Barcelona Startup News January 22, 2018

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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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Startup & Investment News

• Barcelona startup Boxmotions closes €1M investment round
• Spanish basketball tech startup NBN23 raises €500k
• Spanish food startup ApetEat closes €300k investment round
• Spanish fintech startup CoinScrap receives €175k investment
• Barcelona startup TopDoctors reached €7,5M in sales in 2017
• Barcelona startups Kantox and Nice People at Work amongst the 500 fastest growing technologies according to Deloitte
• Catalan startup BRAIBOOK wins best social entrepreneurship award by Chivas Venture
• Revolut launches new app in Spain and introduces new service that allows you to buy travel insurance per day
• Ship2B selects 10 social impact startups to attend 4YFN 
• Fond-ICO aims to invest in Spanish university and research spin-offs
• Telefónica and Volkswagen seek start-ups to develop solutions for smart cities
• Biotech companies in Spain raised €237M in 2017
• International VCs are still responsible for the majority of investment in Spanish startups
• Only 1 in 4 entrepreneurs in Spain are female
• Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories
  • RocketROI: tech for optimizing your digital campaigns
  • MonkingMe: app providing you with free offline music
  • Sadako: AI-powered waste sorting robots made in BCN

Tech News

• Barcelona’s project to become an innovation capital
• Catalan companies are pioneers in the use of cryptocurrency
  • First bitcoin scandal in Spain: investment fund accused of refusing to return cryptocurrency worth €4,6M
• City of Barcelona moves away from proprietary software
• IQS Tech Factory celebrates first industrial startup festival in Barcelona, over 1000 attendees expected
  
• Ymedia Vizeum becomes a global partner of Barcelona Tech City
• Indra completes takeover of Paradigma Digital for €70M
• Catalan cloud hosting provider SVT is acquired by Gigas
• Facebook invests €10M to develop AI in Europe and plans to open 3 education centers, one to be situated in Spain
• Amazon considers forming a partnership with a food market hall in Barcelona
• Head of Spanish videogame association states that investing in gaming companies must be made easier in Spain
• Adigital signs agreement with WeWork and moves all offices to their coworking spaces in Barcelona and Madrid
• Zara surpasses Movistar as most valuable brand in Spain, Glovo makes list as “brand to watch”

Good Reads

• The importance of content for smart city organizations
• A look into Spain’s developing startup ecosystem
• Sunshine and Startups: Barcelona’s rise as an international startup hub
• Poblenou — How an urban renewal project is fostering innovation
• From CES to MWC – the most important tech fairs this year
• How Wallapop lost €62M in 2015 before starting to monetize

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GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Tue, 23 Jan @ 18:00: OpenHouse – Ironhack Campus BCN
• Tue, 23 Jan @ 18:30: Free coding workshop at Typeform
• Wed, 24 Jan @ 08:30: IESE Women in Business Conference
• Wed, 24 Jan @ 18:30: Investing & Develop Cryptocurrencies
• Wed, 24 Jan @ 19:00: POTG & Learning Lab workshop with Berta Lazaro, CoFounder TeamLabs
• Wed, 24 Jan @ 19:00: #DARKUX: The dark side of the UX
• Thu, 25 Jan: IQS Tech Fest- Festival of Industrial Startups
• Thu, 25 Jan @ 19:00: Hardware Startups January Networking event
• Thu, 25 Jan @ 19:00: DrinkEntrepreneurs – 2018 Opening
• Sat, 27 Jan @ 08:00: SMMDay 2018

See the full Event Calendar here

Barcelona Startup News January 22, 2018 cover all the latest stories about Barcelona’s Tech & Startup scene from January 15th 2018 until Jauary 22nd, 2018. To read more Barcelona startup news, click here.