Mobile payment platform Verse, which operates from Barcelona and San Francisco, just announced the closure of a $20M investment round. The Series B funding comes just half a year after the company raised over $8M. The fresh financing round was led by the Spark Capital, a venture capital group from the USA that has previously invested in high-growth companies such as Twitter, … [Read more...]
SEAT Accelerator by Conector: The First Batch
Last week we followed the theme of Automobile Barcelona and took a closer look at the urban transport tech industry in Barcelona. Today we continue this trend by giving you an insight on SEAT Accelerator by Conector and their latest automobile startup graduates. Many Barcinno readers will probably have noticed that SEAT has been quite active in the Catalan startup and tech … [Read more...]
Barcelona AI startup Restb.ai closes €1,2M investment round for international expansion
Good news today! Our friends at Restb.ai, an image recognition AI startup from Barcelona, just announced that they have secured a €1,2M investment round. The funding comes from US-based investor Court Westcott LLC and Spanish VC’s Capitana Venture Partners, Lanta Capital, Athos Capital and Tandem Capital. Founded in the final months of 2015 and running through the … [Read more...]
Barcelona Startup News April 24, 2017
Hello and happy Monday! Like our new look? After about 5 seconds of deliberation, we moved from MailChimp to Revue. We hope you like it! (feedback welcome by hitting ‘reply’) Aaand since we’re being all introspective and nostalgic this morning, I’d like to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for reading and supporting Barcinno - we sent our first newsletter … [Read more...]
What Does It Mean To Be A Chief Technology Officer? (Infographic)
The following is a guest article by Alberto Betella, a Web & Mobile Solutions Architect, currently serving as the CTO of @Badiapp. He holds a PhD in Affective Computing & Adaptive Systems (ICT) and organizes the CTOs & Co Meetup group in Barcelona. Last month, Albert conducted a study of CTOs in Barcelona. Since then, 50 Barcelona-based Chief Technology Officers … [Read more...]
Roger Yee Thinks Spanish Entrepreneurs Should Focus On Europe, Not The US
We sat down with entrepreneur and investor Roger Yee as he was in Barcelona last week to mentor Spanish founders and entrepreneurs. Yee is based in Washington D.C and has founded and been CEO of several cyber security and open source companies, but he has also mentored and helped hundreds of early stage startup CEO’s over the last 7 years through Founder’s Institute. He … [Read more...]
The Benefits of an Owner Buy-Out For Digital Entrepreneurs
This is a guest post by Pierre Martini, Managing Partner at ISAI who is in charge of the of the Growth/LBO fund. Pierre started his career in the private equity industry at the Financière de Brienne. He then worked for the Corporate Advisory team at Deloitte before joigning 3i Group Plc in Paris where he managed several investments including EVE (acquired by Synopsys), Dibcom … [Read more...]
Why Corporate Card Management can be a Nightmare in a Growing Startup
As a startup founder your main focus is to develop your business. During the first stage, often called pre product/market fit, you want to iterate as fast as possible: on the product, on the acquisition channels, on your pricing model. The objective is to learn as much as possible from your customers. When you get your product/market fit, you want to focus on growing your team … [Read more...]
Julien Was Tired Of Bad Coffee And Founded Daysk, Co-Working By The Hour
Ever been in need of a good place to work for couple of hours, and even after trailing Google and TripAdvisor, not being able to find a suitable place? Two French founders in Barcelona had the same problem, and recently launched Daysk, the platform that lets you book a workspace by the hour. It also lets co-working spaces and cafés add free space on the platform, for … [Read more...]
How Subasta de Ocio Became Spain’s Fastest Growing Startup (Almost) By Coincidence
Subasta de Ocio has taken the Spanish love for good bargains and the lottery, and made it into a rapid growing business, serving not only the people, but businesses in the country as well. The company was founded in Barcelona in 2012 by two Dutch guys, Marc Zinck Stagno and Mark Knapen, and the current board also include Julian Gardner and Roel Spee. Subasta de Ocio have … [Read more...]