Barcelona Startup News September 10 2018 – Barcinno

Hello and happy Monday! We hope you had great weekend. If it felt too short, good news – tomorrow is a public holiday in Barcelona.

It’s been a great week for local proptech startups as ProntoPiso and Housfy both closed new multi-million investment rounds to continue their rapid-growth.

Next Thursday, September 20th, social ads expert Patrick Wind will host an intensive full day workshop on advanced Facebook ads at OneCoWork. Sign up now and save 50% on tickets by using the following code: barcinno

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

• Spanish startup BioFlyTech receives a €16M investment
• Barcelona real-estate tech startup ProntoPiso lands €4,5M
• Barcelona proptech startup Housfy lands a €2M investment
• Spanish ecommerce startup Black Limba raises €1,5M
• Barcelona startup eCooltra announces €10M in new funding and reaches 500k users after relaunching its app
• Barcelona startup Wallapop signs ex-CEO of Ebay Germany as their new CEO
• Why Zur Rose acquired Barcelona startup Promofarma
• Barcelona Activa selects 3 Barcelona startups that will travel to Kyoto in October as part of the ‘Smart City Expo’
• Spanish VC Corpfin Capital is finalising a new €300M fund
• Sacyr iChallenges is looking for startups to join their innovation program
• Spain Tech Center opens the call for their Silicon Valley immersion program
• SGIPYME and EOI launch a business growth program aimmed at 300 Spanish SMEs
• Proptech startups in Spain are on the rise
• Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:
  • ByHours: building the leading player in the microstays market
  • Heura: Soy protein is now used by Michelin Star chefs

Tech News

• Communication in Spain is 36% more expensive than in the rest of Europe
• The rental scooter war arrives in Barcelona 
• Fines for misuse of electric scooters can reach up to 500€ in Barcelona
• Barcelona will deny the license to the Japanese-style micro-apartments for not meeting the legal minimum surface
• Tough summer for Barcelona’s tourism industry as occupancy drops slightly and revenues fall by 14%
• The Spanish economy grew by 3% in 2017
• Unemployment in Spain increased in the past month
• Vodafone strikes a deal with MasMovil to share their fiber optic networks after losing 30k broadband users in August

Good Reads

• 17 SEO Tips For Startups To Rank In 2018 – 17 Experts Share Their Thoughts
• What makes a Growth Hacker? Let’s look at the anatomy
• Why tech startups flock to Barcelona
• “In the coming years it will be more important to be a user than a citizen”, Aleix Valls, co-founder at Liquid
• “Spain is the country with the highest mobile penetration in Europe (88%)”, VP Direct to Consumer of Zalando
• #NoShortcuts – the importance of doing the right things right, Alex Rodriguez, cofounder of Mars Based

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GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Wed, 12 Sep @ 18:30: Spanish FinTech Wars #2: The Return of the Jedi – Data, Identity & Privacy 
• Wed-Fri, 12-14 Sep: Future Music Forum Barcelona
• Thu, 13 Sep @ 19:00: Fuckup Nights Barcelona | Vol. XVII
• Fri-Sun, 14-16 Sep: #AllStartup34 Barcelona

See the full Event Calendar here

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STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

• Santiago Ways is recruiting an SEO Specialist
• OneCoWork is looking for a:
• – Interior & 3D Designer
• – IT Technician
• Reloadly is hiring a Front-end Web Developer
• Prestalo is recruiting a Lead Developer
• Coinweb is looking for Blockchain Engineers
• My1Min is hiring a Front- and Back-End Web Developer
• IoMob is recruiting a Backend & Blockchchain Engineer
• US cybersecurity startup AttackIQ is looking for:
• – Senior Software Engineer – Integrations (Python)
• – Senior Software Engineer – Backend (Python)
• – Senior Software Engineer – Endpoint Agent
• – QA Automation Engineer
• – Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
• NY-based startup Resy is recruiting an Account Manager