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, the first network of online stores specializing in sports equipment ecommerce and European leader in its sector, an online store specialized in sports equipment for diving, cycling, hiking, tennis and paddle tennis, swimming, bike, fishing and skiing. Today TradeInn is one of the top European outdoor e-commerce, with 17 individual stores, each one of them specialized in a different sport, counting 14 verticals and 300M in turnover in the last year alone.
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 considered one of the best performing Venture Capital Funds of Funds globally, its funds invest in some of the best Venture Capital firms who are backing the game-changing companies of the future. Galdana's management team has more than 100 years of accumulated experience as successful entrepreneurs and investors.
Lee is well known in the start-up world as Business Angel, he invested in some of the most successful start-ups in the Spanish ecosystem (Badi, Housfy, Exoticca, Paack, Glovo, LingoKids).
Entrepreneurship
Scubastore.com (TradeINN.com) The Etailers Fhios Hotelerum (Travel Compositor) Safe365 OBS Threepoints Galdana Ventures
Dídac Lee and FC Barcelona
Lee is a former board member of FC Barcelona, he served on the board for 10 years from 2010 to 2020. Since 2018, he was head of Digital, an internationally recognized reference in its field, with 370 million followers in social media and more than 100M Euros in turnover. Among Lee's achievements at FCB, one of the biggest is the leading of the digitalization of the club; his legacy is applauded by many.
Over the years, Didac has been nationally and internationally recognized by the press as one of the most knowledgeable expert in the Digital Sports sector. During his time at FCB, he was the official spokesman of the FC Barcelona Digital Area and he was regularly interviewed by the main sports media worldwide:
Sports Business (US): https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/lockdown-created-favourable-conditions-for-barcelonas-ott-launch-says-digital-chief/ Sports Pro (US): https://www.sportspromedia.com/analysis/fc-barcelona-barcatv-streaming-revenue-ott-strategy-rakuten Off the Pitch (US): https://offthepitch.com/a/interview-barcelona-board-member-content-going-be-new-core-business-barca Hashtag Sports (US): https://engage.hashtagsports.com/2020/02/24/fc-barcelona-fortnite-netflix-digital-strategy/ Forbes (US): https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomsanderson/2020/06/03/fc-barcelona-launch-bara-tv-and-culer-membership-program/#2c8cfbd54dd9 Sportico (US): https://www.sportico.com/business/media/2020/fc-barcelona-soccer-team-launches-digital-service-249/ Los Angeles Times (US): https://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/story/2020-06-04/antoine-griezmann-mls Yutang Sports (China) Bein Mena (Middle East) Daily Mail (UK)
Dídac is often invited as Guest Speaker at Sport Conferences and Events globally, some of the recent ones are: ISE 2020, Agora Event: https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/club/news/1609125/barcas-new-digital-strategy-features-at-ise-2020-in-amsterdam Sports Pro Live 2020: https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/barcelona-youtube-subscribers-video-streaming-platform-barca-studios SoccerEx Connected: https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/club/news/1839096/didac-lee-tells-soccerex-about-the-barca-tv-project