Barcelona's Weekly Tech Update

Hello and happy Monday,

🍸 The final BCN FinTech x Barcinno event of the year is this Thursday! This casual networking night is the perfect opportunity to reconnect with the community, celebrate the year's achievements, and share plans for what's ahead. Find out more & RSVP here on LinkedIn to facilitate your networking.

Also, next Monday will be our last newsletter of 2025, so reach out to share or collaborate before then.

Have a great week! 👌

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• CDTI Innovación commits an investment of over €17M in bound4blue

• ID verification platform Didit raises €1.7M & joins Y Combinator

• Manglai, which helps firms lower their carbon footprint, closes €1M

Barcelona startup news

• Semiconductor firm Shinephi wins 2025 Catalan Startup of the Year award

• Socialpoint inaugurates new hub in 22@, Take-Two Interactive’s main European center

• Bleta rolls out its free app for increasing social inclusion & digital skills for seniors

Spanish investment news

• Madrid health/fintech denarius closes 2nd €11.2M round, bringing its Series A to €18.2M

• Basque employee benefits platform Roiward gets €1.8M from Banco Santander

• Galicia-based Vig-Sec Drone closes €1M

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• 6 Degrees Capital closes €154M fund for enterprise software, AI & fintech

• Europe’s Backed VC closes $100M Fund III and marks 100th investment

• EU launches €5B fund to back European scaleups in AI, quantum & semiconductors

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• AI Adoption Program: Work with industrial partners to solve challenges through AI; deadline 15 Dec

• Greentech Innovation Open Call: For startups & SMEs innovating in public policies for ecological transition; deadline 19 Jan

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews

• Brainlab Fira: Tour art masterpieces in the Metaverse

• Vizitio: Organizing local leisure activities with an AI search engine

Tech & Business News

Tech news in Barcelona

• Taxi drivers block Barcelona city center in new protest against Uber and Cabify

• Barcelona’s AI ecosystem showcased in Paris as a global magnet for tech investment

• BCN consolidates status as Spain's digital nomad capital with 30%+ of visas

Tech & big company news

• Revolut increases commitment to Spain & aims to exceed 7M customers by 2027

• Spain announces €400M subsidies for purchasing electric cars in 2026

• Meta’s outgoing chief AI scientist Yann LeCun taps Europe to build new startup better than current LLMs

Good Reads & Watches

• Harvard Business Review: What’s Lost When We Work with AI, According to Neuroscience

• 4YFN26 Awards: Meet the Top 20 startups (ft. Dost & Sycai Medical from BCN)

• Is it possible to scale a company with your best friends? (MarsBased, EN)

• Bolt founder Markus Villig on why Europe is sleepwalking into a 'disaster' on self-driving cars and physical AI (EN)

Great Events

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

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

• Wed, 17 Dec @17:00: Davos Debrief + GLOBALS 2026

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

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Startup Jobs

• Draivi is hiring a Product Owner

• LIBEEN needs Heads of Marketing, Tech & Finance

• Powens Group is recruiting 3 engineering roles

• Norrsken BCN is hiring an Event Sales Intern