The young, but already well-known Barcelona brewer Garage Beer recently closed a round of €500.000. Even though crowdfunding by principle is a startups closing round of investment from a wide range of small-time investors, Garage Beer have taken it to the next level. In most crowdfunding rounds there are several angels or individuals behind an amount of large investments. … [Read more...]
Looking For New Adventures? We Have 3 Fresh Startup Jobs
Even though summer is closing up on Barcelona, it's still a couple of months left of work for most of us. This means that if you're thinking about finding a new place to grow your experiences after the summer-break, now is the time to make it happen. It's always a hassle changing jobs, and equally stressful to find a job that's both challenging and interesting. Luckily … [Read more...]
The Worlds First Medium Heeled Shoe Funded By Prominent Barcelona Business Angels
Ursulitas, the Barcelona e-commerce startup making the first medium heeled shoe, recently got funded. I got to admit that I've never worn a high-heeled shoe, and probably never will, but you don't need a PhD to understand that walking on high heeles every day from 09.00-18.00 is everything but comfortable. The company has gone through the Connector accelerator, and it is … [Read more...]
Barcelona Startup Chicplace Acquired By eShop Ventures
The Barcelona-based e-commerce startup Chicplace is acquired by eShop Ventures, often referred to as the Amazon of Spain. The amount of the acquisition is undisclosed. Chicplace is a marketplace selling products from small shops all over southern Europe, and is a product of the Barcelona Venture Builder Antai, known for companies such as Wallapop and … [Read more...]
Agroptima Closed €700.000 To Develop Their Farm-Management App
It's not the most mainstream app, but Agroptima has developed a service that help farmers manage their work easier. The app records the farmers daily work like planting, apply pesticides, harvesting, etc, and does this without the need for coverage. The Barcelona startup hopes to reach a nationwide customer base with this recent funding of €700.000 from investors like … [Read more...]
Barcelona Startup Job: Barcelona Code School
Company: Barcelona Code School Area: Educational Location: Barcelona Job type: Developer Job description: Full-Stack developers willing to join our instructors' team. We are looking for experienced dynamic persons to join our international team in JavaScript Full-Stack bootcamp in Barcelona. We host practical hands-on bootcamps and workshops mainly focused on … [Read more...]
Sneak Preview of Ironhack’s Brand New Bootcamp in Barcelona
If you asked a linguist what language to learn 10 years ago he might have said Chinese, Spanish or Arabic, but today that's all changing. Due to our digitalized world increasingly intertwined with rapidly advancing technology, the most effective way to truly communicate as broadly as possible is through the ability to both understand and write code. HTML, CSS, Javascript, … [Read more...]
Bootstrapping TutoTOONS Has 100 Million Reasons To Be Happy
The Barcelona-based game house TutoTOONS has reached their biggest milestone so far - 100 million downloads of their games. The startup has bootstrapped its way from the start in Lithuania, where they launched (and have their HQ), and now two and half years later, they're still without funding, but still going strong. Since early 2014 the game house has released over 200 … [Read more...]
Barcelona Startup Job: Visca Web (Marcadores.com)
Company: Marcadores.com Area: Media/Internet Location: Barcelona Job type: Engineer Job description: Android Developer - Real-time sports data app (Marcadores.com) The development of the first version of the application has been carried out by an external partner and is nearing completion. We want to bring the next steps of our mobile development in-house and we are … [Read more...]
Virtual Personal Trainer – Mammoth Hunters Closed A Round Of €324,210
The round was closed through the crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, and went better than the founders expected. The startups goal was to raise €300.000. Mammoth Hunters offers a personal trainer through their app, which is especially designed for people that have little or no time to go to the gym. This last round is the second of two funding rounds for the startup, … [Read more...]