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Donatella Callegaris

Managing Director, BBVA Spark, Head of Venture & Growth Lending Europe

United Kingdom

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $4,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,500,000.00

Work Experience

2025

  • Investor, Board Observer

    2025

2024

  • Managing Director Origination Europe

    2024

  • Investment Committee Member (Venture Debt)

    2019 - 2024

  • Managing Partner

    2019 - 2024

    Flashpoint Group is an international tech investment manager founded in 2012 with over $400m AUM backing founders from CEE and Israel building and scaling companies globally providing Venture Capital, Venture Debt and Secondary investments.

2023 - 2024

  • Investor, Board Observer

    2023 - 2024

2020 - 2024

  • Investor, Board Observer

    2020 - 2024

2019 - 2024

  • Investor, Board Observer

    2019 - 2024

2019 - 2019

  • Partner

    2019 - 2019

    Firenze Partners is a technology advisory firm that focuses on providing transactional advice to entrepreneurs building innovative startups, particularly SaaS solutions in the FinTech ecosystem, while working towards a rapid transformational change in preparation for an equity raise to accelerate growth.

  • Director

    2014 - 2018

    Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies. In prior roles, the team, have extended credit and managed portfolio relationships of greater than £300 million to over 100 companies. For more details please visit: www.clpgrowth.com I am involved in the entire deal life cycle including originating, assessing, evaluating and post investment monitoring, focusing particularly on managing CLP relationships with the equity sponsors ecosystem and on identifying high growth technology companies in need of growth financing that best suits CLP’s investment criteria.

  • Director

    2013 - 2014

    Involved in the launch, set up and planning of CLP as a new Venture Debt Fund in Europe. Responsible for launching and establishing CLP's branding and positioning within the startup and VC ecosystems in the UK, Ireland and continental Europe. Instrumental in building CLP's initial pipeline.

2013 - 2013

  • Consultant

    2013 - 2013

    Strategic consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development and mentoring Advising on fundraising for first seed investment to get the company to the next value creation milestone

2005 - 2012

  • Portfolio Executive

    2005 - 2012

    Managed the Investment Process including due diligence, pre-investment proposals, drafting and agreeing term sheets on a number of investments Managed the Portfolio over the life of two funds Managed the relationships with CEOs and CFOs of the companies and respective equity sponsors, financial analysis, documentation, structuring and re-structuring. Managed several aspects of the Fund Corporate Governance