{"id":43265,"date":"2016-11-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/verse-satlantis-untruck-jovenes-empresas-espanolas-reciben-inversion-crecer\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:40:28","slug":"verse-satlantis-untruck-jovenes-empresas-espanolas-reciben-inversion-crecer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/verse-satlantis-untruck-jovenes-empresas-espanolas-reciben-inversion-crecer\/","title":{"rendered":"Verse, Satlantis, Untruck young Spanish companies receive investment for growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"En_el_ultimo_mes_hemos_visto_empresas_tecnologicas_espanolas_en_nicho_de_mercado_potenciales_que_han_decidido_contar_con_el_apoyo_del_venture_capital_para_crecer_y_poder_competir_internacionalmente_Desde_aplicaciones_de_fintech_como_Verse_a_empresas_de_imagenes_en_el_espacio_como_Satlantis\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the last month we have seen Spanish technology companies in potential niche markets that have decided to count on the support of venture capital to grow and be able to compete internationally. From fintech applications such as Verse, to space imaging companies such as Satlantis.<\/span><!--more--><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Verse_levanta_E76M_en_su_segunda_ronda_de_inversion\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Verse raises \u20ac7.6M in second investment round<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">See <\/span>a startup founded less than a year ago by three twenty-something Catalans. The company, which makes it possible to transfer money by simply associating the recipient's card number, typing in the amount and selecting the contact in the address book, promises to be a benchmark in the world of Fintech worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Verse is only 8 months old, has achieved almost half a million downloads between Apple's App Store and Google Play and handled several million dollars in transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The round was led by<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sparkcapital.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Spark Capital<\/a><\/span>Other investors that have participated include US VC eVentures (with Idealista co-founder and former Google and Yahoo co-founder Bernardo Hern\u00e1ndez at the helm), and the firm <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greycroft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greycroft Partners<\/a><\/span>. Moreover, according to sources in the know, Paypal wanted to enter, but in the end it has not done so, is it waiting for the company to grow and buy it at that time?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For the time being, the 8.3 million will be used to think (a little more) big: increase the current staff of 12 employees, grow internationally and compete head-to-head with Twyp, Stripe or even Square, the mobile payments company of Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, which has recently landed in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Getting the round was no easy task, these 20-year-olds have had months of negotiation and many trips to San Francisco to get the funding, which at first seemed very difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Satlantis_recibe_ronda_de_E22M_para_sacar_fotos_desde_el_espacio\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Satlantis receives \u20ac2.2M round to take photos from space<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.satlantis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Satlantis<\/a><\/span> is a Spanish company, based in Bilbao, which is developing cameras, little bigger than a shoebox, which, when integrated into nanosatellites, make it possible to obtain images of the Earth's surface in real time with a high image resolution. These devices have the advantage of being able to send photographs every 15 to 20 minutes. This is a breakthrough compared to traditional satellites, which send images back to Earth at most once a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The applications of this technology, which, as Satlantis CEO Juan Tom\u00e1s Hernani points out, seeks to \"democratise space\", are vast and range from monitoring car parks in large shopping centres to monitoring maritime traffic or even controlling large migratory flows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Telef\u00f3nica, the Everis-NTT group, the engineering firm Idom and the Basque venture capital firm Orza have participated in the \u20ac2.35M round. In addition, institutions such as Axis (the private equity fund management company of the ICO), through the FOND-ICOpyme fund, and the Basque Government and the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, which, through its <em>venture capital<\/em> have supported the development of a new factory for the firm in Bilbao.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Untruck_recibe_E2M_para_el_transporte_de_mercancias_por_carretera\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Untruck receives \u20ac2M, for road freight transport<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontruck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OnTruck<\/a>,<\/span> the first professional marketplace for road freight transport, which was born with the vocation of becoming the Uber of regional freight transport for companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This company has just received \u20ac2M, in a round in which important investment funds in the European system have participated: Point Nine Capital, based in Berlin; the British fund Local Globe, and the Spanish Samaipata Ventures, led by Jos\u00e9 del Barrio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For the time being, OnTruck, which focuses on regional service, operates in Madrid and Barcelona, within a radius of 150 km for each of these locations, although it plans to open for business in Valencia in two months and to expand to the UK and Germany in less than a year's time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\"The apps that facilitate the management of freight transport are being welcomed in the market, recently, we have met companies like Icontainers, which have closed rounds for more than \u20ac5M\" says Diego Guti\u00e9rrez, an expert in corporate finance.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Otros_post_que_te_pueden_interesar\"><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Other posts that may interest you<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/gfi-compra-la-espanola-efron-consulting-especializa-bpo\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">GfI buys Spanish BPO specialist Efron Consulting<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/la-facturacion-tecnocom-crece-5-lo-va-ano-acciones-se-revalorizan-197\/\">Tecnocom's turnover has grown by 5% so far this year and its shares have appreciated by 197%.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you are <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/busqueda-de-inversores\/\">looking for investors<\/a>or you want to buy or <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/techma.bakertilly.es\/en\/sale-of-companies\/\">selling a company<\/a>Please contact us on +34 946424142 or fill in the contact form.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last month we have seen Spanish technology companies in potential niche markets that have decided to count on the support of venture capital to grow and be able to compete internationally. 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