Startup funding news

• Fever raised €5 million
• Summus Render raised €1.6 million from Caixa Capital Risc and Inveready. Hemerotek has more info on the deal
• Tweet Binder raised funding from various investors
• More than 100 investors have shown interest in Galician tea company Kailani
• Comprea to try to raise €1 million

Startup exits

• Seaya Ventures sold part of its stake in Plenummedia to Publicar
• German company ShopCo acquired ZenShopping, an e-commerce startup founded by Spaniard Antonio Marzo

Investor & accelerator news

• Lanai Startup plans to invest between €10k to €75k in 10 startups per year
• Banc Sabadell launched Sabadell Selección Ventures I, a €30 million fund of funds
• Bankia Accelerator by Conector held its demo day
• Jose Maria Hernanz (JME Ventures): Exit — How much am I really getting if my company is sold?

Startup news

• Memondo Network: the business of virality, the two Catalans that make €900,000 a year with memes
• Tiendanimal grew its business by 50% in 2016, reaching €60 million in sales
• El Periodico profiled Meller
• Car marketplace Clicars reached €5 million in sales in its firs year of operations
• Pisamonas surpassed €7 million in sales in 2016
• Tu&Co reached €2 million in sales in 2016
• Marketing4Ecommerce ranked the most used mobile marketplaces in Spain
• LolaMarket to include more than 250 supermarkets from EnterBIO in its platform
• Interview with the founders of Inminute
• El Confidencial wrote about the rise in proptech startups
• Jordi Romero (Teambox, Redbooth) wrote about his new startup, Factorial

Big company news

• BBVA cut the price of the first startup it acquired, Simple, by 70%
• Caixabank launches the supposedly first banking chatbot in Spain
• Telefonica to reduce its debt by €3 billion, perhaps by selling Telxius
• Nest is now available in Spain
• Big Spanish companies invested an average of €4.2 million in digital marketing in 2016
• Airbnb doubled its business in Bizkaia in one year

Technology & policy

• Interview with BlaBlaCar’s country manager in Spain about the company’s most recent legal battle
• The ‘Canon AEDE’ is back: Cedro wants to charge €0.05 per monthly active user to Spanish content aggregators
• Airbnb to impose limits to to its activity in Barcelona, but the local government is still not happy
• Rojadirecta will have to shut down

Interesting reads

• 1,000 employees and an special client: the Spanish firm that produces keys for Tesla cars
• Private Equity firm Providence to acquire Real Madrid’s digital rights for €500 million
• E-commerce sales for groceries grew by 40% in the last quarter
• The .es domain registered an increase of 2.4% in 2016
• Javier García (Sintetia): the entrepreneurship bubble in Spain
• Alberto Barreiro (PRISA): blockchain and digital media
• Barcelona wants to open more buildings similar to Pier01