Barcelona Startup News June 25

Hello and happy Tuesday! I hope you had a safe and relaxing Sant Joan holiday! Real quick before we begin – I’m looking for a digital marketing professional to join our team – please share this opportunity with anyone you think may be interested.

Ok, we have some great events coming up so let’s jump in:

July 10-11 – Facebook and Ecommerce Mastery Live

On July 10-11th, Barcelona will host the biggest ecommerce legends & Facebook ads experts from around the world who will share their latest secrets to success. Learn the exact marketing tactics they use to scale massive Facebook Ads campaigns and the step-by-step strategies of their hyper-growth agencies and ecommerce companies. Read all the details about the event in our article and secure your 2-day pass at a 25% discount with our exclusive code: barcinno25

SaaStock Local Barcelona: Growth Marketing Strategies

SaaStock Local is back for its second edition on July 4th. This time it will focus exclusively on growth marketing strategies to scale SaaS firms. The line up couldn’t be better as marketing chiefs from Typeform, Travelperk, Marfeel & Red Points will share their secrets to exponential growth. Read more here if you need more convincing & get 40% off your ticket with our exclusive discount code: barcinno40

Ok, that’s it from me. Have a great week and we’ll see you out there!

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

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS:

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BARCELONA STARTUP NEWS

Startup & Investment News

• Spanish startup Citibox secures an €11M funding round
• Spain-based shoe manufacturer Muroexe gets €2.7M via crowdfunding
• Spanish logistics startups Trucksters lands €850K investment
• Catalan blockchain startup Vottun closes €500K funding round
• Barcelona startup AllRead crowned the winner of BStartup & SeedRocket’s second edition of Venture on the Road
• Catalan fintech NoviCap reaches €100M in financed volume and plans to reach €1B by 2021

VC, investment & crowdfunding news:

• Barcelona VC firm Asabys Partners takes part in the €6M funding round of German startup Cara Care
• Barcelona-based digital venture hub InnoCells takes part in the €2.6M investment round in Singaporean startup Active.Ai

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories:

• Conector Startup Accelerator opens call for the second edition of its tourism-focused accelerator program

Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:

• Berdac: the Nespresso of medications
• Deporvillage: the €60M online sports store from Catalonia
• Dribo: digitizing the driving school industry

Tech News

• Barcelona – the world’s most popular international conference city in 2018

Catalonia attracts significant investment:

• Henkel invests €35M in new European hub for aerospace solutions in Catalonia
• Nestlé to invest €17.2M in a biomass boiler in Catalan plant
• US gaming company Scopely creates European hub for global expansion in Barcelona

USA & Catalonia – a love story

• Catalan biomedicine cluster and USA’s biggest medtech firms’ association sign agreement to promote innovation together
• Catalonia Exponential, a new innovation program connecting the US and Catalonia
• Overview of US tech investment in Catalonia
• The Culinary Institute of America selects Barcelona to open its first European campus

Newsworthy tech stories affecting all of Spain:

• Netflix is raising its prices in Spain
• The Government announces plans to introduce a new tax that will force Netflix, HBO & co to finance the Spanish RTVE
• The amount of Spanish households that are installing solar panels is growing rapidly this year; new record on the horizon

Good Reads

• Is Catalonia the next American dream?
• 10 Barcelona-based startups to look out for in 2019 and beyond
• Food-Delivery Couriers Exploit Desperate Migrants in France (NYT article mentioning Glovo, Uber Eats, Deliveroo & co)

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GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Tue, 25 June @18:00: IPFS Core Developers & Community Meetup
• Tue, 25 June @18:30: The B-Table Event with Meritxell Gimeno
• Wed-Fri, 26-28 June: SLAS Europe 2019
• Thu, 27 June @20:00: Business Matching Party

See the full event calendar here.

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STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

• IoMob is recruiting a:
• – Software Engineer – Mobile / React Native
• – UX/UI designer
• Carts Guru is looking for a:
• – Social Media & Content Specialist
• – Community & Growth Hacker
• Bourbon Creative is hiring a Digital Marketer

See the full Job Board here

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Barcelona Startup News June 25 2019 covers all the latest stories about Barcelona’s Tech & Startup scene from June 18th 2019 until June 25th, 2019. If you want to read more stories about the city’s startup, tech and innovation scene, check out all Barcelona startup news here.