by serial entrepreneurs and eCommerce veterans Raimundo Burguera, Iñaki Mediavilla, Iván Peña, and Prageet Sharma After our first year of operations, we have raised more than $225MM in financing and have active operations in five countries in Europe and Latin America.
CEO & Founder
Jan 2021
👉Tu nuevo canal de ventas B2B Web 👉 www.finnovating.com Google Play 👉 https://shorturl.at/swEW1 App Store 👉 https://apple.co/3syubWo
2020
Cofounder
Mar 2020
Advocate for innovative, more affordable and secure financial services. Uniting over a dozen European national fintech associations, and their several thousand members, the European Digital Finance Association (EDFA) is the representative body for digital finance and fintech firms across Europe.
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