One-liner: the business school inside Marina de Empresas — "empresarios formando a empresarios" (entrepreneurs teaching entrepreneurs), feeding founder-grade talent directly into the Juan Roig entrepreneurship ecosystem (Lanzadera, Angels Capital).
What a founder gets
- Talent pipeline access — EDEM's employability platform ("Talento") surfaces graduates for hire; companies list open roles directly to the student/alumni base (Empleabilidad Empresas).
- Executive/management education relevant to scaling a company: EMBA, Executive MBA Modular, Programa de Liderazgo Digital, M&A para Alta Dirección, sector-specific tracks (Programa Agroalimentario), and short "ABC" modules (finance, marketing, operations, sales, strategy) usable as fractional upskilling for a founding team.
- Incompany / bespoke training — EDEM designs tailor-made programs for a company's leadership team ("Incompany").
- Ecosystem membership — becoming an EDEM "empresa miembro/patrono" seats a company at the same table as the entrepreneurs building Marina de Empresas — a direct line into the Lanzadera/Angels network, not just a classroom relationship.
- Alumni network — a standing community (EDEM Alumni platform) for continued networking after any program, regardless of length.
- Scholarships — €1.5M/year in student financial aid, lowering the cost barrier to the talent pipeline above.
Who it's for
- As a hiring company / scaling founder: any stage, any niche — engage via "Capta talento", Incompany training, or membership.
- As a founder wanting management/exec training: especially useful once past idea stage and running a team (EMBA, Programas Ejecutivos target company leadership, not first-time founders).
- Pre-university and university-age talent also feed the pipeline (Grados IGE/ADE, Master's programs) — relevant to founders looking for junior hires or interns.
How to engage
- Talent/hiring:
edem.eu→ "Talento" → Empleabilidad Empresas. - Executive training / Incompany:
edem.eu/cursos/executive-educationor contact infoedem@edem.es. - Membership/patronship: "Ver todos los trámites" (Miembros y Patronos) on the EDEM site.
- General contact: infoedem@edem.es · +34 96 353 10 65 · Plaça de l'Aigua, Poblados Marítimos, 46024 València.
Key facts
- Leadership (per
edem.eu/direccion, checked 2026-07-05): Hortensia Roig — Presidenta; Juan Roig — Presidente de Honor (Mercadona); María José Félix — Vicepresidenta (Directora General, Helados Estiu); Gerardo Yagüe (Socio Director, Deloitte) and Diego Lorente (Secretario y DG, AVE) — Consejeros. Executive team: Elena Fernández — Directora General. This is new detail not previously captured in this page; no prior leadership claim here to contradict. - Part of Marina de Empresas — "MdE ∞" — alongside Lanzadera (acceleration) and Angels Capital (investment); the three functions are explicitly cross-referral ("tres iniciativas infinitas conexiones").
- Scale: +2,100 students placed in companies, +2,200 companies have hired EDEM talent, €1.5M/yr in student scholarships (current academic year).
- Program range spans pre-university (Business Challenge, Summer Experience) → Grados (IGE, ADE) → Master's (Marketing, Fintech & BI, MBA Junior, AI/Big Data/Cloud, HR, Logistics, UX/UI, Web Dev/DevOps) → Executive (Superpymes, EMBA, Executive MBA Modular, sector/functional Direcciones) → Alta Dirección (15×15, Programa de Liderazgo Digital, Programa de Empresa Familiar, Programa Agroalimentario, M&A, Programa para Consejeros).
- Contact: infoedem@edem.es · +34 96 353 10 65 · Plaça de l'Aigua, Poblados Marítimos, 46024 València.
- Positioning is deliberately demanding ("Unpopular Opinion: EDEM" — "somos la opción incómoda") — a signal to founders that this is rigor-branded, not a soft networking club.
Relations
- Part of: Marina de Empresas
- Partners with: Lanzadera
- Partners with: Angels Capital
- Run by: Marina de Empresas
- Run by: Marina de Empresas (Program)