Barcelona Weekly Tech & Startup News – March 06, 2017 – Barcinno

Hello and Happy Monday! We hope you had a great time at MWC17 and 4YFN last week and that you’ve recovered from all the other events and parties in Barcelona!

#TECHICONS 2017
We’d especially like to thank everyone who attended our first #TECHICONS event last Tuesday!

With our great partners and amazing venue, we hope to repeat the event several times throughout the year! Stay tuned for updates and ways to get involved.

Ok, let’s see what’s new in Barcelona’s startup scene this week: 

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS:

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Startup & Investment News

• 4YFN 2017 Review – Bigger, more international & more corporate than ever before
• Gamelearn, a firm designing video games for training purposes, raised €2M to expand
• Spain’s fintech startup Finizens has closed a €700k investment round to boost growth
• A marketplace-creating startup from Barcelona, 500 Markets, landed a €500k investment
• Barcelona agrotech firm Ecohortum raised €300k on crowdfunding site SociosInversores
• Catalan travel agency for gastronomy fans, Foodie&Tours, has received €250k to expand
• Barcelona-born TutoTOONS has reached 200M in downloads for its smartphone games
• eDreams has closed Q3 2016 with a €20M net profit, a 78% increase to previous figures
• Funds raised by Spanish Startups trebled this year! €75M was invested this year already
• From eDreams to SocialPoint – An overview of Spanish startup exits since 2005 
• Just Eat, Deliveroo, Glovo, UberEats – A look at Spain’s food delivery market landscape
• Media for equity & more – Insights into the investment activity of Spanish media firms
• Scytl CEO & five other investors have created a new €1-2M fund to invest in 15 startups
• Telefónica Open Future launches 3 global accelerator programs for tech startups
• SeedRocket opened the call for 17th edition of accelerator Campus de Emprendendores
• Looking for Spain’s ‘unicorns’ – Industry says with patience Spain will find one soon

Tech News

• SEAT takes 300m² space in Pier01 to open its new Metrobpolis:Lab in Barcelona
• And SEAT also announces a new electric car-sharing service in Barcelona
• Amazon invests in Barcelona again: new center for business communication & 500 jobs
• Mobile World Congress 2017 attracted 108k visitors, a 14% increase & a new record
• Most curious gadgets from MWC 2017 – virtual screen, self-driving racing cars & more
• 4YFN announced it will launch its first American edition in San Franciscio this September
• Hello, Westworld: the world’s first sex doll brothel opens its doors in Barcelona
• A look at 5 startups that impressed at 4YFN and are set to move to MWC in the future
• Apparently not everyone was happy about Mobile World Congress coming to town
• Inditex starts selling goods on ecommerce platform Zalando to boost online channels
• Julio Faura, Director at Banco Santander, talks about blockhain & how it affects banks
• CDO of Telefónica talks in depth about Aura & the 4th platform they announced at MWC
• Bloggers making a living of Amazon’s affiliate program in shock as firm reveals changes
• Most sought-after talent in Spain: Big Data experts, IT egineers & digital strategy leaders

Good Reads

• GOOD READ #1: Demystifying the product manager, and how to become one
• GOOD READ #2: Life after a startup exit – founders share their experience & advice
• GOOD READ #3: Heygo CEO Espinosa: “Always Analyze the Market”

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GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Mon, 6 Mar @ 18:00: MOB/Workshop Taller de liderazgo feminino by Alícia Trepat
• Tue, 7 Mar @ 18:00: Graduación 6ª Promoción Founder Institute Barcelona 
• Tue, 7 Mar @ 19:00: How to grow your business with APIs – With Hitch CTO Bruno Pedro
• Tue, 7 Mar @ 19:45: Zumob #4 Squeeze your ideas!
• Thu, 9 Mar @ 18:00: Big Data, no lo acabo de entender By Ubiqum
• Thu, 9 Mar @ 19:00: Being a CTO in Barcelona and San Francisco by Santi Herrero
• Sat, 11 Mar @ 11:00: Hearth Day

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