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Hello and happy Monday,

Get ready for BCN FinTech X Barcinno #017: Wealth Tech: Reinventing Investment 🪙 🐖

Interested in investment? BCN FinTech X Barcinno’s next event is just a few weeks away on Wed 27 Nov.

🎤 We’re covering the exciting world of Wealth Tech—where innovation meets wealth management, personal finance, savings, and investments that we all think about for our future. Join us to hear from leading experts at Flanks, MyInvestor, and Vestro.

Grab your early-bird tickets here (half-price Barcinno discount already applied 🙌)

Otherwise, happy reading, and have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Holaluz increases its capital by €22M thanks to new strategic partner

• Investment fintech fundcraft increases its Series A to €11M

• Acai Travel gets €3.7M to reinvent travel operations with AI

• 3D concrete printing startup Aridditive raises €500K pre-seed 

• AI CRM software ForceManager acquired by Sage (podcast interview further down)

Barcelona startup news

• Catalan startup DyCare partners with Reig Jofre to deliver digital solutions for at-home rehabilitation & physio

• Spacetech Sateliot joins UNESCO to advance inclusive and quality education across LATAM

• AEInnova awarded best startup at Barcelona Deep Tech Summit 

• Bound4blue Co-Founder & CEO José Miguel Bermúdez named best young Catalan entrepreneur of the year; startups Able Human Motion & Showee also won awards

Spanish investment news

• Vigo-based accounting SaaS Marosa secures €12M

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Faber launches €60M deeptech fund for Iberian startups

• EIC to invest €1.4B in European deeptech and high-potential startups in 2025

• Europe's only edtech specialist fund Emerge closes $73M Fund II

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• Hello CleanTech 3.0 is looking for the next generation of sustainable technology breakthroughs; deadline 10 Dec 

• Banco Santander Global Challenge: For startups & scaleups improving customer experience, offering financial & other support; deadline 15 Dec

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews

• One euro deposit: VasovenGo's innovative solution for a waste-free coffee

• Mollet del Vallès, Cerdanyola & Granollers: the smart cities catching up with Barcelona

Tech & Business News

Tech news in Barcelona

• FGC unveils new faster, smarter trains linking airport to the city 

• Catalonia returns to the office: space availability is now below 14%

• Chinese gaming giant Lilith Games chooses Barcelona as its first European base by investing in local studio XRON

• While Candy Crush giant King has laid off 47 workers in its BCN HQ

Tech & big company news in Spain

• Product Hackers begins US & LATAM expansion & expects a 53% turnover increase

Good Reads

• EU-Startups listed 10 Barcelona-based early-stage startups to keep an eye on

• Do you sometimes feel like a fraud? And other interesting work reads from The Economist’s newsletter

• Time for Forbes’ yearly 100 richest Spaniards 2024

Good Videos & Podcasts

• Oscar Macià on Apple launches, the ForceManager acquisition & GitHub Spark (Itnig, ES)

• How Quantum Computing will shape our world, with Outvise (EN)

Great Events

This week:

• Tue, 12 Nov @10:30: Startup/Investor Open Coffee

• Wed, 13 Nov @18:00: Tech Up Nights Vol.15

• Thu, 14–Fri, 15 Nov: DevOps Barcelona 2024 

Upcoming:

• Mon, 18–Thu, 21 Nov: StrongHer: Female entrepreneur week by Qonto

• Wed, 27 Nov @18:30: BCN FinTech X Barcinno #017: Wealth Tech: Reinventing Investment → discount applied :)

• Thu, 28 Nov: FutureTravel Summit 

• Wed, 4 Dec @18:30: Fuckup Nights Barcelona 

• Thu, 5 Dec @16:00: Trans Atlantic Angel Conference 6: Final Demo Day Event

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Startup Jobs:

• Ackcent is hiring a Security Engineer - SOC

• bsport needs a Billing Specialist

• Bound4blue is hiring various Engineers

• SeQura is looking for a Project Manager (OptiQa)