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Hello and happy Monday,

Plenty of good news this week with several more €M for Barcelona startups, more stats about the city’s tech growth, and some healthy and diverse new VC funds. As always, enjoy the issue and have a great week! 💥

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Logistics startup Opereit raises €2.2M led by Seedcamp & Yellow 

• Product formulation startup Mafer AI raises €2M Pre-seed

• Overwatch AI secures €1.3M to streamline airline operations

• Edtech Mathew raises €1.2M Seed with Encomenda and Decelera

• Robotics firm Keybotic acquired by German drone firm Helsing

Barcelona startup news

• Climate risk platform Mitiga wins South Summit Madrid 2026

• Step-count rewards app Macadam also wins the Consumer vertical at South Summit

• BNPL SeQura closed 2025 with €133M & wants to become the next Catalan unicorn before 2030

• BCN fintechs in the Sifted 100

Spanish investment news

• Madrid-based EOS-X Space raises €120M Series D

• Guipúzcoa-based Orbik Cybersecurity closes €2M

• Didit closes $7.5M seed round to build infrastructure for identity & fraud

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• AEBAN (Spanish Association of Business Angels) & ICEX renew collaboration to boost Spanish private investment and entrepreneurship

• Pitchdrive raises €60M to back Europe’s AI-native founders

• Creator Fund closes €48.6M fund to back scientific founders before pitch stage

• LifeX Ventures became a new investor in German restaurant ops startup allO

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• Made by Teens: 2-day intensive bootcamp where 13–17-year-olds ship a live product using no-code tools (6–7 July, Barcelona)

• Accelerate your agri-food value chain project with Emprèn Agro BIO

• Last few days for Future Tech accelerator: for early-stage AI, IoT, blockchain & AR/VR startup solutions; deadline 18 June

Tech & Business News

Tech news in Barcelona

• MWC 2026 generated €588M impact and 14K+ jobs in Barcelona

• Catalonia generates over half of Spain’s mobile gaming revenue

• Barcelona hits 135,890 ICT professionals, but AI is squeezing junior roles

• King confirms Barcelona remains critical to Candy Crush maker’s growth, with nearly 500 employees at its 22@ hub

Tech & big company news in Spain

• Microsoft’s Madrid team helps build MAI-Thinking-1, its first foundational model from Microsoft SuperIntelligence

• Idealista integrates Rentalia to offer vacation rentals in Spain

• The Government will inject another €100M into Multiverse Computing

• BBVA puts its stake in UK neobank Atom Bank up for sale

Good Reads & Watches

• 11 years investing in startups: what I got wrong, what I got lucky with, and what I'd tell myself in 2015 (Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit)

• Milan-based Bending Spoons files for Nasdaq IPO – is Europe losing another tech contender?

• Europe’s tech paradox: plenty of talent, not enough homegrown technology 

• AI predictions: Job markets, Codex beats Claude, and the death of org charts: Dan Shipper (Lenny’s Podcast, EN)

Great Events

This week:

• Mon 15 Jun: The Big Indie Pitch (Mobile Edition) at PG Connects 

• Tue 16 Jun @09:30: Attico: Build a Shared AI Brain with Claude 

• Thu 18 Jun @18:00: Beyond The Code: Women in Tech Panel & Networking

• Thu 18 Jun @19:00: Founders’ Chess Tournament

Upcoming:

• Mon 22 Jun @13:00: Women Investors’ Lunch by SIA

• Mon 22 Jun @18:00: CTO Networking Barcelona

• Tue 30 Jun @20:00: Tech Founder Hang - June

• Thu 2 Jul @18:00: Hello Operator & Kunoichi Growth Tech Marketing Leaders Vermut & Networking

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