Good morning, we hope you had a realxing weekend and a nice Sant Joan holiday!

Barcelona startups close June on a high note by securing the 4th €10M+ funding round in the last three weeks. Hopefully, July will continue on a similar positive path.

Have a great week and take care of yourselves!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Barcelona-based online flower delivery startup Colvin gets €14M

• Catalan startup Taclia receives a €500K investment

• Barcelona football technology startup OLIVER raises €400K

Barcelona Startup news

• Unnax becomes the first Spanish fintech to obtain a full license under the PSD2 directive from the Bank of Spain & begins EU and South America expansion

• Glovo CEO sees acceleration and consolidation in food delivery post-covid-19

• Biotech startup Devicare announces a collaboration with Idneo for the development and manufacture of In Vitro Lit-Control® Diagnostic devices

• Logistics startup Shellock wins pre-incubation program Santander X Explorer 2020, by Banco Santander

• Nixi for Children developed a project to explain coronavirus to little ones through virtual reality

• Caravelo introduces a subscription model for airlines

Spanish investment news

• Valencian startup Aunoa gets €500K

• Madrid startup Sepiia closes a €500K funding round

• Valencia brewery Birra & Blues gets €425K

• Madrid startup foodStories closes a €200K funding round

• Basque biotech startup OWL Metabolomics opens a €1M funding round on The Crowd Angel

VC, investment & crowdfunding news:

• Sherpa Capital raises €120M for its third special situations fund

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories:

• BIT Habitat Foundation opens call for grants for urban innovation projects to contribute to the recovery of the economic & social crisis arising from COVID-19 in the city; apply until 12th of July

• Programa de Generació d'Idees opens call for its 11th edition; projects that help to revalue leftover waste from companies and institutions can apply until 21st of Sep

• Autoocupació creates SOS Mentoring, a volunteer program to support entrepreneurs to overcome challenges of the COVID-19 crisis

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews:

• Blaine Box: floral decoration subscription business

• Filmin: 10 year anniversary of the Barcelona-based Netflix; a look back at how they started and evolved

• Indianes: sustainable shoes made of banana fibre

Tech News

• CFI.co recognizes Catalonia Trade & Investment as the Best Investment Promotion Agency Europe 2020

• ACCIÓ joins World Manufacturing Foundation

• The Port of Barcelona to reduce fees until 2022 to kick-start the economy

• Apple rents a 6,000 square meters office in Barcelona

Tech news in Spain:

• Spain ranks 14th in the European innovation scoreboard 2020 after improving last years score by 14.6%

• Kids now spend nearly as much time watching TikTok as YouTube in Spain

• Vodafone asks for a plan of €1,750M to bring fiber & 4G to 100% of Spanish homes

Politics & Economics

• Government, employers and unions agree to extend ERTE until September 30

• The government is planning to introduce a strategic aid program for Spanish airlines

• Flexible schedules and covered expenses: Spain drafts bill protecting the rights of remote workers

COVID-19

• Coronavirus was already in Barcelona by March 2019, waste water study finds

• DNI, geolocation and address: this is how the government app against Covid-19 works

Good Reads

• 20 Spanish healthtech companies to watch

• Overview of last miles delivery firms in Spain

• 11 Steps to a Winning Pitch Deck, by Priscilla Lavoie, Managing Director of Demium Barcelona

Good Videos & Podcasts

• Interview with Jordi Romero, CEO of Factorial

• Interview with Victor García & Eric Fernandez, Co-founders at Kubbo

• #WEBINARConnector «eCommerce: Challenges after COVID-19»

• Workshop: Private & Public Funding with Jordi Altimira

Great Events

This Week:

• Tue, 30 Jun @13:00: IQS Tech Factory TALK SERIES with Heriberto Saldivar (Brinc)

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

• Thu, 2 Jul @15:00: Growing deep-tech startups for the future

Next Week:

• Thu, 9 Jul @18:00: Online Workshop: Choosing The Right Architecture

• Fri-Sun, 10-12 Jul: Demium Barcelona AllStartup Weekend

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