Hello and happy Monday! I hope you had a relaxing weekend recovering from another successful MWC19 week. A few items to note as we head into Spring:
Startup Guide is finally working on it’s BCN edition & needs your help!
Nominations are now open for Startup Guide Barcelona! Know an inspiring startup, founder, space, program, school or investor in the BCN? Nominate them here by March 18th so they can be featured in the official entrepreneur handbook!
Doing Good Doing Well Conference
Network with the leading minds in responsible business at the 16th Annual Doing Good Doing Well Conference (DGDW 2019) on March 4th-5th! Read more about the event here & get 25% off your ticket with the discount code: BARCINNO.
Know an inspiring startup, founder, space, school or program in Barcelona? Nominate them now so they can be featured in the upcoming handbook!
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
- Barcelona legaltech startup elAbogado raises €800K
- Spanish startup Minimalism closes an undisclosed funding round
- Spanish fintech firm Credimarket gets acquired for €30M by German media group Bauer
- Barcelona chatbot startup Hubtype becomes official business solution provider for WhatsApp Business
- Catalan startup Tapp Water triples sales figures and prepares a new investment round
- Barcelona startup Wallapop is trying to sneak into the real estate market
- Catalan startup Marfeel collaborates with AppNexus & Rubicon project to develop server-to-server header bidding technology
- Barcelona proptech startup Housfy expands to Italy
- Israel-based startup Nanolock Security wins the 2019 4YFN Barcelona Startup of the Year award
- Bewater Funds chooses Barcelona-based startup Mailtrack to launch its fifth collective investment fund
- A list of a few Spanish social startups that change the world for the better
- Almost 100 Spanish companise made it into The FT 1000, the annual list of Europe’s fastest-growing companies
- Open calls for startups:
- Spanish startups raised just €12M in the month of February; Barcelona startups accounted for 85% of that figure
- Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:
- Onebox: the Barcelona startup transforming the ticketing industry
- Boxmotions: the ‘storeroom in the cloud’ that won the 4YFN startup of the year award
- BroomX: immersive experience technology that was featured on Mobile World Live TV (Video)
- Vilynx: one of the most promising startups in the world according to GSMA
Tech News
- Silicon Valley-based blockchain startup accelerator ProteumX opens office in Barcelona, teams up with Alastria
- Catalan bank Banco Sabadell invests €200M+ in startups
- Mobile World Congress 2019 Review:
- GSMA wraps up hugely successful MWC19: 109K visitors, €473M GDP boost & 14K part-time job creation
- Bots, buds and kitty toilets: Top gadgets at Mobile World Congress
- CNET also made a comprehensive coverage of all must-see stories & latest products
- MWC 2019: Barcelona aftermath – a look at the unofficial parts of the event
- Cabify was apparantly “vetoed” from participating at 4YFN or MWC19, as scheduled keynote speech was cancelled
- 4YFN recorded 23K+ visitors and featured 760 companies this year
- Barcelona uses tourist tax to make improvements in the city’s neighborhoods
- The salaries of Barcelona women are 21.8% lower than those of men
- Barcelona declares war on empty buildings
- Spain plans to grant residency to 400,000 Britons if there is a hard Brexit
- Spanish people return 5.43% of products bought in marketplaces
- Spain received record-breaking 4.2 million tourists in January
- Unenployment in Spain rose slightly by 3279 people in February, in spite of 69K new jobs created
- Spain has been named the healthiest country in the world according to Bloomberg
- BBVA presents Future Planner, the first tool that helps plan the future through a smartphone
- Spanish telco news
Good Reads
- Mind the Bridge & Acciona published their “Tech Scaleup 2018” report
- Barcelona’s Super Computing Center in a chapel
- Small ideas that generate millions in revenue
GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK
- Mon-Tue, 4-5 Mar @19:00: IESE Doing Good Doing Well (DGDW) Conference 2019
- Wed, 6 Mar @10:00: Data visualization workshop
- Wed, 6 Mar @18:00: Founder Institute Barcelona: DemoDay
- Thu, 7 Mar @9:30: GoNano Innovation and Co-Creation Workshop: Nanotechnology for Energy
- Thu, 7 Mar @19:00: Deciphering the Mobile World Congress 2019: fiction or reality
See the full Event Calendar here
STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA
- Startup Guide is hiring a Freelance Writer
- Zinc is looking for an Office Manager
- Stuart is recruiting a Front-end Engineer
- Sage Corps is hiring a Barcelona City Manager (English/Spanish)
- Chilliprinting is recruiting an Online Marketing & Business Development Intern
- Iomob is looking for a:
- – Blockchain Engineer
- – Software Engineer – Backend
- – React Native Mobile Software Engineer
- Touchstream is hiring a Python Developer
See the full Job Board here
Barcelona Startup News March 4 2019 cover all the latest stories about Barcelona’s Tech & Startup scene from February 25th 2019 until March 4th, 2019. If you want to read more stories about the city’s startup, tech and innovation scene, check out all Barcelona startup news here.
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