Barcelona Startup News – April 3, 2017

April 3, 2017 by Clemens Rychlik Leave a Comment

Hello, we hope you had a great weekend! One of these days it’s going to be sunny and 22º on a Saturday so we can enjoy it on our day off…

Anyhoo, we have some great events this week in Barcelona!

First, Orchestrate on Thursday the 6th – the one-day conference dedicated to devops culture, orchestrate and related technologies. Barcinno readers save 20%.

Then, on Friday, NodeConf Barcelona returns and you can save on tickets using the code, yup you guessed it: Barcinno

On Thursday night, join me & 78 of my friends for an expert roundtable in digital marketing featuring the Marketing Directors from 3 of Barcelona’s fastest-growing companies: Kantox, DEXMA & Talent Clue.

Pitch @Sonar 2017!

Sonar+d has extended their call for startups for this year’s Startup Garden Pitch Contest until April 17th. Apply to pitch your startup at Sonar 2017!

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

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS:

Startup & Investment News

Holiday accomodation finder Hundredrooms has closed a €4M investment round
Barcelona’s leisure auction firm Subasta de Ocio received a €2M investment from CNBB
Spanish startup Trappit raised €2M to expand its flight cost optimization tool abroad
Fintech firm Bnext secured a €300k funding on Crowdcube to develop tech & business
Social startup AUARA closed a €212k funding round on equity crowdfunding platform
Food startup ApetEat raised €200k, its third investment round, to accelerate growth
The HQ of Barcelona startup Billy Mobile was raided by police amidst phone fraud case
Barcelona startups CornerJob, Meller & Typeform among Spain’s 5 most promising ones
Spain’s CDTI invested €219M into 106 R&D & innovation projects related to technology
Spain’s government approved to hand out loans worth €800M to R&D projects in 2017
91% of business angels in Spain are men, 1/3 each coming from Barcelona & Madrid
The 10 participants from NUMA Barcelona pitched at a Demo Day in Madrid last week
UberEats, Deliberry, DelSuper and Glovo talk about Spain’s online food delivery market
Sonia Fernández from Kibo Ventures explains why they invested in Barcelona firm Vilynx

Tech News

Good Reads

GOOD READ #1: How to assign stock options in early-stage startups
GOOD READ #2: A guide for understanding Product Managers through their skills
GOOD READ #3: The successful Spanish entrepreneurs that everybody pays attention to
GOOD READ #4: “Maturity of Venture Capital in Spain”, report by Webcapitalriesgo

GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

Mon, 3 Apr @ 19:30: Robo Advisors de wealth management by BolsaValles
Tue, 4 Apr @ 19:00: Tech companies are designed to grow fast, but how fast is yours?
Wed, 5 Apr @ 18:00: Del conflicto a la transformación by Cristina Cárdenas
Wed, 5 Apr @ 19:00: CEOTalk with Oscar Pierre, CEO of Glovo
Wed, 5 Apr @ 19:00: Run your own Design Sprint on Spring
Thu, 6 Apr @ 10:00: Orchestrate – The DevOps Conference
Thu, 6 Apr @ 19:00: Digital Marketing Roundtable feat. Kantox, DEXMA & Talent Clue
Fri, 7 Apr @ 19:00: Barcelona Nodeconf 2017

See the full Event Calendar here

STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

See the full Job Board here

Even more hot fire from Barcinno:

About Clemens Rychlik

Clemens Rychlik is an Austrian citizen of Polish origin living in Spain. After growing up in Vienna and living in Sheffield, Dublin, Brussels and Madrid, he settled in Barcelona to enjoy great weather, food and the beach. As a CEMS Master in International Management graduate from UCD Dublin he works as Content Marketing Manager at Bourbon Creative and Barcinno and helps startups to grow internationally. When he is not developing a content strategy for SMEs, you can find him playing football or running in BCN to prepare for the next Marathon. Follow him @ClemensRychlik or on LinkedIn.

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