Jobandtalent, the Spanish recruiting startup promising technological-driven employer-employee matchmaking, just raised a series B of €42 million. They closed their second series A of €23 million just last year, but after pivoting from enterprise recruitment to SME's this year they raised another round to compete directly with the big recruitment companies, such as Adecco and … [Read more...]
Barcelona-based Travelperk Closes $7 Million To Reinvent Corporate Travel
The fairly young startup Travelperk, founded last year, have closed an A-round of 7 million led by Spark capital. "The problems associated with business travel management are both longstanding and universal," says Alex Finkelstein, Spark Capital General Partner. The Barcelona-based company lets you book, budget and manage your business travel, all in one platform. … [Read more...]
Five Interesting Barcelona Startups Getting Crowdfunded Right Now
Crowdfunding is getting more and more accepted as good way to fund your startup, and now we have many praised products and companies funded this way, such as Pebble, Oculus Rift, Formlabs 3D printer, the list goes on. Also in Barcelona, many promising projects are currently undertaking crowdfunding campaigns, and we thought we would give you the chance to invest, or at least … [Read more...]
Explosion In New Spanish Business Angels
A new report on the business angel environment in Spain was just released by The Spanish Association For Business Angels (AEBAN) and IESE business school. The report sheds new light on a group of people that gives life to the startup ecosystem in Barcelona and Spain. More than 200 business angels in the network participated, which for Spain may be a representative selection … [Read more...]
MyTwinPlace Closes €750.000 From BlaBlaCar Founder And Other VC’s
MyTwinPlace is a global community of home owners who exchange nights with other members of the community. There is no money exchanged between the home-owners, but you get points for renting your home to others, which you later use to rent other homes around the globe. The startup recently closed a round of €750.000 from big VC's such as Inveready and Sabadell Venture … [Read more...]
Barcelona Startup Lodgify Closes A Round Of €1.4 Million
Lodgify, the Vacation Rental Startup that offers a software solution that drives direct bookings for vacation rental, just recently closed a round of 1.4 million. The round was led by local VC Nauta Capital, but investors from prior rounds, including Chris Hitchen, HOWZAT Partners and Roland Zeller, also participated. The last time we wrote about Lodgify was back in … [Read more...]
Datumize Closed A Round Of €1 Million – And Kampoos Got Crowdfunded
Datumize, the Barcelona startup that helps company analyze and process 99 percent of their dark operating data, recently closed a round of €1 million. The round was led by Inveready, and was participated by Caixa Capital Risc and other private investors. It's around a year since Datumize went through the Startupbootcamp IoT and Data program in Barcelona, and they've come … [Read more...]
Meet the 10 Barcelona Startups That Pitched Investors At #YachtPitch
Sunshine, the ocean, a huge yacht, several of Barcelona's most influential investors and 10 hopeful startups. That was the recipie for Conector's newest and most creative pitching platform of 2015. It all started around the lunch table, as it often does in Spain. The Conector team had lunch with the company Charter&Dreams, and the idea of doing a startup-related … [Read more...]
5 New Startups Join the 4th Edition of Banco Sabadell’s BStartup Program
This is the fourth edition of the BStartup program that Banco Sabadell has supported since their launch in November 2013. The BStartup initiative aims to support early-stave Spanish tech companies with capital and mentoring as they develop their innovative projects and enter the market. Each startup that joins the program receives €100.000 to boost development and … [Read more...]
5 Reasons WHY Tech Startups Should Choose Barcelona
5 Reasons WHY Tech Startups Should Choose Barcelona For Their Headquarters Many factors go into consideration when a startup chooses its working location; type of product, target market, available resources and the list goes on. These factors are exclusive to each startup and every renown startup-hub, such as London and Berlin, have a unique combination of what they have to … [Read more...]