Barcelona Startup News July 22

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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

• Fintech startup N26, with offices in Barcelona, gets €151M
• Barcelona travel SaaS startup TravelPerk raises €53M
• Spain-based fintech Finizens announces a capital increase of €3.3M
• Spanish blockchain startup GeoDB raises €1M via Crowdcube
• Spanish startup Alias Robotics receives a €750K investment
• Barcelona music tech startup Acqustic gets €150K
• – Read more about the local music tech startups ecosystem here
• Spain-based startup Dentalix closes a €500K investment round
• Barcelona startup Catevering opens crowdfunding investment round The Crowd Angel
• Catalan startup Smiletronix amongst nine firms selected for MetLife Digital Accelerator in USA
• Barcelona mobility startup Iomob amongst 10 firms selected for Arcadis City of 2030 Accelerator in Amsterdam
• Barcelona firm Glovo opens its platform to organisations with their own distributors
• – Carrefour hires Glovo for deliveries in four countries starting in October

VC, investment & crowdfunding news:

• Spanish VC firm Portobello Capital prepares the launch of a new €300M fund
• Spanish VC Propel Ventures (BBVA) manages three new startups with a €8M disbursement
• Private capital in Spain reaches an investment volume of over €4B in the first half of 2019
• Spanish investment bank Alantra disembarks in the health startup sector with the purchase of 35% of the Sabadell Asabys Health Innovation Investments fund
• The IESE business angels network finances 34 startups with a total of €3.8M

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories:

• INCIBE launches new edition of Ciberemprende program to support cybersecurity projects, interested startups can apply until the 1st of September
• Highlights from the third edition of IQSNextTech, Spain’s first industrial acceleration program

Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:

• Babyboo: the startup that lets you rent travel equipment for babies
• MimOOkids: the sustainable fashion firm for children
• Goin: the app that helps you save money automatically
• Iomed: generating predictive algorithms thanks to applying AI to clinical data
• Psonríe: online service that allows you to talk to a professional psychologist anonymously, immediately & at a good price

Tech News

• Barcelona’s startups push forward despite political challenges 
• Barcelona is ​​the fourth most attractive city in the world to attract talent according to the study of EAE Business School
• French startup Kapten is opening a tech hub in Barcelona and plans to hire lots of new talent in the city
• Cabify apparently turned down a €2 billion acquisition offer last year, according to La Información
• Dutch fintech firm Ohpen Technology rents new office in Barcelona
• Seat launches a carsharing service for companies in Barcelona and Madrid
• ICTs create 3.1% of employment in Catalonia with 106,400 jobs in total
• ACCIÓ supported 23,3K companies in 2018, a 3.3% increase compared to 2017
• Spain’s National Police Corps conducted two large-scale operations in Barcelona, during which 25 people were detained on suspicion of committing internet fraud

Newsworthy tech stories affecting all of Spain:

• Spain vows to push ahead with tax on tech giants
• Peugeot is testing autonomous driving technologies in Spain
• Spain to implement facial recognition technology at Ceuta border 
• Alstom introduces Atlas ERTMS Level 2 signalling system in Spain
• Spanish university develops a new scanning system that will prevent us from having to take off our shoes at airports

Good Reads

• “Barcelona has to be more than just a brand”, Alex Roig, CEO of SciTech DiploHub
• The future of mobility in Catalonia rests on the changes of today
• Overview of the Spanish fintech ecosystem by BBVA
• The Spanish banking sector has been disrupted by digital services

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GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Tue, 23 July @09:00: What is UX for?
• Tue, 23 July @19:00: Glovo Tech Talks: Talk Data to Me
• Thu, 25 July @19:00: H/F Barcelona – Let’s talk about tech startups
• Thu, 25 July @19:00: 22@Afterwork: Cisco
• Thu, 25 July @19:00: e-commerce Stars (Amazon, Ebay, Shopify, WooCommerce) Get inspired!

See the full Event Calendar here

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STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

• AL Ventures is hiring a CTO/Co-founder
• IoMob is recruiting a:
• – Software Engineer – Mobile / React Native
• – UX/UI designer
• Bourbon Creative is hiring a Digital Marketer

See the full Job Board here

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Barcelona Startup News July 22 2019 cover all the latest stories about Barcelona’s Tech & Startup scene from July 16th 2019 until July 22nd, 2018. If you want to read more stories about the city’s startup, tech and innovation scene, check out all Barcelona startup news here.