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Jose Miguel Herrero

Big Sur Ventures

Member Profile: 

José Miguel Herrero is the founder of Big Sur Venture Partners. Knowledgeable of European and US Markets., he has extensive international experience in starting and running businesses of diverse sizes including managing a US Nasdaq listed company ($3.5B). He has founded, co founded and otherwise led numerous technology enabled products and services companies including LaNetro (later divided into its separate businesses and today known as LaNetro and Zed). In addition he has significant M&A experience and founded and sold an M&A firm focused on technology and innovation.      

José Miguel is keenly aware of the challenges facing early stage companies having been there himself on numerous occasions, and is passionate about helping them achieve success.      

José Miguel received his BSEECS and MSEE degrees from Santa Clara University in California and his MBA from Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Company Profile: 

Big Sur invests in innovative companies across sectors that produce breakthrough products and services that promise to provide transforming benefits to a market. We seek great businesses that can change the structure of the market. We are especially focused on information technology, digital media, internet, technology enabled products and services, green tech and mobility.
Big Sur invests both sweat and the other kind of capital. As a hands-on investor we seek to actively contribute to our portfolio companies.
We take pride in the strong bonds we form with management teams. This is not only a crucial ingredient to achieving our long term objectives – it importantly makes the process engaging and enjoyable. It is the right long term vision together with the details and flawless execution that makes an average company great. We have the experience, intuition, judgment and industry expertise to ensure that the foundation is in place for management to build a great business with a sustainable competitive advantage.

Member nationality: 
Spain
Company nationality: 
Spain