Barcelona Startup News February 18 2019

Hello and happy Monday, I hope you had a great weekend! We’re just 1 week away from Barcelona’s biggest tech event of the year.

How are you spending your MWC week?

I’ll be at the OneCoWork pop-up coworking stand @4YFN. Come find me in the Startup Area and take a break from the networking madness in our chill out zone.

VC Night after Mobile World Congress

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Ironhack: The Future Of Tech Education

Barcinno is proud to announce a half-year partnership with Ironhack, the leading UX Design & Tech School. To find out more about Ironhack and how they are changing the way we learn about technology in Barcelona and beyond, read our latest article here.

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Ok, let’s take a look at the latest Barcelona startup news from this week:

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS:

BARCELONA STARTUP NEWS

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona startup Datumize raises €1.8M Series A funding to unlock the smart data market
Catalan biotech startup Aromics secures a €1M investment
Catalan gym chain Clubs DiR raised €550K on Crowdcube
Barcelona startup Onebox becomes exclusive ticketing partner for the Davis Cup 2019 & 2020
Catalan medtech startup SmartSalus now offers over 400K medical services via its platform
Barcelona startup Cooltra closes 2018 with a 70% increase in revenues
A couple of Barcelona startups suffered security breaches:
– Glovo has apparantly suffered a security breach with a dozen users reporting that their credit cards were used for unauthorized purchases
– Glovo denies the news of a security breach, points to Facebook account theft & promises to reimburse all users affected
– Holaluz was also affected by a data breach as private data (CUPS) of thousands of consumers were exposed
15 Spanish startups are nominated for European Startup Prize for Mobility, one third comes from Barcelona
ACCIO launches the #RoadToBarcelona program
Legaltech startup accelerator Cuatrecasas Acelera celebrated demo day in Barcelona; meet the participating startups here
Several Barcelona-based talents were listed in Forbes 30 under 30 list:
– Badi co-founder & CEO Carlos Piere was featured on the ‘Big Money’ cagegory
– FB Ads expert Patrick Wind made it into the ‘Media & Marketing’ category
Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:
– Heura: the ‘vegetarian meat’ that everyone talks about
– Neurafy: developing tailored AI assistants that adjust 100% to what users need
– Demium Startups: “We’re going to be a firm worth €16M in the next 10 years.”, Jaime Vázquez, Incubation Program Director

Tech News

Good Reads

GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

Tue, 19 Feb @8:30: Breakfast financing: Key aspects in the evaluation of international investments
Tue, 19 Feb @10:00: Mobile technology in the business world: a look into the future
Wed, 20 Feb @17:30: MASTEAM Talks: Where is the Ethernet port? From the IoT laboratory to the real world
Thu, 21 Feb @9:00: SaaS & B2B Sales Bootcamp
Thu, 21 Feb @9:30: GoNano Innovation and Co-Creation Workshop: Nanotechnology for Energy
Thu, 21 Feb @18:00: DataCity: When data becomes a key resource to tackle urban challenges

See the full Event Calendar here

STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

Stuart is recruiting a Front-end Engineer
Sage Corps is hiring a Barcelona City Manager (English/Spanish)
Iomob is looking for a:
– Blockchain Engineer
– Software Engineer – Backend
– React Native Mobile Software Engineer
Touchstream is hiring a Python Developer

See the full Job Board here

Barcelona Startup News February 18 2019 cover all the latest stories about Barcelona’s Tech & Startup scene from February 11th 2019 until February 18th, 2019. If you want to read more stories about the city’s startup, tech and innovation scene, check out all Barcelona startup news here.