Hello and happy Monday! Apologies for the delay folks, I spent all morning at the NIE office. For all you expats out there, you know how much fun that can be....luckily it was a successful trip. Here's to (at least) 2 more years of Barcinno newsletters!

With the puente, it's kind of a slow week for events, but Ironhack is hosting an interesting Design Workshop tonight with Vinicius Leitao from MANGO.

Next Tuesday (Dec 11th), Timo Buetefisch of Cooltra fame sits down for a fireside chat at December's Startup Grind event.

Then on Wednesday (Dec 12th), FlossBCN meets up to tackle the challenges facing our city and our businesses with new scalable solutions.

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

Startup & Investment News

• Blockchain firm Securitize, led by Telefonica's ex-R&D lead Carlos Domingo, secures €11.25M from Coinbase & others

• Barcelona motosharing firm Yego lands a €1.2M investment

• Barcelona fintech startup Mondo secures a €550K investment

• Catalan firm Printsome raises a fresh funding round to launch a SaaS businss model

• Barcelona-based blockchain startup Vottun opens a €1M investment to boost its blockchain business

• Barcelona firm Iomob wins City Of Tomorrow Challenge to implement an urban mobility solution pilot in Pittsburgh

• Catalan startup Marfeel expands its offices in Barcelona and expects to exceed €30M in revenues in 2019

• Wallapop sells its joint venture in the US to Letgo

• Catalan startup Glovo continues its mass expansion in Africa

• - They also launched Glovo Prime which allows users to make unlimited deliveries for a €5,99 monthly fee

• 3 Catalan startups selected for Spanish accelerator program FI Boost: Hubtype, Alda & Sensorial Processing Technology

• Rakuten invested more than €19M in Barcelona startup Wuaki.tv this year to cover for heavy loses

• The European Investment Fund invests €3M in Ship2B-led Equity4Good

• Catalan VC Inveready raises €30M for new biomedicine fund

• Javier Loizaga to launch Meteor5, a new $125M fund

• Mapfre launches insur_space, an acceelerator program for insurtech startups

• Spanish startups raised €10M last month & the accumulated investment this year already exceeds the €1.293M in 2019

• Over €1.000M has been invested in Spanish startups this year

• Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:

• - Marmota: the mattress e-commerce making €5M in sales

• - Pista Negra Sports: one pair of shoes for skiing and walking

• - BYHOURS: book hotel rooms by the hour

• - Marfeel: COO Juan Margenat talks about his background and his time at Marfeel

Tech News

• Spain is set to finally announce the launch of its first ever sandbox for fintech and insurtech startups this year

• Aigües de Barcelona, ​​CaixaBank, Naturgy, SEAT & Telefónica join forces to launch Start4big to boost innovation & entrepreneurship

• More international investment is coming to Barcelona:

• - Danish company Hempel invests 6M€ and creates 30 jobs with the opening of its new R&D center in Catalonia

• - French technological company papernest opens headquarters in Barcelona and will create 120 jobs until 2019

• - Swedish company Casumo opens new office in Barcelona

• The Ship2B forum on the subject of impact economy brought together 1000+ attendees in Barcelona

• Uber plans to unleash Jump, a bike and scooter sharing service in Spain

• El Corte Inglés joins forces with Alibaba to become more competitive against Amazon

• Spanish firm Indra bets on drones, launches two R&D lines

• Barcelona Tech City keeps making noise:

• - Barcelona Tech City incorporates Asics in its wellness and health project

• - Geekhubs Academy to set up offices in Barcelona Tech City

• Mixed news for telco companies in Spain this week:

• - Telefónica's challenges: more content, less debt and stock market rally in 2019

• - Orange expects its banking business in Spain to be profitable by 2023

• - Vodafone plans to lay off up to 1,000 employees in Spain

Good Reads

• Barcelona - startup capital

• Barcelona, ​​a videogame capital built from the bottom-up

• Spain’s video game industry is experiencing a boom in jobs, turnover

• "Large companise should have a continuous open innovation program", Quino Fernández, CEO at Conector Accelerator

Great Events This Week

• Mon, 3 Dec @18:30: When Design meets the real world: Designing for Online and Offline

• Tue, 4 Dec @9:00: Designing the future of mobility

• Tue, 4 Dec @19:00: Machines Supporting People: Data Science in Glovo

• Fri, 7 Dec @10:00: Building a single page website with CSS Grid

See the full event calendar here.

Startup Jobs In Barcelona

• Auvik is recruiting a:

• - DevOps Developer

• - Software Developer

• Touchstream is hiring a Python Developer

• Digital marketing agency Bourbon Creative is looking for a Freelance Tech Writer (Native English)

• Prestalo is recruiting a Management Trainee

• HPS GesundheitsCloud is hiring a:

• - Sr. Android Developer

• - Sr. iOS Developer

• OneCoWork is looking for a:

• - Community Associate

See the full job board here.