Byld
Juan A. Casals Ovalle serves as Global Head of Sustainable Finance at BBVA C&IB since June 2004, and has held multiple roles within the organization, including Director of Environmental, Social, and Reputational Risk. As an investor with Byld since 2019 and BackFund since 2021, Juan focuses on transforming industries and supporting seed-stage tech startups. Involved with numerous impactful startups since 2013, Juan also contributes as a member of the Sustainable Finance Working Group for both the Institute of International Finance and the European Banking Federation. Additionally, Juan lectures on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Finance and has held leadership roles in various organizations, including the Equator Principles Association and the Spanish Group for Green Growth. Juan's educational background includes advanced degrees in Corporate Social Responsibility, Quality and Environment, Philosophy, and Economics from several esteemed institutions.
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Byld
Byld is a Spanish Corporate Venture Builder founded in 2017 that designs, validates and launches new ventures with corporations sharing risks and rewards from day one. We lead and co-found new ventures from scratch combining the best of the entrepreneurial and corporate worlds to encourage the creation of scalable businesses with an international scope. We believe that our formula for helping companies innovate is more effective and less risky than traditional methods, as it is entirely devoted to it and linked to the strategy of the corporation in the mid-long term. This allows corporations to properly confront the fierce competence of startups and other rivals and adapt to the constant change of present times, transforming opportunities and tendencies into new disrupting businesses. Ultimately, this is achieved thanks to the combination of the dynamism, versatility and culture behind the startups mindset that we bring to the table and the resources, outreach and experience of the big corporations that we partner with.