Nauta leads Stockagile's new round, with which it has raised 2.5 million
It has also entered the stock management software and retail digitalization startup Zone2Boost and they have reinvested in the firm 4Founders Capital and Angels, Juan Roig's investment company
New financial boost for Stockagile, thestartupfounded by brothers Miquel and Joan Subirats toto help small businesses manage their inventories and digitize the entire sales process. In May 2021, the Barcelona-based companyraised 400,000 eurosthanks to a funding round led by Angels, the investment company of Mercadona's president and owner, Juan Roig. The Barcelona-based investment groups 4Founders Capital and Itnig also joined the shareholding. Now, it has been the Barcelona-based manager Nauta who has contributed the most fundsin a new capital increase worth 2.5 million euros, in which 4Founders, Angels and Zone2Boost have also participated. Nauta's commitment is a very significant step for Stockagile, as this investment firm, specialized in supporting technology companies in their initial stages, is one of the most veteran and successful in the Barcelona entrepreneurial ecosystem and today also has main offices in London and Berlin, with more than 500 million under management and a team of 24 professionals.Nauta has led investments in more than 60 companiesand is a European benchmark in taking stakes in B2B firms that provide services through the commercialization of subscription software orsoftware as a service(SaaS). Precisely, Stockagile is a SaaS that allows uniting online and physical commerce by synchronizing stock catalogs and orders in real time. It is a programall in oneand in the cloud that allows small and medium-sized businesses and brands to digitize all their processes and operate efficiently both through their physical store, as well as on their own online sales platform or through third-party marketplaces.
"The future of retail will be to work in an agile, optimized and automated way. SMEs have to sell as much as possible with minimum resources to be sustainable; this can only be achieved with digitalization. Stockagile digitalizes processes and connects sales channels using the best technology to help merchants invoice more. We aim to automate many of the retailer's own processes, such as deciding prices and placing orders with suppliers," explains Miquel Subirats, co-founder and CEO of the company.
Jordi Viñas, partner at Nauta Capital, justifies the investment in Stockagile due to the strong business potential that exists in this type of solutions that allow uniting the online and offline world. "Según market studies, it is expected that by 2040 the shares of online and offline sales will be similar, while today they are at 20% and 80%, respectively," he states.Joan Subirats, Miquel Subirats and Oriol Vinzia, from StockAgile. Stockagile plans to allocate the 2.5 million raised in this new financing round to intensify its commercial efforts to "position itself as a leader" in software for omnichannel sales in the retail sector and to improve the product and services it provides to customers subscribed to its technology.
"After a year as investors in the company, we have participated in the new investment round, betting on the high potential of the project and, mainly, because we continue to believe that Miquel and Joan can lead Stockagile to become the benchmark for stock management programs in the retail world," highlights Marc Castilblanco, from 4Founders, the venture capital created by four successful entrepreneurs from the Catalan capital's entrepreneurial ecosystem: Jesús Monleon, Marc Badosa, Javier Pérez-Tenessa and Marek Fodor.
For its part, Itnig has as promoters the creators of Factorial and Parkimeter. Finally, Zone2boost is an international innovation program created by CaixaBank, Visa, Global Payments and Worldline to boost innovation in services for businesses. In its first two years, it has reached an investment portfolio of 1.55 million for a total of 16 companies. Prior to Angels' entry into the capital, Stockagile was selected in 2021 to be boosted by the Lanzadera accelerator, also created by Juan Roig.
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