Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh Barcelona's Weekly Tech Update Hello and happy Monday! We hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed some of the summer-like weather! Barcelona's Weekly Tech Update By Scott from Barcinno • Issue #212 • View online Hello and happy Monday! We hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed some of the summer-like weather!As attentive Barcinno readers may have noticed already, Barcinno is now active on Instagram too! Follow us here for some daily inspiration on Europe’s finest city! Do you have news to promote? Get in touch here. PROMO CODE (not "invitation code”): BARCINNO_4YFN Startup & Investment News Barcelona startup Boxmotions closes €1M investment round Spanish basketball tech startup NBN23 raises €500k Spanish food startup ApetEat closes €300k investment round Spanish fintech startup CoinScrap receives €175k investment Barcelona startup TopDoctors reached €7,5M in sales in 2017 Barcelona startups Kantox and Nice People at Work amongst the 500 fastest growing technologies according to Deloitte Catalan startup BRAIBOOK wins best social entrepreneurship award by Chivas Venture Revolut launches new app in Spain and introduces new service that allows you to buy travel insurance per day Ship2B selects 10 social impact startups to attend 4YFN Fond-ICO aims to invest in Spanish university and research spin-offs Telefónica and Volkswagen seek start-ups to develop solutions for smart cities Biotech companies in Spain raised €237M in 2017 International VCs are still responsible for the majority of investment in Spanish startups Only 1 in 4 entrepreneurs in Spain are female Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories RocketROI: tech for optimizing your digital campaigns MonkingMe: app providing you with free offline music Sadako: AI-powered waste sorting robots made in BCN Tech News Barcelona’s project to become an innovation capital Catalan companies are pioneers in the use of cryptocurrency First bitcoin scandal in Spain: investment fund accused of refusing to return cryptocurrency worth €4,6M City of Barcelona moves away from proprietary software IQS Tech Factory celebrates first industrial startup festival in Barcelona, over 1000 attendees expected Ymedia Vizeum becomes a global partner of Barcelona Tech City Indra completes takeover of Paradigma Digital for €70M Catalan cloud hosting provider SVT is acquired by Gigas Facebook invests €10M to develop AI in Europe and plans to open 3 education centers, one to be situated in Spain Amazon considers forming a partnership with a food market hall in Barcelona Head of Spanish videogame association states that investing in gaming companies must be made easier in Spain Adigital signs agreement with WeWork and moves all offices to their coworking spaces in Barcelona and Madrid Zara surpasses Movistar as most valuable brand in Spain, Glovo makes list as “brand to watch” Good Reads The importance of content for smart city organizations A look into Spain’s developing startup ecosystem Sunshine and Startups: Barcelona’s rise as an international startup hub Poblenou — How an urban renewal project is fostering innovation From CES to MWC - the most important tech fairs this year How Wallapop lost €62M in 2015 before starting to monetize Great Events This Week Tue, 23 Jan @ 18:00: OpenHouse – Ironhack Campus BCN Tue, 23 Jan @ 18:30: Free coding workshop at Typeform Wed, 24 Jan @ 08:30: IESE Women in Business Conference Wed, 24 Jan @ 18:30: Investing & Develop Cryptocurrencies Wed, 24 Jan @ 19:00: POTG & Learning Lab workshop with Berta Lazaro, CoFounder TeamLabs Wed, 24 Jan @ 19:00: #DARKUX: The dark side of the UX Thu, 25 Jan: IQS Tech Fest- Festival of Industrial Startups Thu, 25 Jan @ 19:00: Hardware Startups January Networking event Thu, 25 Jan @ 19:00: DrinkEntrepreneurs – 2018 Opening Sat, 27 Jan @ 08:00: SMMDay 2018 See the full event calendar here. Talk to a business relocation expert today! Did you enjoy this issue? By Scott from Barcinno Barcinno's Weekly Tech Update - the latest in Barcelona tech, startups and innovation! Tweet Share If you don't want these updates anymore, please unsubscribe here If you were forwarded this newsletter and you like it, you can subscribe here Powered by Revue Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh