Barcelona's Weekly Tech Update

Hello and happy Monday,

Now that the out-of-offices have dwindled, welcome back to the first post-summer edition. And as usual for September, it’s events, events, and more events – with 30 congresses this month alone.

We’ll be at EBC this week. If you still haven’t got a ticket, regular bird prices end today at 23:59. So snap one up with code Hello_15 for 15% off, and come meet us there.

Have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• ID Finance secures €21M from nordIX to grow its Spanish lending business

• Femtech DOMMA announces €600K investment round through SEGO Venture

• Factorial acquires Berlin AI-powered talent assessment platform Empion

• Sports membership management platform Playoff acquired by Everfield

• Catalan HR company Eurofirms Group acquires outsourcing services firm Avanza

Barcelona startup news

• Cooltra celebrates 20 years of operations with €68M in revenue this year

• Barcelona student Philipp Hartings introduces Moveable, a free website to explore neighbourhoods and find matches for campuses, budget & everyday preferences

• Wallapop saw a 15% revenue increase to €116M in 2025 but raised losses to €28M 

• Holaluz returns to the stock market after its disqualification is dismissed

Spanish investment news

• Elche-based PLD Space extends Series C to €288M with additional €108M

• Nvidia invests in Spain with Valencian optical networking system iPronics’s €108M series B

• iPremom raises €15M to transform pregnancy care with molecular diagnostics

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Lanzadera’s 124 new startups bet on multiplying business productivity

• Crescenta diversifies its offering, allowing investment in Private Equity from €5K

• CriteriaCaixa relaunches its investment business in science & technology-based startups

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• The HR Startup Competition: For early-stage startups transforming the industry

• IEBS AI Awards: For audiovisual projects; deadline 25 Sep

• EIT Culture & Creativity launches €8.6M call for coaching & investor matchmaking to help creative-tech startups and scaleups; deadline 12 Oct

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews

• Alted Materials: Catalan circular architecture used by Netflix

• Keep Calm: Not-for-profit sports & social community with over 2000 English-speaking members

Tech & Business News

Tech news in Barcelona

• Nearly half of Ubisoft staff supports first day of strike against loss of remote working

• British startup Tolemy Bio chooses Barcelona to develop AI solutions for advanced therapies

• UK legaltech Wordsmith AI lands in Barcelona after raising over €70M

• Barcelona ranks first in Europe & third worldwide for AI foreign investment projects

Tech & big company news in Spain

• The government is distributing €180M to accelerate AI implementation in companies

• Bit2Me sets up specialized unit to help law enforcement track down crypto assets

• Spain will host one of the first three gigafactories in the EU

• Inditex records its highest half-year profits ever with €2.98B

Good Reads & Watches

• If you lost your LLM tomorrow, would you still have a business?

• How we landed HP, Ford & FC Barcelona as clients | Building MarsBased (EN)

• Baker's pivot: more revenue in 3 weeks than a whole year | Inside the fund (ES)

Great Events

This week:

• Mon 14 Sep @18:30: AI Afterwork: Agentic Stack

• Tue 15 Sep: Forward Summit 2026

• Wed 16 Sep @17:45: Connect Day by BE PRO & Barcelona Entrepreneurs 

• Wed 16–Thu 17 Sep: European Blockchain Convention (code Hello_15 for 15% off)

• Thu 17 Sep: TB Tech Spirit Women 2026

• Fri 18 Sep @09:30: Foundhers BCN Breakfast Stories

Upcoming:

• Mon 21–Wed 23 Sep: Talent Garden Barcelona - La Mercè Open House: Work, Connect & Celebrate

• Tue 22 Sep @19:00: Barcelona Tech Startup & VC Rooftop Networking

• Tue 22–Wed 23 Sep: AI Summit Barcelona

• Wed 30 Sep @18:00: Tech and Business Networking

• Wed 30 Sep @18:30: Networking & Drinks - Itnig Coworking

• Wed 28 Oct @18:00: Barcelona Tech Job Fair Autumn 2026

• Thu Oct 29: FutureTravel Summit

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