Barcelona Startup News June 6, 2017

Hello and happy…Tuesday. We hope you had a great holiday weekend and enjoyed some good music at Primavera Sound (or Primavera Unexpected).

This Thursday, Techstars is in town to promote their new hospitality accelerator and interview some of Barcelona’s most accomplished entrepreneurs in the sector.

If you happen to be in the Bay Area, there will be wine & tapas at the Thirsty Bear downtown SF on Wednesday at 5pm to discuss the latest updates in the Barcelona startup ecosystem, hosted by Inlea.

There are a bunch of great events happening in Barcelona during this short week so let’s great right to it!

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

• Catalan startup Linkcare acquired by Chinese firm for €5M
• Travel tech startup Beonprice secures a €1.4M investment
• Barcelona-based HR SaaS startup Factorial brings in €500k
• Surfing tech startup Glassy lands €350k via crowdfunding
• Micaton Ergonomics gets €245k investment via Crowdcube
• Glovo continues their expansion throughout Catalunya
• Datumize crowned best Catalan fintech startup by BBVA
• Eelp! appoints Álex Diaz as new CEO, set to raise €500k
• Catalan firm Deporvillage closed year with €22M in revenues
• Barcelona startup Mailtrack earns over €1M per year
• Catalan firm Lleida.net launches new staff stock options plan
• Barcelona-based Groupalia laid off most of its employees
  • Is this the end of the coupon startup?
• Catalan proptech startup Housfy gets ready to go abroad
• ESADE & Ashoka team up to foster social entrepreneurship
• Investment in Spanish startups totalled €156M, almost breaking last month’s record figure of €160M

Tech News

• First police robot officers are Catalan & made by PALRobotics
• Tech Bus Concept Introduced in Barcelona – free Wi-Fi for all
• Barcelona cracks down on illegal Airbnb rental apartments
• Taxi drivers protested against Uber & Cabify in Barcelona
  • How Uber is growing in Spain despite legal roadblocks
  • Uber is moving Spanish HQs from Barcelona to Madrid
  • Telefónica’s ex-CEO denounces Uber & Cabify for not paying taxes
  • This is how much (or rather little) they really pay
• Telefónica to open new building for its eSports offering
• 6 breathtaking Barcelona offices & workplaces
• Snapchat kicks-off Spectacles sales in Spain in Maremagnum
• New low-cost airline LEVEL starts long-haul services from Barcelona with Los Angeles flight
• Spanish media giant Atresmedia acquired Smartclip Latam
• Lionel Messi will get his own amusement park in China

Good Reads

• Elon Musk: The Secret Behind His Insane Drive
• How to get under the skin of your users with UX research
• Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design
• Interview with Ventura Barba, Director of Sonar+d
• “People should control their digital identity”, Barcelona CTO

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GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Tue, 6 June @ 19:00: Monthly Ethereum Meetup
• Wed, 7 June @ 09:00: KIMconference 2017
• Wed, 7 June @ 18:00: Barcelona Blockchain Spring Meetup!
• Wed, 7 June @ 19:00: Grid Workshops: The Conscious Sale
• Wed, 7 June @ 19:15: Wagon Talk with Amleto Montinari
• Thu, 8 June @ 18:30: Learn to Code your Website in 2 hours
• Thu, 8 June @ 19:45: Techstars Presents: Disruptors in Hospitality Tech
• Sat, 10 June @ 10:00: Learn to Code your First Website

See the full Event Calendar here

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STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

• 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
• LoveToKnow is hiring a Sr Web Engineer (Telecommute)