Barcelona Startup News July 15

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You may have noticed that Barcelona healthtech startups have been making a lot of noise lately. We took some time to dig deeper and identify the main players in the BCN ecosystem. To find out more, check out our latest article on “The 14 Most Disruptive Barcelona Healthtech Startups”.

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Ok, that’s it from me. Have a great week and we’ll see you out there!

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

THIS WEEK’S HIGHLIGHTS:

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BARCELONA STARTUP NEWS

Startup & Investment News

• Spanish startup Fever closes a €31M investment round
• Barcelona proptech startup Prontopiso gets €14M
• Spanish firm Auro New Transport secures a €10M investment
• Catalan biotech startup Atrys Health lands a €2M investment
• Barcelona proptech startup Finteca receives €700K
• Catalan lawyer marketplace LexGo App raises €330K
• Barcelona startup Finboot, specialized in adapting blockchain technology to the oil industry, sells 8% stake to Repsol
• Vision Fund, the tech fund of SoftBank, is rumoured to be in preliminary talks to acquire a stake in Glovo
• Barcelona proptech startup Housfy wins digitalization award and expands into Portugal
• Glovo successfully tests its new 100% recyclable bags
• Barcelona startup FlexiDAO was awarded the seal of excellence by the European Commission for their software app that enables local renewable energy tracking
• Founders of Catalan startups Holaluz and Foods4Tomrrow featured in Forbes’ list of 100 most creative people in business
• Barcelona startup Tviso, the ‘Spanish Chromecast’, is facing imminent closure of operations

VC, investment & crowdfunding news:

• Adara Ventures announces first closing of its third fund with commitments of €65M,  aims to invest in European deep tech startups
• Repsol launches a €50M social impact fund
• Spanish businessman Maximo Buch launches Sauce Capital I FCR, a €30M VC fund aimed at profitable SMEs
• Spanish VC Kibo Ventures is preparing the launch of its third fund, plans to raise €100M
• Good news for the Spanish startup ecosystem as the number of VC funds is on course to reach new record figure this year

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories:

• Seedrocket opens call for XXII Campus de Emprendedores which will kick off in Madrid in November

Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:

• Captio: Interview with Executive Director Joel Vicient 
• Via Families: An online platform enabling international student exchange without any intermediaries
• Target Global: Fire-side chat with VC investor Lina Chong
• ENISA: Interview with ENISA’s CEO Bayon Lopez

Tech News

• Chinese multinational Jade Bird to install its European headquarters in Barcelona
• Pharma giant Novartis to open a NeuroHouse in Barcelona Tech City Pier03
• Taxi Wars to return? The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia has provisionally suspended the one-hour waiting time for bookings with Uber, Cabify etc
• FC Barcelona aims to become Silicon Valley for sports
• Barcelona Drone Center and AirMap form partnership to raise the profile of the emerging drone ecosystem in Spain
• Barcelona ranked 4th most densely populated city in EU

Newsworthy tech stories affecting all of Spain:

• Spain’s Government reverses its ‘Google tax’ as it wants to pursue it on a European-wide level now instead
• Ecommerce sales in Spain grew by 29% to reach €40B in 2018
• LaLiga is transforming into a professional football technology company
• Telco MásMóvil becomes first Spanish company to receive a sustainable rating by S&P

Good Reads

• The 14 Startups Disrupting Healthtech in Barcelona
• Barcelona Is Threatening To Shut Out Tourists
• Global heating: London to have climate similar to Barcelona by 2050
• The collaboration between large companies and ‘startups’, key in the field of mobility

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GREAT EVENTS THIS WEEK

• Mon, 15 July @18:00: Ford in Barcelona to Meet with Startups – Make It Driveable
• Tue, 16 July @08:30: Financing breakfast: Learn about 4 micromessage experiences
• Tue, 16 July @09:30: Mobile Talks | Smart cities 5G: transformation is coming
• Wed, 17 July @17:00: Football Innovation with UEFA as special guest
• Wed, 17 July @21:00: Javascript at scale
• Thu, 18 July @10:00: Opportunities for entrepreneurship in Cybersecurity. Cases of Continuum Security, CounterCraft and Enigmedia
• Thu, 18 July @20:30: Barcelona Summer Startup Meetup

See the full Event Calendar here

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STARTUP JOBS IN BARCELONA

• AL Ventures is hiring a CTO/Co-founder
• IoMob is recruiting a:
• – Software Engineer – Mobile / React Native
• – UX/UI designer
• Bourbon Creative is hiring a Digital Marketer

See the full Job Board here

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Barcelona Startup News July 15 2019 cover all the latest stories about Barcelona’s Tech & Startup scene from July 9th 2019 until July 15th 2019. If you want to read more stories about the city’s startup, tech and innovation scene, check out all Barcelona startup news here.