Francisco Badia is a venture capital investor at Grow Venture Partners who wrote "Meaningful Entrepreneurship" and focuses on helping scientists transition from academia to become entrepreneurs, emphasizing founder transformation over just providing capital. He integrates meditation, gratitude, and emotional clarity into his investment approach, looking for founders driven by impact and purpose rather than purely financial gain, and advocates for using a company's formalized purpose as a decision-making tool.
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Grow Venture Partners
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Grow Venture Partners is a DeepTech venture capital fund run by repeat founders and engineers who focus exclusively on university and research-center spin-offs with protected IP, combining direct investment with their proprietary 20-week Spin-off Launchpad program that provides coaching and up to €1M in funding. The firm operates under a philosophy of Meaningful Entrepreneurship, emphasizing founder development and personal purpose alongside company growth, while managing both private funds and the public-private FITA Fund to serve as central infrastructure for Catalonia's knowledge-transfer pipeline.
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