Barcelona Startup News January 7 2019

Hello and Happy New Year!

We hope you had a great holiday season and were able to recharge your batteries as the new year kicks off. Of course, Barcinno is also back from the winter break to bring you the latest startup & tech news, jobs and events from our beloved Barcelona.

IQS Tech Factory, the first industrial accelerator in Spain, keeps working on making the impossible possible. Get ready to see industry as you have never seen before with IQS Tech Fest, Europe’s First Festival of Industrial Startups on January 24 in the Antiga Fàbrica Damm in Barcelona.

The festival will welcome moonshot innovators, exhibit the most powerful technologies of 40 science-based startups and feature international speakers. It will also host an industrial investment forum and the IQS Next Tech Demo Day, where the most promising industrial startup will be crowned. Read more about the event here & secure your ticket at a 40% discount with our exclusive code: BarcinnoTechFest

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

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS:

BARCELONA STARTUP NEWS

Startup & Investment News

Spanish startup incubator Demium Startups lands €2.6M
Spanish fintech startup Declarando secures a €525K funding
Barcelona startup 3D Click closes a €225K investment round
Catalan food tech startup Catevering raises €100K
Barcelona bicycle brand & e-commerce Santafixie launches a €244K crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube
Catalan firm Lleida.net lists on Euronext Growth at a €16M valuation
Barcelona home care platform Joyners expands to France
Catalan insurtech startup Coverfy is eyeing more acquisitions in the Spanish market
Barcelona firm Groupalia keeps fighting to stay alive, looks for a €1.5M investment to resume operations in 2019
Catalan startup CL3VER unveils new real-time 3D cloud rendering technology
Barcelona startup Badi records 1M users, 120K+ rooms listed, 10M rental requests in 2018
2018 was a successful year for Spanish startups:
– Spanish startups raised a total of €1.227M in 2018, a 46% increase compared to the previous year (€840M)
– Spanish tech companies recorded 34 exits in 2018
Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:
– Deporvillage: sports ecommerce site with €45M in sales
– Kantox: co-founder Philippe Gelis talks about regulations in Spain & Europe, Brexit and other topics
– Wallapop: co-founder Agustín Gómez talks about growing a marketplace, lessons learned from raising millions and more

Tech News

Good Reads

GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

Mon, 7 Jan @19:30: Why do we need Bitcoin? How are they created? How can I profit?
Tue, 8 Jan @10:00: Startup Networking + Pitching + Coffee
Tue, 8 Jan @19:00: Management 3.0
Thu, 10 Jan @18:30: Talking with Tech Leads
Thu, 10 Jan @19:00: The importance of leadership
Fri, 11 Jan @9:00: Startup Speed Mentoring

See the full Event Calendar here

STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

Auvik is recruiting a:
– DevOps Developer
– Software Developer
Touchstream is hiring a Python Developer
Digital marketing agency Bourbon Creative is looking for a Freelance Tech Writer (Native English)

See the full Job Board here

Barcelona Startup News January 7 2019 cover all the latest stories about Barcelona’s Tech & Startup scene from December 17th 2018 until January 7th, 2019. If you want to read more stories about the city’s startup, tech and innovation scene, check out all Barcelona startup news here.