Barcelona's Weekly Tech Update

Hello and happy Monday,

Hope everyone had a great summer break and time to rest and recharge. We’re back – and so is tech conference season. Better yet, it’s kicking off with one of Barcelona’s best and a Barcinno favorite.

Find more details below, and as always, have a great week! 💥

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• BSC-founded data analytics platform QBeast raises €6.5M

• Real estate professional tool Payli closes €480K 

• Metly’s female leadership inspires the startup ecosystem with a record €520K pre-seed round

• Voice agent tech Verbio acquired by US platform Capacity

Barcelona startup news

• Buying individual rooms as a solution to the housing crisis: Habitacion.com says it has over 21K people on its waiting list

• BCN3D’s ‘Quantum’ leap out of bankruptcy: 3D printing startup rescued, entire team retained

• Voice-based AI for restaurant booking Bookline expects its revenue to increase tenfold

• Talkual, a Catalan food-waste-fighting startup, predicts €6.5M end-of-year revenue

Spanish investment news

• Madrid-based Onum closes $250M sale to US cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike

• Crypto platform Bit2Me gets €30M led by Tether 

• Valencia & SF-based AI agent startup Maisa raises €21.4M seed round

• Madrid-based Ucademy secures €3.5M to personalise test prep with AI

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Norrsken Evolve launches €57M fund to back impact tech startups

• Goparity promotes investment in social impact in Catalonia, aiming for 50% revenue increase to €1M

• EIB Group launches the TechEU Platform, a fast-track system giving start-ups and scale-ups quicker access to financing

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• Barcelona Deep Tech Summit - Call for Startups: Chance to exhibit, pitch & more at the November event

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews

• Spotlight on Barcelona’s booming biotechs

• Llama Energy: AI energy comparison to save on your bills

• Basetis: The Catalan tech firm that forgoes having a CEO

Tech & Business News

Tech news in Barcelona

• Barcelona pilots safer circuits for female runners via tech, volunteers, and local startup The MotherTrees

• Inveready sells Catalan company Conversia to British firm Wilmington for €121.6M

• CaixaBank allocates more than €8.3B to support the internationalization of Spanish companies

• IWG opens Spaces Barceloneta to promote flexible working in BCN’s tech hub

Tech & big company news in Spain

• IKEA appoints first non-Swedish CEO – Spaniard Juvencio Maeztu

• Interxt, owned by Roig, Telefónica and Santander, enables crypto payments and creates its Bitcoin reserve

Good Reads & Watches

• Historical tech tree: An interactive visualization of tech history from 3 million years ago to today

• Time released its 100 Best Podcasts of All Time 

• Factorial CEO Jordi Romero: 'We don't need to raise capital to grow' (Sifted, EN)

• From marketing agency to incredible exit: The Hotels Network (MarsBased, ES)

• Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how to escape the “dopamine crash loop” and rewire your curiosity

Great Events

This week:

• Wed, 3 Sep @16:00: n8n Starter Sessions: From Basics to Building AI-Powered Agents

• Fri, 5 Sep @18:30: Back to Business: Summer Social with SIA

Upcoming:

• Mon, 8 Sep @18:30: Don't Pitch, Connect - Impulse4Women Networking Meetup

• Tue, 16 Sep @18:30: Angel Investing Made Simple: Why It’s Worth It and How to Begin

• Thu, 18 – Fri, 19 Sep: Fin- & RegTech Mission to Barcelona

• Thu, 2 Oct @18:00: Barcelona Tech Job Fair Autumn 2025

• Wed, 15 – Thu, 16 Oct: Women in Tech Job Fair and Career Summit

• Thu, 16 – Fri, 17 Oct: European Blockchain Convention 2025

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Startup Jobs

• Powens Group is hiring a DevSecOps - Security Engineer & a Lead AI Engineer

• Sateliot needs a Communications Specialist

• Metricool is looking for an SEO Specialist (Remote in Spain)

• StudiesIn Technologies is hiring a Founder’s Associate (Part-time)