Barcelona Startup News 11 November

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Ok, let’s take a look at the latest Barcelona startup news from this week: 

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS:

BARCELONA STARTUP NEWS

Startup & Investment News

Investment News

• Catalan e-mobility startup QEV Tech lands €17M
• Barcelona & San Francisco-basted startup Bigfinite gets €13.6M
  
• Barcelona startup Validated ID raises €2M for digital identity products
  
• Spanish startup Devengo receives a €1.2M investment
  
• Catalan startup Ulabox secures a €1M participatory loan
  
• Spanish startup Micappital closes €750K investment round
  
• Barcelona social impact startup Worldcoo lands €565K
  
• Spanish last-mile delivery startup Happy Box gets €400K
  
• ENISA received 1.132 applications for SME & startup loans in the first 8 months of this year
  
• Spanish startups raised a total of €32M in October

Startups News

• Glovo is opening a tech hub in Poland after gobbling a local food delivery rival
  
• Catalan firm Anaconda Biomed announces first-in-human study next-generation thrombectomy system
  
• Overview of the last-mile delivery market in Spain

VC, Investment & Crowdfunding News

• Barcelona-based Miura Private Equity launches Frutas, a €350M agribusiness fund, the largest in Europe
  
• tQuity gets a €250K capital injection to extend its portfolio to 20 companies in 2020

Open calls, Accelerator News & Incubator Stories

• Ship2B announces the 10 new startups selected for the 8th edition of its acceleration programs
  
• Mahou San Miguel is looking for startups for the 4th edition of BarLab; startup can apply until the 13th Dec
  
• Correos opens the call for the Lehnica III Challenge; startups can apply until the 13th of Dec
  
• Fundación Repsol is looking for social impact startups to join its €50M program; apply until 15th Dec here
  
• Start4big opens call and looks for startups that solve challenges of biometric authentication, x reality, smart city & circular economy; apply until December 20th

Barcelona Startup Profiles, Interviews & Success Stories

• Broomx: the world’s first immersive projector
  
• Neo: re-building corporate finance from the ground up
  
• Racetick: the booking.com of sporting events

Tech News

• US firm AAM opens new production plant in Catalonia & creates 300 jobs
• US firm Analog Devices acquires Catalan equipment monitoring company Test Motors
• SEAT eScooter concept set for Barcelona launch
• Barcelona uses technology to help manage overtourism
• The new aeronautical museum of Catalonia takes off strongly
• Barcelona might finally edge closer to ditch paper transport tickets for plastic cards as T-Mobilitat is set to be launched in April 2020
• Barcelona plans to install radars in areas with 30 km/h speed limit
• 84% of the properties available for sale in Barcelona are overvalued according to latest study

Banking News in Spain

• CaixaBank opens Barcelona flagship hub
  
• Banco Sabadell expects to get €50M for the sale of its custody business
  
• The Bank of Spain asks entities to detail their credit exposure to climate change

Tech News in Spain

• Uber and Cabify grow their market share following ‘taxi wars’
  
• Cabify and National Express emerge as large holders of VTC licenses in Spain
  
• The Spanish Government is exploring the creation of a new employment type for ‘riders’ – freelancers with more rights
  
• El Corte Inglés wants to reneogitate its debt for a second time in two years
  
• Spanish companies’ networks shut down as result of ransomware

Political & Economic News in Spain

• Spanish elections: Socialists win amid far right surge
  
• According to El Pais, fake Facebook pages in favor of the PP amount to €40K spend on ads
  
• – Here are more insights into how this false network operated
  
• The average salary in Spain grows at the fastest pace in a decade to reach €1.944/month (gross); but gender gap widens as women earn 21% less than men 
  
• The UK is the European country that invests the most in Spain

Good Reads

• ‘Made in Barcelona’: the avant-garde startups that you have to follow closely (by La Vanguardia)
  
• The Textile and Fashion Industry, a long-standing and dynamic part of Catalonia’s economy
  
• Insights into the life & challenges of Product Managers in Spain from 57 people survey
  
• Top 10 accelerators in the European ecosystem

Good Videos & Podcasts

• Itnig video interview with Eloi Gomez, CEO of Jeff
  
• Podcast: How does K Fund work (and a VC fund) work?
  
• Interview by Lunes Inspiradoras with Laura Gil, Digital Transformation Director at Damm

GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

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• Tue, 12 Nov @09:30: Sports Innovation Day
• Wed, 13 Nov @18:30: B-Boost: the 7 keys to financial success
• Thu, 14 Nov @09:00: Soft Skills Summit
• Thu, 14 Nov @18:30: Startup Grind BCN hosts Juan Zamora (Signaturit)
• Thu, 14 Nov @18:00: RecruITech Barcelona
• Thu, 14 Nov @19:00: Wild Code School Opening Party
• Fri, 15 Nov @19:30: TALK IT ALPHA #1: Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

• Mon, 18 Nov @18:30: DATA WEEK- Time series clustering: a real use case in the banking context
• Tue-Thu, 19-21 Nov: Smart City Expo World Congress
• Tue-Thu, 19-21 Nov: Smart Mobility Congress
• Tue-Thu, 19-21 Nov: Sharing Cities Stand Lab
• Fri, 22 Nov @18:00: Think Creatively In The Age of Digital Distractions – by a TEDx speaker

See the full Event Calendar here

STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

Job of the week: Cien is a Silicon Valley-style AI startup with offices in Barcelona, Miami and Dallas. They are growing fast and are looking for more awesome people… are you one of them? Then apply here for the sales performance consultant role.

• Choco is recruiting a Business Development Representative
  Cien is looking for a Sales Performance Consultant
  Arbolus is hiring a Community Associate
  OneCoWork is recruiting a Junior Accountant & a Community Associate
  Be.Green is looking for a Chief Executive Officer

See the full Job Board here

Barcelona Startup News November 11th 2019 cover all the latest stories about Barcelona’s Tech & Startup scene from November 11th 2019 until November 17th, 2019. If you want to read more stories about the city’s startup, tech and innovation scene, check out all Barcelona startup news here.