Esade BAN has added a new success story to its support for entrepreneurship: Dogfy Diet, the natural dogfood startup founded by Sergi Font (GED&MUA 17) and Gonzalo Noy, which won the 2023 Best Startup Award, has been acquired by Agrolimen, the group behind brands like GB Foods and Affinity Petcare. Sergi Font Lara and Gonzalo Noy, the Dogfy Diet’s CEOs, raised the first round of financing with Esade BAN back in 2018. They were able to get started thanks to the network’s investors until they reached a turnover of more than 25 million euros in 2023, twice the 11 million earned the previous year.
This latest example of successful projects financed by Esade BAN joins the list of prominent startups like Wuaki.tv, Wallapop, RedPoints, Signaturit, Barkibu, Kantox, Worldcoo, Glovo, and Exoticca.
Esade BAN is an aggregator of disruptive startups with high growth and scalability potential, the perfect complement for Esade Alumni’s goal of promoting entrepreneurship in society as a whole.
Esade Alumni’s network of investors encompasses more than 250 private investors and serves as a meeting point between investors and innovative startups by providing opportunities for investment, networking, and training with a range of initiatives like the Business Angels School and investments forums.
Last year, Esade BAN received 481 projects, 46% with a social impact, and invested a total of €3.1M, following the upswing in projects related to added-value technology, which has increasingly become the essential attribute of startups.
To foster entrepreneurship, it is important to join entrepreneurial networks, create a community, or ally with key stakeholders in order to create positive synergies that enable entrepreneurs to each their common goal of sustainable business development. Now Esade BAN is opening up to international expansion with the influx of investors and entrepreneurs from all over the world. The Esade Alumni Business Angels network is for you regardless of whether you’re looking for advice or financing for you entrepreneurship project or you’re seeking to investment in tech companies with promising growth prospects. Esade BAN enables you to learn about prominent startups, create an innovative strategy, and expand a culture of transformation.
