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Queremos convertirnos en tus compañeros de viaje a través del mundo del Marketing Digital. Ofrecemos soluciones para que tú y tu empresa estéis a la vanguardia de la transformación digital.

Si eres un freak de métricas como la tasa de conversión, CTR o ROI, y además apuestas por la organización y cuadros de mando, vamos a ser un equipo de diez.

Gracias a nuestra trayectoria conocemos la teoría y la práctica dentro de este mundo tan cambiante. Y no lo decimos nosotros. Lo dicen los más de 60 proyectos que han confiado en nosotros.

Contamos con oficinas en Madrid (The Four Business Tower Area) y Sevilla (Plaza Nueva). Tú nos dices dónde quedamos.

Startup funding news 💸

• According to La Informacion, Glovo could be in the middle of raising a new round of funding at a $1 billion valuation
• Madrid-based Buguroo raised $11 million led by Eleven Ventures and Seaya Ventures to detect banking fraud with deep learning and behavioral biometrics
• Pamplona-based startup Openbravo raised €1.4 million, led by Sabadell VC. Amadeus Capital and Adara Ventures also participated in the round
• Donosti-based drone company Alerion raised €1.2 million from Orza and Easo Ventures
• Valladolid-based health startup Amadix raised €1.2 million via The Crowd Angel
• Madrid-based edtech and fintech startup StudentFinance raised €1.1 million from Seedcamp, MustardSeed and business angels
• Madrid-based mortgage business Helloteca raised €700,000

Exit activity 🎊

• HolaLuz debuted on the Spanish MAB, reaching a valuation of more than €180 million
• Madrid-based logistics platform OnTruck acquired Barcelona-based Briver to increase its presence in Catalunya

Startup news 💡

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• Malaga-based Freepik expects to reach €30 million in revenue and €15 million in EBITDA this year. The vector graphics company has 180 employees and hasn't raised any outside funding
• El Pais profiled Malaga-based payments startup Easy Payment Gateway. The company claims to have processed $2.5 billion in payments last year and to have reached €2 million in revenue, while aiming to become profitable in 2020
• Eldiario published an in-depth article about Wetaca's quest to eliminate plastic from its delivery boxes
• Xataka published a long profile of 42Madrid, the international free (for students) programming school launched this year in the Spanish capital with the help of Telefonica
• Travel startup Waynabox has a new CEO. Former CEO Pau Sendra explained the decision in a blog post
• Iker Marcaide, former CEO and co-founder of Flywire (Peertransfer), inaugurated its new project in Valencia, a Montessori school called La Pinada
• Chicisimo announced the “Fashion Taste API” to build a taste graph for each fashion retailer, and a taste profile of each fashion shopper
• Viagogo acquired StubHub from eBay, and La Informacion wonders how the movement could affect employees of StubHub (formerly Ticketbis) in Spain
• Spanish crowdlending startups lent more €70 million in the first six months of 2019
• Startup profiles: Obuu, WinDelivery

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Big company news 🏦

• Telefonica announced last week a major reorg, affecting its local and international business and with a strong focus on its technological and infrastructure divisions. The company said that it might make more startup acquisitions in the near term
• The Spanish Defense Ministry banned Huawei devices from accessing its systems
• Orange launched its bank in Spain
• La Informacion interviewed Ignacio García-Legaz, head of Vodafone TV, and the man who said no to expensive football TV rights
• Energy company Naturgy to start acquiring customers via Amazon, with discounts of up to 10%

Tech and policy 💂🏼‍♂️

• Madrid's Supreme Court sentenced that Glovo's riders should be considered as employees instead of contractors. There's been several sentences in both directions in the past few years
• The Spanish government passed a law allowing it to shut down websites when it considers that they "pose a threat to the public"

Interesting reads 🤓

• R&D spending in Spain reached pre-financial crisis levels for the first time in years
• The use of face recognition cameras in Madrid is increasing
• David Bonilla (Manfred) wrote about Amazon's plans for its AWS data centre in Aragon
• Samuel Gil (JME) wrote about how to scale a B2B SaaS company
• Felix Lopez (Google) continued its series about the role of an engineering manager
• Jordi Altimira (Lanzame Capital) wrote about levers startups can use to reach profitability
• Caroline Lagergren (Expand To Spain) wrote that 'Spanish scaleups are not "just" about LATAM anymore'

Podcasts 🎧

• K Fund interviewed Analia Plaza of eldiario.es
• SeedRocket interviewed Marc Antoni Macia, co-founder of Novicap
• Itnig interviewed Carlos Pierre, CEO of Badi
• En.digital interviewed the founders of Onestic