Spanish venture capital is in vogue. A few days ago we learned of the funds selected in the 8th Fondico call and several firms have announced the imminent launch of new funds. Among them we have detected funds focused on technology, healthcare and energy.
Mortadelo and Filemón are no longer Spanish. Penguin Random House, the world's leading publisher with 250 publishing houses in the five corners of the world, has closed the purchase of Ediciones B, until now owned by Grupo Zeta. Grupo Zeta thus obtains liquidity to meet its debt.
PopPlaces.com, el ‘marketplace’ español dedicado a alquiler de espacios comerciales por días para ‘pop-up stores’ o eventos, avanza en su crecimiento internacional y ha culminado la fusión con la empresa alemana Go-PopUp.
Verse, the mobile app for person-to-person payments, has announced the closing of its new funding round worth $20.5M, or €18.5M, to expand into new countries, consolidate in existing ones, launch new products and continue to grow.
Anagram is a programmatic buying company, enabling large advertisers and agencies to efficiently and transparently run their own programmatic advertising campaigns.
Restb.ai, specialising in image recognition-based business solutions, has received a €1.2M investment to support its expansion. The round was backed by Lanta Capital, Capitana Venture Partners, Athos Capital and Tandem Capital and US investor Court Westcott LLC.
With this new capital inflow, the on-demand logistics platform created in Spain reaffirms its objective of reinventing the transport logistics market, a sector that generates 10 billion dollars (9.2 billion euros).
The company, through its German subsidiary Telefónica NEXT, has reached an agreement to acquire the German startup Minodes, which specialises in technology for analysing customer data in shops anonymously.
The AEESD aims to strengthen the competitiveness and internationalisation of Spanish companies, mainly SMEs. Among the technologies that will benefit from this aid are 5G connectivity, massive data processing, computing and...
Devicare, founded in 2012 in Barcelona, is a company specialising in innovative medical devices for the home care of chronic patients under the Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) concept.
Masmovil, a Mab listed company, has grown by 78% so far this year. In addition, more and more funds are looking to invest in Mab companies. Also in the news this week is that Mab is asking for the same tax treatment as other EU markets and the continuous market.
Alpify ha cerrado una ronda de €1M con el objetivo de ampliar su mercado, haciendo evolucionar su app con nuevas funcionalidades y poder crecer en el mercado internacional. La ronda ha estado liderada por el RACC —especialista en servicios de asistencia personal,...