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Hello and happy Monday,

We're kicking off the week with over €60M in fresh funding for Catalan and Spanish startups, a brand-new €40M VC fund, and a fistful of open accelerator calls.

Last week, we asked if you would listen to Barcinno. We asked you to vote whether you would like to listen to an audio version of this newsletter, and the results show this is a feature many of you would like to see.

🎧 Would you listen to Barcinno?

• 44.2% - Absolutely, great for multitasking

• 34.6% - Not for me, text all the way

• 11.5% - Depends on the format (voice, length, etc.)

• 9.6% - I prefer reading, but cool idea

Thanks to everyone that voted – watch this space for audio versions from Barcinno in the future!

Grab a coffee, dig in, and have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Heura Foods bags €20M EU Bank Investment & Promises Q4 Profitability

• Corporate & school shared mobility platform Busup raises €2.84M

Barcelona startup news

• B2Brouter plans 70% revenue jump as e-invoicing demand soars

• Flexible workspace booking SaaS Hybo accelerates international expansion after surpassing 30K users in 17 countries 

• Alinia AI launches a new product, Investment Guard, a compliance layer for financial services

• Hello.app, a young local startup known for its extremist views, has been accused of fraud by its investors

Spanish investment news

• Madrid-based lifestyle hospitality scaleup Room00 gets €400M

• Spanish earth intelligence company Xoople reaches €115M 

• Eco cleaning brand Flopp closes €1M

• Modular DS secures €615K to scale its prefab data-centre modules

• Votum.World lands €550K private seed funding

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Google launches AI Futures Fund, a new initiative to invest in startups building with the latest AI tools from Google DeepMind

• Eoniq.Fund backs Nea Water to expand sustainable water management

• Tritemius launches €21M fund to boost web3, blockchain & digital asset startups

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• South Summit’s 2025 Startup Competition — applications now open

• Meet the 19 finalists of the 2025 Global Startup Pitch, competing in Barcelona

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews

• Game designer Salva Rey on “putting Barcelona on the map”

• Profile of Sycai Medical, the startup using AI to prevent abdominal cancer

Tech & Business News

Tech news in Barcelona

• IOTSWC gathers the latest solutions to speed up the digitalization of the industry

• CoreWeave and MERLIN Edged launch Barcelona data center in a quest for sustainable, high-performance AI compute

• Catalonia consolidates its position as the 2nd top region worldwide to attract foreign health investment

• 12,000+ Attend AI BreakThrough Summit in Barcelona

Good Reads & Watches

• Ten years of Glovo: growth, gig work, and legal challenges

• Trump “biggest force of good for European venture”, says European VC founder

• Wave Ventures, Europe's largest Gen Z-run VC Firm, triples fund size to €7M

• Top 10: Women-led foodtechs revolutionizing the food sector

Great Events

This week:

• Mon, 19 May @19:30: Investing in Uncertain Times: Insights from women leading the way

• Tue, 20 May, @18:00: Tech Up Nights – Vol.17

• Wed, 21 May @ 19:00: Women in Tech: Meetup

• Wed, 21 May @ 15:00: BCN Fintech x WIBJF: How to start & build a successful fintech career

• Thu, May 22 @ 18:30: Tech is the new English, it's time to be fluent

• Fri, May 23 @ 18:45: Optimización de procesos de Marketing automatizando con IA

Upcoming:

• Mon, 26 May @ 19:00: AI Engineers Barcelona

• Mon, 26 may @ 18:00: LLMs and SEO Forecasting in an AI World

• Wed, 28 may @ 18:00: StartupMat Tech Summit 2025

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