Good morning & happy Monday!

While COVID-19 cases continue to rise, Barcelona startups keep crushing it with close to €13M in new capital raised in 5 recent funding rounds. Let's get right to it.

Have a great week and take care of yourselves!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Catalan fintech Goin closes a €5M funding round

• Barcelona-based 3D printers manufacturer BCN3D gets €2,8M

• Barcelona biotech startup Made of Genes receives €2.4M

• Catalan eldercare tech startup Safe365 land €2M

• Catalan fintech startup Finnu secures a €700K pre-seed funding

• Barcelona sustainable fashion startup Brava Fabrics opens €250K funding round and has already eclipsed it's funding goal

• Catalan car-buying platform Carnovo opens €120K crowdfunding round

Barcelona Startup news

• VideoAsk (by Typeform) launches new video NPS solution that allows you to get face to face with customers & track business health

• Barcelona’s Cubiq Foods cultivates omega-3 smart fats for alternative meat

• Glovo signs agreement with retail chain Auchan

• TravelPerk hires Wix.com's VP of Business Analysis & Data Science as its new CMO

• 10 Barcelona-based startups that continue to grow fast despite the current crisis

Spanish investment news

• Valencian startup QUIBIM raises €8M for it's AI detection platform

• Madrid edtech startup Odilo lands €8.6M

• Bilbao-based startup BeGas receives €5.2M

• Valencia startup ARTHEx Biotech gets €4.25M

• Basque football tech startup Futboltek closes a €300K investment

• Galican startup AuthUSB secure a €250K investment

• Alicante-based startup Doppli Connect gets €250K

• VC firm Bonsai Partners acquired a stake in Madrid-based insurtech startup Codeoscopic

• Spanish investment in startups is picking up pace after Covid-19 peak in Spain according to Fundacion Bankinter report

• Enisa publishes report on the impact of their loans on society and employment in Spain

VC, investment & crowdfunding news:

• VC firm Archipélago Next invests €580K across six Spanish startups

• Investment in every single SeedRocket startup winner so far has netted a 3.7X return already according to an analysis published by Expansion

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories:

• Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelon launches Barcelona New Economic Week and opens call for disruptive startups; apply until 30 July

• Premi Ruralapps aims to distinguish companies that have developed mobile applications that contribute to the improvement of the agri-food, forestry and fishing sectors; apply until 21 August

• Go Ignite opens call for startups developing 5G solutions; apply until 7 September

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews:

• Propify: digitizing the process of renting real estate

• Uvinum: a look back at the wine startup: from its launch to its acquisition by Pernod Ricard

Tech News

• Catalonia 'ready' to benefit from EU recovery plan as €31B scheme presented

• Barcelona Tech City teams up with Spanish Stock Exchanges and Markets to set up new fintech hub

• Port of Barcelona's profits fall by 39% due to the drop in traffic

• Catalan firm Circontrol brings EV charging points to 60 countries & grows at 40% per year

• Two battery producers and two car manufacturers are interested in the Nissan plant

• Barcelona has lost over 130,000 jobs since February

• Blame game escalates as Catalonia grapples with second wave of virus 

Tech news in Spain:

• Spain's government presents new plan that aims to invest €500M in startups and spin-offs

• Spain to plough €15 billion into country's digital transformation

• Amazon to create 2,000 new full-time jobs in Spain in 2020

• MediaMarkt integrates Bizum as a payment method

• Iberdrola invests €150M in the largest hydrogen plant for industrial use

• Vodafone Spain's revenue fall by 8% due to Covid impact

• Apple & Ireland win appeal against the EU Commission’s $15B tax ruling; here's what this means for Spain's 'Google' tax

Politics, Legal & Economics

• The new bill to limit rents in Catalonia has been put on hold until September or October

• The Governor of the Bank of Spain supports extending the ERTE

Good Reads

• SaaS startups: kings of the coronavirus crisis?

• How to get a remote developer job by learning online

Good Videos & Podcasts

• Interview with Javier Megias, Startup Program Director at Bankinter

• Interivew with Manu Heredia, co-founder of Besoccer and ProfootballDB

Great Events

This Week:

• Tue, 28 Jul @19:30: PitchSLAP – Live Pitching Event

• Thu, 30 Jul @18:00: Itnig - Pitch to Investors

• Thu, 30 Jul @19:00: Design Thinking and Innovation: Staying Ahead of the Curve

Next Week:

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