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Hello and happy November,

October slowdown? Barcelona startup funding reports showed €37.2M last month, a decrease from September’s summer comeback of €54M – though over 35% of Spain’s €107.5M. AI, fintech, and biotech continue to lead. Will the trend continue through Q4? We’ll keep tracking the data for our end-of-year analysis.

In the meantime, as always, have a great week! 🍂

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Adaptam Therapeutics raises €3M to pioneer cancer immunotherapies

• CeleBreak gets investment from Eoniq.fund

• Strategic solar alliance: Solfy acquires Samara’s business unit; Samara acquires a stake in Solfy 

• Proptech Aquí tu Reforma gets investment from LATAM building firm Organización Corona

Barcelona startup news

• haddock launches Fina, the first AI agent for restaurant admin & finance

• Flomics Biotech wins Start 2025 awards at 22@Network 

• Robodost launches new product ROBO.EYE to solve the shrinkage problem in retail stores 

• Data center cooling firm Submer creates new AI cloud unit company InferX

Spanish investment news

• Valencian firms lead:

  •  Sesame HR secures €50M through BBVA Spark

  • Aunoa raises €1.5M for its conversational AI agents

  • Buenavista invests in Hundred Burgers, considered the 'best burger in the world'

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Angels will invest €10M in 40 startups over the next 2 years

• Klima, Alantra's energy transition fund, leads $15M Series B in Dutch greentech pioneer maxwell+spark 

• The Lab Ventures closes €29M Fund II to support B2B innovation, primarily in Spain

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• TSO Innovation Alliance: Opportunity to showcase AI & data-driven weather risk solutions; deadline 7 Nov

• SensAI Hack BCN: The Global Game Jam Of XR & AI - Learn, Create & Network; apply now

• ACCIÓ Challenge: AI-Powered Tool for Matching Open Innovation Challenges with Catalan Tech Providers

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews

• ElDespido: The startup turning layoffs into opportunities

• LinkedIn’s Top Startups 2025: The 10 Most Promising Startups in Barcelona

Tech & Business News

Tech news in Barcelona

• The University of Barcelona wins Trainer of the Year 2025 awards from EIT Deep Tech Talent

• Catalonia sets new strategy to attract €6B in foreign investment by 2030

• Amazon to lay off 1,200 workers from Barcelona and Madrid offices

• Catalan VTCs battle €7M fines in human rights court

Tech & big company news in Spain

• Arson gang plotted to kidnap Revolut CEO, court hears

• Tuenti and Job&Talent founders launch new startup combining AI and voice

• UK neobank Monzo plans to start ops in Spain and has chosen its CEO

• French fintech Chift API expands into Spain

Podcasts of the week

• Sequoia’s Roelof Botha on how VC is broken (Uncapped, EN)

• Excel Is Fine… Until It Isn’t: Abacum CEO Julio Martinez on Modern FP&A (EU-Startups, EN)

• Midudev: authenticity, community, and the human side of programming (Life on Mars, ES)

• From €400K to $300M & spectacular bootstrapping: the story of Holafly (Itnig, ES)

Great Events

This week:

• Tue, 4 – Thu, 6 Nov: Barcelona Deep Tech Summit

• Wed, 5 Nov @19:00: The Future of AI in Europe: Innovation, Supercomputers & New Silicon Valley - Growth Lab

• Tue, 4 – Thu, 6 Nov: Smart City Expo World Congress

• Wed, 5 Nov @17:00: From Barcelona to the World: Overcoming Health Tech Startup Challenges

Upcoming:

• Tue, 11 Nov @17:30: eWorks Accelerator 25 - Demo Day

• Wed, 12 Nov @18:30: AI Marketing Workshop with Hello Operator

• Sun, 16 – Tue, 18 Nov: Global SensAl Hack Barcelona

• Mon, 17 Nov: Finance Week Barcelona

• Wed, 26 Nov @18:00: BCN FinTech x Barcinno: Lending en España: el futuro del crédito – 50% discount applied 🏷️

• Thu, 27 Nov: AI Day @Bcombinator

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Startup Jobs

• SonoSuite is hiring a Business Controller

• Flanks is looking for a Mid Software Engineer

• Ackcent Cybersecurity needs a Customer Success Specialist