Hello and happy Monday!

Today's main headlines:

• 7 Catalan startups raise a total of €8M

• UK robotics firm sets up tech hub in BCN

• Spain adopts EU copyright law

Short & sweet intro this time. While we’re all excited to read about 💰 funding rounds, 📈 growth in revenue and especially profit is a much better indicator of success. In that sense, this week’s edition features great news with several well-known Barcelona startups, including Holaluz, Wallbox, Hosufy & Tiendeo, announcing very positive results. Way to go 💪!

Have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Live shopping startup Onlive.site raises €2.5M

• Social commerce platform Picker receives €2.1M of seed capital

• Energytech firm SolarMente obtains €1.8M through a Seed round

• Biotech firm Biointaxis lands €880K to continue developing a drug against Friedreich's ataxia

• Fintech startup UNIBO, the first neobank for property management, gets €500K to accelerate its launch

• Funeral experience platform Iteralix lands €100K

• Gaming marketplace GameSquare captures €100K in less than 24 hours through Startupxplore

• Gaming platform Digital Legends acquired by Activision

Barcelona startup news

• Green energy supplier Holaluz increases its turnover by 52% and reaches €186.8M

• EV charger firm Wallbox announces its Q3 2021 revenues are 16% above budgeted expectations

• Proptech Housfy reaches 'break even' and will close 2021 with a turnover of €15M

• Online platform Tiendeo expects to close 2021 with €13M in sales

• mediQuo strikes partnership with Brazilian firm Algar Telecom to offer their 24/7 medical chat to 1.3M people

• Traveltech startup Chartok crowned as one of the 3 most innovative entrepreneurial projects at Future of Tourism World Summit by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Sommet Education

• Heura and Uber Eats team up with restaurants to celebrate vegan week with vegan dishes

• Rentals United unveils 2022 Top 50 Property Managers list

• Wallbox CEO & Founder makes it onto Forbes list of 100 richest people in Spain

Spanish investment news

• Spanish startups raised a total of €417M across 42 rounds in October; 2021 already by far a record year

• Valencia-based startup Cubicup receives €830K

• Valencian food delivery management platform Ordatic gets €500K

• Madrid proptech Quota Rent nets €100K

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Nauta Capital closes one of Europe’s biggest B2B focused-funds to invest €190M in early-stage software companies

• Kibo Ventures participates in the €173M Series D round of e-scooter company Tier

• Spanish VC firm Cardumen Capital to launch a new €80M fund to invest in Israeli AI, cybersecurity & big data startups

• Seven Roots is a new Barcelona-based VC focused on investments that have a positive impact on our society

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• 10 Startups selected for the second F10 Incubation Program for FinTech and InsurTech in Spain

• AWS launches new virtual, equity-free acceleration program for early-stage startups in EMEA region

• CaixaBank and ENISA open call for EmprendedorXXI Awards which crowns the most innovative startups in Spain and Portugal; apply until 3 Dec

• Basque accelerator BerriUp opens call for 14th edition of its program; apply until 12 Dec

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews:

• S2B Impact Forum: ”It is time to move from ideas about impact economics to action”

• Reimagine Textile: the business innovation program aimed at the textile sector

Tech News

Tech news in Barcelona:

• UK robot tech firm Unmanned Life to install its main technology hub in Catalonia & create 20 jobs next year

• The Barcelona Supercomputing Center to host the first quantum computer in Southern Europe

Tech news in Spain:

• Swedish–Swiss multinational ABB acquires Spanish tech firm ASTI Mobile Robotics Group

• Japanese firm Kubota acquires Spanish smart spraying company Pulverizadores Fede

• Spain is amongst key countries Facebook is targeting for recruiting as they aim to hire 10K engineers in the EU within five years

• RENFE plans high-speed London-Paris route, opening possible UK-Spain direct route

• Telefónica maintains record profits thanks to the sale of assets

• Millionaire & co-founder of Spanish social media network Tuenti ‘mugged’ of bitcoin fortune by masked raiders

Politics, Legal & Economics

• Spain adopts EU copyright law, paving way for Google News to return

• Spain’s Central Bank requesting financial institutions to outline crypto plans until 2024

• Spain is the second OECD country with the highest year-on-year rise in energy prices, with 28.8%

• UAE, Spain seek ways to increase collaboration in life sciences sector

• Bank of Spain warns of "high risks and vulnerabilities" for families depending on hospitality, transport or automobile sectors

• The arrival of foreign tourists accelerates, but remains at half the pre-pandemic level

Good Reads

• How Spanish startups are reversing the country’s brain drain

• Top 15 most promising Spanish insurtechs of the year 2021

• "How our real-time Machine Learning models minimize the risk of payments in cash”, Daniel Cañueto, data scientist at Glovo“

• ”Six things I wish I had known when I worked in corporate innovation”, Julia de Pedro Minguela, Head of Strategy & Innovation at Byld

• October’s hottest European seed investments

• The Leaderless World

• What does it take for cities to innovate at scale?

Good Videos & Podcasts

• Interview with Joel Vicient, founder at Captio (by Itnig)

• Interview with Carlos Gomez, co-founder of 7r Ventures

• Interview with Alfonso de la Nuez, co-founder of UserZoom

Great Events

This wek:

• Tue-Thu, 9-11 Nov: #Bizbarcelona21

• Thu-Fri, 11-12 Nov: Democracy4All: Start-up Pitching

• Fri, 12 Nov @09:30: Breakfast for managers: Communication as an essential skill for the future [ES]

Upcoming:

• 16-18 Nov: Smart City Expo World Congress

• 16-18 Nov: PuzzleX

• 24-26 Nov: VIII S2B Impact Forum

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

Jobs

• Riverbed Technology is hiring a Digital Sales Representative (fluent in German)

• MarsBased in is looking for a Senior Node.js Full-stack Developer (Full Remote)

• Picker is recruiting several marketing, data & developer roles

• Touchstream is recruiting a Marketing Manager

• QMENTA is hiring several tech & business roles

• Honest Greens is looking for a Senior Accountant

• Unnax is recruiting several tech & sales positions

• Netcentric is looking for several IT positions