Thingthing is the keyboard app that wants to boost your productivity, letting you attach documents, photos, calendar availabilities and more while chatting and emailing - all of it inside your keyboard. The company just closed a round of €350.000 from VC's such as Saatchinvest, Pioneers Ventures, Seedcamp and Simile Venture Partners, but also from several angel … [Read more...]
Bootstrapping TutoTOONS Has 100 Million Reasons To Be Happy
The Barcelona-based game house TutoTOONS has reached their biggest milestone so far - 100 million downloads of their games. The startup has bootstrapped its way from the start in Lithuania, where they launched (and have their HQ), and now two and half years later, they're still without funding, but still going strong. Since early 2014 the game house has released over 200 … [Read more...]
Why This Vice President Left J.P. Morgan To Build Fluttr: “LinkedIn With A Heart”
Most of us have dreams or adventures we hope to carry out during our lifetime, but often times the responsibilities of our daily life and current career track gets in our way. But some ideas are just too good to let go, too exciting to put off doing any longer. Amleto Montinari had an idea like this, and left his jet-setting life as Vice President of Strategy at J.P. … [Read more...]
Barcelona CleanTech Camp Calls for Startups
Barcelona is yet again striving to make the city smarter and cleaner with the use of technology, this time with the launch of a CleanTech Camp to support ideas, entrepreneurs and startups that work within the field of clean energy and sustainable cities. So if you have an idea or a startup making the world a greener place, this might be your chance. The camp is a … [Read more...]
Virtual Personal Trainer – Mammoth Hunters Closed A Round Of €324,210
The round was closed through the crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, and went better than the founders expected. The startups goal was to raise €300.000. Mammoth Hunters offers a personal trainer through their app, which is especially designed for people that have little or no time to go to the gym. This last round is the second of two funding rounds for the startup, … [Read more...]
Car Sharing Platform Drivy Raises €31 Million
Drivy, one of Europe's leading P2P car rental companies have closed a series C of €31 million. The fresh investment will go to further expansion in Europe and the rest of the world, but also to develop their technology. The latest round was mainly led by Cathay Innovation and Nokia Growth Partner, but also already existing shareholders have participated, such as Index … [Read more...]
Airbnb’s New User-Generated Guidebooks Challenges (but may also help) Barcelona Startups
It's been a fact for a while that Airbnb is testing the waters for offering services, and not only accommodation through their $25.5 billion (current value) P2P marketplace. For Barcelona, one of Europe's hottest tourist destinations, this means new challenges (or possibilities) for homegrown startups in the city offering experiences to visitors, such as Trip4real and … [Read more...]
Startup Grind Celebrated Two Years In Barcelona
The Estrellan Damm venue in Barcelona was so full it left people standing on the sides, all of them there to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of Startup Grind. The monthly event has been growing steadily over the two years, and gathered well over 200 people Thursday evening, where Trovit founder Iñaki Ecenarro spoke on his experiences and the €80 million sale of Trovit in … [Read more...]
The Crowded Boat Rental Market – CEO: “someone will die”
A market that has been growing more and more crowded the last years in is the on demand marketplace for boat-rentals. There is a long history for yacht rentals in southern Spain, and there are hundreds of small companies controlling a small amount of boats. However, the last years there has been big changes in the sector, and startups as Boatbureau and Nautal has totally … [Read more...]
Barcelona Startup Lodgify Closes A Round Of €1.4 Million
Lodgify, the Vacation Rental Startup that offers a software solution that drives direct bookings for vacation rental, just recently closed a round of 1.4 million. The round was led by local VC Nauta Capital, but investors from prior rounds, including Chris Hitchen, HOWZAT Partners and Roland Zeller, also participated. The last time we wrote about Lodgify was back in … [Read more...]