Chify acquired by Vinted. JME announces third fund. Santander, BBVA and Telefonica invest in startups.
October 21, 2019 • Issue #187
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Startup funding news 💸
- Valencia-based Fundsfy raised €2.2 million from undisclosed investors
- Barcelona-based fintech ID Finance secured €1.7 million within minutes on Crowdcube
- London-based but Spanish founded startup Cledara raised pre-seed funding of $900,000 from BBVA and Anthemis
- Hardware manufacturer Neki raised €180,000 on Startupxplore
- Security startup PrivacyCloud raised a seed round led by BBVA
- Fintech startup Bnext is looking to complement its $25 million round with an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube
- There have been a bunch of fintech deals in Spain in recent weeks and months. BlackFin looked at activity in the local market
M&A activity 🎊
- Fashion marketplace Chicfy has been acquired by Lithuanian startup Vinted. La Informacion says the price of the transaction was less than €10 million
- How Spanish scooter startup Koko went from market leader to exit in just 11 months
- SumaCRM continues to write about its exit process. This time they shared a draft version of the M&A contract
Investor & accelerator news 🚀
- Madrid-based VC firm JME announced a new €60 million fund and the opening of an office in Barcelona
- Bankia announced the launch of a €20 million fund to invest in fintech startups in the next five years
- Telefonica invested in US-based Altiostar's Open RAN Technology to accelerate network transformation
- Santander InnoVentures led a $39m investment in German debt marketplace CrossLend
- Cayetana Hurtado promoted to principal at London-based VC firm Balderton
Startup news 💡
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- At the Spatial Data Science Conference, Carto presented the recently launched Data Observatory 2.0, a new platform powered by Google BigQuery to discover and consume location data for spatial analysis
- Mariano Rodriguez, co-founder of Barcelona-based Beamer, wrote a post about the startup's journey to $1 million in ARR with just 5 employees
- Spanish video on demand platform Filmin has grown substantially in the past few years despite increased competition from Netflix, HBO and others. The company expects to reach €4 million in profit this year
- Ara wrote a profile of Wikiloc, the Girona-based GPS location-sharing community. The company has more than 5 million users and in 2017 posted revenues of €750,000 with just 13 employees
- El Mundo profiled Miguel Carranza, co-founder of San Francisco-based app subscription management startup RevenueCat
- El Español interviewed the founders of Platanomelon, a Spanish ecommerce sex shop
- Emprendedores wrote a profile of fashion ecommerce brand Brava Fabrics
- Uber launched a new offering aimed at Spanish SMBs and corporates. The company's Spanish director, Juan Galiardo was also interviewed last week to talk about regulation and the local market
- WeWork is in trouble. La Informacion looked at the company's traction and financials in the Spanish market
- Carlos Sanchez (OnTruck): 'The 10 rules that are helping OnTruck fix internal communications'
- Startup profiles: Nespra, Consentio, Factic Brain
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Big company news 🏦
- TripAdvisor paid €82,000 in taxes in Spain last year, based on revenues of €2.25 million
- Spanish fashion brand Scalpers shuts down retail stores in the UK and Netherlands, expects ecommerce sales to represent 20% of total revenues next year
Interesting reads 🤓
- How Sevilla FC's Monchi relies on big data to make decisions and find new players
- Nada Es Gratis looked at the impact (or not) of Airbnb on Madrid's property rental market
- Felix Lopez (Google): 'The role of an engineering manager'
- Samuel Gil (JME): 'Network effects'
Podcasts 🎧
- Marketing4Ecommerce interviewed Elena Gomez del Pozuelo (Womenalia, Bebe de Paris)
- En.digital interviewed Bosco Soler of Sinoficina.com
- K Fund interviewed Toni Perez of Bloobirds
- Itnig interviewed Elena Torras of Bwom
- SeedRocket interviewed Marc Badosa of SeedRocket4Founders