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Startup funding news 💸

• Madrid-based Fever raised $20 million. The round was co-led by European media group Atresmedia and real estate company Labtech and with participation from existing investors Accel Partners and 14W Ventures
• Barcelona-founded social-commerce fashion startup 21Buttons secured $17 million to expand to the US led by Idinvest Partners. The company’s existing investors, including Kibo Ventures, Breega, Samaipata, JME VC, 360 Capital Partners, and Sabadell VC
• Madrid-based neobank Bnext raised €1.5 million from Founders Future, Pipeline Capital Partners and Andreas Mihalovits
• Madrid-based CASE on IT closed a Series B round to expand MedUX telecom user experience platform. Investors include Sonae IM
• Valencia-based transportation startup Zeleros, which aims to build a hyperloop train, raised funding from Angels Capital and other investors

M&A activity 🎊

• vLex acquired Legal3, developers of software for law firms

Investor & accelerator news 🚀

• Seaya Ventures announced the final closing of its second fund, totalling €102 million. El Pais interviewed Beatriz Gonzalez, founder of Seaya Ventures
• Lourdes Alvarez of JME explained in a blog post why her firm has invested in PLD Space
• Kippel01 interviewed Jesus Perez (Finnovating, Fintech Ventures) to talk about the potential of the blockchain and ICOs in Spain
• Nauta Capital and Inveready amongst the firms to receive public funding from Spain’s ICO
• La Voz de Galicia interviewed K Fund’s Ignacio Larru, ahead of the firm participating in Galician startup event NOSDay

Startup news 💡

• Bolsamania reported that one of Housers co-founders has left the company after several unpaid invoices have been found and the company’s valuation cut from €40 million to €5 million
• Joe Haslam and Conor O'Connor, co-founders of Spanish startup Hot Hotels, are raising up to €19 million in an initial coin offering ahead of the launch next month of Local Token Exchange (LTE), a decentralised cryptocurrency exchange
• Edtech startup Iron Hack continues its international expansion, with two programs in Amsterdam and Sao Paulo, as well as a new Data Analytics program
• Pablo Viguera, former director of Revolut in Spain, joined mobile payments startup Verse as COO
• Kasaz wants to make it less painful to buy or sell a home in Spain
• Bolsamania interviewed Unai Asenjo, co-founder of Indexa Capital
• GuruWalk’s entertaining walking tours provide enthusiastic guides chance at decent living
• Startup profiles: DiHola (contact management), eMonte (agritech)

Big company news 🏦

• Gianpaolo Santorsola named managing director of Schibsted in Spain
• Hardware maker Ericsson spent more than €31 million last year in redundancy schemes. The company has laid off more than 1,500 workers in Spain in the past 10 years

Tech and policy 💂🏼

• Deliveroo to face a €1.3 million penalty in Spain following a labour inspection. The fine is associated to the debate of whether Deliveroo’s riders should be considered as employees of the company or contractors
• The Spanish government wants to go ahead with previously proposed taxes on tech companies. Crazy
• A Spanish judge has ruled that mytaxi’s strong discounts of up to 50% are legal. The same judge considers the company a platform and not a transportation services company
• Novobrief interviewed the mayor of Malaga to talk about innovation: “We have to build the brand of Malaga Valley”
• Kippel01 interviewed Cabify’s Spanish director Mariano Silveyra to talk about the proposed legislation in Barcelona to limit the activity of Cabify and Uber in the city

Interesting reads 🤓

• David Bonilla (Manfred) talked to La Informacion about engineer salaries and other labour trends in Spain. Interesting data and insights
• Ignacio Arriaga (Acumbamail): ’More CEOs with a technical background, please’
• Javier Santana (former Carto CTO, now at BBVA) was interviewed: ‘The agricultural sector is a great field to apply technology’

Podcasts of the week 🎧

• Vostok 6 interviewed Carina Szpilka (K Fund)
• Itnig interviewed Emilia Vila, co-founder and CEO of agritech startup Agroptima