Enrique Linares

Plus Partners, Co-Founder

Speaker Bio

Enrique is the founding partners of PlusPartners, a next-generation Venture Capital firm launched in 2024 in Southern Europe. Plus Partners has a focus on supporting entrepreneurs in the earliest stages of their projects in three key verticals transforming our societies: health & nutrition, finance & property, and the future of work & productivity.


Also, Enrique is the co-founder of letgo, one of the largest and fastest-growing apps facilitating the seamless buying and selling of second-hand items within local communities, and the first Spanish startup to achieve unicorn status in 2017. In 2015, letgo launched in the US and Turkey, achieving more than 100 million downloads and 400 million listings.


Before letgo, Enrique was the co-founder and CEO of Captalis, a pioneering fintech company operating in Brazil. In 2014, the company was acquired by its main competitor.


In 2017, Enrique was named the entrepreneur with the "Best Growth Trajectory 40 Under 40" by IESE Business School.


 


Enrique is passionate about supporting the startup community by investing in and mentoring new entrepreneurs at rapidly growing companies. He is currently a board member and advisor of several startups, as well as a board member of Faes Farma, a publicly listed multi-national pharmaceutical company. In 2023, he joined Endeavor, the leading global community of, by and for high-impact entrepreneurs in Spain, as a Mentor, which gave him further opportunities to nurture the next generation of business leaders.