Barcelona's Weekly Tech Update

Hello and happy Monday,

🗞️ This week’s top stories:

• BCN’s Autentic AI raises €1.5M

• Kantox Co-Founder launches new wealth firm

• Factorial acquires Madrid-based Fuell

And talking of wealthtech, if you are or know a great candidate for the next BCN FinTech x Barcinno panel, get in touch here.

Enjoy the issue and have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• bnc10 will launch a €5M round to acquire its neobank license

• Autentic AI raises €1.5M to accelerate AI-powered market research

• Business management platform Kompanion raises €800K led by JME

• Factorial acquires Madrid-based expense management startup Fuell

Barcelona startup news

• Kantox Co-founder Philippe Gelis is launching Kronopoly for “investing like the ultra-wealthy in a passive way”

• ‘Bizum for hospitality’ startup Yumminn plans to double its workforce & close a funding round to internationalize 

• Traveltech Bytetravel doubles H1 YoY growth to €14.8M and 4x EBITDA reaching €1.8M

• Identity & fraud prevention API Didit (YC W26) hits 64x revenue of 15 months prior 

• Routal and Tinkery win VTEX Retail Tech Awards through Bcombinator

Spanish investment news

• Madrid fire protection firm Cofrai raises €2.6M led by DFF Ventures and Swanlaab

• Basque startup SafeLoc gets €1.4M to cut industrial accidents with real-time tracking

• Seville-based electric vehicle producer Mothium closes €1M

• EYSA acquires Joinup & strengthens its position as a mobility operator

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• Seaya Andromeda invests in Paris AI SaaS Wiremind’s €35M round

• Azora closes its largest real estate fund for Southern Europe at more than €2B

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• EIT Culture & Creativity call: Financial support for startups and scaleups (Shape Accelerator and Scale Post-Accelerator)

• Naturgy launches new edition of Connecting Energy to accelerate innovative solutions for the energy transition

• Wayra, Pfizer & Fundación Pfizer launch a challenge to optimize efficiency in hospital outpatient clinics

Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews

• Munich: approaching 9 decades & restructuring its debt

• XipScope: miniature microscopy tech changing the rules of the game

Tech & Business News

• Catalonia hits its highest level of entrepreneurial activity on record with over 14K companies created in H1 2026

• Polish pharmaceutical company Adamed to invest over €100M in former Sanofi factory

• Aigües de Barcelona commemorates a decade of supporting young talent and access to STEM studies

• LaLiga focuses on VPNs in its fight against piracy, asking the EU to blacklist them

Good Reads & Watches

• Europe's Top 50 AI Innovators

• Complex GTM by Luigi Mallardo: Before You Scale, Know What You're Scaling

• Who are Europe’s fastest-growing companies? Findings of Sifted 250 (EN)

• Where podcasting meets VC: Interview with Paul Bonnet from 20VC (EN)

• Revolut and the Myth of the Risk-Free Neobank

Great Events

This week:

• Tue 13 Oct @18:30: Promoting Entrepreneurship: Lessons Learnt From Research on Founders Wellbeing

• Tue 13 Oct @19:30: Dinner with Maze & Masia

• Wed 14 Oct @09:00: AgriFood Impact Walk

• Wed 14 Oct @09:30: Founders & Coffee #3

• Wed 14 Oct @18:30: Technology against the "We've always done it this way" mindset

Upcoming:

• Thu 22 Oct: AppGala 2026: Mobile App Growth Conference

• Sat 24 Oct: Barcelona International Community Day

• Tue 27 Oct @18:00: Mozilla Barcelona Meetup

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

• Thu Oct 29: FutureTravel Summit

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