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Startup funding news 💸

• According to Jesus Martinez of La Informacion, Glovo is in the final stages of raising €450m, which would be the largest round ever raised by a Spanish startup
• Barcelona-based medtech startup Inbrain Neuroelectronics raised €14.3m from Asabys Partners and Alta Life Sciences
• Valencia-based data analysis startup Kenmei Technologies raised $1.5m from MASVentures and Wayra
• According to El Referente, Catalan biotech startups raised a combined €200m in 2020, more than twice the amount that was raised two years ago in the same sector and region
• Other rounds of funding: Upwine, Livelia, Vermut

M&A activity 🎊

• CMC acquired Oracle-focused consulting firm Avanttic
• Nadia Calviño, head of the Spanish Ministry of Economy, wants to make some regulatory changes to increase the number of SPACs in Spain

Investor & accelerator news 🚀

• Aldea Ventures is a new Barcelona-based ‘hybrid’ €100m fund to invest both in micro VCs. Aldea Ventures is led by managing partners Carlos Trenchs, formerly at Caixa Capital Risc; Alfonso Bassols, previously at Nauta Capital; Josep Duran, formerly with the European Investment Fund; and Gonzalo Rodés, chairman. Aldea has already invested in Nina Capital, based in Barcelona, and Rodrigo Martinez's helloworld fund
• Nauta Capital participated in Connected2Fiber's $12m Series B round
• Yisios Capital participated in an $80m round of US biotech firm Aura Biosciences
• ENISA published a report on the economic and social impact of its investments between 2005 and 2016
• Javier de Toro of Lanzadera published an analysis of 60 rounds associated to t accelerator and published its findings about the valuation of pre-seed, seed and late-seed companies
• Expansion interviewed Carina Szpilka, head of Adigital and co-founder of K Fund, to talk about the digital future of Spain, regulation and other topics
• El Español published an interview and profile of Iñaki Arrola, co-founder of K Fund and previously at coches.com. I know Iñaki well, and this is a quite personal and good profile of his

Startup news 💡

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• PC Componentes disclosed its 2020 financials and they're quite impressive: €647m in sales (+60% year-on-year), 2.6m orders (+70% YoY), average order value of €250 and 200 sellers on its marketplace
• Malaga-based Uptodown, the online platform that enables users to discover and download apps from any device, announced a partnership with Unity to distribute games developed using Unity's engine. Xataka also profiled the company here and Diario Sur interviewed its co-founders, Pepe Dominguez and Luis Hernandez
• This is an old post, but I think it's a good one that I've never included before: 'How Jeff built a lead acquisition engine to conquer the world'
• Boston and Madrid-based SIEM startup Devo continues to make senior hires across various departments: 'Fueled by sustained, strong momentum, cloud-native logging and security analytics leader adds industry veterans from Amazon, F5 Networks, SAP, LogMeIn and IBM Security'
• El Español published a long profile of cybersecurity startup Kymatio, which provides a security solution to companies to manage employee-based risk
• Austrian startup Bitpanda announced a new funding round of $170m and unicorn valuation, as well as the opening of offices in Madrid and Barcelona
• Generalitat de Catalunya fined Cabify with €431k associated with the employment status of some of its drivers
• Aplazame, the buy-now-pay-later Spanish company acquired by Wizink, managed €127m in financing in 2020
• ITEA profiled Barcelona-based Clevernet, whose explicit mission is to make the internet better by providing a faster, more reliable and secure way to transfer data. Clevernet is a K Fund portfolio company
• B2B Marketers interviewed Eva Cabanach, head of marketing at RatedPower, to talk about B2B marketing
• Startup profiles: Capchase, CoverManager, Durcal, Suscrip, Rentchester, Rviewer

Big company news 🏦

• La Informacion has details on Indra and layoffs that have affected more than 800 employees of the company
• Amazon's legal battle on the topic of the employment status of its Flex drivers will have to wait until late 2022
• BBVA did its pro-rata in Atom's last funding round, thus continuing to have a 39% stake in the UK neobank

Interesting reads 🤓

• El Confidencial published a profile of Iker Marcaide, the founder of Flywire who now runs Zubi Labs. Zubi Labs focuses on launching and investing in social impact projects, starting with a Montessori school in Valencia and a whole neighborhood
• Jorge Bodas of Dotricks published an interesting article about PLG (product-led growth)
• Soluble Studio published an overview of the rebranding, design and product work they did for Dozen, previously known as The Crowd Angel
• Business Insider talked to six Spanish podcasters that get the majority of their income from podcasts
• Newsletter Views interviewed Rebeca Minguela, CEO of Clarity and previously of Blink, sold to Groupon
• Caroline Lagergren of Expand to Spain published 'Capital efficiency, key factor for driving international investors to Spain?'

Podcasts 🎧

• Marketing4Ecommerce interviewed David Baratech and Ruben Ferreiro, to talk about Yaba, a startup that buys, funds and gives support to the growth of business based on Amazon FBA
• K Fund interviewed Kintxo Cortes, country manager of Shopify in Spain
• Finanzia Connect interviewed Iker Marcaide of Zubi Labs
• Itnig interviewed Miquel Antolin of Freshly Cosmetics
• En.digital interviewed Ricardo Llamas
• UpBizor published a podcast on the topic of Neotec (CDTI)