Hello and happy Monday! We hope you survived the hottest week of the year (or all time) in Spain. In the spirit of the summer slow-down, we're taking a mini hiatus for the rest of August, but we'll be back at the start of September.

In the meantime, take this opportunity to re-examine your goals for the second half the year, plan your event calendars and enjoy some R&R with family and friends.

The Barcinno team will be working from the new OneCoWork Plaça Catalunya location this month, so feel free to drop by, test out the new space and say hello!

Ok, that's it for me. Have a great summer holiday and we'll see you in September!

Startup & Investment News

• Barcelona startup Uvinum has been bought by Pernod Ricard

• Barcelona marketplace platform Promofarma has been acquired by Swiss giant Zur Rose Group, financial details have not been disclosed

• Spanish startup SamyRoad receives a €1,4M investment

• Barcelona startup Dunforce wins best Fintech for Business award by BBVA Open Talent

• Barcelona fintech company Instant Credit to offer its services to 19.000 Banco Sabadell stores

• Spanish VC Kibo Ventures takes part in €10,2M investment in Seattle startup DefinedCrowd

• Catalan VC Inveready reduces its stake in biomedical startup Atrys Health

• Spanish VC Gala Capital raises €200M+ to invest in companies with a social impact

• Lanzadera and Volkswagen team up to launch a mobility-focused accelerator program

• Catalan accelerator program Civichub opens call for startups

• Spanish startups raised a record-breaking €273M in July

• Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:

• - Parlam: How CEO Xavi Casals built a translation platform

• - Stikets: 300.000+ clients for family-centred marketplace

• - EcoScooting: €4,5M in revenues in less than 3 years

Tech News

• The creation of companies in Catalonia has decreased by 10.8%

• ICF, the Catalan public financial entity, invested a total amount of €213M in 746 firms in the first half of 2018

• CriteriaCaixa spends €438M to acquire 49% of car parking operator Saba and now controlling 99% of the company

• Taxi Wars - Episode III:

• - Spanish taxi drivers pause their strike until September

• - Uber & Cabify have been amongst the five most downloaded apps in Spain last week as locals looked for taxi alternatives

• - Taxi drivers promise to offer one day of free taxi rides in September to make peace with infuriated locals

• - Taxi drivers lost about €12M in revenues during the strike

• Be patient this summer if you're flying to or from Barcelona:

• - Barcelona's El Prat is the most unpunctual airport in Europe

• - Vueling's delays and cancellations exhaust the passengers' patience, airline blames the 'saturation of the air sector'

• - Even the Government of Barcelona demands an explanation from the airline for the delays as it 'hurts the city's brand'

• Banco Sabadell's VC firm Aurica acquires a 30% stake in Madrid restaurant group Larrumba

• ESADE participates in the SCALINGS project to analyze co-creation processes in robotics and energy

• Half of Catalans say that the rail network system Rodalies should be the highest priority of infrastructure investment

• Barcelona's metro lines consider installing animated ads in tunnels

• Spain's government wants to crack down on 'fake self-employed' workers & turn them into full-time employees

• CNMC fines 11 big companies a total amount of €30M for creating a cartel for IT services offered to public institutions

• Facebook reaches an agreement with LaLiga to broadcast games in India 

Good Reads

• "It is essential to prepare a start up before its sale"

• Interesting article about Pier 01 in la Vanguardia

Great Events This Week

• Mon, 6 Aug @ 19:00: Transformaciones Veraniegas

• Tue, 7 Aug @ 18:00: OpenHouse - Ironhack Campus BCN

• Thu, 9 Aug @ 9:00: Female entrepreneur program presentation - Alicia Ribas

• Thu, 9 Aug @ 19:00: IndieHackers Barcelona #3

• Fri, 10 Aug @ 19:00:  Los 5 secretos para convertirte en un líder de éxito + Networking a la fresca

• Fri, 10 Aug @ 18:00: Hackshow | Web Dev & UX/UI August ’18 Bootcamps

See the full event calendar here.

Startup Jobs In Barcelona

• IoMob is recruiting a Backend & Blockchchain Engineer

• US cybersecurity startup AttackIQ is looking for a:

• - Senior Software Engineer - Integrations (Python)

• - Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Python)

• - Senior Software Engineer - Endpoint Agent

• - QA Automation Engineer

• - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

• Cirkus is hiring a Community & Social Marketing Manager

• NY-based startup Resy is recruiting an Account Manager

• Fintech startup Mondo is looking for a Full-stack developer

• Paris startup Toucan Toco is hiring a Business Developer

See the full job board here.