Barcelona's Weekly Tech Update

Hello and happy Monday,

Amid the excitement of the Tour de France and World Cup wins over the last week, we tracked over €133M of funding into Barcelona startups & scaleups, a big acquisition for Paack, and lots of fintech news across Spain.

Enjoy the issue and have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• Semi-conductor scaleup Openchip lands €115M

• Kalipso raises €2.8M for its AI-powered regulatory compliance platform

• Voice agent startup Flyboard closes €1.9M led by b2venture, Kfund & Yellow

• Smart Home appliance startup Citring closes €920K led by Angels

• Paack acquired by French firm CEVA Logistics for over €100M

Barcelona startup news

• Perk brings its travel & spend management platform to the US

• Spacetech Pangea Propulsion opens factory & bills €4M

• Sales SaaS Bloobirds enters administration after raising nearly €7M since founding

• Thinex selected by NASA to develop new system for spacecraft landing parachutes

Spanish investment news

• Valencia-based Substrate AI signs €39.2M deal following government approval

• Bilbao hydrogen startup H2SITE raises €42M Series B

• Navarra-based Telum Therapeutics bags €18M for AI-designed antibiotic

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• London’s solo GP VC firm Ruya Ventures announces €43M fundraise to support global deeptech innovation

• Spanish investment manager Argis raises €257M for new fund to acquire real estate assets

• Dunas Capital launches Dunas Aviation II, its second vintage of Spain's pioneering aviation investment fund

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• Wayra launches the 7th edition of Scaleup Spain Network; applications open 

• FutureTravel Summit 2026 in Barcelona: Speaker applications open

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews

• Three Catalan startups (with a summer spirit) to keep on your radar

• Bakoffice.ai bursts onto the scene to transform administrative work with AI

Tech & Business News

• The ICF backed 20 early-stage startups in 2025 at €5.2M, up 21%

• Revolut raises savings account rate for new clients to 3.51% APR

• JetBrains opens an office in Madrid and is looking for engineers

• Wise acquires expat information business Expatica

• New neobank for youths Twelve to launch in December in Madrid, Barcelona & Burgos

• BBVA completes its first AI agent-initiated payment with Visa

Good Reads & Watches

• Forbes Spain: Barcelona leads the way in young talent on the 30 Under 30 list

• Barcelona in numbers: ​2558 startups

• From dining table to $700M exit: Jos White, Co-founder of Notion Capital (EN)

• Inside the Mind of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: Extended Interview (EN)

Great Events

This week:

• Wed 8 Jul @18:00: Tech Marketing Leaders Vermut & Networking 🍸

• Wed 8 Jul @19:00: Agentic Coding Meetup — Devs & Drinks

• Wed 8 Jul @20:00: Claude Code Barcelona meetup July

• Thu 9 Jul: Tech Spirit Travel 2026

• Thu 9 Jul @15:00: Karisma Mastermind Gathering for Founders

Upcoming:

• Wed 15 Jul @18:30 Step4ward Bcn: Girls, Tech and Beers

• Wed 15 Jul @19:30: BUZOKU | AI & Crypto Meetup

• Tue 21 Jul @18:30: DeepTech Talks BCN: From Applied AI Systems to Robotics at Scale

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