Barcelona's Weekly Tech Update

Hello and happy Monday,

Q2 2025: Barcelona startup funding recap 💰

July’s already here, so it’s time for our quarterly funding analysis. In Q2 2025, we tracked over 30 rounds by BCN startups, raising just under €400M — €100M less than Q1, but a healthy quarter with maturity across multiple sectors. The peak month was June, thanks to hefty biotech and fintech deals.

Trends & insights:

🧬 Biotech & related industries dominate: 

• €216M+ poured into life sciences across 7 rounds

• Top round: SpliceBio with its record-breaking €119M

• Other major raises: Deepull (€50M), Oryzon Genomics (€30M), Seqera (€23M)

🏦 Fintech’s still on fire:

• Abacum (€52.5M) and Belvo (€14.8M) led the pack

• Total fintech funding exceeded €77M, showing continued investor faith in the sector

🌱 Early-stage activity: A pipeline of sub-€3M rounds from startups like Ratio, Tether, and Staryon points to strong pre-seed and seed-stage support.

⚖️ Diverse mix of verticals: Barcelona’s Q2 dealflow featured AI, cleantech, foodtech, proptech, spacetech, and mobility, showing its increasing sector diversity.

🇪🇸 Rest-of-Spain firms raised a weighty €936M+, thanks to megarounds by Room00 (€400M) and Multiverse Computing (€189M) – without those, the Q2 total would have been a fairly similar €347M. 

Let’s see next quarter if this momentum can translate into even broader, more inclusive growth.

Have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• AI legaltech vLex becomes Barcelona’s newest unicorn after $1B acquisition by Canadian tech giant Clio

• Flexible packaging solution IFLEX closes €5.5M 

• Sales solution Vixiees raises €1M Seed

• Mango acquires stake in The Post Fiber to boost circular textile innovation

Barcelona startup news

• Barcelona-based wealthtech abroaden partners with Remote Work Europe to bring personal finance tools & education content to international remote workers

• Founders of Colvin, Cobee & Nucoro launch new voice agent startup Orbio

• Spacetech Sateliot advances its constellation with 5 new satellites manufactured by Alén Space

Spanish investment news

• TuringDream gets €6M to scale its agentic AI edtech platform

• Personalized video creation startup Kuikads raises €1M pre-seed 

• Celebrity food brand startup Foodiefame closes €800K

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Apollo acquires 30% of Tradeinn from Suma Capital

• Omnes Capital raises €112M to support European deeptech companies in their early growth phase

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews

• Interview with W4ASteam president Blanca Ochoa: “Only 2% of private capital reaches startups founded by women, and that needs to change.”

• Shippedflow: New startup digitizing & optimizing customs management

Tech & Business News

Tech news in Barcelona

• Barcelona will have a new circular economy lab for entrepreneurship & innovation, BAC

• Catalonia’s ICT sector doubles value to €10B, driving growth & innovation across the economy

• Microsoft’s latest round of layoffs affects King’s Barcelona offices

• Neobank Qonto, with a large hub in BCN, plans to quadruple its customer base by 2030 to two million

Tech & big company news in Spain

• Dozens of Europe's top startups and VCs urge the EU to pause AI Act implementation

• MyInvestor considers branching into crypto assets

Good Reads & Watches

• Tech.eu analyzed the Spanish ecosystem, funding & companies to watch

• Piece on Estonia’s e-Residency: digital gateway for Spanish startups looking to conquer Europe

• 10 years without shortcuts or investors: the MarsBased keynote reveal (EN)

• The creative behind VICIO: María Cerdán (Talent podcast, ES)

Great Events

This week:

• Tue, 8 July @18:00: Investor Insights: How Startups Work: A Look Inside

• Tue, 8 July @18:30: DeepTech Talks Barcelona: From Lab to Market

• Wed, 9 Jul @13:00: Women Investors’ Lunch by SIA

• Wed, 9 July @18:00: Meetup - Connecting Ecosystems: Uniting Local and Global Communities

• Wed, 9 July @18:30: Fuckup Nights Barcelona July 2025

• Thu, 10 July @10:00: #002 BCN FinTech Live: Game of Thrones in Banking, Revolut & Funding ♟️

Upcoming:

• Wed, 16 July @12:30: Invoice, reconcile, and get paid effortlessly: the new standard in AR

• Wed, 16 July @18:00: Capitole Tech Talks: The AI Side of Things

• Wed, 16 July @19:00: Fintech Vermut & Networking by BCN FinTech 🍸

• Wed, 16 July @20:00: Angels & Beers (For Investors)
  

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