Company: Donkey Republic Area: Transportation Location: Barcelona Job type: Sales & Business Development Job Description: We are expanding our fast growing team and seeking a business developer & account manager to help us fulfill our vision to be the world’s leading bike-sharing platform. It's exciting times for Donkey Republic as we are scaling our bike … [Read more...]
Uber EATS Seems To Be Launching In Barcelona – Again
Uber has more than often been connected with controversy and trouble in Barcelona. Even though most people, at least in the startup ecosystem, most are waiting for the black cars to return. Now, eight months after Uber EATS was shut down in Barcelona, it looks like they're trying again. Right now, the company has five vacant positions in the city, and they're all by … [Read more...]
JobsBCN Merges With Jobfluent To Help Startups Hire Developers
As most startups have already experienced, hiring developers is hard. And the better the developer you need, the harder they are to find. JobsBCN.com has grown massively within the startup jobs arena in Spain over the last year trying to solve that exact problem, and they are now expanding even further as they're merging with Jobfluent. The two companies will join … [Read more...]
Job App Wars: Cornerjob Raises $25M To Go All In Against Jobandtalent and JobToday
The blue collar jobs app, Cornerjob, closed another round of funding recently, this time they received €22.5 million led by VC firm Northzone. In addition, E.ventures and previous investors in the startup also participated in the latest funding round. Only few months ago, Cornerjob boxed €9 million in their series A, making their total funding this year €31.5 … [Read more...]
From Cassettes To Cutting Edge Technology – ABA English Raises €10.5 Mil And Goes To China
In Barcelona you can easily survive only speaking English, or at least Spanglish, but if you move out of the big cities your life will suddenly get a bit harder. ABA English wants to change this through their interactive language learning app, where they combine videos, personal teachers, and listen-record-compare technology, so everybody can connect through English. They … [Read more...]
Barcelona Tech Investments Recap: Q2 2016 – more than €30 million over 18 companies
The second quarter of tech investments in Barcelona was overshadowed by the merger between Wallapop and Letgo in the US market that resulted in Letgo raising a round of €90 million. However, there have been other encouraging examples from Barcelona, such as ABA English which raised 12 million from Nauta Capital and Kennet Partners. Other multimillion startup rounds include … [Read more...]
Bigle Legal Wants Your Startup To Stop Worrying About Legal Forms
The legal industry is one of the markets that is yet to be disrupted by technology. Even though many companies have made the effort to make lawyers' work more digital and easier through technology, it's still very traditional in its operations. For startups, legal service is expensive and many can't afford a lawyer the first years. Bigle Legal is a Barcelona legaltech … [Read more...]
Barcelona-based 3scale Acquired By Open Source Giant Red Hat
The news of the acquisition came last Wednesday and Mike Piech, vice president and general manager of middleware at Red Hat, wrote this in a blog post last night: "Given the fundamental importance of API management, I am ecstatic to share the news today that Red Hat is acquiring 3scale, with whom we’ve had a very successful collaboration for more than a year. The 3scale … [Read more...]
Bidaway Closed 1.5 Million To Take Their Bids Out Of Spain
Barcelona based Bidaway, a bidding startup that offers untraditional prizes such as signed Messi football shoes or what they call unrepeatable experiences, just closed a round of 1.5 million. The latest round was led by Mundi Ventures. Several business angels invested in this last round including ex-basketball player gone investor Ferrán Martínez. Bidaway started out … [Read more...]
Jobandtalent Raises €37 Million Series B To Take Mobile Recruiting to SMEs
Jobandtalent, the Spanish recruiting startup promising technological-driven employer-employee matchmaking, just raised a series B of €42 million. They closed their second series A of €23 million just last year, but after pivoting from enterprise recruitment to SME's this year they raised another round to compete directly with the big recruitment companies, such as Adecco and … [Read more...]