Dídac Lee

Dídac Lee i Hsing (李西洵) (born 15 January 1974) is a Spanish entrepreneur and Business Angel, co-founder and Managing Partner at Galdana Ventures.

Biography Dídac Lee was born in Figueres, Spain to Taiwanese parents. At 21 years old and against the opinion of his family, Lee left his studies in Computer Engineering to start his first company. The beginnings were rough, he had limited resources and started his company with a bank loan of 18,000 Euros.

In 1998, he founded Scubastore.com, origin of the current group TradeInn, an online store network specializing in sports equipment for diving, cycling, hiking, tennis, paddle tennis, swimming, fishing and skiing. TradeInn operates 17 individual stores, each specializing in a different sport, with 14 verticals and reported turnover of 300 million euros.

Lee founded and co-founded several tech companies (among others: Inspirit, Fhios, OBS Threepoints, JV with Planeta, Safe365) of which he currently serves as board member and reference shareholder; jointly they currently account for 800 employees worldwide.

In 2015, Lee co-founded Galdana Ventures, a 1B USD fund invested in some of the Top Tier firms in Silicon Valley (50%), China (30%) and Europe (20%).

Galdana Ventures is a venture capital fund of funds that invests in venture capital firms. Fhios Hotelerum (Travel Compositor) Safe365 OBS Threepoints Galdana Ventures 2018: Doctor Honoris Causa from the 21st Century Business University 2019: Entrepreneur of the Year by PIMEC 2019: Best Business Angel by AEBAN

Lee is from Figueres, a small town located 140 km north-east of Barcelona. When he is not traveling between China and the Silicon Valley, he lives in Barcelona and Figueres; he loves practicing adventure sports like quad and buggy racing, scuba diving and skateboarding. Since Dídac is currently on the scientific committee of FEDAS (Spanish Federation of sub-aquatic activities).

His parents emigrated from Taiwan to Spain more than 50 years ago, he is fluent in 5 languages including Mandarin Chinese.