In May 2007, a group of 30 European investors founded Seedcamp as a pan-European London-based accelerator to provide startups with seed money, mentorship, office space and support over a yearlong program. In 2013, they took to the road in their new mini Seedcamp model to find the most promising startups across Europe and grow their portfolio. Yesterday, Seedcamp came to … [Read more...]
BrandCont Raises Funding from 500 Startups, Inception Capital and Angels
500 Startups, Inception Capital and a bunch of well known business angels have invested into BrandCont, the innovative marketplace for native advertising. The Spanish startup, based out of Bilbao and Madrid, has just arrived to California where the online publicity platform will offer an innovative solution to brands and media channels to develop native … [Read more...]
LaSalle Tech Demo Day Shows Off Barcelona Innovation
Tomorrow LaSalle University will be hosting their 4th edition of Tech Demo Day featuring 100 of Barcelona’s fastest-growing tech startups, 55+ investors, and more than 500 attendees catching a preview of the next wave of tech innovation to come out of Barcelona. This year’s event promises to surpass last year’s turnout as LaSalle has partnered with the popular monthly meetup … [Read more...]
6 Challenges To Improve Barcelona: Entrepreneurs Needed!
At Barcinno, our objective is to shine a spotlight on Barcelona's innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship activity to the rest of the world. Why? Because we believe that the Barcelona ecosystem has a great foundation to become a major global hub for technological growth and forward-thinking progress. There are incubators, investors, progressive technological startups and … [Read more...]
4 Meetup Events This Week For Barcelona Entrepreneurs
This post has been adopted from the Barcelona Internet Startup Meetup group newsletter about this week's events and activity in the Barcelona startup ecosystem. Barcelona Internet Startups was founded in January 2011 and is now one of the fastest growing startup communities in Spain. The purpose of this group is to bring together members of the local and international community … [Read more...]
Meet The 7 Barcelona Startups Pitching To Startup World (Part 2)
Startup World selected seven finalists to pitch their idea on stage in the Barcelona Activa Auditorium. And what happened? The auditorium was too small. People were standing to be inspired by the pitches and learn from the jury’s feedback, so that is already a success before even getting started. With the help of Barcelona-based Startup World advisor Jeroen Kemperman, the … [Read more...]
When You Work At A Startup Tumblr Blog
As part of our retroactively prolific "Fudge it, it's Friday" sessions, we have the great pleasure to announce our newest addition. I hope you are ready as this one is going to be a blast. Drum roll, da da da daaaa…. Without further ado, Barcinno presents "When You Work At A Startup" - CLICK HERE, CLICK HERE! We'll do our best to keep it updated with fresh, hilarious … [Read more...]
Last Chance To Apply For SeedRocket E-Campus IX
SeedRocket’s most important event of the year is less than 4 weeks away and entrepreneurs who want to be considered for the investment strategy crash course only have 3 days left to apply. The SeedRocket Campus has evolved over the years and has now partnered with Bertelsmann to offer seed round investments of up to €150k to the most promising Spanish startups in the ICT … [Read more...]
Apartum: your saving grace for holiday rentals
Remember the last time you planned a trip somewhere? Maybe you were lucky enough to hit the Samba shaking, caipirinha drinking shores of the beloved Rio de Janeiro or possibly a romantic weekend getaway to Paris. Whatever the weather, there is no doubt that your quest to find a holiday apartment was pretty damn difficult, laborious and time-consuming. You surely spent hours and … [Read more...]
How NOT to pitch your startup
Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Steve Zucker-Page from Silicon Valley. He is the founder of Binipple and has just moved to Spain to launch the European operations from the Haleblazer accelerator in Barcelona. If you have any questions for Steve then please send them to stevestheman@binipple.com. Nice to meet you Steve, you have 30 seconds to tell me what your … [Read more...]