The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Paula Sancho, director, Finaves

IESE Business School’s startup promotion arm Finaves has helped create more than 40 companies and more than 2,500 jobs since it was set up at the start of the century.

Now run by Paula Sancho, Finaves launched its fifth seed fund, the €3m ($3.5m) Finaves V, in 2017 to make investments of between and $60,000 and $350,000 in business ventures set up by alumni and students of IESE, part of University of Navarra.

In particular, Finaves V is looking to promote the growth of search funds – where entrepreneurs take over existing companies in order to drive their growth to the next stage.

Sancho has been director of Finaves since 2014, having previously worked as director of investment at venture capital firm SI Capital in Barcelona. Among Finaves V’s investments so far are Parclick, an online parking platform which covers more than 200 cities in Europe.