Hello & happy Monday!

Here's a brief tease of today's edition:

• Glovo teams up with Swiss realtor in €100M dark kitchen bid

• Barcelona startup Landbot lands €6.8M

• Catalan startups had a great 2020 - Heura tripled revenues, Deporvillage doubled sales

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Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Glovo partners with real estate investor Stoneweg to pile €100M into ‘dark stores’

• CX startup Landbot lands €6.8M in Series A funding

• Biotech startup Aptadel Therapeutics raises €1.7M

• Agricultural big data startup RawData gets €260K

• SaaS startup specializing in logistics Vonzu Tech lands €190K

• Edtech childcare startup Nannyfy receives investment from WayraX

• Breast cancer diagnostic startup Inbiomotion closes a financing round led by Alta Life Sciences

Barcelona Startup news

• Sports ecommerce startup Deporvillage more than doubled revenues in 2020, reaching a total of €120M in revenues

• Heura triples its turnover in 2020 to reach €8M in revenue due to its international expansion

• Proptech startup Housfy closed 2020 with €6M in sales and expects to surpass €12M this year

• Robotics startup BitMetrics crowned most promising startup at IQS Tech Fest

Spanish investment news

• International tech school Ironhack, which was founded by two Spanish entrepreneurs, lands €20M

• Navarrese portable refrigerator firm Grupo K Refrigeración raises €3M

• Santander invests €2M in Madrid-based consultancy firm Connecting Visions

• Pontevedra-based pet food startup Frankie the King closes a €440K funding round

• Navarrese biotech startup CO2 Revolution secures a €250K funding round

• Madrid-based furniture startup Tu Lecho Al Techo raises €100K 

• Alicante-based ocean plastic startup Gravity Wave nets €100K

• Madrid-based influencer marketing startup SamyRoad sells a minority stake to PE fund Aurica Capital

• Madrid startup Clarity secures funding from US firm Blackrock

VC, investment & crowdfunding news:

• Caixa Capital Riesgo invests €3M in Munich-based cybersecurity startup Build38

• Nauta Capital participates in London-based price optimization startup Black Curve’s €1.12M funding round

• Contact lens subscription service ClarkLent raises €100K in its first financing round with the help of Startupxplore 

• Lean Finance launches their first investment fund LF Smart Capital

• SRP insulates Asturian companies from the pandemic and injects liquidity for future growth 

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories:

• Fundación Repsol launches the 10th call for its acceleration program Fondo de Emprendedores; apply until 3 March

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews:

• Mar Hershenson: Barcelona-born co-founder of Silicon Valley firm Pear.vc. Mar

• Notebloc: digitizable notebooks & scanner app

• Vytrus Biotech: cosmetic active ingredients based on plant stem cells

Tech News

Tech news in Barcelona:

• Barcelona-based pharmaceuticals firm Reig Jofre signs agreement to manufacture Johnson and Johnson’s Coronavirus vaccine

• Barcelona-based firm Amadeus to launch its first travel tech school on the Canary Islands

• Catalonia Trade & Investment to collaborate with a group of European foreign investment promotion agencies

Tech news in Spain:

• Amazon will pass on the 'Google rate' to vendors on its platform

• Telefónica has signed a major sublicensing deal with DAZN

• Banco Sabadell, Telefónica unveil Mexico consumer lending pilot

• Indra acquires a 70% stake in Italian digital consulting firm SmartPaper

• Investment from Spanish funds decreased in 2020 for the first time in 5 years

• Mid-market M&A, specifically venture capital, remains robust in Spain despite the pandemic

Politics, Legal & Economics

• New immigration measures make it easier to obtain an identity card for foreign workers in Spain

• The pandemic is already lowering wages in Spanish SMEs

Good Reads

• Inside Barcelona, the 5G Smart City of the Future

• “There are excellent research organizations in Barcelona and an abundance of talent”, Marta-Gaia Zanchi, founder at Nina Capital

• Why we need to start looking at Europe as one tech ecosystem

• How to make your website environmentally sustainable

Good Videos & Podcasts

• Interview with Samuel Gil, Partner at JME Ventures

• Interview with Sam Ahmed from Nauta Capital

• Interview with Lourdes Alvarez de Toledo from JME

• Interview with Nacho Cofre about the sale of Parkimeter

Great Events

This week:

• Tue, 26 Jan @18:00: Bloobirds: The Key to Optimal SDR and AE Performance

• Wed, 27 Jan @17:00: Virtual Coffee Hang-Out for Future Female Leaders

• Wed, 27 Jan @ 17:00: How Blockchain can transform the future of the Automotive Industry

• Thu, 28 Jan @18:00: Startup Grind BCN hosts Ander Michelena (Partner @ All Iron Ventures): investment landscape during 2020 & 2021 predictions

Upcoming:

• Tue, 2 Feb @09:15: The power of micro influencers (ES)

• Thu, 4 Feb @18:00: StartupTalk: Crowdfunding success stories for your financing strategy (ES)

• Mon-Fri, 12-16 Apr: 5th European Blockchain Convention 

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

Jobs

• Signaturit is hiring a Head Of Partnerships

• Typeform is recruiting a Head of SEO

• Mr.Wonderful is looking for a CMO

• The Crowd Angel is hiring a Marketing Director

• Unnax is recruiting a:

• - Product Owner

• - Technical Account Engineer

• Revolut is looking for a Branch Manager

• Heura is hiring a Head of Trade Marketing