Barcelona Startup News May 20 2019

Hello and happy Monday! The Barcelona startup ecosystem is buzzing as we head into summer. A few items to note before we get into the weekly update:

June 4th: Startup Grind Barcelona with Typeform

Startup Grind is back with another of its awesome monthly events. This time they’ll be welcoming Paul Campillo, the storyteller and mastermind behind Typeform’s recent rebranding. Paul will discuss “Why getting to product-market fit is no longer enough in 2019 and beyond”. Of course, you’ll get to enjoy the popular open-mic session before and the relaxed networking after the event too. Get your tickets now here

iStack Training: The Ecommerce Event You Can’t Miss

iStack’s Ecommerce Mastery Live returns to Barcelona this July for two days of ecommerce training. Featuring a star-studded lineup of expert speakers, the iStack team promise to deliver unparalleled ecommerce training to help you take your ecommerce business to the next level. Here’s why you can’t miss the event if you’re serious about growing your e-commerce business. Get 25% off your two-day pass with the Discount Code: barcinno25

10 Fintech Startups Putting Barcelona On The Map

Barcelona is home to some of the most exciting fintech startups in the world. Together, they are leading the financial services industry into a new era of transparency, speed and digitalisation. In case you’re not aware of the innovators disrupting the financial services industry here, we’ve rounded up a list of the most exciting fintech startups in Barcelona here.

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

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS:

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BARCELONA STARTUP NEWS

Startup & Investment News

• Spain-based startup Plastic Repair System raises €1.5M
• Spanish startup Guesser closes a €1M investment round
• Spain-based football streaming platform Footters lands €900K
• Catalan firm CreatSens gets €125K to develop its prototype
• Barcelona-based fintech startup Goin expands to Italy
• Barcelona startup Reloadly secures a €100K investment
• Catalan startup Iomob crowned as one of three winners of Sweden’s Sustainable Mobility Challenge
• Barcelona firm Venvirotech Biotechnology wins Investment Fòrum d’Inversió d’ACCIÓ
• Barcelona startup GlyCardial Diagnostics wins Premios EmprendedorXXI in the Health Tech category
• Glovo exits Brazil & Chile, focuses on Peru & Ecuador instead
• Catalan biotech startups raised a total investment volume of €106M in 2018, a 1.9% increase

VC & investment news:

• Spanish VC All Iron Ventures closes new €80M fund
• Barcelona biotech firm Inkemia launches new €8M fund & plans to invest in 24 Spanish life science companies
• Aquilino Peña, founding partner of Kibo Ventures, has been named vice president of the Spanish Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (ASCRI) 

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories:

• Barcelona-based VrTech Events is opens call for its 3rd annual Start-Up Competition which focuses on vacation rental tech
• Lanzadera welcomes 28 new startups to its program, bringing the total number to over 300

Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:

• Shopery: the startup that helps you create your own Amazon
• Kasaz: the past, present and future of this proptech startup
• Reloadly: CEO Michel Francis shares his experience of taking part, winning and raising funds at Bbooster Week
• TravelPerk: CEO Avi Meir was featured on tech.eu’s podcast

Tech News

• How will Brexit affect Catalonia?
• UK firm Meniga, a leading provider of digital banking solutions, is opening its newest office in Barcelona
• Catalan firm Acoustics & Insulation Techniques opens its first manufacturing facility in the US
• Catalan firm Mediapro purchases the rest of Fandroid, owners of the LVP (Liga de Videojuegos Profesiona) for €22M
• ICF and Triodos Bank co-finance A Contracorriente Films’s acquisition of Verdi’s cinemas in Barcelona
• Spanish firms that invested in automation and robotics between 1990-2016 increase their teams by 10%

Major event news in Barcelona:

• Barcelona is hosting Europe’s main event for biotechnology investors, Bio€quity 2019, this week
• 800K people attended the Automobile Barcelona event last week
• Barcelona is hosting the Retail Brand Experience World Congress from 26-29 of May this year

New daily work hour tracking law in Spain:

• New Spanish law forces employees to keep records of the hours they work each day; first inspections are already taking place
• Here are a few firms that developed solutions for work hour tracking, including Barcelona firms Factorial & Woffu

Telco news in Spain:

• MásMóvil receives offers from KKR to enter the Portuguese market through Nowo
• Movistar launches Movistar Car, a new service that lets you connect your car to the internet for €3 per month

More strikes affecting public transport in & around Barcelona:

• Metro workers go on strike again this Monday, forcing subways to run at minimum capacity during peak hours
• Due to a strike, FGC trains will run at only 50% capacity at rush hours (7-9 & 17-19) on Mondays (20th & 27th of May)

Good Reads

• Top 10 Barcelona Fintech Startups To Watch This Year
• The World’s 4 Most Unusual Coworking Spaces (Forbes mentions one place from Barcelona)
• iStack Training – The Ecommerce Event You Can’t Afford to Miss

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GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Tue, 21 May @ 18:30: CEO Bootcamp
• Wed, 22 May @15:00: EETAC Talks: Bringing cinema at home, Guillem Cabrera (Rakuten TV)
• Thu, 23 May @19:00: Experience Economy
• Fri, 24 May @13:30: APIs for humans and other beings

See the full Event Calendar here

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STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

• Carts Guru is hiring a:
• – Social Media & Content Specialist
• – Community & Growth Hacker
• L+R is looking for a Mobile Engineer
• Tropicfeel is recruiting a Head of Digital Growth
• Bourbon Creative is hiring a Junior Digital Marketer

See the full Job Board here

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Barcelona Startup News May 20 2019 cover all the latest stories about Barcelona’s Tech & Startup scene from May 13th 2019 until May 20th, 2019. If you want to read more stories about the city’s startup, tech and innovation scene, check out all Barcelona startup news here.