Hello & happy Monday,

This week’s main headlines:

• BCN startups raise over €43M 💰

• Spain makes long-distance bus travel free 🚌

• Catalan startups immerse in Silicon Valley 🌁

BCN FinTech: 2022 record, 2023 outlook 🏆🫡

Thank you so much! Last week's event broke all previous records, with well over 200 sign-ups and a full house at OCW. Due in large part to our amazing panel who fiercely – but respectfully – battled it out on DeFi vs Fintech. The winner? The audience :) 

With our final event of the year in the books, we’re already planning for 2023. And since it’s you who makes BCN FinTech a success, we give you the opportunity to get involved. You can help in two ways:

📣 Share your feedback by filling out this quick form here (it’s mostly multiple-choice questions, the rest is optional).

🤝 Let us know how you’d like to support us (e.g. as a speaker, sponsor, volunteer, or collaborator) here.

Thanks again to all our amazing speakers, attendees, BCN fintech members and promoters, and of course, our gold sponsor Scaleway as well as our silver sponsor fonYou.

Let’s make 2023 a success & continue our mission to connect the BCN FinTech community! ✌️🔥

Have a great week 🪩

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Flexible rental startup Ukio get €27M & report 7x YoY revenue growth + 96% occupancy 

• Buy & sell clothing app GoTrendier close €13M 

• Events platform Xceed secure €2M

• Restaurant bill QR code solution Yumminn raise €1.4M

Barcelona startup news

• Catalan startups Brickbro, Sateliot, Wisar & Finboot Tech head to San Fran for a Silicon Valley immersion 

• Typeform layoffs to impact 30% of staff after not meeting its 45% growth objective 

• Blockchain startup Vottun named ⅕ of EIT Digital Challenge winners; they also just created a tool to verify crypto seized by the police

• Prestalo launch ‘Online Finance Guide for the non-financial' in partnership with AEFI 

• Cleantech Solarmente grows sales by 600% and opens new offices & business model

• Traveltech eDreams numbers 2022: still in the red but losses are slowing & cash margin up 69%

Spanish investment news

• Madrid employee benefits platform Cobee raise €40M Series B

• Madrid instant-payments fintech Devengo get €1.2M

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Spanish dairy Pascual invests in two Indian & South African animal-free protein startups & reveals Mylkcubator 2.0 cohort

• Plug and Play Tech Center to launch funds from Valencia to invest in European startups

• New Adevinta Ventures report reveals that B2B Marketplaces outperform other tech segments in VC funding

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• Zelnova Zeltia’s 3rd ZZink! Lab accelerator program is open for startups in the household and personal care markets; apply until Dec 19

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews:

• Cafler: The startup making life easier for drivers

• Magonis: Groundbreaking project creating sustainable boats

Tech News

Tech news in Barcelona:

• Veritas & Madrid startup Revoolt pair up to deliver the supermarket's surplus food to BCN families in need 

• Tech Barcelona ​​receive El Economista award for Innovation

• French unicorn Qonto inaugurates new Spanish HQ in 22@ 

• Barcelona and Munich become zero waste candidate cities

Tech & big company news in Spain:

• Cabify & Uber are fighting over the €200M sale of Auro, the VTC of the “new Spanish rich”

• Uber launches its monthly food and transport subscription service, UberOne, in Spain

• Telefonica will increase Movistar prices effective January 1

• Aena follows Renfe’s lead and launches its own urban mobility platform

Politics, legal & economics

• Long-distance buses will be free in Spain from Jan 2023

• Spain pushes ahead with windfall tax on banks and energy groups

Good Reads

• The best coworking spaces and cafés in Barcelona to code

• Samaipata: How to nail investor relations for early-stage founders (Part 1)

• Tech Spirit Barcelona: What is the present and future of the Catalan innovation ecosystem?

• The 15 largest investments in Spanish startups of 2022

Good Videos & Podcasts

• Brendan Eich (Mozilla CEO, Firefox co-founder & creator of Javascript) talks about his latest browser, Brave (Bad Crypto podcast, EN)

• Calculating and taking risks in extreme conditions, with Nomono CEO Jonas Rinde (Life on Mars podcast, EN)

• Chat with Pepita Marín, CEO of We Are Knitters (Hablando con Líderes podcast, ES)

• Promoting savings and investment with David Riudor from BCN fintech Goin (Product Hackers podcast, ES)

Great Events

This week:

• Mon, 28 Nov @18:30: Startup Talk & Networking: How to find a CTO

• Tue, Nov 29 @18:30: Anatomy of a Startup Pitch: What do investors look for?

• Wed, Nov 30: 9th Ship2B Impact Forum

• Wed, Nov 30 @18:30: The Digital Marketing Meetup

• Wed, Nov 30 & Thu, Dec 1: Tech Spirit Barcelona (Tech Barcelona event)

• Wed, Nov 30 @20:00: Metropolitan Business Association (MBA) Cocktails Castelldefels

• Wed, Nov 30 - Sat, Dec 10: GALAXY Network 2022 Virtual Reality Exhibition

• Sat, Dec 3 @12:00: Web3 Family Conference, 1st Edition

Upcoming:

• Tue, Dec 13 @18:30: Startup Grind BCN - Help Ukraine End of Year Party

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

Startup Jobs:

• European Blockchain Convention need an Entrepreneur for a Blockchain Startup

• Prestalo is hiring a Financial Controller 

• Opticks is looking for a Frontend Developer 

• Touchstream is hiring a Back End Developer 

• Shopery is recruiting a Senior Backend Engineer

• Qonto wants a Senior UX writer - remote-friendly

• N26 is looking for a Product Intern - Assistance

• Bitpanda is hiring a Senior Product Director, Investing as a Service

• Yego is recruiting a Product Manager

• Happy Scribe is looking for an Operations Executive

• Bicircular is recruiting a Chief Marketing Officer/CoFounder

• Bourbon Creative is hiring:

• - Freelance Content Writers and/or Project Managers (German, 100% remote)

• - Freelance Content Writers (English, 100% remote)

• Cognizant Netcentric has various open Tech roles