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By Scott From Barcinno • Issue #569
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Startup & Investment News
Barcelona investment news
Lightweight mobility tech Niche Mobility closes €1.6M
Barcelona startup news
Genomcore spinoff Made of Genes selected to join the first AI regulatory sandbox in the EU
Ocean Ecostructures wins the Innovation in Offshore Wind Challenge, launched by Ocean Winds & Innovate UK
Spanish investment news
Pharmaceutical firm ROVI receives €36.3M from the CDTI for research into new drugs
Madrid-based B2C AI assistant Luzia raises €12M & expands into LATAM
VC, investment & crowdfunding news
Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories
eWorks Accelerator is accepting applications, designed to help entrepreneurs create outstanding businesses with a positive impact
NEOTEC by CDTI 2025 Call: 20M for tech startups, with 5M for women-led projects; deadline 12 June
Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews
Teronca: Bringing the American rehab model to Catalonia, based on nature & sports
Tech & Business News
Tech news in Barcelona
Cybersecurity in Catalonia on the up; over 550 companies in the sector, +8% in a year, generating nearly 10,600 jobs
R&D tax consultancy FI Group acquired by major French financial player EPSA Innovation
Tech Barcelona expands across the city through coworking and coliving spaces
Good Reads & Watches
Once again, Barcelona has been ranked the 4th best city in Europe’s Best Cities 2025
TechCrunch wrote ‘Meet the companies racing to build quantum chips’, ft. BCN’s Qilimanjaro
Ship2B on why the Silver Economy is the next wave of social impact and financial profitability
Road to CTO 1: From economist to coder: why Charles Chase never went back to corporate (Life on Mars, EN)
Great Events
This week/Wednesday:
Wed, 14 May @10:00: Making Sage X3 Work Smarter with Smart Financial Automation
Wed, 14 May @13:00: Women Investors' Lunch by SIA
Wed, 14 May @18:30: BCN FinTech X Barcinno #021: Power Moves: FinTech Leaders in Action
Wed, 14 May @18:30: DeepTech Stories #1: Jonathan Hayes (Founder @Dinube)
Upcoming:
May 21–22: SaaS on the Beach
Fri, 23 May @16:00: Fuckup Nights Barcelona 7th Anniversary | Failure, Psychological Safety & Growth
Wed, 28 May @18:00: StartupMat Tech Summit 2025
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