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Startup funding news 💸

• According to La Informacion, Glovo is currently raising an €80 million round
• Dental Residency raised €300,000 from various investors
• Populetic raised capital from Lanta Digital Ventures
• VozTelecom raised funding from Inveready

Startup exits 🎊

• Eventbrite acquired Spanish ticketing platform Ticketea. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ticketea’s CEO Javier Andres wrote an article post-exit about with 10 tips to sell your company
• New York’s hospitality tech leader Resy acquired Spain’s ClubKviar

Investor & accelerator news 🚀

• Chinese VC Sinovation, co-founded by the ex-head of Google China, raised $50 million from BBVA for its $500 million AI fund
• Santander InnoVentures makes its first investment in Brazil via digital lending platform Creditas
• Guenia Gawendo to replace Ana Segurado as the head of Telefonica’s venture capital investment director, managing Telefonica Ventures and Amerigo
• GP Bullhound named Miguel Kindelán as its Spanish director
• El Pais interviewed CDTI’s China director Carlos Quintana: “I usually tell European business men that their kids will end up working for the Chinese”
• Kippel01 interviewed The Venture City’s Andres Areitio to talk about the fund/accelerator plans. The company is considering opening an office in Mexico

Startup news 💡

• On-demand services platform Jobin to integrate supply from Sofiasquare (edtech) and Entrenarme (fitness)
• An analysis of Clicpiso’s tech stack that’s used to predict real estate prices
• Startup profiles: Kiki (dating), Unnax (fintech), Bnext (fintech), Usizy (ecommerce), B-wom (health)

Big company news 🏦

• Amazon’s workers who went on strike a few weeks ago in its San Fernando de Henares distribution center have been fired. Also last week El Español looked at Amazon’s company structure in Spain
• Mercadona hired Juan Pablo Constanzo to lead its product design team. Constanzo previously worked at Alibaba and PayPal
• El Corte Ingles believes that the fact that they can deliver orders in less than 30 minutes is a strong competitor advantage
• HomeAway increased its revenues in Spain by 12.5% last year, to €18.7 million

Tech and policy 💂🏼

• The Spanish government approved a law at the end of last week to limit the number of VTC licenses in the market, which is seen by most as a way to help the traditional taxi industry. This took place as Cabify and Uber were expecting up to 30,000 VTC licenses to hit the market
• El Confidencial talked to the Spanish police about how they’re dealing bitcoin and cryptocurrencies: “We are not ready”

Interesting reads 🤓

• Ignacio Larru (K Fund): ’How to design and build data products’
• Why TravelPerk sees Barcelona as an ideal base for growth
• El País interviewed Bernardo Hernandez (idealista, Tuenti, Fever, e.ventures). Topics range from investing to his opinion on the current state of the Spanish tech sector
• From UPS to Stuart: Kippel01 looks at the various players competing in the Spanish last mile delivery sector

Podcasts of the week 🎧

• K Fund interviewed Mar Cabra (Panama Papers) to talk about data journalism
• MasQueStartups interviewed the founders of Erasmusu (acquired by Spotahome)
• Itnig interviewed David Baratech, co-founder and director of product at Ulabox. Itnig also interviewed Francisco Sierra, Spanish director of N26