David Cabezon Egurrola

Advanced Program: Open Entrepreneurship Track (Year 3)

beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship

May 2026 - Current (6 months)

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Program Lead

Apr 2026 - Current (7 months)

Compounding relational capital around top tier founder talent while shaping the right conversations. Let's make this Europe's defining decade - sovereign continental power. 📧dce@techbbq.org TechBBQ is Scandinavia's largest startup, innovation and tech summit.

Advanced Program: GREEN Career (Year 2)

beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship

Jun 2025 - Current (1 year 5 months)

One Health, Sustainability, Green Economy, and Environmental Management.

Head of Expansions

baby vc

Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 10 months)

Currently overseeing expansions to Finland, Estonia, Norway, the US, and many more. We are currently present in Iberia, Italy, France, the UK, DACH, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Leading the expansion of the Fellowship to new hubs and ecosystems. Ensuring alignment with the global vision of baby vc and supporting the team for the selection of the first fellows and organisation of the bootcamp. Largest European young VC community; an association of over 300+ alumni (Founders, Operators, VCs). The community includes more than 200 VCs from various firms. Building a pan‑European community of 800+ members in 6 regions, led by local crews across these geographies. Some of the notable VC firms involved in the baby vc network include: OneRagtime, D

Mercedes-Benz Global Fellow

beVisioneers: The Mercedes-Benz Fellowship

May 2024 - Current (2 years 6 months)

As of 2026 beVisioneers had over 20,000 applications with

Plug and Play University Program - Venture Capital Analyst

Plug and Play

Sep 2025 - Apr 2026 (8 months)

Focus area in Health Tech: Health & Medical Devices, BioTech & GeneTech, Food & AgriTech. Conducted additional primary Due Diligence on 550+ Health Tech, Insurtech, Climate Tech, DeepTech, AI, and FinTech startups. Supporting Plug and Play, a global accelerator and early-stage investor behind 30+ unicorns including Dropbox, PayPal, and N26, in sourcing and evaluating high-potential startups, working with Plug and Play Health's US team. By the end of the Fellowship 1,000+ startups (sector agnostic and specific) will be analysed in full with the PNP investment team. Live sessions with startups from Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, MIT, USC, UBC, McGill, Rice, UC Berkeley, UCL, LSE, Cambridge, Imperial, INSEAD, EDHEC, HEC Paris, among others. Coho

LP/GP Ecosystem and Marketplace | DECILE GROUP - Venture Capital Residency (Top 1% of the Cohort).

VC Lab

May 2025 - Jul 2025 (3 months)

Selected for one of the few highly competitive residency programs with DECILE GROUP and Adeo Ressi (CEO at VC Lab & Chairman at Founder Institute) for being recognized in the top 1% of the cohort. -Worked on sourcing global LPs for both VC Lab's emerging managers and LP Institute. -Built an LP funnel, adding them to Decile Hub and executed relationship building strategies. -Supported fund formation and deal sourcing for emerging VC funds in biotech, climate tech and health tech. -Supported portfolio construction for health- and biotech-focused VC funds, advising on digital health investment thesis development. -Liaised with Limited Partners and supervised fund setup strategies within health and climate-focused portfolios.

Guest Lecturer

University of Deusto

May 2025

Guest Lecturer to visiting MBA students at Deusto Business School. Lecturing in the Global Immersion Program "Innovation in the Basque Country" in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). A program centered on exploring and analyzing entrepreneurial health clusters and ecosystems across the Nordics, Baltics, and the Basque Country, with a focus on their relevance to current innovations happening in each region's specific flagship sectors. Applied "SLUSH Helsinki" as the case study for ecosystem building and global competitive outlook (born-global ventures) with a focus on the current healthcare ecosystem stakeholders and the best practices being applied and developed.

Venture Institute Fellow - Cohort 4

VC Lab

Jan 2025 - Apr 2025 (4 months)

The Venture Institute (

Venture Capital Global Fellow (Class '24)

Included VC

Sep 2024 - Jan 2026 (1 year 5 months)

A ‘unique fast-track MBA for venture capital’ for extraordinary leaders (

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Director of Business Development

Jun 2024 - Nov 2024 (6 months)

Led the development and re-prototyping of novel innovative solutions aimed at enhancing consumer safety against drug-facilitated crimes. Test4Safe was an innovative startup offering reagent strips to detect substances such as ketamine and GHB. Collaborated with BIOLAN HEALTH to re-engineer Test4Safe's patent-pending prototype focusing on intellectual property and industrialization. Worked on scaling the prototype from TRL 3 to TRL 6; managed initial national and European patent development and clinical prototyping. -MVP/MMP development, pilot design & validation. -Hypothesis-driven experimentation, Lean Startup. -Innovation governance, investor relations & stakeholder mapping.

Slush'D Organizer (Iberia) - Ecosystem Building and Expansion

Slush

Mar 2024 - Jun 2025 (1 year 4 months)

Building co-innovation ecosystem bridges between the Iberian entrepreneurial ecosystem, the Nordics and Baltics. Managed a team of 15 people + strategic advisory board. Designed programming and partnerships around MedTech, FemTech, and BioHealth (Biotech and Health Tech), collaborating with some of Spain's top health VCs, startups such as Innitius, health consulting firms, and accelerators. Spoke at 3 European innovation events (1x Madrid with Futuro Perfecto, 2x Helsinki with Slush and The European Commission). Startup Judge and Selection Committee in the prestigious Premios Emprende XXI by CaixaBank DayOne. NORDIC INNOVATION BORN-GLOBAL MODELS CREATING YOUTH ENTREPRENEURIAL CULTURE I secured partnerships with 110+ organizations across Spa

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Director & Head of VC and Investor Relations

Bilbao Slush'D

Mar 2024 - Jun 2025 (1 year 4 months)

National debut of Slush Helsinki in Spain. 1st to bring the flagship world-class event to the Iberian ecosystem. I was the Co-Director & Head of VC and Investor Relations, ensuring we forged relationships with leading, nascent, and premium ecosystems. In numbers: €8B in assets under management (AUM) concentrated in a single event, 850 participants from 40 countries, including 95 speakers, 385 startup founders and managers, 250 international investors, and 185 corporates. 6 side-events, 2 days, 26 panels and 10 workshops. We also hosted the prestigious PremiosEmprendeXXI by CaixaBank DayOne. The presence of investment giants like BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey & Company, along with the Big Four (Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG), Kauffman

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Co-Founder

Bilbao Slush'D

Mar 2024 - Jun 2025 (1 year 4 months)

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R+D+i International Consultant-Industry 4.0

Jan 2024 - Jun 2024 (6 months)

MIB (Master of Science in International Business) Internship. In the R+D+i department, I provide support in the preparation and analysis of project applications and developments at both national and European levels, as well as, in the implementation of exploitation plans and the commercial viability and replicability of innovation outputs into international markets. Within the s-X-AIPI Horizon Project, supported EU-wide health, AI, and pharma innovation projects (with the Research Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering) under Horizon Europe and KER frameworks. -Delivered exploitation strategies for TRL 7+ medical technologies and industrial IP. -Participated in regular meetings with project partners, contributing to the evaluation of technol

Building an International Acceleration Program at Innogune (Deusto Emprende) – Venture Incubation

University of Deusto

Sep 2023 - Apr 2025 (1 year 8 months)

Building BayLoop Ventures at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre (Innogune) at the University of Deusto.

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Digital Marketing Manager

May 2022 - Dec 2022 (8 months)

While working on my previous areas of execution I also took care of the marketing aspects of Social Media Marketing (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok), focused on SEO Optimization through blogs, website redesigns, copywriting, and PR (collaborated with and managed influencers, and wrote for and got published in major magazines such as British Vogue, Marie Claire, and Cosmopolitan while working for Hayaty Natural). Enriched and rewrote the visual branding (text) to match the brand's background, ethos, and overall feel. Redesigned the new website and transferred over all of the old website's content to the new website on Shopify. Developed multiple pitch decks, identified key USPs and market opportunities, and attended private investor meetings at

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Assistant To Chief Executive Officer/ Founder

Jan 2022 - May 2022 (5 months)

Working closely with the CEO & Founder on building the brand from scratch. Involved in everything from Marketing, Sales, PR, Business Development, Product Development, Content Writing, Digital Marketing, Finances, etc. Initial Team: 3 (as of 2022) Markets of Business Operations: UK & Italy (main initial markets as of 2022) Contributed to the development of a brand new cosmetics product, conducting market research, identifying potential raw materials and USPs related to formulas and chemical compounds as well as to the initial concepting of the final product.

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Marketing and Business Development Associate

Nov 2021 - Aug 2022 (10 months)

Took care of: -Social Media Marketing -Feel and look of the company -Crowdfunding Campaign -Marketing Campaigns -Wrote articles for one of the co-founders -Sales -Worked firsthand with Hayaty Natural (client): pre-launch and post-launch of the brand

Deputy Board Member

Laurea Entrepreneurship Society

Sep 2021 - Dec 2021 (4 months)

-Attended board meetings and reviewed meeting agendas. -Approved organizational strategies, budgets, and business decisions. -Participated in various committees to meet specialized goals. -Maintained confidentiality in regard to internal organizational affairs and information. -Acted as an ambassador for the organization and routinely arranged meetings with stakeholders.

Marketing Manager

Laurea Entrepreneurship Society

Jan 2021 - Sep 2021 (9 months)

-Projects: LaureaES Lounge (Apr 2021-Oct 2021) Skills: -Worked with the management team to oversee and monitor marketing strategy. -Planned advertising campaigns for online, print, and other mediums. -Evaluated and reported on campaign performance to relevant stakeholders and leadership across the organization. Being an entrepreneur is much more than owning a company. LaureaES is a student organization that inspires and helps people think like entrepreneurs. Laurea Entrepreneurship Society has been actively organizing events since 2008. Our activities aim to encourage self-development and offer the tools and platforms for creating new ideas and establishing valuable professional networks. We aim to provide the motivation and inspiration to

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