Walk into the offices of Startupbootcamp Barcelona and you'll find little evidence that a leading global accelerator used to call the space home less than 3 weeks ago. Even during the final month of this year's program, the office felt eerily quiet and empty. It was a such drastic change from the excitement and clamour of the first year when mentor meetings and expert workshops … [Read more...]
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4YFN 2017 Review: Bigger And More Corporate Than Ever Before
As the biggest startup event in Spain closed their doors this year, a total of 19,523 attendants were counted, which means the fastest growing tech event in Europe, grew more than 60% from last year’s event. What started as a small local event with a couple of thousand Spaniards, is now turning into something global, and that’s exciting. Trade show or tech show As 4YFN … [Read more...]
Roger Yee Thinks Spanish Entrepreneurs Should Focus On Europe, Not The US
We sat down with entrepreneur and investor Roger Yee as he was in Barcelona last week to mentor Spanish founders and entrepreneurs. Yee is based in Washington D.C and has founded and been CEO of several cyber security and open source companies, but he has also mentored and helped hundreds of early stage startup CEO’s over the last 7 years through Founder’s Institute. He … [Read more...]
Uber EATS Seems To Be Launching In Barcelona – Again
Uber has more than often been connected with controversy and trouble in Barcelona. Even though most people, at least in the startup ecosystem, most are waiting for the black cars to return. Now, eight months after Uber EATS was shut down in Barcelona, it looks like they're trying again. Right now, the company has five vacant positions in the city, and they're all by … [Read more...]
JobsBCN Merges With Jobfluent To Help Startups Hire Developers
As most startups have already experienced, hiring developers is hard. And the better the developer you need, the harder they are to find. JobsBCN.com has grown massively within the startup jobs arena in Spain over the last year trying to solve that exact problem, and they are now expanding even further as they're merging with Jobfluent. The two companies will join … [Read more...]
Job App Wars: Cornerjob Raises $25M To Go All In Against Jobandtalent and JobToday
The blue collar jobs app, Cornerjob, closed another round of funding recently, this time they received €22.5 million led by VC firm Northzone. In addition, E.ventures and previous investors in the startup also participated in the latest funding round. Only few months ago, Cornerjob boxed €9 million in their series A, making their total funding this year €31.5 … [Read more...]
From Cassettes To Cutting Edge Technology – ABA English Raises €10.5 Mil And Goes To China
In Barcelona you can easily survive only speaking English, or at least Spanglish, but if you move out of the big cities your life will suddenly get a bit harder. ABA English wants to change this through their interactive language learning app, where they combine videos, personal teachers, and listen-record-compare technology, so everybody can connect through English. They … [Read more...]
Barcelona Tech Investments Recap: Q2 2016 – more than €30 million over 18 companies
The second quarter of tech investments in Barcelona was overshadowed by the merger between Wallapop and Letgo in the US market that resulted in Letgo raising a round of €90 million. However, there have been other encouraging examples from Barcelona, such as ABA English which raised 12 million from Nauta Capital and Kennet Partners. Other multimillion startup rounds include … [Read more...]
Crowdcube Is Raising Its Biggest Round So Far – £5 Million From Its Members
The crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, located in London, Exeter and Barcelona, is raising a new round of funding to help facilitate crowdfunding for more startups in Spain and the UK. So far Crowdcube has raised £12.8 million, including £1.2 million from their members in 2014. The platform has helped over 400 startups get funded and over 290,000 investors have participated … [Read more...]
Bigle Legal Wants Your Startup To Stop Worrying About Legal Forms
The legal industry is one of the markets that is yet to be disrupted by technology. Even though many companies have made the effort to make lawyers' work more digital and easier through technology, it's still very traditional in its operations. For startups, legal service is expensive and many can't afford a lawyer the first years. Bigle Legal is a Barcelona legaltech … [Read more...]