Bernardo Hernández González (born 1970) is a Spanish technology

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and

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. He currently runs his own venture fund in Madrid, Spain. He was a General Partner with

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in Berlin. He has been also the head of

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until he left in April 2015. He had been Director of Product Management at

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and Managing Director at

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. He has started, alone or with other partners, several Internet companies in Spain, such as idealista, FloresFrescas.com or 11870.com. He was an early investor in

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, a leading

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in Spain where he served as President of the Board until the sale to Telefonica in the summer of 2010. He was CEO and leading investor at verse app, a digital bank acquired by block in 2020. He was the founder of StepOne, a company that helps Spanish technology companies in their internationalization. From this company he has started the first computer science talent exchange program between Spain and the Silicon Valley, Jóvenes con Futuro. In 2009 he was recognized as the Tech Entrepreneur of the Year by the

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Foundation. In 2010 he received, together with

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, an

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in Architecture and Systems by

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. In 2011 he received the Successful Career Award by the ICADE Asociación. Bernardo Hernández has been included in the list of the 25 most influential Spanish internet people by El Mundo. for 7 consecutive years now. In January 2013 he was named the number 1 most influential person in the American food industry by The Daily Meal.

Education and career

He graduated from

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, Pontifical University of Comillas, a prestigious business university in

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(

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) in 1993. He has a Masters in Finance from

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and holds the

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(CFA) designation. At the age of 29, after five years as an analyst and portfolio manager in the asset management industry with companies like

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and

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, he started his first internet venture idealista.com, now the leading real estate online portal in Spain. Since then he has participated in other online start-ups as a Business Angel, like floresfrescas.com, planetaki.com, 11870.com or the leading social network in Spain,

. He is a member of the board of bodaclick.com the first Spanish internet company to go public in the secondary market. Bernardo joined

in 2005 as Director of Product Management, based in

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. In May 2011, he was appointed jury of the

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of Science and Technology In 2013,

hired former Bernardo to lead its

photo-sharing unit.

Companies

Bernardo has participated in several companies, most of them through his own funding company Solón Inversiones: * idealista.com: he cofounded this company with

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, another Spanish technology entrepreneur. Now is the leading real estate online portal in Spain. *

: he was an early investor in this company and served as President of the Board. * StepOne: President and founder. StepOne helps Spanish companies to get established in the US market. * Floresfrescas.com: he is founder of this e-commerce start-up. * Bodaclick: he is a board member of the company since their

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. * Planetaki.com: shareholder. * 11870.com: shareholder. * ermes: founder and executive chairman.

References

Biography (PDF)

External links

*
Bernardo Hernandez's Master Class, IE Business School MBA's 2008 (YouTube video)

"pinto, pinto, gorgorito", personal blog

Twitter profile

Facebook profile
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