Barcelona's Weekly Tech Update

Hello and happy Monday,

🔔 This week: BICD 2026 is almost here! Barcelona International Community Day’s 13th edition is happening this Saturday, 24 October at the Maritime Museum – so if you haven’t registered yet, here’s your reminder.

This year’s biggest-ever edition brings together 84 exhibitors and 68 activities, with tonnes of opportunities to network, explore jobs and entrepreneurship, sharpen your Catalan, get to know local services, and find new ways to get involved in the city.

Whether you’ve just arrived or called the city home for years, there should be something worth checking out.

📍 Barcelona Maritime Museum | 10:00–19:00 | Free entry

👉 See what’s happening at BICD 2026 and register here.

Have a great week!

Startup & Investment News

Barcelona investment news

• ID Finance raises fintech record €545M to scale its app Plazo

• Quantum computing Qilimanjaro closes €19.6M first close of Series A led by Indra & SETT

• Piqué and Ibai Llanos lead €3.75M round in BCN chocolate startup Plesh

• Biotech Flavii Therapeutics raises €843K

Barcelona startup news

• Biotech RemAb seeks funding for antibody removal platform

• AI voice agent tech HeyDiga enters the beauty sector in France and Italy

• Proptech Aquí tu Reforma also enters Italy & France in 2027 while accelerating in LATAM

• Instituto Más Mujeres recognizes the 100 most influential women in the Catalan ICT sector

Spanish investment news

• AI fintech Causa Prima raises €18M seed led by Base10 Partners

• Cofrai closes €2.6M & acquires fire-safety training firm A&C

• Recommerce Ruit closes €880K pre-seed led by Abac Nest

• Mutua Madrileña takes 10% stake in Alter5

VC, investment & crowdfunding news

• BIGBAN Investors Spain names Ana Guasch CEO

• BCN-based Nauta raises €60M first close for 6th fund

• Suma Capital joins CarbonFarm's €7M round

Open calls, accelerator news & incubator stories

• BSC's AI Factory launches acceleration programme for 100 Spanish startups

• Scaleup Spain Network announces 12 startups for 7th edition

• Applications for the 12th Global Startup Awards (GSA) are now open

Tech & Business News

Tech news in Barcelona

• ABB Robotics & SoftBank to open robotics center in Sabadell in 2028

• The Sant Bertran dock sheds prepare for reconversion into a blue economy startup hub

• Esade joins forces with AWS to prepare future AI leaders

Tech & big company news in Spain

• Telefónica teams up with Revolut in Germany to win wholesale customers

• Spain delays invoicing software requirement Verifactu again, until Oct 2028

• Privera launches AI-native private markets platform for banks

• Inditex launches new open-source developer portal and engineering hub

Good Reads & Watches

• CDTI: “Deeptech is Spain's great strategic opportunity”

• Nvidia is investing heavily into Europe – why now?

• EU Inc: Will Europe blow its biggest chance to get startups right?

• OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) (EN)

Great Events

This week:

• Mon 19 Oct @18:30: Technology and the climate crisis – what can we do in Barcelona?

• Mon 19 Oct @19:00: eDO Ignite #1: Beyond the Screen & Beyond the AI Hype

• Tue 20 Oct @18:00: Games for Change x Immersive Creators Meetup Barcelona

• Wed 21 Oct @13:00: Women Investors' Lunch by SIA

• Wed 21 Oct @18:00: Barcelona Workshop (Women in Tech)

• Thu 22 Oct @18:00: Fuckup Nights Barcelona | 8th Anniversary: Rewriting the Equation of Success

• Thu 22 Oct @18:00: LeadDev Barcelona Meetup

• Thu 22 Oct @18:00: Claude for Everyone Meetup

• Thu 22 Oct @18:30: Step4ward BCN: Girls, Tech and Beers

• Sat 24 Oct: Barcelona International Community Day 

Upcoming:

• Tue 27 Oct @18:00: BCN FinTech X Barcinno: #028 Wealth Tech: Reimagining Investment

• Tue 27 Oct @18:30: Barcelona SaaS Founders Meetup

• Tue 27 Oct @18:30: DevOpsDays BCN Meetup

• Tue 27 Oct @19:00: Women in AI Spain, Barcelona: ¿quién soy yo frente a la máquina?

• Wed 28 Oct @20:00: SIA Angels & Beers For Investors

• Thu 29 Oct @09:00: FutureTravel Summit 2026

• Thu 29 Oct @18:30: ProductTank Barcelona October edition @ MANGO

• Thu 29 Oct @19:00: Still Founders: Honest Stories & Dinner

• Fri 30 Oct @09:30: Breakfast for Tech Marketing Leaders

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Startup Jobs

• Powens is recruiting an Ops Automation Manager

• OnTheGoSystems is hiring a Head of Marketing

• REVER needs a Forward Deployment Engineer

• Acai Travel is hiring a Product & Growth Associate

• THEKER Robotics is looking for a Full-Stack AI Engineer

• Preply is hiring a Copy Operations Specialist