Barcelona's Weekly Tech Update

Hello and happy Monday,

First of all, thanks to those who attended our AI marketing workshop last week! 👌 You can read the recap on LinkedIn here, and if you couldn’t make it, find the link for a follow-up online session here.

📕 Otherwise, enjoy this week’s edition featuring some impressive steps forward for BCN startups, €43M+ raised between them, and a few particularly interesting reads and listens.

Have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Amenitiz raises €38.9M for European hoteltech expansion

• Personalized health startup Holo raises €1M pre-seed

• Applied AI startup Velorum gets €3M

• HealthTech Innovations closes €800K led by Grow Venture Partners

Barcelona startup news

• Barcelona’s Starlink: Sateliot inaugurates Europe’s first 5G satellite center

• Qilimanjaro opens quantum data center in Barcelona

• Land of Nomads launches pioneering sustainable real estate project in the Philippines

• RoboPedics unveils pioneering bionic system to help stroke survivors walk

Spanish investment news

• Canary Islands eCommerce startup Synvia gets €2M from Inveready

• Smart housing startup Libeen goes public on Portfolio Stock Exchange with €4.1M REIT

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Dutch VC Lumo Labs to invest €25M in Spain through new fund

• Analysis: The AI ​​map in Spain: 50 tech companies with the most capital

• Europe’s founders unite: new Fund aims to build Europe’s first trillion-dollar tech giants

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• The 2026 edition of the Female Innovation Index Survey is open for the valuable contribution of startup founders, investors & employees

• Call for startups to pilot rail maintenance solutions with Deutsche Bahn, Europe’s largest rail network; deadline 30 Nov

• Sage Impact Entrepreneurship Call: startups making a positive environmental, social & economic impact

Tech & Business News

Tech news in Barcelona

• EU-Startups celebrates 15 years with acquisition by Hungary’s MeOut Group

• CaixaBank now allows all customers to invest in bitcoin ETPs

• Las Muns lands in Switzerland with first opening in Zurich

• American tech company Infor inaugurates new offices in 22@

Tech & big company news in Spain

• X fined €5M in Spain over cryptocurrency ads

• Hot on rival BBVA's heels, Santander's Openbank launches crypto trading

• Digi considering going public in Spain but rules out a sale

Good Reads & Watches

• Apparently, San Francisco is back as the world’s leading tech hub

• Zero exit strategy: The world’s worst business ideas by entrepreneurs 

• Founders, stop paying yourself like a martyr: Oped by serial entrepreneur James Routledge

• When is the right time to start your company? Building MarsBased #2 (EN)

• Itnig interview Qida’s Oriol Fuertes about its recent €37M, the largest social impact round in Spanish history (ES)

Great Events

This week:

• Mon, 17 Nov: Finance Week Barcelona

• Tue, 18 Nov @18:30: DeepTech Talks BCN: Responsible AI for High-Performing Companies

• Wed, 19 Nov @10:00: Online roundtable: How to scale finance in international environments

• Fri, 21 Nov: Founders of Tomorrow: Pitching & networking for young entrepreneurs

Upcoming:

• Wed, 26 Nov @12:00: Webinar: How can CFOs use AI & automation to streamline financial processes?

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

• Wed, 26 Nov @18:00: HubSpot for Startups: Pitch & Padel Barcelona

• Thu, 27 Nov: AI Day @Bcombinator

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Startup Jobs

• Nuvei is hiring a Product Marketing Manager

• Bioma Kombucha needs a COO 

• Unnax/Powens Group is hiring for 3 Engineering Positions

• Biorce is looking for a Digital Designer