Good morning, we hope you had a nice weekend.

Good news - the deescalation plan continues with Barcelona moving onto phase 1. You can read more about this and what it means here.

Regardless of the timeline, it's clear the new normal will require a new approach to work. Our latest article "How Remote Teams Are Key To Acquiring High-Quality Talent", a guestpost by Viktoria Lindner, CEO and founder of DRIVE!MPACT, includes research and feedback from the Barcelona startup community

Have a great week and take care of yourselves.

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Barcelona startup Akiles closes a €600K investment round

Barcelona Startup news

• Glovo records a 90% boost in small business sales via its platform

Spanish investment news

• Malaga-based Giants Gaming closes a €3M round

• Marid startup WOOM gets €2M

• Madrid & Berlin-based HR startup Kenjo raises €1.7M

• Madrid-based Reply.ai was acquired by US firm Kustomer for an undisclosed amount

VC, investment & crowdfunding news:

• Barcelona based Startup Builder Jekyll is opening an office in Cupertino

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories:

• ACCIÓ opens call for TecnoCampus StartHealth; startups can apply until 15th of June

• 2020 Construction Startup Competition opens call; startups can apply until 26th July

• EU announces Green Deal call

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews:

• eEvidence: electronic registered delivery service for email message communications

• Optimus Price: "Our main credentials are our technology and success stories with previous clients"

• CUBIQ FOODS: replacing animal fats with plants

Tech News

• Maxima Compliance opens new Barcelona office

• Over 15K employees under the ERTE scheme have still not received unemployment money in Catalonia

• BCN MedTech presents an automatic method to detect and segment the intrauterine cavity

• Europe's supercomputers, including Barcelona's, have been hijacked by attackers for crypto mining

Tech news in Spain:

• Spain will implement Bluetooth and Google contact tracking to combat coronavirus, starting in the Canary Islands

• Wafer production comes back to Spain

• The Spanish researcher behind a new rapid coronavirus detection test

• APMT Valencia launches 4G wireless network

• In Spain, bar bot serves up contact-free beers

• Bidding wars and scammers: The new life of healthcare procurement officials in Spain

• How Spanish companies are trying to maintain jobs amidst the pandemic

Politics & Economics

• The Bank of Spain calls for policies that increase the supply of rental housing for the most vulnerable groups

• Brussels obliges Spain to reduce public aid to the Post Office by €400M

• Spain’s government is seeking to pass a law setting its climate targets as part of a drive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050

Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/technology/spain-aims-to-pass-green-law-boost-clean-energy-on-grid-to-70

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Good Reads

• How Remote Teams Can Be Key To Acquiring High-Quality Talent In Barcelona

• Interview with Javier Megias, Startup Program Director at Bankinter, about the bank's startup programes & initiatives

• 15 women in European fintech you should know

• Bitcoin reaches maturity

• The vision of the best entrepreneurs in Spain to revive business

Good Videos & Podcasts

• Interview with Diego Arroyo, CEO at Iaagam

• Interview with Jordi Ber, founder at Habitissimo

• Interview with Ana Izquierdo from Talent Clue

• IQS Tech Factory TALK SERIES with Simone Van Neerven

• Interview with David Martin from TradeInn (by Marketing4Ecommerce)

Great Events

This Week:

• Tue, 26 May @17:00: DXC Live. Product Stories from N26 and Tourlane

• Tue, 26 May @18:00: Leadership & strategy to navigate the international market, with Malin Holmberg (Partner @ Target Global)

• Tue, 26 May @19:30: PitchSLAP – Get your pitch checked!

• Wed, 27 May @ 12:00: What funding does ACCIÓ recommend for COVID-19 stage & beyond

• Wed, 27 May @ 17:00: #WEBINARConector "eCommerce: Retos tras el COVID-19"

Next Week:

• Tue, 2 Jun @19:30: PitchSLAP – Get your pitch checked!

• Thu, 4 Jun @13:00: IQS Tech Factory TALK SERIES with Marko Parkkinen, CEO of Seedi Oy

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

Startup Jobs In Barcelona

• Vocdoni is hiring a remote Front-End Developer (Flutter Development)

See the full job board here & add your job post here.