Barcelona Startup News November 27, 2017

Hello and Happy Monday!

We’ve got some great events coming up as we head into the home stretch of 2017!

Tech Tribe is an amazing new event series launching on Thursday, December 14th in Barcelona. Brought to you by the same people behind Startup My Rooftop, People On The Grid, Barcinno and OneCoWork – Tech Tribe aspires to share knowledge through interactive events that combine multi-disciplinary talent and thought leaders who inspire, educate & bring people together. Don’t miss the first ever edition!

Barcinno readers can use the promo code: barcinnotribe

Tomorrow (Tuesday), IESE’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center will host the first ever IESE 40under40, including top entrepreneurs, investors and innovators like Roche, Banco Sabadell, Google, Privalia, Kibo Ventures, Holaluz, and Letgo. Register free here.

Then on December 5th, Jeff Gothelf returns to Barcelona to run a master class on Lean, Agile and Design Thinking. Get 20% off on tickets today only here.

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

• Founders of Barcelona startup Verse have left the company
• Barcelona fintech startup Novicap gets €1M to expand to USA
• Barcelona startup Agora Images receives €625k
• Spanish startup Pentabiol raises €550k
• Catalan gym chain Clubs DiR closes €477k investment round
• Catalan startup Traktech secures a €400k investment
• Spanish biotech startup Biohope gets €300k investment
• Glovo increases revenues from €106k in 2015 to €1,24M in 2016, but losses rise as well
  • Glovo hopes to exceed €10M in sales this year
• Barcelona delivery startup Hurrynow opens Madrid office
• Kantox expands to Latin America, Asia & Middle East market
• GENESIS Ventures is a new biomedicine investment fund based in Barcelona
• Conector Barcelona launches 8th edition of its accelerator program with 8 startups
• Female business network SWAN makes investment in 2 Barcelona startups: myABCKit & TeamEQ
• Barcelona startups Bioo, Bound4Blue, Broomx & HealthApp ranked amongst top 50 millennial tech entrepreneurs in EU
• La Salle Technova Barcelona crowned best business angel network of 2017 by AEBAN
• Investment in Spanish startups reaches €845M for 2017 & breaks last year’s record; 57% of investment goes to Barcelona
• Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories
  • Cooltra: 11.000 scooters & 200.000 users in 11 years
  • Brokoli: app that helps you manage & save on insurance

Tech News

• Barcelona misses out on hosting the European Medicine Agency
• Economic impact of Catalonia’s political crisis
• Catalan telecommunications firm Cellenx opens new offices in Paris as they increase investment in French market
• Barcelona becomes permanent host of the annual Data Transparency Lab conference
• Spain drops 5 places in worldwide innovation ranking, but improves in regard to attracting talent & investment
• Alibaba hires Amazon director for its Spanish business
  • How Alibaba plans to beat Amazon in Spain
  • AliExpress to start selling Spanish products
• Orange is planning to launch its own bank in Spain

Good Reads

• 75 most innovative Spanish people under 30
• The BOOTSTART Manifesto
• When the current tech talent isn’t enough

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GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Mon, 27 Nov @ 19:00: Is Coding a Must for Engineers?
• Tue, 28 Nov @ 19:00: IESE 40under40
• Wed, 29 Nov @ 20:00: Creative Coding Tertulia
• Thu, 30 Nov @ 8:00: IV Ship2B Impact Forum: Change is happening
• Thu, 30 Nov @ 18:00: BStartup talks
• Thu, 30 Nov @ 18:30: Valores y tecnología
• Fri,  1 Dec @ 21:00: Itnig Opening Party
• Sat, 2 Dec @ 9:00: MLH Local Hack Day at BCS

See the full Event Calendar here

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STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

• Translation.com is looking for a:
  • Front End Software Engineer
  • Back End Software Engineer
• Totally Communications is hiring a WordPress Developer