The news of the acquisition came last Wednesday and Mike Piech, vice president and general manager of middleware at Red Hat, wrote this in a blog post last night: "Given the fundamental importance of API management, I am ecstatic to share the news today that Red Hat is acquiring 3scale, with whom we’ve had a very successful collaboration for more than a year. The 3scale … [Read more...]
Bidaway Closed 1.5 Million To Take Their Bids Out Of Spain
Barcelona based Bidaway, a bidding startup that offers untraditional prizes such as signed Messi football shoes or what they call unrepeatable experiences, just closed a round of 1.5 million. The latest round was led by Mundi Ventures. Several business angels invested in this last round including ex-basketball player gone investor Ferrán Martínez. Bidaway started out … [Read more...]
Land The Startup Job Of Your Dreams Before Summer
The startup ecosystem in Barcelona is growing fast and so are a lot of the existing startups. They need talent and they need it now, before summer vacation hits Spain and the wheels stop spinning. So, if you've been thinking about joining one of Europe's most vibrant innovative ecosystems, you now have the chance! Barcinno has selected our three most interesting companies … [Read more...]
Jobandtalent Raises €37 Million Series B To Take Mobile Recruiting to SMEs
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...]
Julien Was Tired Of Bad Coffee And Founded Daysk, Co-Working By The Hour
Ever been in need of a good place to work for couple of hours, and even after trailing Google and TripAdvisor, not being able to find a suitable place? Two French founders in Barcelona had the same problem, and recently launched Daysk, the platform that lets you book a workspace by the hour. It also lets co-working spaces and cafés add free space on the platform, for … [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...]
iContainers – The Southwest Airlines Of The Freight Transporting Closed €6 Million
The Barcelona-based startup iContainers just closed one of the biggest rounds in Barcelona this year, with a total of €6 million led by Serena Capital. The company has been called a lot of different names, the Uber, the Expedia, or the Southwest Airlines of freight transport. But all names aside, iContainer wants to make easier than ever to move a container of goods … [Read more...]
Doctoralia Doubles In Size After Merger With DocPlanner
The Barcelona-based startup Doctoralia, an online booking platform for healthcare appointments, has merged with the Warsaw-based company DocPlanner. The two startups provide more or less the same type of services through their solutions, which also includes asking anonymous questions to medical personal and reviews of different doctors. In Spain they're market leaders … [Read more...]
Sara Berbel Is The New CEO Of Barcelona Activa
Barcelona Activa, the governmental arm that helps entrepreneurs and startups in the city have appointed a new leader. The new CEO, Sara Berbel, was appointed yesterday after the board of directors approved the decision. The new director has been praised by many in social media the last two days, and it's safe to say that many are pleased with having a woman at this … [Read more...]
Want To Work For A Tech Startup? We’ve Selected 3 Of Our Latest Positions
Are you looking for a startup where you can unleash your full potential? Your time is know! Recent numbers show that there is close to 900 vacant startup positions in Barcelona. New companies, trying to make a name for the themselves on the global arena. Luckily for you, we've picked out the three most interesting jobs we have on our Barcinno jobs board. Take a look, and … [Read more...]