Barcelona's Weekly Tech Update

Hello and happy Monday,

Update: Our Barcinno MWC & 4YFN 2026 side events & parties guide is now live! 🎉Check it out here. And this is just the start – it will be regularly updated as usual, so bookmark it, check back, and don’t forget to send in your events or any good ones our community would like. You can reply directly to this email.

Enjoy the issue and have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Biorce raises €52M, the largest round for a health-AI company in Iberia

• Workforce ops startup Valeria gets $2M

• Sustainable cosmetics company Roka Furadada closes €2.3M

• Cybersecurity startup Build38 acquired by US-based OneSpan

Barcelona startup news

• Travel insurance firm Heymondo sets its sights on €100M & looks to Europe

• Qilimanjaro launches EduQit, a build-your-own quantum computer

• Catalan startup Eltex becomes first installer in Spain of SpaceX's Starlink

• Sateliot incorporates UARX Space’s separation ring for the in-orbit deployment of its 5G Tritó satellite

Spanish investment news

• Madrid-based BCAS gets €30M for its flexible student financing

• Spain invests €9.75M in Nu Quantum 

• AI video tool MITO AI raises $4.5M Preseed

• Oviedo travel experience startup Buendía gets €8M

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Glovo’s Yellow invested in Paris institutional real estate firm GoCanopy

• BCN’s Kembara hits €750M first close for €1B DeepTech fund

• Aurica Capital closes its first search fund oversubscribed, raising €50M

• Mobile World Capital Barcelona raises the valuation of its spin-offs to €107M, up 28%

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• Future Leaders Spring 2026 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Case Competition: For university students to build & pitch

• Foodtech Innovations Awards 2026 open call 

• Catalonia Open Challenge: Develop a green & innovative solution to treat hospital wastewater; deadline 28 Feb

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews

• The 6 BCN startups presenting their AV projects at ISE 

  • 89 Catalan companies exhibit at ISE, the highest in history

• Prudencia.ai: New startup launches first AI developed by lawyers

Tech & Business News

• Italian smart shared mobility firm BusForFun arrives in Barcelona

• UK semiconductor company Aion Silicon establishes main EU design center in Barcelona

• Vueling resumes Barcelona-Madrid route until February 22 due to the rail crisis

• TradeInn appoints new leadership with the founder of eDreams and ex-CEO of Backcountry

Good Reads & Watches

• I left my own startup to not become my father by Factorial Co-founder & former CTO Pau Ramon

• Startup opportunities in 2026: Quantum, regional innovation & the green revolution

• The 26 startups to watch in 2026 – plus cities, sectors & investors on the up (EN)

• React is technically worse than its competition (and why it keeps winning): Midudev (ES)

Great Events

This week:

• Mon 9 Feb @18:30: Supernovas x SIA Women Investors Cocktail

• Tue 10 Feb: The Female Founders Experience

• Tue 10–Wed 11 Feb: Gamesforum Barcelona 2026

• Wed 11 Feb @13:00: Women Investors' Lunch by SIA

• Thu 12 Feb @10:30: Startup/Investor Open Coffee

Upcoming:

• Wed 18 Feb @18:00: BCN FinTech: Hiring and Growing Amazing Fintech Talent, Fintech HR Leaders Edition (50% discount applied ✨)

• Wed 18 Feb @18:00: Building a Neo-Bank the Monzo Way

• Wed 18 Feb @20:00: SIA Angels & Beers for investors  

• Thu 19 Feb @18:00: Onshape by PTC Barcelona Tech Meetup

• Thu 19 Feb @18:30: DevOps BCN Meetup 

• Wed 25 Feb @18:30: Sony AI: Transforming scientific literature into discovery

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Startup Jobs

• Flyboard is hiring a Founders’ Associate

• BizAway is looking for a Customer Lifecycle Manager 

• Zynap needs a Performance Marketing Specialist

• Powens is looking for a Senior Software Engineer

• NeuralTrust is hiring an Enterprise Solutions Architect