A major event for the city’s business-minded expat community, Barcelona International Community Day returns this month for its 9th edition. For anyone within Barcelona’s talent ecosystem and especially for those looking to make breakthroughs and get connected, this free event is absolutely unmissable. Barcelona International Community Day 2022 will take place on Saturday … [Read more...]
How Barcelona Can Become the World’s Leading Blockchain Hub
This is a guestpost by GLOCAL students from the University of Barcelona - Jonny Amon, SzuTung Chen, Spencer Long & Ilayda Tenim - based on a report they made during their internship at PEMB. We can all agree that Barcelona has emerged as an international hub for tech startups in Europe. Between the city’s investment in various collaboration groups, a growing network of … [Read more...]
Heard@ Intrapreneurship Conference: Ambassadors Of Change
"There's no such thing as failure in intrapreneurship, just opportunities to pivot." With this one-liner, speaker Neil Fogarty kicked off and set the tone of the Intrapreneurship Conference in Barcelona. Over the course of two days, attendees from all over the world focused on asking the right questions and continued the conversation to help ‘trouble makers’ accelerate … [Read more...]
Heard@ Founder Institute: How Promising Entrepreneurs Globalize Silicon Valley
Yesterday the graduation ceremony of the Founder Institute was held in the World Mobile Centre. Four companies succeeded in finishing the program and are now recognized as promising entrepreneurs. Their companies will become an example of how Silicon Valley is being globalized and nurtures potential worldwide. The four graduates are: Ansquick In other words: answer … [Read more...]
Keiretsu @ Gild Presents 4 Barcelona Startups to Local Business Angels
Keiretsu Forum, the international network of business angels, has been operating in Spain since 2007 and their members have invested more than €7 million into 24 startups. Keiretsu private investors et al. gathered at Gild International for an evening of networking and startup presentations. Those presenting included: InAtlas – a geolocated R&D mapping application … [Read more...]