○ El Confidencial
profiled bootstrapped company Blue Banana Brand, a digital native vertical brand that reached €400,000 in sales in the first half of 2018, just two years after launch
○ New laws that will regulate the VTC license market, which are especially tough four years from now, are
already causing the price of VTC licenses in the market to drop significantly. Obviously, Cabify and Uber are not happy at all with this whole situation
○ According to La Informacion, eBay
will layoff more than 100 employees of Ticketbis, the Spanish startup it acquired a few years ago for more than €200 million
○ Glovo Business is Glovo’s
new offering that caters to companies and larger organisations
○ Xataka
published an interesting profile of Hemav and other Spanish agritech startups. The article focus on drone usage in the agricultural sector
○ Kippel01
published an analysis of activity in the Spanish insurtech market, featuring startups such as Coverfy and also the digital activity by traditional large insurance companies
○ Spanish energy startup Holaluz to
launch an ‘all you can eat’ plan
○ El Español
profiled Rentger, a new Spanish startup that offers a solution to manage property rentals