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Startup funding news 💸

• Jesus Martinez of La Informacion wondered whether the NASDAQ correction will affect startup valuations
• Barcelona-based biotech company SpliceBio raised €50m, co-led by UCB Ventures and Ysios Capital with participation by New Enterprise Associates, Gilde Healthcare, Novartis Venture Fund and Asabys Partners. SpliceBio is a biotechnology company exploiting Protein Splicing to develop the next generation of gene therapies
• Madrid-based MedUX raised €7.3m from Swedish investors BTS Group and Inveready. The company has built a customer experience and quality measurement product for the telco industry
• Madrid-based growth consulting firm Rockin Media raised €4.5m from Mexican fund Lotus
• Barcelona-based Sunhero, a startup that delivers custom-built solar panel solutions, raised €3.5m from Speedinvest and All Iron
• Barcelona-based Bioo, a startup that generates electricity from nature, raised €1.5m
• Barcelona-based blockchain video game developer Games for a Living (G4AL) raised €1.2m to give users easy access to blockchain
• Valencia-based corporate travel company Consultia Business Travel raised €1.2m
• Barcelona-based proptech Aqui Tu Reforma raised €1m from Iberdrola. More info here
• Barcelona-based Optimus Price lands €1m for its AI-based pricing software, from Zone2boost, Wayra, business angels and Crowdcube
• Other rounds of funding: AntalGenics, AdamoRobot, GreendurTechnologies, Wowplay, Glex,

M&A activity 🎊

• Merger conversations and negotiations continue between Orange and MasMovil. Vodafone is also interested in MasMovil
• German group Fresenius is in talks to buy a stake in Spanish biotech firm mAbxience for €400m

Investor & accelerator news 🚀

• Barcelona-based health tech fund Nina Capital announced the final closing of its second fund, with a size of more than the expected €40m, more than doubling the size of its first fund (€18m). Nina Capital has already backed five companies from all over Europe with the new fund
• GoHub Ventures announced the name of the five new companies that will participate in its accelerator program aimed at deeptech startups: Nymiz, Anfibium, Agrow Analytics, EarthPulse and Okify

Startup news 💡

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• In the six years that Deliveroo was active in Spain, the company had combined losses of €100m. In its best year in terms of revenues, 2020, Deliveroo saw sales of €31m and losses of almost €25m
• Freepik grew revenues by 37% in 2021, to €61.5m and currently has 561k paid subscribers. The company plans to complement its current portfolio of products with video content
• Tiendeo grew revenues by 24% in 2021, to €13m. The company has 75m MAUs
• Guillem Viladomat explained in an interview the evolution of the company he co-founded several years ago and has now transformed into Durcal, a smartwatch and an app to help families look after the elderly. Durcal is a K Fund portfolio co.
• Crypto platform Bit2me was officially accepted for registration as a crypto provider by the Bank of Spain
• Xataka published an article on Bnext's migration of users towards its own fintech infrastructure and moving away from Pecunpay. According to the article, as a result of the migration some users have frozen balances with the old provider
• Revenue-based financing startup Capchase announced that it will open a new European HQ in London. Capchase claims to have witnessed strong growth in 2021 and provided about $1.6b in funds to entrepreneurs throughout the year, and that it has made $200m available to UK startups in six months
• Wallbox released its first-ever Super Bowl commercial entitled #SuperchargedSeth. You can watch the ad here. The 15 second commercial for the company’s electric vehicle charger features a lightning strike survivor who is afraid of electricity, except when using his Wallbox
• Several Spanish companies and startups such as Cabify, Eventbrite and others are giving employees Fridays off
• The co-living division of coworking company Aticco to launch in Madrid, where it expects to have as many as 1,500 rooms available in two years
• Startup profiles:
• Vidext: text to video SaaS

Big company news 🏦

• BBVA re-invested in UK-based neobank Atom, leading a €89m round and reaching an ownership of 39%. Here are some more details on Atom's performance to date. The Spanish bank also announced last week a €263m investment in Brazilian neobank Neon, where the bank was already an investor through its venture arm Propel Ventures. With this new follow-on round, BBVA has a 29% stake in Neon
• Amazon to share merchant's sales data with Hacienda, in order to avoid tax evasion
• La Informacion published a profile of Elena Díaz Sánchez, Manager Center of Excellence (IoT& Big Data)

Interesting reads 🤓

• Antonio Ortiz, co-founder of WeblogsSL, wrote an op-ed in El Pais about audience measuring in the news sector: "Tracking unique users: the heroin of digital media"
• Alex Bryszkowski, formerly of Vozelia, published an interesting thread on venture building, or helping launch products from scratch
• Simon Muñoz, platform PM at Voicemod, published "Why is strategy difficult?"
• Samuel Gil published a post on 10 tips for business angels
• How Murcia-based startup Erasmusu has embraced remote work and how the company is organised to allow for distributed work
• Mehdi Bennaceur, data scientist at Glovo, published "Handling position bias for unbiased restaurants ranking"
• La Opinion de Malaga published an article on the increasing number of of women in the gaming sector
• K Fund published a post on how to prepare your startup for an M&A deal and how to manage the process

Podcasts 🎧

• Product Hackers interviewed Enrique Lizaso, co-founder of quantum computing startup Multiverse Computing
• Mission.org interviewed Roger Casals, founder and CEO of Plazah: "How Plazah is Writing the Next Chapter of the Ecommerce Story"
• K Fund interviewed Josefa Marzo and Oriol Ros, co-founders of fintech B2B VC firm Kalonia Venture Partners
• Bernat Farrero and Jordi Romero of Itnig and Factorial recorded an episode on company culture
• SeedRocket interviewed Maurici Badía and Joan Álvarez, co-founders of ecommerce startup Hannun