Hello and Happy Monday! We hope you had a fabulous weekend soaking in this perfect weather. It's the final push before everyone splits for summer holidays - make July count!

Let's dive right in. Here's what you need to know about startups in Spain this week.

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Startup & Investment News

• hosco, which has offices in Barcelona (and annoyingly doesn't capitalize their name), raises €6.4M

• Spanish startup 3ANTS lands €880k funding to fight piracy

• T2O media bags €500k from Cofides to expand abroad

• Startup Low World Travel raises €205k on SociosInversores

• Spanish startup Worona lands €100k for WordPress plugin

• Bank process management firm GRUPOBC buys iAhorro.com

• eDreams grows revenues by 5% & slashes debt by €30M

• Idealista to go public? Firm is open to this option

• Deliveroo 'riders' went on strike on Sunday & threaten with more to come in Barcelona between 6-9th July

• Actualidad Economica, with CaixaBank, has named the best startups in Spain

• Barcelona Activa and Paris & Co. form partnership to promote collaboration between cities

• SeedRocket & The Crowd Angel sign collaboration agreement

• Conector Barcelona looks for new startups to join program

• Spanish startups received €47,5M in investments this June

• Spanish siesta culture lets entrepreneur turn naps into gold

• Forget cars, for one Spaniard the autonomous future is forklifts

• Spanish startups that "survived" the dot-com bubble

• From Wallapop to Hawkers - What brick-and-mortar firms learned from digital businesses

• Barcelona startup profiles & interviews:

Tech News

• Barcelona government threatens to expel Airbnb from the city

• Nike chooses Barcelona as one of the 12 key cities for the future growth of the company

• German multinational Boehringer Ingelheim to create over 200 jobs with a new production plant in Catalonia

• US firm Jabil to open new technology center & production plant in Catalonia

• French firm Veolia to invest €12M in Catalonia within 2 years

• Spanish supermarket chain Dia teams up with Amazon to expand its delivery services in Barcelona

• Catalan firms generate 40% of Spain's video gaming revenues

• Unemployment rate in Catalonia to fall to 9.3% by 2018

• Catalonia braces for record number of tourists again

• El Prat was ranked amongst the best airports in the world

• Cyber attack hits shipper Maersk, causes cargo delays at several ports, including in Spain

• Number of IoT connections in Spain close to reaching 10M

• 4 Spanish Smartphones fighting for market share

Good Reads

• “Barcelona needs ‘big players’”, Miquel Martí, CEO of Barcelona Tech City

• Dan Brown's new book 'Origin' takes place in Spain, including Barcelona

• How Catalonia’s referendum exposes a divided Spain (FT)

• Commercial balloons in the stratosphere could monitor hurricanes and scan for solar storms

• The mass distribution of everything

• VRcade: Be the First to Open One in Your Town

• Trickle-down workaholism (hat tip to Alex Rodriguez for this - controversial, but very important topic)

Great Events This Week

• Tue, 4 July @ 18:00: Monthly Ethereum Meetup

• Tue, 4 July @ 18:30: Data Show 2nd edition: The Itnig finals

• Wed, 5 July @ 19:00: How Schibsted built a plug and play JS widget, from whiteboard to delivery

• Thu, 6 July: 22nd ACCIÓ Investment Forum

• Thu, 6 July @ 19:00: UX for product managers - by founder and CPO @Mailtrack.io Eduardo Manchon

• Thu, 6 July @ 21:00: B-INSPIRED: “Human and Artificial Intelligence for Social Change”

• Fri-Sat, 7-8 July: El sistema de contractació pública

• Sat-Sun, 8-9 July: Ultimate WordPress Weekend

See the full event calendar here

Startup Jobs In Barcelona

• Wide Eyes Technologies is hiring a Business Developer

• The Barcelona Code School is looking for a:

• Printsome is recruiting an Inside Sales Executive (English)

• Skyscanner is hiring Principal & Lead Engineers

See the full job board here