Barcelona Startup News July 8

Hello and happy Monday!

We have some great events coming up so let’s jump in:

Barcelona Global: International Talent Monitor

The International Talent Monitor is aimed to internationals who decided to work, live, invest, create, and start up in Barcelona. Barcelona Global seeks to better know and understand internationals’ needs and challenges. Your opinion about Barcelona will help them to make our city a better place to work and live. Take the survey here.

10-11 July – FB & Ecommerce Mastery Live: Barcelona

This Wed & Thu the biggest ecommerce & Facebook ads experts from around the world will come to Barcelona to share their latest secrets, strategies and specific tactics at Facebook & Ecommerce Mastery Live. You can get your ticket here.

11 July – Startup Grind BCN hosts Carlos Pierre (Badi)

This Wednesday Startup Grind Barcelona will return with its ever-popular monthly event. In this edition, Carlos Pierre from the fast-growing and expanding startup Badi, which raised over €40M+ already, will be live on stage to share his experience and story. Get 40% off your ticket with the code: barcinnorocks

Wisepunk Conference moved to October 4th

The organizers of Wisepunk have informed us that they havemoved the date of the conference from this week to Friday, October the 4th. If you’ve already purchased the ticket, check your agenda and let the organizers know if you can’t make it. If you want to buy tickets for the new date, head over here to get them at a €30 discount.

Ok, that’s it from me. Have a great week and we’ll see you out there!

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

• Barcelona & Berlin-based Wind Mobility gets €44.5M
• Spain-based Ironhack receives a €3,5M investment
• Catalan travel tech startup Aervio raises €750K
• Spanish University biomed spin-off Aquilón CyL lands €546K
• Barcelona startup Project Lobster secures a €300K investment
• Catalan startup Tvisio, the ‘Spanish Chromecast’, is apparently in acquisition talks with Rakuten
• Barcelona startup TravelPerk teams up with Lufthansa for direct booking
• Catalan startup Broomx is displaying their 360° VR video projector to promote Sónar+D in Arc de Triomf station
• – Broomx will also be featuring the Immersive Hub at Sónar+D later this month

VC, investment & crowdfunding news:

• Spanish startups raised €1.4B in 2018, a 20% increase
• Startup investment in Spain: a modest league without macro funds
• The Catalan Institute of Finance, a public VC entity, launches two new funds called ICF Capital Expansio II & ICF Venture Tech II at €50M and €20M respectively
• Spanish private security company Prosegur launches new €30M fund to invest in security startups
• Capital Cell is currently managing 8 investment rounds to raise a total of €7.43M for several biotech companies
• Renta 4 Gestora and Bewater Funds register a new VC fund called Renta 4 Bewater I FCR with the CNMV

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories:

• Catalan startups ATOMSIM and Orchestra Scientific amongst 6 firms selected for Repsol’s accelerator program
• INCIBE selected 10 startups that will participate in Cybersecurity Ventures, its accelerator program
• LaLiga picks 10 finalists for 2019 Startup Competition

Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:

• Barcelona Tech City: profile & interview with CEO Miquel Martí
• eCooltra: sustainable mobility with CEO Oriol Marimon
• Joyners: online caregiving platform for elderly people
• Typeform: Paul Campillo, storyteller at Typeform talks about getting to brand market fit

Tech News

• Why Barcelona Is “The Blockchain City”
• APM Terminals invests €47M in the Port of Barcelona
• B-Wom’s female founders featured on Forbes Top 53 Women-Led Startups Disrupting HealthTech
• Seat achieves a record of more than 300K cars sold until June
• First glimpses of how the renovated Museu d’Història de Barcelona will look like
• Short Stay Summit to be launched in Barcelona

Newsworthy tech stories affecting all of Spain:

• Bitcoin is not a currency according to Spain’s Supreme Court 
• Spanish telco MasMovil joins the Ibex 35
• Spanish company ACS receives €1B bids for Zero-E, its renewable energy subsidiary
• Areas enters new stage of growth from Barcelona with the support of new shareholders PAI partners

Good Reads

• The growth of female investors and entrepreneurs in Spain
• How is an emerging technology evaluated? How is your potential determined?
• PSD2 will transform the future of banking: What you need to know
• Technology transfer: how to commercialize discoveries via linked innovation 

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GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Wed-Thu, 10-11 July: FB & Ecommerce Mastery Live
• Thu, 11 July @18:30: Startup Grind BCN hosts Carlos Pierre (Badi)
• Thu, 11 July @18:30: B-Table: Neuroelectrics – Futuro del Healthcare
• Thu, 11 July @18:30: Data Council Barcelona with Typeform, InfoJobs & Letgo
• Fri, 12 July @19:45: Holo and Holochain explained, by Arthur Brock and Eric Bear (Holo team)

See the full Event Calendar here

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STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

• AL Ventures is hiring a CTO/Co-founder
• IoMob is recruiting a:
• – Software Engineer – Mobile / React Native
• – UX/UI designer
• Carts Guru is looking for a Social Media & Content Specialist
• Bourbon Creative is hiring a Digital Marketer

See the full Job Board here

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Barcelona Startup News July 8 2019 cover all the latest stories about Barcelona’s Tech & Startup scene from July 2nd 2019 until July 8th, 2019. If you want to read more stories about the city’s startup, tech and innovation scene, check out all Barcelona startup news here.