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Hello and happy Monday,

We may be nearing the end of the year, but we’ve already tracked reports of nearly €75M ☄️ Spanish funding in December so far – around €65M of that from Barcelona firms (thanks in part to TitanOS’s massive €50M Series A seen below). As always, keep sending us your own closed rounds through this form. Enjoy the issue and have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• TitanOS nets €50M to scale its European connected-TV OS

• Alinia bags $7.5M seed for AI compliance in banking

• Voice agent platform HeyDiga closes €1M seed round led by Kfund & JobandTalent founders

• HRtech startup Pack raises €5.8M

Barcelona startup news

• Talk&Code, the tool for detecting unlicensed tourist apartments, expands across Europe and into Asia & LATAM

• Solfy and Spock sign strategic alliance to promote smart energy homes

Spanish investment news

• Basque recycled metal marketplace ScrapAd closes €6M Series A

• Madrid adtech startup Adcities raises €3M+ seed funding

• Guipuzcoan e-battery startup BattBelt gets €630K

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Índico Capital Partners launches €125M Fund for SaaS, AI, ocean, space & deeptech solutions in Southern Europe

• Clover raises €30M to become the go-to investor for work and education startups

• ​​Draper B1 surpasses €20M closing of its new Frontier Tech fund

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• Underwater Tech Program: Terna seeks advanced tech solutions for the protection, monitoring & enhancement of the marine environment; deadline 9 Jan 

• Applications for the EU-Startups Pitch Competition are now open; deadline 8 Feb

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews

• BASE4 Biosciences: Addressing women’s underrepresentation in biomedical research

• Nua: The Catalan AI that trains cyclists like a professional

Tech & Business News

Tech news in Barcelona

• Barcelona faces backlash over controversial partnership with ZKP crypto startup

• Damm joins the global ranking of the top 100 open innovation companies

• IESE, ESADE & EADA once again among top 30 in The Financial Times’ European Business School Ranking

Tech & big company news in Spain

• Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) testing gains major ground in Spain

• Bizum prepares major expansion for 2026 with new in-store payment method rivaling Visa & Mastercard

• The Treasury delays mandatory implementation of e-invoicing tool Verifactu by a year

Good Reads & Watches

• MIT’s top 10 breakthrough technologies 2025

• WIRED’s Big Interview: big names in tech, culture, business & science

• Top 15 startups rewriting Spanish biotech

• YC Founder Habits You Need to Drop to Be a Great CEO (EN)

• If you enjoy programming, DON'T be a CTO: Sergio Gago (ES)

Great Events

This week:

• Tue, 9 Dec @09:30: Online Barcelona Activa workshop for English-speaking jobseekers

• Wed, 10 Dec: Tech Spirit Barcelona 2025

• Wed, 10 Dec @18:00: Quality Engineering Meetup

• Thu, 11 Dec @16:00: Trans Atlantic Angel Conference #8 Final Demo Day Event 

• Thu, 11 Dec @18:00: DMK Talk: 10 Biggest Marketing Challenges of 2026

Upcoming:

• Tue, 16 Dec @18:00: IoT Barcelona + TTN Catalunya Christmas Show & Tell

• Tue, 16 Dec @18:30: DeepTech Talks BCN

• Thu, 18 Dec @19:00: BCN FinTech X Barcinno Vermut & Networking 🍹

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