Hello & happy Monday!

We hope you didn't forget to buy flowers for Valentine's Day yesterday, otherwise, you're in for a long week...

Today's edition features top news like:

• Healthcare startup Koa Health gets €30M

• Spain announces Entrepreneurship Strategy

• Ferrovial to build 20 heliports for flying taxis in Spain

Let's get right into it! Have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Mental healthcare startup Koa Health closes oversubscribed €30M Series A funding round

• Transport service provider BusUp closes a new €5M funding round

• Interactive fitness platform Volava closes a €2M funding round

• Ecommerce logistics startup Kubbo closes a €1M funding round

Barcelona Startup news

• Ecommerce florist startup Colvin sees revenues triple in 2020

• Glovo triples revenues but sees losses double to €199M

• Lexcrea the law firm specializing in advising stakeholders in the startup ecosystem doubles turnover and looks to expand

• QMENTA appoints GE Healthcare's Glenn Thomas as Chief Commercial Officer

Spanish investment news

• Madrid medtech diagnostics company MedLumics closes an €18M funding round

• Madrid-based supply chain FinTech firm Twinco Capital lands a €3M funding round led by Mundi Ventures

• Madrid-based Koiki strengthens its last-mile delivery business with leading trucking company SEUR acquiring a 7% stake

• Navarra-based IoT industrial engineering startup InBiot Monitoring SL receives €90K investment from Sodena

VC, investment & crowdfunding news:

• IVACE to allocate €12M in funding to promote R&D in SMEs aligned with the European Green Deal

• Inveready invests €2M in German co-living startup Habyt

• COFIDES finances Uruguayan engineering SME SEG Ingeniería’s expansion into Peru with a €350K JV loan

• PE funds Providence Strategic Growth and GTO Partners bid for Madrid-based document management SaaS startup Nalanda Global

• French ex-footballer Mathieu Flamini participates in Atomico’s 3rd angel investment program

• Fellow Funders maintains its leadership position in the startup equity crowdfunding space 

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories:

• Fundacion Repsol has an open call for its acceleration program for innovative startups in energy transition; apply until 3 Mar

• Joint Venture investment vehicle Wannaseed opens call; apply until 3 Jun

• TheCircularLab creates GoCircularRadar offering startups orientation and opportunities for collaboration

• The S2B Health and Care program has accelerated 58 startups and committed more than €54M in funding

• The CTA (Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía) has helped over 50 tech startups raise €9M in funding in the past four years

• Wayra Builder launches Shadow, a cybersecurity startup preventing the leakage of confidential documents

• Madrid’s ESA Business Incubation Centre is a case study in the success of decentralized incubation

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews:

• Cleer: the startup paying users for not driving

• Exoticca: how the travel startup survived the travel apocalypse

• Sharify: making it super simple to rediscover your city’s social side

Tech News

Tech news in Barcelona:

• Barcelona Design Center launches Inspired In Barcelona, a virtual platform for networking with Barcelona’s creative ecosystem

• Barcelona Startup Congress returns for 2nd edition and will be held on March 23 and 24

• The Port of Barcelona optimizes waste management

Tech news in Spain:

• Ferrovial plans to build 20 heliports for flying taxis in Spain and reduce car journeys

• MasMovil acquires Sevilla-based smart home tech startup Sofiathinks

• BBVA sells Finnish neobank Holvi, which it acquired in 2016, to Keru Fintech Investments

• Repsol partners with Valencia-based metallurgic company Imecal to create Perseo Biotechnology which is dedicated to transforming waste into a usable energy source

Politics, Legal & Economics

• The Government of Spain presents 'Estrategia España Nación Emprendedora', a package of 50 measures to promote the startup sector

• - Here's what founders and investors think about the plan

• Spain's economy will grow the fastest in EU in 2021 & 2022, if vaccination plans progress well, according to European Commission data

• Coronavirus caused a 72.4% decline in footfall in Spanish airports in 2020

• When will Spain reopen to tourists?

Good Reads

• Spain’s most undervalued startups — the investors’ pick

• Nauta Capital’s insights on coming trends shaping Europe’s startup ecosystem in 2021

• Spain's startups avoided COVID-19 havoc thanks to second-generation entrepreneurs and strong VC interest

• Top Publishing Companies and Platforms Headquartered in Spain (2021)

• Where are Europe’s most influential VCs?

• Tesla's investment in bitcoins reaches 1.5 billion dollars

Good Videos & Podcasts

• Interview with Juan Such, Founder and President of Rankia and Verema.com

• Interview with José María Batalla, founder at La Casa de Carlota

• Interview with Jordi Plana, CEO at Beezy

Great Events

This week:

• Tue, 16 Feb @18:00: ACCIÓ: Ecological and energy transition, challenges and opportunities with an investor perspective (CAT)

Upcoming:

• Mon-Thu, 22-25 Feb: Startup Grind Global Conference

• Mon-Fri, 12-16 Apr: 5th European Blockchain Convention 

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

Jobs

• Amenitiz is hiring a Sales Operations Manager

• Signaturit is hiring a Head Of Partnerships

• Typeform is recruiting a Head of SEO

• Unnax is recruiting a:

• - Product Owner

• - Client Support Engineer

• - Deputy Technology Director