Barcelona Startup News December 11, 2017

Hello and Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend and you’re staying dry today. News and events are beginning to slow down a bit as we head into the holidays, but we know you’re not taking your foot off the gas just yet!

This Wednesday, don’t miss the final Online Geniuses event of the year featuring the brains behind Restb.ai, one of Barcelona’s fastest growing AI startups.

Then, on Thursday, Dec 14th: #JOINTHETRIBE

Tech Tribe is an amazing new event series that aspires to share knowledge through interactive events that combine multi-disciplinary talent and thought leaders who inspire, educate & bring people together. The first edition focuses on EdTech, and takes place on Dec 14th @ OneCoWork on the water in One Ocean Port Vell.

Barcinno readers can use the promo code: barcinnotribe

Find more info here: The Launching of Tech Tribe Barcelona

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

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS:

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Startup & Investment News

• Barcelona SaaS startup ForceManager raises $12M
• Catalan medtech startup MJN Neuroserveis gets €600k
• Corpfin buys majority stake in Catalan company Kids & Us
• Glovo continues expansion, starts operating in Peru
• Deliveroo settles dispute with riders to avoid courts
• Scytl moves offices to new location in the center of Barcelona
• Take Two has big plans for Social Point after acquiring it for $250M last year
• Worldsensing begins pilot & validation stage for the EU-funded smart parking project
• Barcelona startup Fluidra will soon allow you to play AR video games under water
• Revolut now allows users to buy cryptocurrencies like bitcoin
• New VC Encomenda Smart Capital to invest €20M in startups from Barcelona and Madrid
• CaixaBank launches DayOne, a new service aimed at startups

Tech News

• Telefónica stock market figures have been weak lately, forcing directors to miss out on €350M bonus
  • Where Telefónica might be headed in the upcoming years
• Chinese smartphone producer Oppo to enter Spanish market next year
• The biggest tech firms in the world have created only 1,500 jobs in Spain in the past 5 years
• Barcelona government plans to limit the number of VTC licensed cars that can operate in the city
  • Could these limitations be illegal? 
• Spanish government aims to put a hold on mass ticket resellers
• Scientists in Catalonia have managed to transfer quantum information between a cold atomic gas and a solid crystal using photons
• Spain’s Balearic Islands are about to be covered in half a million IoT sensors

Good Reads

• A look at Spain’s foodtech market
• A supercomputer is hidden in a Barcelona chapel
• “Some Spanish startups are more focused on raising money than scaling their business”, Javier Cortés (Gate93)
• The dream of the Spanish Unicorn

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GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Tue, 12 Dec @ 18:30: Meltin’ 2K17 Digital & Startups Networking Closing
• Wed, 13 Dec @ 19:00: Online Geniuses: Tracking and Hacking Christmas Edition
• Thu, 14 Dec @ 19:00: Tech Tribe: EdTech panel + Workshop + Networking & Live Harp Concert
• Fri, 14 Dec @ 18:00: Hackshow | Web Dev & UX/UI October ’17 Bootcamps

See the full Event Calendar here