Barcelona Startup News July 3, 2017

Hello and Happy Monday! We hope you had a fabulous weekend soaking in this perfect weather. It’s the final push before everyone splits for summer holidays – make July count!

Let’s dive right in. Here’s what you need to know about startups in Spain this week.

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Ok, let’s take a look at the latest Barcelona startup news from this week: 

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS:

Startup & Investment News

• hosco, which has offices in Barcelona (and annoyingly doesn’t capitalize their name), raises €6.4M
• Spanish startup 3ANTS lands €880k funding to fight piracy
• T2O media bags €500k from Cofides to expand abroad
• Startup Low World Travel raises €205k on SociosInversores
• Spanish startup Worona lands €100k for WordPress plugin
• Bank process management firm GRUPOBC buys iAhorro.com
• eDreams grows revenues by 5% & slashes debt by €30M 
• Idealista to go public? Firm is open to this option
• Deliveroo ‘riders’ went on strike on Sunday & threaten with more to come in Barcelona between 6-9th July
• Actualidad Economica, with CaixaBank, has named the best startups in Spain
• Barcelona Activa and Paris & Co. form partnership to promote collaboration between cities
• SeedRocket & The Crowd Angel sign collaboration agreement
• Conector Barcelona looks for new startups to join program
• Spanish startups received €47,5M in investments this June
• Spanish siesta culture lets entrepreneur turn naps into gold
• Forget cars, for one Spaniard the autonomous future is forklifts
• Spanish startups that “survived” the dot-com bubble
• From Wallapop to Hawkers – What brick-and-mortar firms learned from digital businesses
• Barcelona startup profiles & interviews:
  • BroomX & a another feature article here too
  • Verse

Tech News

• Barcelona government threatens to expel Airbnb from the city
• Nike chooses Barcelona as one of the 12 key cities for the future growth of the company
• German multinational Boehringer Ingelheim to create over 200 jobs with a new production plant in Catalonia
• US firm Jabil to open new technology center & production plant in Catalonia
• French firm Veolia to invest €12M in Catalonia within 2 years
• Spanish supermarket chain Dia teams up with Amazon to expand its delivery services in Barcelona
• Catalan firms generate 40% of Spain’s video gaming revenues
• Unemployment rate in Catalonia to fall to 9.3% by 2018
• Catalonia braces for record number of tourists again
• El Prat was ranked amongst the best airports in the world
• Cyber attack hits shipper Maersk, causes cargo delays at several ports, including in Spain
• Number of IoT connections in Spain close to reaching 10M
• 4 Spanish Smartphones fighting for market share

Good Reads

• “Barcelona needs ‘big players’”, Miquel Martí, CEO of Barcelona Tech City
• Dan Brown’s new book ‘Origin’ takes place in Spain, including Barcelona
• How Catalonia’s referendum exposes a divided Spain (FT)
• Commercial balloons in the stratosphere could monitor hurricanes and scan for solar storms
• The mass distribution of everything
• VRcade: Be the First to Open One in Your Town
• Trickle-down workaholism (hat tip to Alex Rodriguez for this – controversial, but very important topic)

GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Tue, 4 July @ 18:00: Monthly Ethereum Meetup
• Tue, 4 July @ 18:30: Data Show 2nd edition: The Itnig finals
• Wed, 5 July @ 19:00: How Schibsted built a plug and play JS widget, from whiteboard to delivery
• Thu, 6 July: 22nd ACCIÓ Investment Forum
• Thu, 6 July @ 19:00: UX for product managers – by founder and CPO @Mailtrack.io Eduardo Manchon
• Thu, 6 July @ 21:00: B-INSPIRED: “Human and Artificial Intelligence for Social Change”
• Fri-Sat, 7-8 July: El sistema de contractació pública
• Sat-Sun, 8-9 July: Ultimate WordPress Weekend

See the full Event Calendar here

STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

• Wide Eyes Technologies is hiring a Business Developer
• The Barcelona Code School is looking for a:
  • Growth Hacker
  • JavaScript Intern
• Printsome is recruiting an Inside Sales Executive (English)
• Skyscanner is hiring Principal & Lead Engineers