Hello & happy Monday!

Today's main headlines:

• Spanish startups already raised €2B+ this year

• Deporvillage sells 80% stake for €140M

• Microverse raises €10.5M

Barcinno Special: Are incubators worth it? - Part IV: Legal & Fundraising

It's important to understand the ins and outs of developing an incredible startup in order to have great success.

Find out more about Elliott Locke, ACSI’s adventure of going through the F10 Incubator & Accelerator in Barcelona as he grows his wealth-tech startup abroaden.

In this fourth part of the series, Elliot discusses why Fintech Incubators have legal classes & explains why raising money is like a full-time job. He also references his experience with the fundamentals of fundraising when it comes to gaining investors for your startup. Find out more here.

To explore the other parts of his journey, use the links below.

• Part I: (Great Expectations)

• Part II: (Back to School)

• Part III: (Design Thinking)

Have a great week and see you out there!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Online coding school Microverse raises €10.5M to fix racist hiring practices

• Sustainable engineering startup Bound4Blue receives €5M

• Blockchain startup Freeverse.io gets €843K seed funding

• Fashion platform Vasquiat lands €250K

• Sports marketplace Deporvillage sells 80% stake to JD Sports for €140M; valued at €175M

• Instant delivery service Blok gets acquired by Turkish firm Getir for an undisclosed amount

Barcelona startup news

• Cooltra expands and lands in Paris

• Neuroelectronic startup Inbrain is outperforming Elon Musk’s Neuralink

• Catalan startups Shotl, Payflow, X1Wind, and All read amongst winners of EmprendedorXXI awards

Spanish startup news

• Spanish startups raised a total of €282M in June & already surpass €2B for this year

• Madrid biotech startup Tetraneuron receives €2.5M

• Spanish agrotech startup Auravant lands €1.6M

• Madrid based tech startup Inspide gets €903K

• Valladolid-based biotech startup Celldrive gets €169K

• Madrid-based robo-advisor Indexa Capital surpasses €1B in assets under management

VC, investment & crowdfunding news:

• Ashoka International receives €8.43M to drive innovation and social entrepreneurship

• Nauta Capital lunches Nauta Labs, a new pre-seed initiative for European deep tech startups

• Navarra Tech Transfer invests € 1.2M in six innovation projects

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories:

• ENISA announced that it has €98m of fresh money to lend to startups

• The CDTI allocates € 19.38M to five projects in the Cervera call for technological centers of excellence

• Wayra X showcases portfolio startups at 4YFN Barcelona, scouts for new investments

• Ship2B Foundation opens call for its acceleration programs S2B Tech4Climate, S2B Health & Care and Scale4Impacr; apply until 11 July

• Food-tech accelerator Eatable Adventures launches first cohort of Spain FoodTech

• “Barcelona mai s’atura” (“Barcelona never stops”) opens call for its awards event; apply until 30 July

• Novartis accelerator Melanoma Challenge Health Tech opens call; apply until 31 July

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews:

• Enzo Ventures: under-30 entrepreneurs empowering seed-stage companies across Europe

• Holded: the €120M tech company that arose from a message on Facebook between two strangers

• Validated ID: changing the game with self-sovereign identity 

Tech News

Tech news in Barcelona:

• Barcelona ranked 5th European city in terms of digital health investment

• “Barcelona can play in the Champions League of health tech”, Montse Barceló, Veristat’s European Vice President

• Nestlé creates over 100 jobs at its Global IT Hub in Barcelona since the start of the pandemic

• Catalan city wants to host companies and 'start-ups' within Sabadell Airport facilities

MWC Special

• 5G takes center stage at Mobile World Congress 2021 in Barcelona

• MWC 2021 day one wrap-up

• Verizon shows off 5G-connected robots at Barcelona conference

• Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G awarded best smartphone at MWC

• 4YFN moves to the heart of MWC putting startups at the center of the mobile ecosystem

• MWC Barcelona opens with GSMA launching Global Mobile Economy Report plus new products and services

Tech news in Spain:

• Spain data center market expected to grow by a CAGR of 5%+ between 2021-26

• 'Lagging behind' Spain looking to be leader in artificial intelligence

• Telefónica Tech acquires Altostratus and consolidates its leadership in the Cloud

Politics, Legal & Economics

• Catalan government activates €917M employment plan

• Catalonia reduces the effect of ERTE on income with a tax deduction

• Spain investigates possible anti-competitive practices by Apple & Amazon regarding online sales of electronic products

• Spain’s trade commissioner eyes infrastructure, tech partnerships with Atlanta

Good Reads

• The Startup classroom: Abroaden’s Incubator Journey IV: Legal & Fundraising

• Who’s the next Catalan startup in line to become a unicorn?

• Barcelona supercomputer scrap shows EU’s digital dilemma

• Top 30 Spanish startups focused on the fight against cancer

Good Videos & Podcasts

• Interview with Ivan Basart, CTO at ValidatedID [ES]

• Interview with Jorge Darriba, co-founder of Bloobirds [ES]

• Invest in startups and teams with Samuel Gil [ES]

Great Events

This week:

• 7 Jul: Startup Grind: Adjusting your business to the post-pandemic world

• 7-8 Jul: Affiliate World Europe

• 8-18 Jul: Automobile Barcelona

Upcoming:

• 22 Jul: F10 Spain: Demo Day 

• 16-18 Nov: Smart City Expo World Congress

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

Jobs

• Verse is hiring a Product Manager

• BCG Digital Ventures is looking for a Digital Marketing Manager

• Bax & Company is recruiting an Innovation Consultant Industry 4.0

• Nextory is hiring a Head of Growth

• Opinno is looking for a Strategy & Innovation Project Leader

• Camelia Beauty is recruiting an Account Manager

• PayRetailers are hiring a COO

• Netcentric is recruiting a UX Strategist

• Domestika is looking for a Director of SEO

• Gorillas is recruiting a Partnerships Manager

• Outbound People is looking for a Senior Account Executive- German Market