Hello and happy Monday,

Today's main headlines:

• Subscription water-filter TAPP Water gets €2.4M 💰

• Social commerce grocery app Buo raise €2M 💸

• Bolt launches taxi & VTC platform in BCN 🚕

BCN FinTech Afterwork launches sponsorship opportunities & announces next events

After successfully launching BCN FinTech Afterwork last month 🚀 & upon popular request, we've now opened sponsorship opportunities 🤝 for the remaining three events this year.

Here’s what’s on the schedule so far, all to be hosted at the fantastic OneCoWork Placa Catalunya:

• #002: Wed 13 Jul with Loïs Duhourcau, CEO at Novicap

• #003: Wed 28 Sep with Clemens Rossberg, Co-founder & COO at fonYou

• #004: Wed 27 Nov, speaker TBC 

You can find all the details about the event series, attendance, audience and sponsorship opportunities 👉 here. 

• To express your interest as a sponsor, shoot an email 📧 to Clemens here. 

• If you’d like to collaborate with BCN FinTech in another way (as a speaker, promotor or such), fill out 👉 this form.

Stay cool & do great things!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• TAPP Water lands €2.4M in new funding and goes global with 3 new products for clean tasty tap water & new CEO (Source: TAPP Water communication to Barcinno)

• New affordable grocery app & social commerce startup Buo raise €2M

• eSports training service United Gamers bring in over 50% of €250K crowdfunding campaign in days

Barcelona startup news

• Payflow strengthens its LatAm business & plans to launch new products this year

• Responsible travelwear retailer Tropicfeel to bill +80% this year, expand its product range, and open physical stores in 2023

• Home solution & odd-job marketplace Biboss lands in Valencia

Spanish investment news

• Valencian B2B SaaS platform provider Sales Layer secures €23M 

• Spanish cardiovascular-focused healthtech Idoven raise €18.5M

• Madrid-based real estate investment platform Nubafinance get €4M

• Madrid renewable solar tech solution Samara bring in €2M

• Madrid startup Flame Analytics gets €1M

• San Sebastian healthtech startup Glucovibes close €500K round 

• Basque video platform Vidext raise €260K 

• Stockholm-based Netmore acquires Spanish LoRaWAN operator Redexia

• Madrid’s Jobandtalent acquires British job hunter’s platform Jump

• Fashion etailer Zalando acquires high-end streetwear seller Highsnobiety

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Leading European early-stage tech investor Project A Ventures closes 4th fund at €355M 

• Paris-based scaleup VC Breega opens Barcelona office to back Iberian startups; just after closing a €250M fund

• Bonsai, a key partner of Wallapop and Glovo, is launching two funds with up to €165 million in capital

• G+D Ventures & EIB roll out €50M fund to invest in European trust tech (aka security) startups 

• Spanish VC Mundi ventures takes part in €11M round by UK insurtech firm Artificial

• Kfund leads €1,5M investment in Singapore-based logistics API Kosmo 

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• Ship2B Foundation ranked best impact accelerator in Spain by Funcas 

• Kick-start your software engineering career at Ocado Technology in 22@; apply now

• Up-and-coming Web3 & blockchain accelerator Open Web Collective announced a new €596K fund; apply until June 30 

• Le Wagon Spain is offering €1K scholarships for its data science & web dev courses; they’re offered from May 1 to June 30 & the sessions start July 11

• Cuatrecases opens 7th accelerator program for legaltech startups; apply until July 10

• BFAero launch both incubator & accelerator programs for aerospace companies; opens on July 15

• Gasnam & Neutral Transport launch Neutral Transport Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards for startups utilizing sustainable gas; apply until July 15

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews:

• Carlos Blanco: "You need to invest €100K-€200K for 2-3 years to make money now”

• Diskover: Catalan startup offering a new way of experiencing tourism

• Nomade Vans: The Tesla of campervans

Tech News

Tech news in Barcelona:

• Estonian mobility leader Bolt launches its taxi & VTC platform in Barcelona

• Lenovo & Barcelona Supercomputing Center sign joint research deal to generate returns for Europe in science, tech & economy

• The government & Tech Barcelona create Women in Tech to empower digital talent

• Fira & Tech Barcelona join forces to ensure SaaStr congress returns to Barcelona in 2023

• Barcelona uses drones to monitor beaches

• Digital talent from India is apparently one of Barcelona’s current focuses

Tech & big company news in Spain:

• German grocery delivery firm Gorillas poised for job cuts in Spain

• Austrian firm Bitpanda gets its Spanish crypto license

• Google launches EU Black Founders Fund and selects 40 startups from Spain & rest of Europe; close to ⅓ of recipients are women

• Google News re-opens in Spain after 8-year shutdown based on prohibitive local law

• European Institute of Technology launches Supernovas program to help women in the EU entrepreneurial ecosystem

• Ford to build its next generation of electric vehicles for Europe at its plant in Valencia

Politics, Legal & Economics

• Congress agrees to create a special legal recognition for companies with a strong environmental and social commitment in Spain

• The tax cuts and other benefits Spain’s new Startup Law will bring to entrepreneurs

• Spain races ahead in developing green hydrogen in efforts to decarbonise its economy

Good Reads

• Who’s who in the new Catalan business map

• 22@ – a test ground for the digital world

• Renewable energy companies have a lucrative new side hustle: mining bitcoin

Good Videos & Podcasts

• BCN startup Oliva honors Mental Health Week by pairing up strangers on LinkedIn for 20-minute chats (EN)

• Video of Indie Hackers Afterwork in BCN with Xavier Colomés & Matteo Lombardi (EN)

• Victoria Gago (Co-founder @ European Blockchain Convention) at Startup Grind Mataró (ES)

• Life on Mars: From side project to app highlighted by Apple, with Joan Boixadós (Founder @ Everyday) (ES)

• Hablando con líderes podcast with Silvia Rivela, entrepreneur and cofounder of DOWE, Cohesionist and Female Startup Leaders (ES)

• The RAC1 entrepreneur podcast talks to Catalan startup Fregata Space (CT)

Great Events

This week:

• Mon, 26 & Tue, 27 Jun: European Blockchain Convention 2022

• Mon, 27 Jun @18:00: Tech Barcelona June Afterwork 

• Tue, 28 Jun @19:00: Blockchain & Crypto Networking with BBQ, Drinks & Views

• Thu, 30 Jun @09:30: Rethink Retail X.O: Metashopping, shopping as a journey

• Thu, 30 Jun @15:00: Female Founders Grow F Accelerator Demo Day 

• Thu, 30 Jun @18:30: Startup Grind Mataró with Oriol Juncosa (Co-Founder @ Encomenda VC)

• Thu 30 Jun @19:00: DNI.Barcelona! Meet CTOs & dev teams and advance your career

Upcoming:

• Tue, 5 Jul @18:00: ClickBid Barcelona pre-event networking & cocktails

• Wed, 6 Jul @09:00: ETHBarcelona: Spain’s first Ethereum Conference 

• Wed, 13 Jul: BCN FinTech Afterwork #002 with Loïs Duhourcau of Novicap

See the full event calendar here & add your event here.

Jobs

• Bourbon Creative is hiring Freelance Content Writers (Native English, 100% remote)

• OneCoWork is looking for a Junior Accountant

• FlexiDAO is hiring a Digital Marketing Manager - B2B SaaS

• Olala Homes is recruiting a CMO

• Desigual is hiring a Head of Social Media

• Caravelo is looking for a

•  - Tech Lead

• - Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

• Nuclio Digital School is hiring a Spanish/English Copywriter

• Factorial is recruiting a Content Marketer - UK Market 

• Syra Coffee need a: B2B Account Executive 

• Riverbed Technology is hiring a Digital Sales Representative

• Netcentric is looking for several IT positions