Hello & happy International Women's Day 👩‍⚕️👩‍💻👩‍🏭👩‍🔬💖!

Today's edition features big stories of female leaders:

• Irana Wasti appointed as CPO at Typeform

• María Jesús Almazor set to become CEO of Telefónica Tech Ciber and Cloud

• Nuría Pastor, CEO of HumanITCare, pivots during the pandemic & multiplies client base by 6X

Women's Day Special: Amazing BCN female-led startups

To commemorate International Women's Day and all the outstanding female talent in our community, Barcinno has put together a selection of some of Barcelona startup ecosystem's leading female entrepreneurs, their businesses, and how they founded them. Discover more here.

Correction: Kasaz & Inviertis accept BTC for an apartment

In our last edition, we've claimed that idealista is about to accept bitcoin as payment for an apartment in Barcelona. As our fond readers have pointed out, it's actually the local startups Kasaz and Inviertis who accept the bitcoin payment. For more details, read this post by idealista.

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

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Sustainable coffee capsule startup Incapto Coffee closes a €1.1M investment round

Barcelona Startup news

• Telehealth startup HumanITCare, founded by CEO Nuría Pastor, grows client base by 6x and is set to reach €1M in revenues this year

• B2B logistics startup Freightol recorded €1.2M in sales in 2019

• Bed furniture ecommerce firm Decowood grows revenues by 400%, set to reach €10M in sales this year

• TheTool was acquired by Austrian app marketing company App Radar

• Typeform appoints ex-GoDaddy and Intuit director Irana Wasti as CPO

• Two young people from Barcelona launch Gloria,a food marketplace that accepts bitcoin

Spanish investment news

• February 2021 was a record month for Spanish startup funding with investments totalling €624M

• Valencia-based lithium battery manufacturing startup Endurance Motive closes a €2M funding round

• Madrid-based E-learning language startup Twenix closes a €1M funding round

• Valencia-based video game startup PlayJoy Games lands a €330K funding round

• Valencian industrial services startup Proteus Innovation closes a €120K funding round

• Valencia-based food delivery tracking startup Delitbee lands a €100K funding round

• Valencian AI chatbot startup Aunoa lands undisclosed funding round led by PcComponentes

VC, investment & crowdfunding news:

• Easo Ventures launches new €30M fund

• Asturias-based investment manager Capsa Vida collaborates with La Bolsa Social to finance impact investment in the food sector

• Private Equity transactions up 8% in 2020 from the previous year  

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories:

• Amazon launches a competition for innovative European startups with a grand €150K prize

• Barcelona-based 3DFactory Incubator reaches 55 incubated projects in its first two years

• Red Eléctrica’s digital hub Elewit reveals the 5 winners of its data challenge

• Galician food startup accelerator BFFood selects the 14 innovative companies to participate in its third edition

• The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation and UnLTD Spain launch a social impact program

• Emprende opens call for startup competition; apply until 11 Mar

• Col.lab opens call for 15 environmental and social impact startups; apply until 11 Apr

• The CEL is looking for the best projects in the disrupted supply chain sector; apply until 4 May

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews:

• AmphoraLogistics: your logistics made simple

• Aprop: the "Amazon" of the food local stores

• RepScan: removing the negative things the internet says about you

Tech News

Tech news in Barcelona:

• Spain to use EU funds for electric-car battery plant in Barcelona with SEAT, Iberdrola

• Barcelona Tech City announces OVHcloud as new corporate partner

• Has covid killed trade shows? Barcelona bets on a comeback (Washington Post)

• BIHUB and Pixellot develop new automated recording system for Barça Academy and Youth Football

• Barcelona Supercomputing Center to coordinate three projects in the first EuroHPC call to promote R&D of supercomputers with European technology

Tech news in Spain:

• VW says electric car production in Spain hinges on EU support

• Hardware manufacturer BQ is going into liquidation

• BBVA opts out of its neobanks after they recorded huge losses

• Telefonica to appoint María Jesús Almazor as CEO of Telefónica Tech Ciber and Cloud

Politics, Legal & Economics

• Spain plans debt relief in new €13B fiscal package

• Spanish manufacturing recovers as demand rises 

Good Reads

• 5 Awesome Barcelona Female-led Startups

• The 20 Spanish startups that could transform the energy sector in 2021

• "In Spain, more support should be given to initiatives in premature stages to contribute to the fertility of the ecosystem", Isabelle Le Galo, Director Spain at Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso

Good Videos & Podcasts

• Interview with Carina Szpilka, President of Adigital & General Partner at K Fund

• Interview with Meinrad Spenger, CEO & co-founder of MasMovil

• Interview with Diego Arroyo of CEO at laagam

• Interview with Nacho Sala, co-founder & head of marketing at Atrapalo

Great Events

This week:

• Mon, 8 Mar @18:30: Nathalie Ormazabal: Woman, science and technology. The call of the professionals of the future (ES)

• Wed, 10 Mar @12:00: How does a Business Angel manage his portfolio? (ES)

• Wed, 10 Mar @19:00: Learn how to make your business more sustainable

• Thu, 11 Mar @08:00: StartupTalk: Women Entrepreneurs in a Men's World (ES)

• Thu, 11 Mar @18:30: Shots The Valley - Why being a data scientist is still the sexiest profession of the XXI century

Upcoming:

• 16 Mar: Pitch Competition – Women Edition Barcelona

• 16 Mar: What makes a blockchain startup successful?

• 23 Mar: StartupGrind BCN: Lift as you climb: community-oriented entrepreneurship, with Eloi Gómez (CEO & Co-Founder @ Jeff)

• 12-16 Apr: 5th European Blockchain Convention

• 6-7 May: Automobile Barcelona

• 28 Jun - 1 Jul: MWC

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

Jobs

• Touchstream is hiring a Junior OTT Technical Support

• TechBuddy is recruiting a:

• - Finance Assistant

• - Tech & Computer Assistance Technician

• - Sales Development Representative

• - Community Lead

• OneCoWork is hiring a Community Associate

• Bourbon Creative is looking for freelance German, French & English B2B tech content writers; apply per email here

• Adobe is hiring a 2021 Research Intern – Multimedia Systems

• Colvin is looking for a Senior Paid Social Manager

• Unnax is recruiting a Deputy Technology Director