Barcelona's Weekly Tech Update

Hello and happy Monday,

If you're building, scaling, or want to understand the fintech landscape in Barcelona better, don’t miss BCN FinTech x Barcinno’s event this week – Fintech Exits.

A strong lineup of panelists from Kantox, Finteca & the London Stock Exchange Group will lead the conversation, all who’ve made successful exits and have a wealth of fintech and entrepreneurship experience.

Sign up here (link includes 50% Barcinno community discount) 🔥

Have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Modern Relay lands €2.5M to power enterprise AI coordination

Barcelona startup news

• BCN startups THEKER & Paack team up to implement intelligent robotics for autonomous parcel sorting

• Biorce opens office in the former AstraZeneca HQ

• Payflow launches The Hub, a monetization feature that partners with leading benefit providers

• Oli (ex. Oliva Health) founders launch new task tracking product, readywhen AI

Spanish investment news

• Data infrastructure company Xoople (re)closes €115M Series B

• Alicante deeptech Golden Owl raises €1.4M seed

• Customer support platform GuruSup closes €1.3M seed led by 4Founders Capital

• Seville startup Arca Digital snaps €1M to fix Spain’s broken pension system

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Stirling Square announces final close of its Fifth Fund at €720M

• Indexa Capital surpasses €5M in assets under management & 150K clients

• Zurich’s Herbert Ventures launches €32.5M Fund I to back European founders at pre-Seed and Seed

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• CDTI approves €20.3M NEOTEC 2026 call, one of Spain’s main funding lines for tech startups

• Iveco Group call for solutions in materials innovation, design & advanced manufacturing tech; deadline 30 Apr

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews

• Profile of Aquí tu Reforma, tech transforming the renovation sector

• Side Quest Games: New startup developing accessible sports games

Tech & Business News

Tech news in Barcelona

• American digital identity startup Ditto sets up shop in Barcelona with 12.8M users

• The Government to promote 26 new data centers in Catalonia

• SEAT & CUPRA launch new electric vehicle in Barcelona

• DFactory triples its space & boosts the creation of up to 1500 jobs

Tech & big company news in Spain

• French tech consultancy Capgemini layoffs in Spain due to the impact of AI, while CCOO union claims a lack of strategic management

• LaLiga partners with US tech firm Fastly to combat sports piracy

• SaaStock shuts down after 10 years with a new conference brand, Shift AI

Good Reads & Watches

• 5 Years at Novicap: From Investor to Operator by CEO Loïs Duhourcau

• Musk v. Altman: a jury will soon determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity

• From founding Privalia to reinventing construction | 011h (ES)

• MarsBased interview François Derbaix from Indexa Capital (ES)

Great Events

This week:

• Tue 21 Apr @18:00: Capitole Tech Talks: Hexagonal Architecture

• Wed 22 Apr @18:00: #026 BCN FinTech X Barcinno: FinTech Exits – 50% community discount applied

• Sat 25 Apr @10:00: PowerBI Sant Jordi Data Fest 2026

• Thu Apr 30 @18:00: How to file taxes in Spain if you use Estonia e-Residency

Upcoming:

• Tue 28 Apr @12:00: AI vs AI: the battle for talent (webinar)

• Tue 28 Apr @18:00: Cheese, Tech & Wine #2 

• Thu 30 May @17:00: Workshop | Connecting Applications Across Your Business Landscape

• Wed 13 May @09:30 HER/O Day women in tech conference 

• Wed 27 May @18:00: Strive Tech and Business Networking

• Thu 28 May: Early Bird: StartupMat Tech Summit 2026

• Thu 28–Sat 30 May: Esade Entrepreneurship Summit 2026

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