Hello and Happy New Year!

We hope you had a great holiday season and were able to recharge your batteries as the new year kicks off. Of course, Barcinno is also back from the winter break to bring you the latest startup & tech news, jobs and events from our beloved Barcelona.

IQS Tech Factory, the first industrial accelerator in Spain, keeps working on making the impossible possible. Get ready to see industry as you have never seen before with IQS Tech Fest, Europe’s First Festival of Industrial Startups on January 24 in the Antiga Fàbrica Damm in Barcelona.

The festival will welcome moonshot innovators, exhibit the most powerful technologies of 40 science-based startups and feature international speakers. It will also host an industrial investment forum and the IQS Next Tech Demo Day, where the most promising industrial startup will be crowned. Read more about the event here & secure your ticket at a 40% discount with our exclusive code: BarcinnoTechFest

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

Startup & Investment News

• Spanish startup incubator Demium Startups lands €2.6M

• Spanish fintech startup Declarando secures a €525K funding

• Barcelona startup 3D Click closes a €225K investment round

• Catalan food tech startup Catevering raises €100K

• Barcelona bicycle brand & e-commerce Santafixie launches a €244K crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube

• Catalan firm Lleida.net lists on Euronext Growth at a €16M valuation

• Barcelona home care platform Joyners expands to France

• Catalan insurtech startup Coverfy is eyeing more acquisitions in the Spanish market

• Barcelona firm Groupalia keeps fighting to stay alive, looks for a €1.5M investment to resume operations in 2019

• Catalan startup CL3VER unveils new real-time 3D cloud rendering technology

• Barcelona startup Badi records 1M users, 120K+ rooms listed, 10M rental requests in 2018

• 2018 was a successful year for Spanish startups:

• - Spanish startups raised a total of €1.227M in 2018, a 46% increase compared to the previous year (€840M)

• - Spanish tech companies recorded 34 exits in 2018

• Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:

• - Deporvillage: sports ecommerce site with €45M in sales

• - Kantox: co-founder Philippe Gelis talks about regulations in Spain & Europe, Brexit and other topics

• - Wallapop: co-founder Agustín Gómez talks about growing a marketplace, lessons learned from raising millions and more

Tech News

• The Spanish Government announces a bill to promote the startup ecosystem and is looking for expert opinion on what laws to include

• Cien is set to open an AI & data science center in Barcelona after raising €1.6M

• Catalan firm Palex Medical forms an alliance with Japanese multinational Otsuka

• SEAT joins Alastria blockchain co-operation, partners with city of Barcelona on urban mobility initiative

• Airbnb to introduce a tool that collects & shares income information with the Spanish tax agency

• Spanish telco firms are expected to ramp up M&As this year

• Telefónica plans to shut down its eSports TV channel

• Telefónica unveils Movistar Car, a ODB 3gb router for the car

• Cellnex opens another path to the 5G ecosystem with investment in startups

• The Spanish Logistics Center launches the XXIX edition of its logistics and transport program

• E-commerce continues unstoppable growth in Spain, recorded a 30% increase in the first half of 2018

• Google granted e-money, payment license to operate in Europe

Good Reads

• IQS Tech Fest, Europe’s First Festival Of Industrial Startups, Arrives In Barcelona

• How TravelPerk raised €55M and disrupted the business travel industry

• Overview of top startup investments in Barcelona in 2018

• Overview of international VC investment activity in Spain

• 10 Spanish startups to look out for in 2019

• Interview with Luis Martín Cabiedes of Cabiedes & Partners

Great Events This Week

• Mon, 7 Jan @19:30: Why do we need Bitcoin? How are they created? How can I profit?

• Tue, 8 Jan @10:00: Startup Networking + Pitching + Coffee

• Tue, 8 Jan @19:00: Management 3.0

• Thu, 10 Jan @18:30: Talking with Tech Leads

• Thu, 10 Jan @19:00: The importance of leadership

• Fri, 11 Jan @9:00: Startup Speed Mentoring

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)

See the full job board here.