Hello and happy Monday! We hope you had great weekend. If it felt too short, good news - tomorrow is a public holiday in Barcelona.

It's been a great week for local proptech startups as ProntoPiso and Housfy both closed new multi-million investment rounds to continue their rapid-growth.

Next Thursday, September 20th, social ads expert Patrick Wind will host an intensive full day workshop on advanced Facebook ads at OneCoWork. Sign up now and save 50% on tickets by using the following code: barcinno

Ok, that's it for me. Have a great week and we'll see you out there!

Startup & Investment News

• Spanish startup BioFlyTech receives a €16M investment

• Barcelona real-estate tech startup ProntoPiso lands €4,5M

• Barcelona proptech startup Housfy lands a €2M investment

• Spanish ecommerce startup Black Limba raises €1,5M

• Barcelona startup eCooltra announces €10M in new funding and reaches 500k users after relaunching its app

• Barcelona startup Wallapop signs ex-CEO of Ebay Germany as their new CEO

• Why Zur Rose acquired Barcelona startup Promofarma

• Barcelona Activa selects 3 Barcelona startups that will travel to Kyoto in October as part of the 'Smart City Expo'

• Spanish VC Corpfin Capital is finalising a new €300M fund

• Sacyr iChallenges is looking for startups to join their innovation program

• Spain Tech Center opens the call for their Silicon Valley immersion program

• SGIPYME and EOI launch a business growth program aimmed at 300 Spanish SMEs

• Proptech startups in Spain are on the rise

• Barcelona startup profiles, interviews & success stories:

• - ByHours: building the leading player in the microstays market

• - Heura: Soy protein is now used by Michelin Star chefs

Tech News

• Communication in Spain is 36% more expensive than in the rest of Europe

• The rental scooter war arrives in Barcelona 

• Fines for misuse of electric scooters can reach up to 500€ in Barcelona

• Barcelona will deny the license to the Japanese-style micro-apartments for not meeting the legal minimum surface

• Tough summer for Barcelona's tourism industry as occupancy drops slightly and revenues fall by 14%

• The Spanish economy grew by 3% in 2017

• Unemployment in Spain increased in the past month

• Vodafone strikes a deal with MasMovil to share their fiber optic networks after losing 30k broadband users in August

Good Reads

• 17 SEO Tips For Startups To Rank In 2018 - 17 Experts Share Their Thoughts

• What makes a Growth Hacker? Let's look at the anatomy

• Why tech startups flock to Barcelona

• "In the coming years it will be more important to be a user than a citizen", Aleix Valls, co-founder at Liquid

• "Spain is the country with the highest mobile penetration in Europe (88%)", VP Direct to Consumer of Zalando

• #NoShortcuts - the importance of doing the right things right, Alex Rodriguez, cofounder of Mars Based

Great Events This Week

• Wed, 12 Sep @ 18:30: Spanish FinTech Wars #2: The Return of the Jedi – Data, Identity & Privacy 

• Wed-Fri, 12-14 Sep: Future Music Forum Barcelona

• Thu, 13 Sep @ 19:00: Fuckup Nights Barcelona | Vol. XVII

• Fri-Sun, 14-16 Sep: #AllStartup34 Barcelona

See the full event calendar here.

Startup Jobs In Barcelona

• Santiago Ways is recruiting an SEO Specialist

• OneCoWork is looking for a:

• - Interior & 3D Designer

• - IT Technician

• Reloadly is hiring a Front-end Web Developer

• Prestalo is recruiting a Lead Developer

• Coinweb is looking for Blockchain Engineers

• My1Min is hiring a Front- and Back-End Web Developer

• IoMob is recruiting a Backend & Blockchchain Engineer

• US cybersecurity startup AttackIQ is looking for:

• - Senior Software Engineer - Integrations (Python)

• - Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Python)

• - Senior Software Engineer - Endpoint Agent

• - QA Automation Engineer

• - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

• NY-based startup Resy is recruiting an Account Manager

See the full job board here.