Biography
Oriol Juncosa is co-founder and managing partner of ESC Venture Capital (formerly Encomenda Smart Capital), a Barcelona-based VC firm, and is also currently associated with Plus Partners VC. He co-founded Kibo Ventures earlier in his career and has been angel investing since 1999, with early bets including Idealista. His background includes senior roles at UBS and Lehman Brothers, and an MBA from London Business School.
His current public commentary focuses on AI, including recent posts on senior AI agents ("agentes sénior de IA") and enterprise AI adoption trends — positioning him as an investor voice on where AI is heading commercially, not just a general VC.
Session
- AI For GrowthSpeaker
Debate 4 - The 2027 Crash: Is AI the New Dot-Com Bubble?
Wednesday 23 September, 16:00 – 16:55Auditorium Stage$500 billion in AI capex this year alone. NVIDIA at a $4-trillion market cap. Startups raising $1 billion before product. And a chorus of investors, economists and former bulls now whispering the b-word. Is AI the most important infrastructure build of the century — worth every dollar — or the largest mispricing of risk since 1999, with the 2027 hangover already booked? The closing debate of AI Summit Barcelona puts a believer and a sceptic in the ring while the audience decides whether to ride the wave or run for cash.
With Oleg Chervonnyi, Patricia Pastor, Astghik Zakharyan, Jorge Blasco