Hello and happy Monday! We hope you had a great weekend! 

Our humble startup ecosystem got a BIG capital injection last week as Verse announced a $20M Series B round to expand their P2P payments platform AND Aragon raised a record $25M in 15 minutes validating the worldwide demand for decentralized company creation and enterprise management tools. 

Ok, technically Aragon is a decentralized organization itself, but whatever, Luis is Barcelona so we'll claim it. 

This week, OuiShare is leading the charge for the future of work with their Rethink & Remix Business Experience starting on Tuesday. 

Lastly, SEAT revealed the first batch of startups to enter the first edition of the mobility-focused accelerator program, and Barcelona's PopPlaces merged with Germany's Go-PopUp to take the popup revolution to Asia.

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Ok, let's see what's new in Barcelona's startup scene this week!

Startup & Investment News

• Blockchain startup Aragon raised $25M in record ICO

• Barcelona-based fintech startup Verse raises $20M

• Barcelona's Scytl receives €3M to complete financing round

• Biotech firm AptaTargets closed a €2.7M investment round

• Greentech startup Solaris Offgrid secured a €1M investment

• Lock Up raised €500k to launch app for tourism appartments

• Sports tech startup from Barcelona, FirstVision lands €100k

• Mercatrace raised €90k in crowdfunding on Bolsa Social

• Barcelona startup PopPlaces merged with Berlin's Go-PopUp

• Barcelona startup Devicare ready to enter the French market

• NUMA Barcelona is looking for startups to join their program

• ESADE BAN & Crowdcube Spain to coinvest in startups

• This are the 11 startups selected by SeedRocket in Barcelona

• Meet Nuclio Venture Builder's new insurtech startup Brokoli

• New edition of Bizbarcelona features investment speed dating

• PromoFarma exceeds 25,000 24h-deliveries in first month

• Barcelona's Datumize is looking for €2M investment round

• Gartner names Barcelona legaltech firm Onna a 'Cool Vendor'

Tech News

• Tesla chooses Barcelona to open its first store in Spain

• Catalonia to become a pioneer testing ground in Europe in the field of autonomous & connected vehicles

• Alibaba may install its Southern Europe hub in Catalonia

• Jose Nascimento has been named Head of Lab of SEAT Metropolis:Lab Barcelona

• CaixaBank to create department for entrepreneurs & startups

• Forrester Research crowns BBVA the best mobile bank in EU

• Crowdfunding in Spain more than doubles to reache €113M

• Infographic about latest cyberattack ransomware WannaCry

• Queues at El Prat airport to continue throughout summer

• Orange plans to offer home automation services in Spain

• Why do courts in Spain & EU allow BlablaCar but ban Uber?

Good Reads

• SEAT Accelerator by Conector: The First Batch

• We found the perfect VP of sales, and we didn’t hire him

• How to develop truly conversational bots

• What matters (and not) when getting press for your startup

• The truth behind leadership

Great Events This Week

• Mon, 22 May @ 12:00: Masterclass Open Innovation

• Tue, 23 May @ 18:30: How to build the future of humanity

• Tue, 23 May @ 19:00:  Nomadtalks: Johnny FD

• Tue, 23 May @ 19:00: 3rd HardwareXchange

• Wed, 24 May @ 19:00: Affiliate marketing: monetize traffic

• Thu, 25 May @ 19:00: Taller de Visual Thinkiing

• Thu, 25 May @ 19:00: Taller de Antiprocrastinación­

• Thu, 25 May @ 19:30: Biotech Meetup with CREB UPC

• Fri, 26 May @ 16:00: Run your own Design Sprint

• Sat, 27 May @ 8:30: Applause 2017: App Marketing Congress

See the full event calendar here 

Startup Jobs In Barcelona

• OneCoWork is recruiting a Junior Accountant

• Skyscanner is hiring Principal & Lead Engineers

• Xing is looking for a Software Engineer to join their team 

• ElectricFeel is recruiting a Ruby on Rails Developer

• LoveToKnow is hiring a Sr Web Engineer (Telecommute)

• Research design and tech firm L&R is looking or a: 

See the full job board here