Barcelona Startup News June 12, 2017

Hello and Happy Monday! We hope you had a great weekend!

We’re very excited to announce that Online Geniuses has arrived in Barcelona! This global network of digital experts is launching the Barcelona chapter this Wednesday with Tracking & Hacking featuring the CMOs of Verse and Wallapop. Don’t miss it!

Sonar kicks off in Barcelona this week and along with it the Sonar+D Startup Garden. Check out the list of startups that will be presenting here.

If you haven’t grabbed your tickets yet, our friends at OneCoWork are raffling off 2 free tickets to Sonar By Night here.

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

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS:

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Startup & Investment News

• Barcelona startup Propertista raises €140k on Crowdcube
• Worktel receives a €100k investment through Fellow Funders
• British startup Zopa sets up development center in Barcelona
  • And the startup is looking for up to 40 talents in the city
• McDonald’s rolls out delivery service in Spain thanks to Glovo
• Two Catalan startups, Green Killer Weeds and Nutrinsect, selected for Orizont accelerator program
• Scytl CEO joins boardroom of Barcelona startup Roomonitor
• El Tenedor withdraws from Turkish market and goes to Asia
  • Interview with Marcos Alves, co-founder of El Tenedor
• Trovit founder Iñaki Ecenarro to launch education startup
• Andalusian AR startup Past View is comming to Barcelona
• Airbnb & Barcelona Tech City launch travel-tech competition
• InnoEnergy opened the call for Spanish energy startups
• Number of young entrepreneurs in Catalonia grows, matches European average
• The state of Spanish accelerators & incubators
• The media interviewed many female entrepreneurs this week:
  • Carlota Pi, co-founder of Barcelona startup Holaluz
  • Laura Urquizu, CEO of Barcelona startup Red Points
  • Gala Freixa, Catalan co-founder of paper startup Sheedo

Tech News

• 25 years of cluster policy in Catalonia, here are all the hubs
• El Prat airport installed virtual assistents for security controls
• Sonar+ is coming to Barcelona this week
• Amazon, SEAT & Bodegas Torres win logistic awards at SIL
• Banco Santander takes over ‘failing’ rival Banco Popular
  • Santander is selling its ‘call center’ Konecta for €600M
• Zalando, Privalia & Zara: Spain’s top 3 fashion online shops
• BMW launched an online store in Spain
• Barcelona’s iconic W Hotel to unveil its own recording studio
• Catalonia calls independence referendum for October
• Sports giant Nike moved its HQ in Barcelona to La Rotonda
• Apple’s 9 biggest announcements from WWDC 2017

Good Reads

• 5 Innovative Korean Startups To Look Out For In Barcelona
• How the Gig Economy is changing work conditions in Spain
• To sell, or not to sell (a startup)
• University spinoff companies, by Pere Condom
• The humble life of Zara owner Amancio Ortega

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GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Mon, 12 June @ 19:00: HackLab: All about Arduino
• Tue-Wed, 13-14 June @ 09:00: Innovation Growth Lab
• Wed, 14 June @ 19:00: Tracking & Hacking with OGs
• Wed, 14 June @ 19:00: The Grid Talks: Food Waste
• Thu, 15 June @ 19:00: Which algorithms to use & how
• Thu, 15 June @ 19:00: Rails Microservices at Scale
• Fri, 16 June @ 10:00: Las Personas como Motor de Transformación en las Empresas

See the full Event Calendar here

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STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

• The Barcelona Code School is recruiting a JavaScript Intern
• Printsome is looking for an Inside Sales Executive (English)
• Skyscanner is hiring Principal & Lead Engineers
• Xing is looking for a Software Engineer to join their team
• ElectricFeel is recruiting a Ruby on Rails Developer