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Hello and happy Monday,
4YFN25: Powering Startups ⚡️
Another great thing about nearing the end of the year? The countdown to #4YFN25 is on. As a proud media partner once again, we’re excited to spotlight and support the startups and innovators shaping the future – and of course, to bring you our annual Barcinno MWC/4YFN side events list and exclusive 4YFN25 Award Winner interviews nearer the time.
4YFN25 is only a few months away on 3–6 March 2025.
As always, keep making great things and have a good week! 🔥
Startup & Investment News
Barcelona investment news
Sateliot receives €30M EIB financing for IoT rollout
Biomed startup Genomcore gets €5M as Barça’s latest investment
Restaurant order & pay solution honei gets €1.45M
Robo advisor inbestME closes crowdfunding at over €788K, surpassing its target by 112%
Wildfire solution Vallfirest gets investment from Suma Capital
Barcelona startup news
Glovo bends to Spain’s riders’ law & will hire thousands of couriers
Tech Barcelona named Startup Ecosystem Star 2024 at global awards ceremony
YC alum Rever chosen by TikTok Shop to handle its online returns in Europe & the US
Apparent controversy at Freshly Cosmetics with 52 laid off under 'difficult' circumstances
Spanish investment news
PLD Space secures €11M loan to develop its MIURA 5 launch site
Madrid cloud services startup Jotelulu secures €6.8M
Valencia-based Tugesto acquired by Norwegian firm Visma; Juan Roig's investment company Angels sold its entire stake
VC, investment & crowdfunding news
Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories
Mistral AI has launched its first Startup Program: the Mistralship. Get credits, support, early model access, etc; open now
ICEX’s eMerge Americas Boston immersion program is open for biotech startups
Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews
Op-ed about Glovo’s journey and the effects on the Barcelona & broader ecosystem
TalX by 3Dthinks: The first inclusive WhatsApp for people with disabilities
Tech & Business News
Tech news in Barcelona
Banco Sabadell opens its first hub focused on the entrepreneurial ecosystem; BCN will get another BStartup Hub in 2025
3000 Catalan startups in 2030? The ambitious government goal to be the best hub in Europe
Catalan jewelry brand PDPAOLA lands in the US
Tech & big company news in Spain
Good Reads
Sifted’s annual 250 fastest-growing startups by revenue; 8 from BCN including beautytech Olistic #13
The FT’s Weekend Essay: Can Europe build its first trillion-dollar startup?
WSJ: Six Months, Thousands of GPTs and Some Big Unknowns: Inside OpenAI’s Deal With BBVA
Good Videos & Podcasts
Open source, open heart: Ghost’s John O’Nolan secret (spicy) sauce (Life on Mars, EN edition)
George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine (20VC)
Great Events
This week:
Mon, 9 Dec: AI engineers weekly networking meetup
Tue, 10 Dec @11:00: Open Source AI in Finance @ BHH
Wed, 11 Dec @17:00: Growth for SaaS: Strategies for growth in digital products
Wed, 11 & Thu, 12 Dec: Tech Spirit Barcelona 2024
Upcoming:
Wed, 18 Dec @ 19:00: BCN FinTech Vermut & Networking, Winter Edition ❄️
Thu, 3 Jan @18:30: LinkedIn + ChatGPT: The Secret Formula to Break Through in the Professional Network
Thu, 30 Jan @18:30: Entrepreneurship through science: the new opportunity of the deeptech ecosystem
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Startup Jobs:
Serviceform is hiring in Sales B2B SaaS, Spanish Market
INBRAIN Neuroelectronics needs a Grants & Tenders Management PM
Honest Greens is looking for a Creative Producer
+771 Current Barcelona-based job openings in the fintech sector (per 4 Dec on LinkedIn)